Chelsea Football Netball Club
| Chelsea | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Names | |
| Full name | Chelsea Football Netball Club |
| Nickname(s) | Seagulls |
| Club details | |
| Founded | 1911 |
| Colours | Blue White |
| Competition | MPNFL since 1959 |
| Premierships | 1936, 1937, 1955, 1962, 1963, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1986, 1987, 1990, 2000, 2006 |
| Ground(s) | Chelsea Reserve |
The Chelsea Football Netball Club is an Australian Rules and Netball club that competes in the Mornington Peninsula Nepean Football League in the south eastern region of Victoria, Australia, was first organized in late 1911.
History[edit]
The first game with the Chelsea name occurred in 1911 when the married men of Chelsea played the married men of Carrum. The loser paying for a dinner at the Carrum hotel.[1]
In 1913 the club entered the Federal Football association and played until the WWI stopped play by depriving the club of players. reforming after the war, the club struggled to be competitive during the twenties until the Great Depression forced the club into recess for a few years.
Poor performances once the club reformed , force the league to put Chelsea in B grade. It was a godsend as the club won its first and then second premiership back to back in 1936 and 1937. Elevated to A grade the club found the going tough and won back to back wooden spoons.
After WW2 the club was more competitive, finishing in the finals on a regular occasions until finally defeating Dandenong for the 1955 premiership.[2] Time was changing for Chelsea, the Federal FL was large and all of the teams were to the north. In 1959 the club changed to the newly restructured Mornington Peninsula FL. The club won 5 premierships during the next ten years, 1968 was helped by a sixteen year old schoolboy named Leigh Matthews. [3]
After the success of the sixties, the club endured a eighteen year drought, before winning back to back premierships in 1986 and 1987. A third premiership followed in 1990 before a financial crisis hit. The club had been running deficits for years with player payments until it got to the stage things had to change. In order to save the club payments were scaled back and the result caused the better players to walk out the door.
A rebuild of playing personnel led to the 2000 premiership.
Men's football premierships[edit]
- Federal Football League
- 1936, 1937, 1955
- Mornington Peninsula FL
- 1962, 1963, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1986, 1987, 1990, 2000, 2006
VFL/AFL players[edit]
- Jayden Attard - Brisbane Lions, St Kilda
- Brett Bowey - St Kilda
- Keith Fraser - Collingwood[4]
- Jim Gutterson - Footscray
- Stuart Hamilton - Hawthorn
- Gordon Hocking - Collingwood[5]
- Jack Howell - Carlton
- Paul Hopgood - Melbourne
- Greg Hutchison - Melbourne
- Norm Johnstone - Fitzroy
- Travis Johnstone - Melbourne, Brisbane Lions
- Les Jones - Richmond
- Kelvin Matthews - Hawthorn, Geelong
- Leigh Matthews - Hawthorn
- Glenn Murphy - Hawthorn
- Mal Owens - Melbourne
- Pat Phillips - Richmond
- Matt Shaw - Gold Coast, Carlton
- Alan Williams - Collingwood
Further information[edit]
- Chelsea Grit - History of the Chelsea Football Club - Con Counsell ISBN 9780646558035 Search this book on
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Club website[edit]
References[edit]
- ↑ Chelsea Grit - History of the Chelsea Football Club
- ↑ https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/71696314?searchTerm=Chelsea%20football%20federal&searchLimits=l-state=Victoria%7C%7C%7Cl-decade=195%7C%7C%7Cl-year=1955
- ↑ Lethal , Leigh Matthews with Mike Sheehan ISBN: 0959115528,
- ↑ "Keith Fraser". Collingwood Forever. Retrieved 1 September 2014.
- ↑ https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/225969485?searchTerm=Chelsea%20football%20federal&searchLimits=
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