North Ballarat Football Club
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| Full name | North Ballarat Football Club | |
| Nickname(s) | The Roosters | |
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| Founded | 1882 | |
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| Competition | Victorian Football League | |
| President | Peter Wilson | |
| Coach | Marc Greig | |
| Captain(s) | Michael Searl | |
| Premierships | 3 (2008, 2009, 2010) | |
| Ground(s) | Eureka Stadium (capacity: 11,000) | |
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| Official website | theroosters.com.au | |
North Ballarat Football Club, nicknamed The Roosters, is an Australian rules football club based at Northern Oval in Ballarat. The club is locally known as the Roosters and play in the Victorian Football League (VFL). They are one of the regional Victorian clubs in the competition.
The club also has an affiliated Under 18s club, the North Ballarat Rebels, which participates in the TAC Cup.
The club was established in 1882, playing in a number of regional competitions before entering Ballarat's "B" grade league in 1946 where it won its first premiership. Six years later, the NBFC was admitted to the Ballarat Football League and won the flag on its second Grand Final appearance in 1963 against Ballarat. They would go on to claim a further 14 flags in the period spanning the 1970–1995 seasons, during which in the 1990s they claimed five. That feat was no doubt what prompted an invitation to join the re-constructed Victorian Football League for the 1996 season.
After two VFL Grand Final appearances in 1999 and 2000, in 2008 the Roosters became premiers, after defeating the Port Melbourne Football Club in the Grand Final and in 2009 they gained back-to-back premierships by beating the Northern Bullants in the Grand Final held at the Docklands Stadium in Melbourne.
Between 2006 and 2015, North Ballarat was in a partial reserves affiliation with the AFL's North Melbourne Football Club. Under the arrangement, half of the players not selected in the North Melbourne AFL team were allocated to play with North Ballarat; the other half played with Tasmania between 2006 and 2007, and with Werribee between 2008 and 2015. The arrangement ended after the 2015 season, and North Ballarat will have no AFL affiliation from the 2016 season onwards.
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