Coburg Lions
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| Names | ||
| Full name | Coburg Football Club | |
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The Lions (1891–2000, 2014–present) The Tigers (2001–2013) |
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| Club details | ||
| Founded | 1891 | |
| Colours | Navy and Red | |
| Competition | Victorian Football League | |
| President | Kevin Breen | |
| Coach | Peter German | |
| Captain(s) | Tom Goodwin | |
| Premierships | 6 (1926, 1927, 1928, 1979, 1988, 1989) | |
| Ground(s) | Piranha Park (capacity: 15,000) | |
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| Other information | ||
| Official website | coburgfc.com.au | |
The Coburg Football Club, nicknamed The Lions, is an Australian rules football club based in Coburg, a northern suburb of Melbourne, and currently playing in the Victorian Football League. It is based at Coburg City Oval which has been renamed to Piranha Park, due to naming rights. Coburg has historically been a proud club and has won 6 VFA/VFL premierships with the most recent premiership in 1989. The club spent time aligned as a reserve side for the Richmond Football Club from 2001, but as of 2014 has become a stand-alone club in the Victorian Football League.
After competing in junior competitions, including the Victorian Football League seconds until 1924, Coburg was admitted as a senior club in the Victorian Football Association in 1925 – a move which was pivotal in allowing Footscray, North Melbourne and Hawthorn to leave the Association and join the VFL that same year.
Coburg was immediately successful in the VFA, playing finals in its first season and winning three consecutive premierships from 1926 until 1928; however, these were the club's last top-division premiership for more than fifty years. Coburg was runners-up to the Northcote Football Club in three successive seasons from 1932 to 1934, and was also runners-up in 1941. The club was dominant in the junior/seconds competition from its inception in 1928 up to World War II, winning nine seconds premierships in thirteen seasons, including four in a row from 1937 until 1940.
Coburg had prolific goal kickers Lance Collins and Bob Pratt during the 1930s and 1940s. Collins, in his first full season in 1936 (he was injured in 1935 and played one game), kicked 16, 12, 11 and 10 goals in separate games to kick 116 goals for the season; in 98 games for Coburg Football Club (VFA) his tally was 432 goals. Bob Pratt, who crossed from the VFL without a clearance early in the throw-pass era, kicked 183 goals in the 1941 VFA season for Coburg, which was then the highest number of goals kicked in a VFA season until Ron Todd of Williamstown (VFA) beat that record and kicked 188 goals in 1945. Pratt and Collins together hold the record for the most goals by two players in a season: they kicked a total of 256 goals in 1941. Pratt kicked 22 goals in a match against Sandringham Football Club: a club record.
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