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Port Melbourne Football Club
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| Full name | Port Melbourne Football Club |
|---|---|
| Nickname | Borough |
| Strip | Red, Blue vertical stripes. |
| Founded | 1874 |
| Sport | Australian rules football |
| League | Victorian Football League (1886-) |
| First season | |
| Ground | TEAC Oval |
| Club song | It's a Grand Old Flag |
| President/Chair | Peter Saultry |
| Coach | Gary Ayres |
| Captain | Chris Obst |
| 2007 | 6th |
The Port Melbourne Football Club is an Australian rules football club based in the Melbourne suburb of Port Melbourne and currently playing in the Victorian Football League.
The Borough are unlike most VFL clubs in that they are currently not aligned with an Australian Football League club.
Port Melbourne are considered one of the strongest, most successful and most supported clubs outside of the AFL.
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It joined the VFA in 1886 and has played in every season since then. The Port Melbourne Club was once touted to join the breakaway VFL league, but was denied membership because of its fans poor behavior. It went on to become one of the strongest clubs in the VFA, and attracts the largest attendances of any of the Melbourne based VFL clubs.
After previous alignments with the Sydney Swans (2000-2002) and the Kangaroos FC (2003-2004) Port Melbourne are no longer aligned with an AFL club.
Had one of the most controversial supporter bases during the time of the Kangaroos alignment, including: "Patty" - a supporter who continually interrupted games by walking onto the field during play, demanding he be able to do field umpire's jobs, dancing on top of garbage bins, throwing himself off grandstands and basically causing a public disturbance; and, Phil "Tiger" Pearce, who continued to go into the Port changerooms to "sing the song with the boys" when the team had played to a draw, and was later banned from the rooms after matches following his appearance on TV exhorting at how the team had "stuck it up" a rival team's coach.
1897, 1901, 1922, 1940, 1941, 1947, 1953, 1964, 1966, 1974, 1976, 1977, 1980, 1981, 1982, (15).
| Placings (1945-64) | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | 1945 | 1946 | 1947 | 1948 | 1949 | 1950 | 1951 | 1952 | 1953 | 1954 | 1955 | 1956 | 1957 | 1958 | 1959 | 1960 | 1961 | 1962 | 1963 | 1964 |
| Placement | 2 | 4 | 1 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 8 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 1 |
| Placings (1965-84) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Year | 1965 | 1966 | 1967 | 1968 | 1969 | 1970 | 1971 | 1972 | 1973 | 1974 | 1975 | 1976 | 1977 | 1978 | 1979 | 1980 | 1981 | 1982 | 1983 | 1984 |
| Placement | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 |
| Placings (1985-04) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Year | 1985 | 1986 | 1987 | 1988 | 1989 | 1990 | 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 |
| Placement | 5 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 10 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 6 | 13 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 2 |
| Placings (2005-present) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Year | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
| Placement | 5 | 13 | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
- League History: VFA/VFL 1886-15, 1918-41, 1945-
- Record Attendance: 36,289 v Coburg in 1941
- VFA Centenary Cup Winners: 1 - 1977
- Most Games: 253 by Fred Cook
- Most Goals: 1238 by Fred Cook
- Highest Score: 43.29 (287) v Sandringham in 1941
- Lowest Score: 0.2 (2) v Prahran in 1902
- Longest Winning Run: 15 (1976-77)
- Longest Losing Run: 14 (1909)
- P Wilson (1927-1929)
- C Stanbridge (1930-31)
- P Wilson (1932)
- B Lovett (1933)
- G Dobrigh (1934)
- T Lahiff, R Shapter (1935)
- B Rudd (1936)
- J Bissett (1937)
- H Crompton (1937)
- T Lahiff (1937-38)
- F Kelly (1940-41)
- T Lahiff (1941, 1945-46)
- W Findlay (1947-48)
- J Cleary (1949-1952)
- D Fraser (1953-55)
- F Johnson (1956-57)
- T Brooker (1958-59)
- D Furness (1960-61)
- T Lahiff (1962)
- L Mithen (1963-65)
- B Buckley (1966-68)
- R Bonnett (1969-71)
- I Collins (1972-73)
- N Brown (1974-78)
- P McKenna (1979)
- G Brice (1980-1983)
- W Irwin (1984)
- G Brice (1985)
- P Chisnall (1986)
- G Allen (1987-88)
- B Yorgey (1989-90)
- D Searle (1991-92)
- D Drum (1993)
- D Cloke (1994)
- S Molloy (1995)
- N Ross (1996-1998)
- D Crocker (1999)
- D Dunbar (2000-2003)
- G FitzGerald (2004)
- S Ghazi (2005-2007)
- G Ayres (2008-
- Terry Keenan. 2006. Unduly Rough Play - A History of the Port Melbourne Football Club, Volume 2 1918-1944. Albert Park: Eucalyptus Press
- Terry Keenan. 2004. Kicking Into the Wind - A History of the Formative Years of the Port Melbourne Football Club 1874-1917. Petersham: Walla Walla Press
- Terry Keenan. 1999. A Taste of Port. Albert Park: Eucalyptus Press
- Terry Keenan. A Family Feud. Port Melbourne: Port Melbourne Historical and Preservation Society.
- Terry Keenan. Keeping Out the Riff-Raff. Port Melbourne: Port Melbourne Historical and Preservation Society.
- Port Melbourne Football Club Official Site
- Full Points Footy Profile for Port Melbourne
- Port Melbourne Historical and Preservation Society
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