Australian Football

Evocatively nicknamed the Wineflies, Reynella Football Club has been a stalwart member of the SFA/L for six decades, although the amount of senior grade premiership success it has enjoyed has arguably not been commensurate with the scale of its all round contribution. The club also existed intermittently between the wars, competing at various times, without success, in both the SFA and the Glenelg South Adelaide Football Association. Having contested two losing grand finals in the 1950s the Wineflies finally broke through for a premiership in 1969, beating Christies Beach in the grand final by 16 points, 11.3 (69) to 7.11 (53). The victory might, and perhaps ought to, have been a springboard to even greater things as the side went on to contest seven of the next eight grand finals. However, only twice, in 1975 and 1977, was the premiership attained. 

More recently, the Wineflies have enjoyed the most concerted era of success in their history, contesting five of the last nine grand finals for wins in 2010 against Brighton, 2013 over Morphetville Park, and 2015 at the expense of Brighton Districts and Old Scholars. Reynella again qualified for the finals in 2016 but bowed out of the flag race at the semi final stage at the hands of Noarlunga. A year later they missed the finals entirely - a rare occurrence of late - when their tally of 7 wins for the year consigned them to seventh place on the eleven team premiership ladder. The 2018 season brought a return to finals action and indeed the Wineflies made it all the way through to a grand final clash with a Flagstaff Hill combination which was chasing a third successive premiership. Unfortunately for the Reynella players the opposition was simply too strong as final scores of Flagstaff Hill 21.16 (142) to Reynella 6.6 (42). By quarter time the match was virtually over as a contest with the Falcons having rattled on 8.5 to a solitary goal from the Wineflies.