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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


Full name
  
South Bunbury Football Club

Competition
  
South West Football League

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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.

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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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