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KEY FACTS

Official name
Moe Football Club

Known as
Moe

Formed
1909

Colours
Maroon and blue

Emblem
Lions

Affiliation (Current)
Gippsland League (GL) 1954–2024

Affiliation (Historical)
Central Gippsland Football League (CGFL) 1909–1953

Senior Premierships
Latrobe Valley Football League (LVFL) - 1956, 1967 (2 total)

Moe

Moe Football Club existed at least as early as the first decade of the twentieth century. Between then and the early 1950s the club competed mainly in the Central Gippsland Football Association (later League). In 1954 Moe was a founder member of the Latrobe Valley Football League and claimed a premiership in its third season thanks to a hard fought 10.9 (69) to 8.14 (62) grand final defeat of Traralgon. The side again contested the grand final in 1959, but lost by 29 points to Sale. Moe’s second and last LVFL flag was claimed in 1967 on the strength of a 6 point grand final victory over Bairnsdale. Over the course of the ensuing seven seasons the Lions reached another four grand finals but these all resulted in defeat. It was the same story in the 1999 and 2000 seasons when Moe succumbed on grand final day to Traralgon by margins of 28 and 6 points respectively. These remain the last occasions on which Moe’s senior team has played off for the premiership. Since 2002 the club has competed in the West Gippsland Latrobe Football League, which in 2010 became the Gippsland Football League. In 2009 the Lions put in a solid home and away campaign, registering 10 wins from their 16 matches to qualify for the finals in third place. A fine 37 point qualifying final win over Maffra then followed, but after that the side underperformed badly, going down by 32 points to Traralgon in the second semi final, and suffering an embarrassing 53 point reversal at the hands of Maffra in the preliminary final. 

More recent seasons have seen the Lions struggling to impose themselves in the main and even succumbing to wooden spoons in 2012 and 2013. The reserves meanwhile claimed their fourth flag in 2009. The 2017 season brought a long awaited improvement in fortunes as the Lions managed to qualify for the finals and ultimately finished fourth after beating Morwell in the elimination final before losing to Maffra in the first semi final. A year later they dropped one place on the premiership ladder after succumbing by 31 points to Traralgon in the elimination final.

Source

John Devaney - Full Points Publications


 

Footnotes

* Behinds calculated from the 1965 season on.
+ Score at the end of extra time.