Yankalilla Football Club

The Yankalilla Football Club is an Australian rules football club first formed in 1889 in Yankalilla, South Australia. Yankalilla was originally a member of the Fleurieu Football Association until it joined the Great Southern Football Association in 1935.[1]

Yankalilla
Names
Full nameYankalilla Football Club
Nickname(s)Tigers
Club details
Founded1889 (1889)
Colours   
CompetitionGSFL
OwnersThe people of the Western Fleurieu Peninsula
PresidentLachy Nancarrow
CoachMicka James
Captain(s)Jesse Fitzgerald
Premierships(7): 1934, 1937, 1962, 1963, 1969, 1970, 1985
Ground(s)Yankalilla Memorial Park Sporting Complex
Uniforms
Home

In 1955, Yankalilla entered a reserves team in the Southern Football Association B-Grade competition and the following season joined that competition entirely. Yankalilla remained in the Southern Football League until the end of the 1967 season when they transferred back to the Great Southern Football League where they have remained since.[1][2][3]

Yankalilla continue to field Senior and Junior teams in the Great Southern Football League.

Yankalilla FC has produced two AFL/VFL footballers Kym Koster and Greg Whittlesea, formerly of Hawthorn, but more famous as a Magarey Medal winner for Sturt in the SANFL.[1]

A-Grade Premierships

References
  1. "Club History". Yankalilla Football Club. Retrieved 9 July 2013.
  2. "Yankalilla May Come In". Victor Harbour Times. 29 September 1967. Retrieved 19 August 2015.
  3. "Great Southern Football League". Victor Harbour Times. 26 April 1968. Retrieved 19 August 2015.
  4. Lines, Peter (2012). South Australian Country Football Digest. Cowell: Peter Lines. p. 196. ISBN 978-0-9871591-9-9.
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