South Bunbury Football Club

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Nickname(s) Tigers Leading goalkicker Guy Piggott Colours Red and white Ground Hands Oval Premiership 44 (14 in SWFL)		Home-and-away season 1 Best and fairest Shaun Crane Founded 1897 Motto Cede Nullis

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South Bunbury Football Club is a semi-professional Australian rules football club based in South Bunbury, Western Australia. The club plays in the South West Football League. Since being founded in 1897 the club has won 44 premierships and has been a runner-up 24 times. Since joining the SWFL in 1957 they have won 14 premierships.

History

The South Bunbury club was founded in May 1897 at a meeting at the Prince of Wales Hotel in Bunbury.

South Bunbury picked up the nickname Tigers after the relative inaccessibility and perceived wildness of the South Bunbury area around the turn of the 20th century.

Club records

Total League Premierships: 45 (1898, 1905, 1907, 1908, 1913, 1918, 1919, 1920, 1921, 1922, 1926, 1929, 1931, 1933, 1936, 1937, 1948, 1949, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1957, 1959, 1966, 1966, 1968, 1971, 1976, 1980, 1981, 1984, 1985, 1988, 1989, 1933, 2002, 2016)

Reserves Premierships: 27 (1921, 1922, 1923, 1931, 1933, 1937, 1947, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1962, 1965, 1971, 1974, 1984, 1986, 1991, 1993, 2007)

Colts Premierships: 6 (1964, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1990, 2005)

Most career games: 277, Ian Cahill

Most goals in a game: 14, Adam Matson, 2000

Most goals in a season: 87 Don Aldersea, 1967

References

South Bunbury Football Club Wikipedia

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