Surrey Park Football Club

The Surrey Park Football Club is an Australian rules football team that commenced in 1994. It is based in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia and is part of the Eastern Football League.

Surrey Park
Full nameSurrey Park Football Club
NicknamePanthers
Founded1994
LeagueEastern Football League
Home groundSurrey Park Reserve
Strip
Black and white

Senior club history

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The club is a merger of the Surrey Hills Football Club and the East Camberwell Football Club.

Surrey Hills FC

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The Surrey Hills FC first appeared in 1887. It played in the Reporter District Football League, the Victorian Amateur Football Association, the East Suburban Football League, the Croydon Ferntree Gully Football League and the Eastern Districts Football League.[1] For a few years it served as the third open-age team for Box Hill, calling itself Box Hill/Surrey Hills.

East Camberwell FC

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The East Camberwell FC was formed in 1946 and played in the Catholic Youth Men's Society (CYMS) competition until 1963 when it moved to the YCW competition where it remained until 1972. In 1973 it transferred to the Eastern Suburbs Churches competition and joined the Southern Football League in 1993.[2]

The merger

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The merger of Surrey Hills and East Camberwell Football Club occurred in late 1994 and the newly formed club played its first season as Surrey Park Football Club in the SFL in 1995. The merged club adopted its name after the venue where it plays its home games.

The club won its first senior-grade premiership in 2023, and has also won reserve-grade premierships in 1996, 1999, 2000, 2004 and 2019.

The club transferred to the more geographically appropriate Eastern Football League in 2002.[3] It holds the EFL record for the most losses in a row at 67.[4]

Senior Premierships

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  • Division 3 - 2024
  • Division 4 - 2023

Junior Affiliation

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The club is affiliated with the Surrey Park Junior Football Club, who play in the Yarra Junior Football League. Many players from their junior team move into the senior team.[5]

VFL/AFL players

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References

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  1. ^ "Australian Football - surrey hills Football Club - Stats".
  2. ^ "Australian Football - east camberwell Football Club - Stats".
  3. ^ "History - Surrey Park".
  4. ^ "2016 EFL GAMEDAY CLASSICS | 9 | Eastern FNL". 23 December 2016.
  5. ^ "Surrey Park FC - Home". Retrieved 21 June 2020.
  6. ^ "Tiki Installer Security Precaution".
  7. ^ "Phillip Murton (Born 1973) - Draftguru".