Kyneton Football Club

Not to be confused with Kyneton Women's Football Club.
Kyneton
Names
Full nameKyneton Football & Netball Club
NicknameTigers
2025 season
Home-and-away season6th
Leading goalkickerAngus Nolte (57)
Club details
Founded1868; 158 years ago (1868) [note 1]
Colours   
CompetitionRDFL
CoachEthan Foreman
Premierships1891, 1892, 1893, 1902, 1903, 1904, 1906, 1908, 1928, 1931, 1945
BFL 1936, 1960, 1961, 1966, 1995, 1997 (17)
GroundKyneton Showgrounds (capacity: 5,000)
Uniforms
Home
Other information
Official websitekynetonfnc.com

The Kyneton Football Netball Club, nicknamed the Tigers, is an Australian rules football and netball club based in the town of Kyneton, Victoria. Kyneton teams currently compete in the Riddell District Football League. The club transferred there after the 2023 season.

History

It has been said that Kyneton was the Victorian town where the first organised regional football match was contested,[citation needed] although the first recorded country football match was on the Camp Reserve, Castlemaine was in September 1855 between a team of Army soldiers and a team of goldminers.[2]

The first match in Kyneton was held in the early 1860s, with 84 players (42 by side) on the field.[citation needed] The match was played at the Showgrounds Oval.

Kyneton FC is recorded as playing two matches against Redesdale, one in October 1868[3] and the return match was played in November 1868,[4] but Kyneton did not play in a formal local competition until 1891, even though they were registered with the Victorian Football Association from 1877 to 1885 and played against Hawthorn,[5] Essendon[6] and Carlton[7] a number of times in the late 1870s and early 1880s.

Formal rural football competitions commenced in Ballarat starting in 1869 and Castlemaine's in 1871, being the first competitions in the region until the Victorian Football Association was founded in 1877.[1]

In 1887, the club played 17 matches, the most since the club was formed, but no formal competition.[8]

The club played against the touring British footballers in 1888.[9][10]

In 1895 at the annual meeting of the Kyneton United Football Club it was resolved to reform the club and change the name to the Kyneton Football Club.[11]

In 1898, Kyneton Junior FC and Kyneton Senior FC merged to form the Kyneton Football Club and adopting the club colours of blue and white.[12]

In 1899, the Kyneton District Football Club was formed and the club colours were red, white and blue.[13]

After World War Two, Kyneton participated in the Castlemaine District Football League in 1945 and 1946, prior to re-joining the Bendigo Football League in 1947.

The club went into recess in 2013 citing a player shortage, but returned to the competition in 2014. At the end of 2023 the club decided to transfer from the Bendigo Football League to the Riddell District Football League.

Football Timeline

Premierships

Senior Football
  • Kyneton District Football Association
    • 1891 - 1st: Kyneton,[21]
    • 1892 - 1st: Kyneton, 2nd: Woodend,[22][23]
    • 1893 - 1st: Kyneton[24][25]
    • 1902 - Kyneton: 4.4 - 28 d East Trentham: 2.6 - 18[26]
    • 1903 - 1st: Kyneton, 2nd: Kyneton Collegians[27]
    • 1904 - Kyneton: 5.5 - 35 d Malmsbury: 1.4 - 10[28]
    • 1906 - 1st: Kyneton, 2nd: Kyneton Collegians
    • 1908 - Kyneton: ? d Trentham: ?[29]
  • Kyneton Football League
    • 1928 - Kyneton: 4.9 - 33 d Kyneton Collegians: 4.3 - 27[30]
  • Midland Football League
    • 1931 - Kyneton: 9.7 - 61 d Castlemaine Foundry: 5.11 - 41[31]
  • Bendigo Football League (6):
    • 1936 - Kyneton: 12.9 - 81 d Sandhurst: 10.8 - 68[32][33][34]
    • 1960 - Kyneton: 9.8 - 62 d Rochester: 8.11 - 59
    • 1961 - Kyneton: 12.13 - 85 d Rochester: 9.6 - 80
    • 1966 - Kyneton:15.6 - 96 d Golden Square: 12.12 - 84[35]
    • 1995 - Kyneton: 18.13 - 121 d South Bendigo: 11.10 - 76
    • 1997 - Kyneton: 18.15 - 123 d Golden Square: 7.14 - 56
  • Castlemaine District Football League (1945 & 1946)
    • 1945
Reserves
  • Bendigo Football League
    • 1975 - Kyneton: 9.14 - 68 drew with Sandhurst: 10.8 - 68 (Drawn Grand Final)[36]
    • 1975 - Kyneton: ? d Sandhurst: ? (Grand Final Replay)
Thirds

Runners Up

Seniors

VFL / AFL Players

The following footballers played with Kyneton prior to playing senior VFL / AFL football, with the year indicating their VFL debut.

