1963  Premiers   Played 17   Won 13   Drawn 1   Lost 3 Strathalbyn began their new era with the GSFL playing against Encounter Bay, Goolwa, Mount Compass, Port Elliot and Victor Harbour. Graham Nisbett [ … ]

S.F.C. LEADING GOALSCORERS A GRADE                        RESERVES     1963                    Colin Megaw     40                    Roger Schuetze       27     1964                  Ross Wirth        47                    Don Wenham       [ … ]

S. F. C.     G.S.F.L. HONOURS Grade Mail Medallist Bill Warton 1963 Peter Gilbert 1970 Roger Goldfinch 1975 Kevin Wray 1978 Kym Smith 1979 Brenton Smith 1981 Jason Lehmann 1997 Michael Cook 2002 Nathan Duffield 2003 Simon Munn 2011 A Grade Leading Goal Scorer Ross Wirth 1964 47 goals [ … ]

 S.F.C. A GRADE/ RESERVES COACHES/ CAPTAINS                      A Grade Coach        A Grade Captain 1963                    Graham Nisbett                    Alan Richardson /             [ … ]

SFC A Grade & Reserves GSFL Premierships                     A GRADE                      RESERVES                      1963                         [ … ]

Through the long history of the Strathalbyn Football Club, there are numerous minuted references of a Ladies Committee, generally to raise funds for the Sick and Accident Fund, which gave the players of the time some financial assistance in cases of significant injury. In early times the Ladies also catered [ … ]

The site for Adelaide was chosen by Colonel William Light and the proclamation of the colony of South Australia occurred at Holdfast Bay on the 28th December 1836. Following exploration, a Special Survey was gazetted in 1841 and the township of Strath Alben (Strathalbyn) was laid out on both sides of [ … ]

    1879 to 1902 CHALLENGE FOOTBALL As this new phenomenon, Australian Rules Football, steadily spread through the settled areas of Victoria and South Australia, it inevitably reached the town of Strathalbyn. On the 26th June 1879 the following notice appeared in the local newspaper “The Southern Argus”. ” FOOTBALL :- A meeting of [ … ]

Following their relatively successful season in 1902, Strathalbyn entered into season 1903 with the Hills Association with confidence and expectation. The players were warned that “Practice and training will have to be strictly followed up as management desires, in the interest of the game in this town, to make a [ … ]

Strathalbyn joined Aldgate, Ambleside, Echunga, Kangarilla, Macclesfield, Meadows and Mylor in the Hills Central Association in 1931 and reverted to their traditional red and white club colours. The 1930’s were, however, to be somewhat disappointing, with just one Premiership in 1933. In 1932 they were unbeaten all year, but unsettled [ … ]