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Canterbury Football Club

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Colours
  
Black, red and yellow

League
  
VAFA

Founded
  
1881

Full name
  
Canterbury Football Club

Ground
  
Canterbury Sportsground,

Official website
  
http//www.canterburyfootball.club

The Canterbury Football Club is an Australian rules football club located in the Melbourne suburb of Canterbury. The club fields open-age teams in the Victorian Amateur Football Association.

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History

Canterbury joined the Box Hill Reporter League in 1903 in that league's second year, in 1932 it became one of the founders in the formation of the Eastern Suburban Football League. In 1963 the ESFL merged with the CODFL to form the SESFL.

It remained in the SESFL until the club decided to transfer to the VAFA in 2014.

Premierships

  • 1956, 1969, 1972, 1991, 2003, 2015
  • VFL/AFL players

  • Bob Pratt – South Melbourne
  • Peter Curran – Hawthorn, Brisbane Bears
  • Luke Penny – St Kilda
  • References

    Canterbury Football Club Wikipedia