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KEY FACTS

Known as
North Clare

Formed
1960

Colours
Navy blue, red and gold

Emblem
Roosters

Affiliation (Current)
North Eastern Football League (NEFL) 1960–2024

Senior Premierships
North Eastern Football League - 1980-1-2, 1991–2, 1994–5, 1997 (8 total)

North Clare

There have been several different incarnations of the North Clare Football Club, all of which came about when the Clare Football Club elected to divide into northern and southern-based teams. The first such division took place in 1915, with the two clubs recombining in 1919, splitting again in 1920, and then recombining once more in 1937. The final split occurred in 1960, with both North Clare and South Clare commencing that year in the Mid North Football Association, the competition in which the Clare Football Club was the reigning premier. In 1962 the two Clare clubs confronted one another on grand final day, with South Clare emerging victorious by 76 points. The 1964 season saw both Clare clubs moving to the North Eastern Football League and North Clare promptly made it through to that year’s grand final, only to lose to Booborowie. The Roosters’ breakthrough premiership did not arrive until 1980, but it initiated a sequence of three straight triumphs highlighted by an outstanding 1981 season in which all four of the club’s grades went top, the only time in NEFL history that this has occurred.

The 1980s and 1990s were easily the most successful decades in North Clare’s history with the senior grade side contesting a total of ten grand finals and winning all but two of them. However, since downing local rivals South Clare by a goal in the 1997 grand final the Roosters have generally struggled, with finals appearances coming only sporadically. Their most recent finals involvement in 2018 was fleeting as they fell at the first hurdle against RSMU.

Source

John Devaney - Full Points Publications


 

Footnotes

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