North Ballarat Roosters
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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 | |
| Coach | Marc Greig | |
| Captain(s) | Co-Captains Luke Kiel & Tony Lockyer | |
| Premierships | 3 (2008, 2009, 2010) | |
| Ground(s) | Eureka Stadium (capacity: 11,000) | |
| North Ballarat Number 2 Oval (capacity: 3,000) | ||
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| Other information | ||
| Official website | theroosters.com.au | |
North Ballarat Football Club, nicknamed The Roosters, is an Australian rules football club based at Eureka Stadium in Ballarat. The club is locally known as the Roosters and play in the Victorian Football League (VFL). They are the only regional Victorian club 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 club was admitted to the Ballarat Football League (BFL) and won its first BFL Premiership on its second Grand Final appearance in 1963 against Ballarat. They would go on to claim a further 14 BFL Premierships in the period spanning the 1970–1995 seasons (of which they claimed five between 1990-95). The latter feat was no doubt what prompted an invitation to join the re-constructed Victorian Football League (VFL) for the 1996 season.
The team had two unsuccessful VFL Grand Final attempts in 1999 and 2000, and won the 2008 VFL Premiership defeating the Port Melbourne Football Club. In 2009 and 2010 they gained back-to-back Premierships defeating the Northern Bullants at Etihad Stadium in Melbourne on both occasions.
The VFL competition has changed significantly since 1996 with many teams in the 2017 competition being aligned to (or part of) much larger AFL clubs. The North Ballarat Roosters have recently struggled to remain competitive in the modern VFL structure. In order to expand the club's appeal and support there has been considerable recent discussion within the club toward re-branding the team to encompass a wider region and to distance its identity from its North Ballarat (BFL) origins. Considerable lack of support for the VFL team from the broarder local community in Ballarat is historically linked to its past success with the BFL prior to 1995, when the club's success on and off the field was considered by many in the local football community to have come at the expense of other teams in that league.
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