Cheltenham Football Club
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| Full name | Cheltenham Football Netball Club | |
| Nickname(s) | Rosellas | |
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| Founded | 1891 | |
| Competition | Southern Football Netball League | |
| President | Colin Anderson | |
| Coach | Des Ryan | |
| Premierships | 9 (1909, 1913, 1915, 1922, 1925, 1934, 1992, 1993, 1995) | |
| Ground(s) | Jack Barker Oval – Cheltenham Recreational Reserve | |
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| Other information | ||
| Official website | cheltenhamfc.com.au | |
The Cheltenham Football Club is an Australian rules football club from Melbourne, that was founded in 1891 and currently plays in Division 1 of the Southern Football Netball League.
As early as 1891, the "Cheltenham Football Club" regularly played football matches, often travelling long distances from their southern Melbourne base to play country teams such as Ballarat.
The Cheltenham home games were played on a paddock on the corner of Park and Charman roads in Cheltenham. In 1909, the club moved to its current home at the Cheltenham Recreational Reserve on Weatherall Road.
Also in 1909, Cheltenham entered in the newly formed Federal Association and became the inaugural Federal Association premiers. The club continued its affiliation with this league for many decades, even fielding an open age team during the war years.
Cheltenham went on to win five senior premierships in the Federal Association by the end of the 1920s, they won the flags in 1909, 1911, 1913, 1922 and 1925, with the late Percy Watt playing in all 5 premiership sides and was captain in 1922.
1928 saw the start of an outstanding career from our oldest living player Tom Connor. There were many great players for Cheltenham in the 1930s and Tom Butler was one of the finest, playing over 400 in a career that spanned over 20 years.
Cheltenham continued to win premierships in the 1920s and 1930s with juniors taking out the 1929 and 1933 flags, and that continued in 1934 when Cheltenham took out the 1st XVIII and 2nd XVIII premierships.
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