Glenorchy Football Club


The Glenorchy District Football Club is an Australian rules football club currently playing in the Southern Football League in Tasmania, Australia.
WWW glenorchymagpies.org.au

History

The club's history dates back to the New Town Football Club, which joined the TFL in the pre-district era in 1921. The club's original colours were green and gold.
In 1945, when the league adopted a district scheme, the New Town club was retained in the league as a district club. The district club adopted black and white colours, and became known as the Magpies.
New Town changed its name to Glenorchy in 1957 after absorbing the already established club Glenorchy Rovers and relocated its headquarters to KGV Oval at Glenorchy in Hobart's northern suburbs in the same year, playing its first match at the venue on 4 May 1957 against Hobart. It remains there to this day. After the death of the Tasmanian Football League in December 2000, the club was temporarily without a league to play in.
After some political maneuvering within football circles, Glenorchy were admitted to the Southern Football League, but at a high price from a traditional standpoint, with the club being forced, as a condition of entry to the League, to give up its black-and-white playing strip as well as its Magpies emblem, as it clashed with former Southern Amateur club Claremont Magpies, who were already a member of the SFL.
Glenorchy announced in early 2001 that they would adopt a new green, black & white playing uniform, and be known as the "Glenorchy Storm". This was not popular with fans, many of whom drifted away from the club, and its membership and support base decreased rapidly.
There was to be considerable rejoicing amongst its fans in 2004, after persistent pressure from the club, and the fact that Claremont were now playing in the SFL Regional League, which resulted in Glenorchy being granted the return of its black-and-white strip, and the Magpie emblem.

Statistics

Club record attendance

24,968: 1979 TFL Grand Final vs Clarence Roos at North Hobart Oval.

Club record attendance (Home & Away)

8,480 + approx. 2000 non-paying juniors: 2011 TSL Round 1 vs Clarence Roos at KGV Oval

Club record score

TFL 34.21 vs Hobart 18.14 at KGV Oval Round 22, 1983.

Glenorchy District Football Club Team of the Century: 1919–2000

VFL/AFL Players

Notable players that went on the play in the VFL/AFL who started at Glenorchy:
Players who came to Glenorchy post-career:

Honours

Club

Tasmanian Football League
  • *Premiers : 1935, 1948, 1949, 1951, 1953, 1955, 1956, 1958, 1965, 1975, 1983, 1985, 1986, 1999, 2016
  • * Runners up : 1923, 1926, 1946, 1950, 1954, 1957, 1961, 1966, 1967, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1982, 1984, 1987, 1988, 2009, 2015Southern Football League
  • * Premiers : 2007, 2008
  • * Runners up : 2001, 2006Tasmanian State Premiership : 1948, 1953, 1956, 1965, 1975

Individual

William Leitch Medallists

George Watt Medallists

  • 1963 – Dal Johnson
  • 1968 – W. Hayes
  • 1973 – P. Lynsky
  • 1981 – Wayne Olding
  • 1987 – Mark Horner
  • 1988 – Steven Hay
  • 2006 – Clinton French

V. A. Geard Medallists

  • 1950 – J.Chick
  • 1956 – D. Cranfield
  • 1974 – L. Berwick
  • 1981 – N. Jeffrey

D. R. Plaister Medallists

  • 1978 – Jamie Woolley
  • 1991 – Craig Grace

Lefroy Medallists

  • 1965 – M. McMahon
  • 1979 – Darryl Sutton
  • 1986 – David Pearce
  • 2009 – Shane Piuselli
  • 2019 – Aiden Grace

Horrie Gorringe Medallists

  • 2007 – Brad Curran
  • 2008 – Damian McIver

Tassie Medalists

  • 2012 – Jaye Bowden
  • 2015 – Jaye Bowden
  • 2016 – Jaye Bowden