Dandenong Football Club
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| Full name | Dandenong Football Club | |
| Nickname(s) | Dandies, Redlegs | |
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| Competition | Victorian Football Association 1958–1994 | |
| Premierships |
Div 1: 1967, 1971, 1991 Div 2: 1962 |
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| Ground(s) | Shepley Oval | |
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Dandenong Football Club was an Australian rules football club which played in the Victorian Football Association (VFA). Based in the Melbourne suburb of Dandenong, the Redlegs wore navy blue and red as their club colours.
Dandenong joined the Victorian Football Association from the Federal League for the 1958 season, and found itself in Division 2 when then Association was partitioned in 1961. The club originally played at the Dandenong Showgrounds, before moving to Shepley Oval in 1962. The club was runner-up to Northcote in Division 2 in 1961, then won the 1962 Division 2 premiership against Prahran to earn promotion to Division 1.
Within three years, Dandenong became one of the power clubs in Division 1. It reached its first finals campaign in 1965, winning the minor premiership that season, and seldom missed the finals from then until the late 1970s. In a ten-year period from 1967 until 1976, Dandenong played in six Grand Finals for two premierships. Both premierships came in controversial Grand Finals: in the 1967 Grand Final, the Redlegs defeated a Port Melbourne team which nearly walked off the ground and forfeited the game in the second quarter in protest at the umpiring; then Dandenong beat Preston in the 1971 Grand Final, but only after Preston unsuccessfully protested to have Dandenong's six-point victory amended to a draw. Over that time, Dandenong was runner-up to Preston in 1969,Oakleigh in 1972,Geelong West in 1975, and Port Melbourne in 1976. The club enjoyed the services of full-forward Jim 'Frosty' Miller, a local west Gippslander who won the VFA goalkicking on six occasions, and it established itself as one of the wealthiest clubs in the competition, able to attract quality former Victorian Football League players.
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