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, 1998
Southern 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

Tassie Medallists

2010 – Brett Geappen

George Watt Medallists

1957 – B. Burn
1974 – P. Smith

V. A. Geard Medallists

1957 – Russell Newell
1965 – Royce Hart
1973 – P. Smith
1979 – M. Kruene

D. R. Plaister Medallists

1978 – T. Carter
1984 – Brendan Mayne
1990 – Steven Old

Dolphin Medallists

1989 – Scott Wade

Lefroy Medallists

1956 – J.Golding
1957 – S. Spencer
1960 – S. Spencer
1981 – Rod Hughes
1988 – Billy Picken
1989 – Scott Wade
2012 – Brady Jones
2016 – Jake Cox

All-Australian team members

1958 – S. Spencer

Club record score:

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

Club games record holder:

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

Record roster match attendance: all time

8,480 – Clarence v Glenorchy on 4 April 2011 at KGV Oval

Record TANFL/TFL finals attendance:

24,968 – Clarence v Glenorchy on 22 September 1979 for the TANFL Grand Final at North Hobart Oval

Record SFL Premier League finals attendance:

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: