Clarence Football Club
The Clarence Football Club, nicknamed the Kangaroos, is an Australian rules football club playing in the Southern Football League, based in Bellerive, Tasmania. Before 1947, they existed as Bellerive Football Club.
The Club play their home games at Ninja Stadium , Hobart's Test Cricket ground, they share the facilities with Tasmania's cricket team, the Tasmanian Tigers.
History
Clarence joined the Tasmanian Football League in 1947 on a two-year probationary period from the Southern District Football Association, later being granted permanent status on 7 August 1950, and continued to participate in the league until it was disbanded in December 2000.They then joined the Southern Football League and participated until the end of the 2008 season whereby the club opted to join the newly reformed Tasmanian State League from 2009 and have won the first two premiership titles on offer since joining the competition and only in the 2015 season missed out on the finals.
Club details
- Home ground – Ninja Stadium (formerly Bellerive Oval & Blundstone Arena)
- Established – 1884
- Playing colours – Red and white
- Emblem – Kangaroos
- Club theme song – "Clarence are the team to beat, I sing to you!"
- Affiliations – Various junior competitions including the SDFA TANFL/TFL/TSL, SFL
Honours
Club
Tasmanian Football League- * Premiers : 1970, 1979, 1981, 1984, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2009, 2010
- * Runners-up : 1962, 1969, 1971, 1985, 1995, 1998Southern Football League
- * Premiers : 2001, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2025
- * Runners-up : 2005, 2007
Individual
William Leitch Medallists- 1949 – Hamish Yaxley
- 1960 – Stuart Spencer
- 1967 – J.Richmond and Stuart Spencer
- 1968 – Bob Lucas
- 1976 – Trevor Sorrell
- 1989 – Scott Wade
- 1991 – Gary Williamson
- 1995 – Danny Noonan
- 1996 – Danny Noonan
- 1999 – Matthew Jones
- 2010 – Brett Geappen
- 1957 – B. Burn
- 1974 – P. Smith
- 1957 – Russell Newell
- 1965 – Royce Hart
- 1973 – P. Smith
- 1979 – M. Kruene
- 1978 – T. Carter
- 1984 – Brendan Mayne
- 1990 – Steven Old
- 1989 – Scott Wade
- 1956 – J.Golding
- 1957 – S. Spencer
- 1960 – S. Spencer
- 1981 – Rod Hughes
- 1988 – Billy Picken
- 1989 – Scott Wade
- 2012 – Brady Jones
- 2016 – Jake Cox
- 1958 – S. Spencer
- TFL: 38.16 vs Devonport 4.4 on 14 August 1999 at Bellerive Oval
- SFL: 41.23 vs Brighton 5.4 on 7 May 2005 at Bellerive Oval
- 315 – Scott McCallum from 1989 to 2007
- 314 – Gavin Cooney from 1989 to 2006 and 2009
Attendance records
Record home attendance: Bellerive Oval- 5,157 – Clarence v New Norfolk on 6 June 1970 at Bellerive Oval
- 8,480 – Clarence v Glenorchy on 4 April 2011 at KGV Oval
- 24,968 – Clarence v Glenorchy on 22 September 1979 for the TANFL Grand Final at North Hobart Oval
- 7,149 – Clarence v Glenorchy – 2006 SFL Premier League Grand Final at North Hobart Oval.
Notable players
There is a list of past and present Clarence players who have played at AFL/VFL:- Colin Alexander
- Daniel Archer
- Jack Bennett (1920–1997)
- Arthur Budd (1945–2012)
- Ian Callinan
- Terry Cashion (1921–2011)
- John Chivers
- David Donato
- Robert Dutton
- Bert Edwards (1914–1995)
- Josh Green
- Graeme Hatcher
- Paul Holdsworth
- Graham Hunnibell
- Noel Leary
- Royce Hart
- Bob Lynch
- Rod MacPherson
- Stephen MacPherson
- Terry Mayne (1950–1983)
- Danny Noonan
- Eric Pascoe
- Bradley Plain
- John Richmond
- Jack Riewoldt
- Justin Sherman
- Stuart Spencer (1932–2011)
- Scott Sutcliffe
- Cameron Thurley
- Scott Wade
- Jeromey Webberley
- Michael Young