Australian Football

Plympton

Over the years Plympton has played in the Glenelg District Football Association, the Glenelg South West Football Association, the Glenelg West Football Association, the South Metropolitan Football League, the Southern Football League, the South Australian Football Association and, since 1996, the South Australian Amateur Football League/Adelaide Footy League. The club has won a total of a dozen senior grade premierships with the most recent coming in Division Four of the SAAFL in 2013. Promoted to Division Three as a consequence the Bulldogs have continued to compete at that level since, finishing seventh in both 2014 and 2015, sixth in 2016, fourth in 2017 and sixth in 2018.

Arguably the club's greatest achievement was procuring a hat trick of flags in the strong Southern Football League between 1987 and 1989.

Plympton’s colours of black and red were adopted at the instigation of the club’s founder, Robert McGhee, who originally hailed from Victoria, and was an ardent Essendon supporter. As late as the 1970s his wife May made all the club’s lace-up guernseys.