Australian Football

Details of Macclesfield’s early history were lost in a bush fire in 1939. However, it is known that the club commenced in the Hills Central Football Association as a founder member in 1923, and won the first of an eventual four senior grade premierships in the competition in 1929. Macclesfield remained in the HCFA until 1967 when it transferred to the newly established Hills Football League Southern Zone competition. For most of the last four decades the Bloods have competed in one or other of the HFL’s divisions. The sole exception to this was the period between 1984 and 1987 when the club was a member of the Southern Districts Football Association. Nowadays members of Division Two the Bloods have in recent seasons tended to be middle of the road competitors at best although in 2017 they slumped to last place after managing just 1 win in 16 games. This was followed by a modicum of improvement a year later when a total of 6 wins from 18 minor round matches saw the team finish eighth of ten sides.