Newtown Breakaways Football Club
| Newtown Breakaways | |||
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| Names | |||
| Full name | Newtown Breakaways Football Club | ||
| Nickname(s) | Breakaways, Breakers | ||
| Club song | "All I Wanna Be" | ||
| Club details | |||
| Founded | 2002 | ||
| Colours | |||
| Competition | Sydney AFL | ||
| President | Tiffany Chen | ||
| Ground(s) | HJ Mahoney Memorial Park, Marrickville, New South Wales | ||
| Uniforms | |||
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The Newtown Breakaways Football Club are an Australian rules football club that play in the Sydney AFL competition. The club was founded in 2002 as an independent women's club, only fielding their first men's side in 2020. As of the 2021 season, the Breakaways have women's teams in Division 1 and Division 3. In the Men's competition, they field teams in Division 2 and Division 3.
The Breakaways' home ground is HJ Mahoney Memorial Park located in the Inner West Sydney suburb of Marrickville, New South Wales.
History[edit]
The Newtown Breakaways were founded in 2002 after players from the Sydney University Bombers, Jamie Robertson and Rebecca Burridge, broke away after frustration at the way the treatment of the Women's team.[1] Adopting the red and white of the Sydney Swans, they left a massive mark on the Sydney Women's AFL competition by winning the premiership in their first season. [2][3]
This team would continue to dominate the premier division of the Sydney Women's AFL (SWAFL) competition between 2002 and 2005.[4][5][6] In 2009 and 2010, the team would claim another two premierships in this competition.[7][8] The team's seventh was won in 2015.[9] The continued success of the team resulted in this side being awarded "Team of the Decade" in 2011 by Sydney AFL.
In 2020, Sydney AFL made the decision to exclude the Breakaways from the Women's Premier division competition, after making the decision to broaden the competition by adding two more clubs. Despite the disappointment within the club, the team made the decision to introduce a men's team into the competition for the first time in the club's history; fielding a division 3 team who would go on to win their premiership.[10]
In 2021, the team continued to expand for their 20th year, with the addition of a second men's team, now in Division 2.
External links[edit]
References[edit]
- ↑ Groube, Sarah. "Sydney women's Australian Rules football - an Olympic legacy". SBS News. SBS Australia. Retrieved 19 March 2021.
- ↑ "About". Newtown Breakaways. Retrieved 19 March 2021.
- ↑ "2002 Fixtures". AFL Sydney Women's.
- ↑ "2003 Table and Results". AFL Sydney Women's.
- ↑ "2004 Table and Results". AFL Sydney Women's.
- ↑ "2005 Table and Results". AFL Sydney Women's.
- ↑ "2009 Table and Results". AFL Sydney Women's.
- ↑ "NAB 2010 Grand Final Results". AFL Sydney Women's.
- ↑ "2015 BLK AFL Sydney Division Women's Div 1 Grand Final - Sydney Uni v Newtown". YouTube. Sydney AFL.
- ↑ "Fixtures & Results". Sydney AFL. Retrieved 19 March 2021.
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