Australian Football

With a total of twenty-two senior grade premierships to their credit the Blues have been by some measure the Tallangatta and District Football League’s most successful club. That success commenced in their very first season of 1952, and over the remaining seven years of the decade they contested all bar two grand finals, emerging victorious from those of 1953 and 1959. The 1960s proved even more memorable as the Blues went top on no fewer than five occasions, with their triumphs of 1960 and 1961 enabling them to emulate Kergunyah’s feat, achieved between 1955 and 1957, of claiming a hat trick of flags.

Over the past four decades regular success has continued to come Mitta United’s way with the senior side’s achievement in winning four consecutive premierships between 2004 and 2007 setting a competition record. The Blues looked poised to make it five flags in a row in 2008 but, after finishing the minor round in second place, they bowed out of the flag race with straight sets finals losses to Kiewa Sandy Creek and Dederang Mount Beauty.

Mitta United next made the grand final in 2012 when they secured their twenty-second senior grade flag after accounting for Thurgoona by 59 points. Subsequent grand final appearances in 2013, 2014 and 2016 have all ended in defeat. The 2017 season brought a slight decline in fortune as the Blues' bid for premiership honours was brought to an end at the elimination final stage by Rutherglen, a result that was repeated in 2018 with Tallangatta inflicting the coup de grace on this occasion.