The St Albans Football Club is an Australian rules football club based at Kings Park Reserve in Kings Park, a north-western suburb of Melbourne.
Founded in 1947, the club participated in the Western Region Football League until 2022, after which the club moved to the Essendon District Football League. To date, St Albans has won five Division One Premierships, the most recent being in 2001. They have also won 1 Division 2 Premiership.
St Albans currently has 7 Junior teams, ranging from Under 10s to Under 18s, two open age Female teams and two Senior Men's teams.
History A public meeting was called to be held at the St Albans Fire Station in September 1946. The reason for this meeting was to form a Football Club, that is the St Albans Football Club as we know it today. Twenty-six people attended this meeting and Mr W E Perrett was elected as President for the first year. Moreover, Mr J Douglas and Mr S Taylor were appointed secretary and coach respectively. The club was to be located at Errington Reserve. Mr S Taylor and Mr A McPherson were elected as captain and vice captain respectively.
In March, St Albans FC was officially accepted into the Western Region Football League, which was at the time known as the Footscray District Football League. Competitive matches were to start on the 26th of the following month. Nevertheless, before the commencement of the league, St Albans opted to play a practice match against ICI from Deer Park, its first ever match.
In December 2022 the club transitioned across to the Essendon District Football League and will compete in the 2023 season in Division One.
Honours Club Western Region Football League Division One (5): 1966, 1969, 1988, 1989, 2001 Division Two (1): 1997
Individual Best & Fairest
1947 R Priest 1949 S Taylor/A McPherson 1950 K Priest 1951 D McPherson 1958 G Haynes 1959 G Haynes 1960 G Haynes 1961 W Dawidowicz 1962 T McIntyre 1963 W Dawidowicz 1964 G Haynes 1965 F Uscinas 1966 I Sharp 1967 T Munday 1968 R Toby 1969 G Cameron 1970 F Van Leeuwen 1971 G Cameron 1972 J Stanecki 1973 N Farrell 1974 R Szwaj 1975 A Tansis 1976 R Szwaj 1977 R Bradley 1978 J Blyth 1979 J Blyth 1980 R Peterson 1981 J Blyth 1982 R Peterson 1983 R Peterson 1984 R Peterson 1985 L Foreman 1986 L Foreman 1987 D Templar 1988 S McGhie 1989 S McGhie 1990 S Haynes 1991 A Walsh 1992 P Mala 1993 S Millo 1994 J Fitzpatrick 1995 S Millo 1996 M Antonowicz 1997 A Fennessy 1998 M Antonowicz 1999 M Antonowicz 2000 J Skinner 2001 J Fitzpatrick 2002 A Ibrahim 2003 A Szwadiak 2004 D McFerran 2005 S Arena 2006 S Arena 2007 M Agius 2008 B Hollow 2009 T Jenkins 2010 T Jenkins 2011 S Hoare 2012 B Taylor 2013 L Baddeley 2014 J West 2015 M Quigley 2016 T Jenkins 2017 T Jenkins 2018 T Donoghue 2019 D Kovacevic
300 Game Players
Joe Maziarz Rod Toby Paul Shanley Jeff Parker Rod Brown Michael Portelli Robert Paterson Wayne Duffy Joe Capelli Corey Bissett Mark Antonowicz Daniel McFerran Jason Fitzpatrick David Pettenon Simon Millo Aaron Edwards Travis Edwards Mark Magor Jim Vickens Joe Murphy Zammy Muhtari Brian O'Donovan Dale Marshall Adam Szwadiak Colin Baulch Rudi Jakavicius Peter Trimboli Craig Psaila
Team of the Century
External links Official website