Alexander Fraser
Nathan Thompson
Debut Player's Name VFL / AFL Club Notes / References
1903 John McCashney South Melbourne
1907 Harry Rigby Melbourne
1914 Alexander Fraser Melbourne Federal & State Politician
1925 Jack Armstrong St Kilda
1935 Frank Halloran Melbourne & Footscray
1937 Ted Buckley Melbourne
1939 Hughie McPherson Footscray & Melbourne
1939 Clarrie Riordan St Kilda
1953 John Thomas McCashney Hawthorn
1957 Frank Hanrahan St Kilda
1958 Bill Arch Carlton
1958 Brian Bowe St Kilda
1959 Peter Barker Footscray
1959 Cliff Deacon South Melbourne
1959 Norm McKenzie South Melbourne
1967 Ian Thompson North Melbourne
1975 Danny Halloran Carlton
1976 Jim Buckley Carlton 1979, 81 & 82 VFL Premierships
1983 Tony Kelly Collingwood
1998 Nathan Thompson Hawthorn
1999 Peter Welsh Melbourne
2009 Rhys Magin Essendon
2012 Jack Redpath Footscray

The following footballers played senior VFL / AFL football, prior to playing / coaching with Kyneton, with the year indicating their first season at Kyneton.

Kyneton District Football Association

  • 1891 to 1896 - Kyneton District Football Association
  • 1897 to 1900 - KDFA in recess
  • 1901 to 1911 - Kyneton District Football Association
  • 1912 to 1918 - KDFA in recess
  • 1919 to 1920 - Kyneton District Football Association
  • 1921 to 1925 - KDFA in recess
  • 1926 to 1930 - Kyneton District Football League
Premiers
  • 1891 - Kyneton[37]
  • 1892 - 1st: Kyneton[38][39]
  • 1893 - Kyneton[40][41]
  • 1894 - 1st: Malmsbury, 2nd: Carlsruhe[42]
  • 1895 - Woodend: 3.1 - 19 d Kyneton: 0.6 - 6[43]
  • 1896[44] - Woodend[45]
  • 1897 - 1900: KDFA in recess.[46]
  • 1901 - Lauriston: 3.5 - 23 d Kyneton: 1.12 - 18[47][48]
  • 1902 - 1st: Kyneton[49]
  • 1903 - 1st: Kyneton[50]
  • 1904 - Kyneton[51]
  • 1905 - Malmsbury[52][53]
  • 1906 - 1st: Kyneton[54][55]
  • 1907 - Trentham*: 7.10 - 52 d Kyneton Collegians: 3.6 - 24[56]
  • 1908 - Kyneton: ? d Trentham: ?[57]
  • 1909 - ?. Semi Final: Kyneton d Macedon[58]
  • 1910 - Trentham: 5.8 - 38 d Macedon: 4.10 - 34[59][60]
  • 1911 - Daylesford: 1.17 - 23 d Trentham: 2.9 - 21[61]
  • 1912 - 1918: KDFA in recess.[62]
  • 1919 - Kyneton Collegians: 8.8 - 56 d Malmsbury: 3.8 - 26[63][64]
  • 1920 - Malmsbury: 5.16 - 46 d Trentham: 3.6 - 25[65][66][67]
  • 1921 - 1925: In recess?
  • 1926 - Kyneton Collegians: 10.8 - 68 d Daylesford: 5.9 - 39
  • 1927 - Daylesford 4.8 - 32 d Kyneton Collegians: 4.4 - 28
  • 1928 - Kyneton 4.9 - 33 d Kyneton Collegians: 4.4 28
  • 1929 - Kyneton Collegians 8.11 - 59 d Kyneton 5.14 - 44
  • 1930 - Trentham: 5.9 - 39 d Malmsbury: 5.5 - 35

Bibliography

  • History of Football in the Bendigo District - John Stoward - ISBN 978-0-9805929-1-7

Notes

  1. ^ Date according to club's website.[1]

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