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KEY FACTS

Official name
Wahgunyah Football Club

Known as
Wahgunyah

Formed
1948

Colours
Black and yellow

Emblem
Tigers

Affiliation (Current)
Tallangatta and District Football League (TDFL) 2008–2024

Affiliations (Historical)
Ovens and Murray Football Netball League (OMFNL) 1908, 1921; Chiltern and District Football League (CDFL) 1919–1920, 1922–1940, 1950–1956; Coreen and District Football League (CDFL) 1948–1949, 1957–2007

Senior Premierships
Coreen and District Football League (CDFL) - 1948-9, 1968, 1997-8, 2002, 2004 (7 total)

Wahgunyah



Most of Wahgunyah’s history - sixty seasons - was spent in the Coreen and District Football League, which disbanded after the 2007 season. During that time the Tigers contested eleven senior grade grand finals, emerging victorious seven times. Their most recent flag was captured in 2004 by means of a 10.16 (76) to 6.8 (44) grand final defeat of a Rennie team which, in the second semi final two weeks earlier, had bested them to the tune of 52 points.

The 2008 season saw Wahgunyah embarking on a new phase of its existence when it affiliated with the Tallangatta and District Football League. Early performances were undistinguished, but in 2011 the Tigers qualified for the finals for the first time, ultimately finishing fourth. There were no further finals appearances in the next half a dozen seasons but the side was consistently competitive, typically finishing mid-ladder. Finally, in 2017 the Tigers qualified for another finals series. Second at the end of the home and away rounds they perhaps not surprisingly found the lift in intensity difficult to cope with and bowed out of the flag race in "straight sets". A year later they nosedived down the premiership table to eleventh (of twelve).

Source

John Devaney - Full Points Publications


 

Footnotes

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