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|---|---|
| Full name | South Fremantle Football Club |
| Nickname(s) | Bulldogs |
| Season 2008 | |
| After Finals | 3rd |
| Home & Away Finish | 3rd |
| Top Goalkicker | Ryan Murphy |
| Best & Fairest | Toby McGrath |
| Club Details | |
| Founded | 1900 |
| Colours | Red and white |
| Competition | West Australian Football League |
| Chairman | Terry Dean |
| Coach | John Dimmer |
| Captain(s) | Toby McGrath |
| Ground(s) | Fremantle Oval (Capacity: 18000) |
| Other information | |
| Official website | http://www.southfremantlefc.com.au |
The South Fremantle Football Club, nicknamed The Bulldogs is a semi-professional Australian rules football club and one of nine clubs that compete in the West Australian Football League (WAFL). It was formed in 1900 and has its training, administration and home games at Fremantle Oval.
The club is coached by John Dimmer with Toby McGrath as the Captain.
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The South Fremantle Football Club dates back to 1900 when it was formed because the once invincible Fremantle Football Club that had carried the hopes of football followers at the port was in debt and disarray. The new club did well in its first year, finishing runners-up. However, over the next three seasons the performance fell away badly and, in April 1904 a Fremantle newspaper confidently reported that South Fremantle would not appear again. However, the club decided to carry on and centreman Harry Hodge took over as skipper, but the season was a disaster. The club won only one game. Despite the early rough days, the South Fremantle FC is now a prsopering club with one of the highest supporter bases in the WAFL competition.
Over its 107-year history South Fremantle has produced many fine players, with many going on to perform well at state or VFL/AFL level.
South has won 12 premierships & is now the first WAFL club to have won 10 grand finals since World-War II. Four of the 12 premierships were won against the club's traditional rivals, East Fremantle. The Bulldogs have participated in the last two Grand Finals, defeating Claremont in 2005, but losing to Subiaco in 2006.
The Fremantle Derby (Derby pronounced to rhyme with herb, not car), is the biggest game of the year on the WAFL calendar. Every year since 1990 the two Fremantle sides have clashed in the match which until the advent of the AFL was one of the big Sporting rivalries in Australian Sport. The Derby's still have a great following but are now considered minor as the Western Derby, the match between WA's two AFL teams takes centre stage.
The Foundation Day (Western Australia) derby on the first Monday in June (a public holiday to mark the Foundation of Western Australia in 1829) is commonly the highest attended game of the home and away season. To the end of the 2006 season the two clubs had met 344 times with South Fremantle winning 156 to East Fremantle's 184 wins, 4 Draws have occurred between the two sides.
South Fremantle's Guernsey (shown left) used for all WAFL matches is all white with a red V in the centre of the guernsey. During the 1990s they also introduced the reverse of the traditional guernsey with a white V on a red jumper, but as of 2006 it appears this guernsey is no longer worn. The South Fremantle colours of red & white stem from the first Fremantle based team known as Unions who wore red and white in the mid 1880s. After being renamed Fremantle they folded in 1899 before a new club in South Fremantle was formed the following year and decided to keep the colours of red and white.
South Fremantle is one of the more supported clubs in the WAFL. South often get crowds of around 1,500 to their home matches which is amongst the highest for the WAFL.
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