Tungamah Football Club
The Tungamah Football Netball Club Inc, nicknamed the Bears, is an Australian Rules Football club playing in the Murray Football League.
The club is based in the small Victorian town of Tungamah, a town of just 300 people located approximately 250 km north of Melbourne.
The earliest recorded match involving Tungamah was a game against Lake Rowan on Saturday, 29th July, 1882.
In 1883 there was also a Murray District Football Club based in Tungamah.
Tungamah FC joined the Benalla Tungamah Football League in 1938.
The club changed leagues following an administration disagreement between the AFL Goulburn-Valley and the Picola & District Football League.
Premierships
League | Total flags | Premiership |
Yarrawonga Football Association | 2 | 1886,1895 |
Wilby & District Football Association | 3 | 1914, 1940, 1941 |
Benalla Mulwala Football League | 2 | 1934, 1936 |
Benalla Tungamah Football League | 1 | 1938 |
Murray Valley Football League | 3 | 1944,1946,1947 |
Tungamah Football League | 2 | 1976, 1986 |
Picola & District Football League | 6 | 1999, 2008, 2009, 2013, 2014, 2015 |
VFL / AFL Players
The following footballers were either born in Tungamah or played with the Tungamah FC prior to playing VFL / AFL senior grade football. The year indicates their VFL debut.- 1898 - Matthew Fell - Collingwood
- 1899 - Wilfred Fell - Collingwood
- 1909 - Joe Bourke - Richmond
- 1913 - Don Munro - Fitzroy
- 1918 - Claude Fell - Richmond
- 1920 - Les Carbarns - St. Kilda & Hawthorn
- 1920 - Sir Albert Chadwick - Melbourne & Hawthorn
- 1924 - Ted Bourke - Richmond & South Melbourne
- 1926 - Jack Kidd - Essendon, Carlton & Fitzroy
- 1933 - Jack Cooper - Carlton
- 1980 - Les Parish - Fitzroy & Melbourne