Australian Football

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KEY FACTS

Official name
Wellington Football Club

Known as
Wellington

Former name
Railway, South Hobart

Former name date
1897-01-01

Formed
1876

Disbanded
1905

Colours
Red, white and blue (previously red and black, and navy blue and white)

Affiliation (Historical)
Tasmanian State League (TSL) 1879–1905

Senior Premierships
Tasmanian Football League - 1881-2-3, 1887, 1889, 1893-4, 1895 (joint premier with City), 1896,1900, 1903-4 (12 total, including 1 shared)

Wellington

Railway Football Club was formed in 1876 and entered the Tasmanian Football Association in 1879, the competition’s inaugural season. Over the remainder of the nineteenth century the club achieved more premiership success than any of its competitors. In 1897 it changed its name to South Hobart, and then to Wellington the following year. The club began the twentieth century as it had ended the nineteenth with flags in 1903 and 1904, but at the end of the 1905 season it went into permanent recess.

Source

John Devaney - Full Points Publications

 

Footnotes

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