Lavington Football Club


The Lavington Panthers Football & Netball Club is an Australian rules football and netball club and was formed in 1918 and currently competes in the Ovens & Murray Football League.
The club is based in Lavington, a suburb of Albury, New South Wales.
Several Lavington footballers have gone on to play in the Australian Football League, including Darren Holmes, Hamish McIntosh, Allan Murray, Derek Murray, Mark Powell, Campbell Chesser and Shaun Mannagh.

League honours: Football

Albury & Border Football Association (1921–1927)

  • Senior premierships :
  • * 1922, 1924

    [Central Hume Football Association] (1928–1932)

  • HFL/Hume Football League">Hume Football League">HFL/Hume Football League (1933–1939)

  • Senior premierships : 1938
  • Senior runners-up : 1934, 1939
  • Senior HFL Best & Fairest winners : 1934 - Harold McIntosh

    Albury & Border Football Association (1945)

  • Finished 5th of six in 1945 3 wins, 6 losses, 1 draw

    [Chiltern & [District Football Association]] (1946–1956)

  • Senior runners-up : 1955, 1956.
  • Senior CDFL Best & Fairest winner - "Huggins Medal" : 1947 - Brian O'Shaughnessy

    TDFL / Tallangatta & District Football League">Tallangatta & District Football League">TDFL / Tallangatta & District Football League (1958–1976)

  • Senior premierships : 1965, 1966, 1971
  • Senior runners-up : 1960, 1961, 1964, 1969, 1970, 1973, 1974
  • Senior TDFL Best & Fairest winners : 1973 - Max Urquhart
  • Senior TDFL Leading Goal Kickers : 1963 - Ray Thomas, 1976 - Russell Sawyer
  • Reserves premierships : 1968, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1975
  • Thirds premierships : 1974, 1975, 1976

    HFL / Hume Football League">Hume Football League">HFL / Hume Football League (1975–1976)

  • [Farrer Football League] (1977–1978)

  • OMFL / Ovens & Murray Football League">Ovens & Murray Football League">OMFL / Ovens & Murray Football League (1979–present)

  • Senior premierships : 1983, 1986, 2001, 2005, 2019
  • Senior runners-up : 1982, 1985, 1987, 1988, 1990, 1996, 1998, 2008, 2015, 2016
  • Senior OMFL Best & Fairest winners - "Morris Medal" : 1985 - Ralph Aalbers, 1987 - Richard Hamilton
  • Senior OMFL Leading Goal Kickers - "Doug Strang Medal" : 1996 - Chris Stuhldrier, 1997 - Chris Stuhldrier, 1998 - Chris Stuhldrier, 1999 - Chris Stuhldrier, 2015 - Adam Prior
  • Reserves premierships : 1982, 2015
  • Thirds premierships : 1993, 2009

    Honour boards: Football (1921–present)

Rugby League Club

The Albury Thunder were originally founded as the Albury Blues in 1934, playing in the Group 13 Rugby League competition, in which they won 8 titles. Then in 1991, Group 13 folded, and they moved to Group 9 and they changed their name to the Albury Southern Rams.
Then in 2004, the club was rebranded as Lavington Panthers, the latter name change occurring because of the Penrith Panthers NRL team buying the Rams and renaming them the 'Lavington Panthers RLFC'.
In 2012, after Penrith Leagues Club sold the Lavington Sports Club, the club rebranded to the 'Albury Thunder' name, to be more inclusive to the whole city of Albury, not just the suburb of Lavington. The Australian Football club was to remain as the Lavington Panthers.