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KEY FACTS

Known as
Terrigal Avoca

Formed
1976

Colours
Black, white and red

Emblem
Panthers

Affiliation (Current)
AFL Hunter Central Coast (AFLHCC) 1976–2024

Senior Premierships
Central Coast Australian Football League (CCAFL) - 1976, 1988-9-90-1, 1994, 1996, 1999 (8 total); Black Diamond AFL - 2000, 2012, 2014-15, 2017 (5 total)

Most Games
301 by Kevin O'Brien 1976-2001

Postal Address
P.O. Box 513, Terrigal, New South Wales 2260

Terrigal Avoca

Terrigal Avoca’s history has coincided with football’s emergence as a viable part of the sporting culture in New South Wales’s Central Coast region. The club has also contributed in no small measure to that emergence, both by means of its consistent on-field success, and through providing players of all ages, from under tens to seniors, with a well-managed, appropriately structured outlet for their talents.

As far as on-field success goes, Terrigal Avoca wasted no time in laying down the gauntlet to rival teams. A founder member in 1976 of the Central Coast Australian Football League, the Panthers won everything going in their debut year: the premiership, thanks to closely fought a grand final defeat of Gosford, and both the league best and fairest and top goal kicker trophies courtesy of Robert Thomas.

The club’s most successful era to date was the late 1980s through to the mid ‘90s when the seniors claimed a total of six flags in nine seasons. On one occasion during this period they won an amazing 59 consecutive games. The fact that success permeated all levels of the club at this time is clearly evidenced by its feat in winning the club championship every year between 1987 and 1991.

The turn of the century saw the Panthers once again emerge as a force. In 1999, the last season of the CCAFL, they claimed their eighth senior premiership with a grand final win over Killarney Vale, and backed this up the following year with a hefty 17.16 (118) to 10.18 (78) defeat of Cardiff in the inaugural Black Diamond AFL flag decider. There then followed a prolonged premiership drought which was not broken until 2012 [1] when they inflicted Cardiff's fifth successive grand final defeat with a 10.8 (68) to 7.12 (54) triumph. A grand final loss to Newcastle City followed in 2013 before the Panthers returned in force to claim the 2014 flag with a 17.12 (114) to 9.5 (59) grand final defeat of Killarney Vale. A year later they went back to back when they accounted for Newcastle City on grand final day by 22 points, 14.9 (93) to 10.11 (71). The 2016 season brought a fifth straight grand final appearance but it ended in disappointment as Newcastle City turned the tables with a comfortable 61 point win. A year later the Panthers procured their fifth BDAFL premiership with a hard fought 13.11 (89) to 11.14 (80) grand final defeat of Cardiff. Yet another grand final appearance followed in 2018 but opponents Newcastle City just had the edge and ended up winning by 22 points.

Footnotes

  1. The Panthers reached the 2004 grand final but lost to Cardiff.

Source

John Devaney - Full Points Publications


 

Footnotes

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