Australian Football

Known, hardly surprisingly, as the Kangaroos, Kangaroo Flat has been a feature of the Bendigo football landscape since the recommencement of organised sport in the area after the first world war. The club spent its first six decades competing at junior or district level, but in 1981 it gained a passport to elite company when the Golden City Football League of which it was a member merged with the senior Bendigo competition, the Bendigo Football League. The new competition - known, with mundane predictability, as the Bendigo Golden City Football League - was split into two divisions, with the Kangaroos initially consigned to the lower grade. However, they performed well, and the 1982 season saw them lining up with the ‘big boys’ of Division One.

In 1983 the competition dropped ‘Golden City’ from its name and adopted a single division format. Kangaroo Flat has continued in this competition to the present day, with its involvement highlighted by a senior grade flag, courtesy of an 18.18 (126) to 15.20 grand final defeat of Kyneton, in 1996. The ‘Roos also reached the 2000 grand final, but kicked poorly in losing to Castlemaine by 12 points.

Recent seasons have been somewhat disappointing with the 'Roos generally struggling in the bottom half of the premiership ladder. They finished last in 2013, sixth in 2014, eighth in 2015, sixth in 2016 and eighth in 2017.