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KEY FACTS

Official name
Sturt Football Club

Known as
Sturt

Nickname
Double Blues

Formed
1901

Colours
Oxford and Cambridge blue

Associated clubs
Sturt Reserves; Sturt U18s; Sturt-South Adelaide; Sturt U16s; Sturt WFC; Sturt U14s

Affiliation (Current)
South Australian National Football league (SANFL) 1901–2024

Home Ground
Peter Motley Oval

SANFL Premierships
1915, 1919, 1926, 1932, 1940, 1966-67-68-69-70, 1974, 1976, 2002, 2016-17 (15 total)

Senior Premierships
Stanley H Lewis Memorial Trophy: 1968, 1978, 1983, 2008 (4 total); SANFL Night/Knock-out/Pre-season Series: 1954, 1975 (2 total)

Most Games
360 - Paul Bagshaw (1964-1980)

Most Goals
672 - Brant Chambers (2002-10)

League Top Goalkickers
Frank Golding (30) 1920; Paul Caust (57) 1955; Ross Sawley (70) 1964; Ken Whelan (107) 1973 & (108) 1974; Rick Davies (151) 1983; Brant Chambers (112) 2007, (97) 2008 and (80) 2009; Mark Evans (40) 2018 (10 total)

Magarey Medalists
Hendrick Waye 1903; Harry Cumberland 1911; Vic Richardson 1920; Horrie Riley 1923; Keith Dunn 1933; Len Fitzgerald 1952, 1954 & 1959; John Halbert 1961; Greg Whittlesea 1988; Brodie Atkinson 1997; Damian Squire 1999 & 2000; Jade Sheedy 2002; Tim Weatherald 2002; Luke Crane 2008; Zane Kirkwood 2014 & 2016 (15 medallists/18 medals)

Headquarters
39 Oxford Terrace, Unley, SA 5061

Phone: (08) 8271 4611 

Email
general@sturtfc.com.au

Website
sturtfc.com.au

CEO
S Beatty

President
ER Brown / F Richardson

Sturt



"Try a word association test involving the name ‘Sturt’ with South Australian football followers of more than fifty years of age - and long memories - and the chances are that the most popular responses would be terms like “skilful”, “brilliant”, “classy” and “dazzling”. The Sturt side that dominated South Australian football during the second half of the 1960s had an impact which no other team in the history of the SANFL, with the possible exception of the great Port Adelaide side which won six successive premierships during the 1950s, ever managed ... "

  • John Devaney looks at the history of the Double Blues and their extraordinary run of success in the late 1960s

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1926 Season (SAFL) Fixture

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Sturt's 1926 Fixture

Rnd H&A Club Q1Q2Q3Q4 S R Opponent Q1Q2Q3Q4 S Mgn Grd Date SC
1 H Sturt 3.25.97.108.13 61 WON Norwood 2.33.36.97.10 52 9 UNL May 1 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
2 A Sturt 0.22.35.48.6 54 LOST North Adelaide 5.29.49.610.9 69 -15 PRO May 8 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
3 H Sturt 3.49.612.819.18 132 WON South Adelaide 3.24.66.810.9 69 63 UNL May 15 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
4 A Sturt 1.18.311.614.11 95 WON Glenelg 4.34.56.99.10 64 31 GLE May 22 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
5 H Sturt 4.55.97.1510.17 77 WON West Adelaide 2.22.33.55.7 37 40 UNL May 29 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
6 A Sturt 1.14.44.54.5 29 LOST Port Adelaide 2.33.45.67.9 51 -22 ALB Jun 7 (Mon, 12:00) Scores
7 A Sturt 1.51.73.128.16 64 LOST West Torrens 2.09.412.514.7 91 -27 THB Jun 19 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
8 A Sturt 2.24.47.59.5 59 LOST Norwood 2.24.44.710.10 70 -11 NOR Jun 26 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
9 H Sturt 6.48.58.79.12 66 WON North Adelaide 1.24.57.78.10 58 8 UNL Jul 10 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
10 A Sturt 5.18.311.920.12 132 WON South Adelaide 3.27.37.611.8 74 58 ADO Jul 17 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
11 H Sturt 1.16.77.78.10 58 WON Port Adelaide 3.14.75.106.10 46 12 UNL Jul 24 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
12 H Sturt 2.73.87.1010.12 72 WON Glenelg 1.01.13.14.3 27 45 UNL Aug 7 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
13 A Sturt 4.75.910.1213.15 93 WON West Adelaide 2.27.59.611.9 75 18 ADO Aug 14 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
14 H Sturt 2.24.95.127.18 60 WON West Torrens 4.14.46.66.6 42 18 UNL Sep 4 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
1SF A Sturt 1.63.95.116.12 48 LOST Norwood 2.32.54.79.11 65 -17 ADO Sep 11 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
GF H Sturt 3.24.57.79.10 64 WON North Adelaide 2.33.55.77.9 51 13 ADO Oct 2 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
 

Footnotes

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