Blackburn Football Club
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| Full name | Blackburn Football Club |
|---|---|
| Nickname | Panthers Panther -Large cats:* Panthera, the feline genus which contains lions, tigers, leopards and jaguars* Panther , the leopard * Panther , the cougar or mountain lion... |
| Strip | Red & Black |
| Founded | 1890 |
| League | Eastern Football League Eastern Football League (Australia) The Eastern Football League is an Australian rules football League, based in the eastern suburbs of metropolitan Melbourne.... |
| Ground | Morton Park Morton Park Morton Park is a football and cricket ground located on Central Road in the suburb of Blackburn, Victoria, Australia. The ground has two ovals, and is home to the local Blackburn football and cricket club's..... |
| 2011 Coach | David Banfield David Banfield David Banfield is an NHL/AHL referee who wears uniform #44. Banfield began his NHL refereeing career on March 17, 2008 with the Colorado Avalanche at Minnesota Wild game. A member of the NHL Officials' Association since September 1, 2007, Banfield has refereed 18 games at the NHL level as of... |
| 2010 Captain | Jeff Ryan |
| Senior Premierships | |
| Senior Premiership Years | 1980, 2002 |
| Junior Premierships | |
| Junior Premiership Years | 2004 (U-12 B, U-14 B), 2005 (U-13 A), |
The Blackburn Football Club is an Australian rules football
Australian rules football
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club located in Vermont, Victoria
Vermont, Victoria
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. They play in Division 1 of the Eastern Football League
Eastern Football League (Australia)
The Eastern Football League is an Australian rules football League, based in the eastern suburbs of metropolitan Melbourne....
. They are known as the Panthers
Panter
In a noble court or household, the office of panter or pantler originated with the person entrusted with the supply of bread and later involved oversight over the pantry. Ultimately the butler subsumed this function....
or the Burners, and play their home games at Morton Park
Morton Park
Morton Park is a football and cricket ground located on Central Road in the suburb of Blackburn, Victoria, Australia. The ground has two ovals, and is home to the local Blackburn football and cricket club's.....
.
The club entered Division 1 of the EFL in 2003, having won the Division 2 Premiership in 2002. It has remained in Division 1 in the years since, and made the finals in 2011.
Blackburn's jumper is black with red stripes. The club's senior jumper changed in 2008, with a white patch added to the back of the jumper with a black number, similar in style to AFL club Hawthorn.
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Theme Song
We're a happy team at Blackburn,we're the Mighty Fighting 'Burns.
We love our club and we play to win,
riding the bumps with a grin at Blackburn.
Come what may you'll find us striving,
team work is the thing that count.
All for one and one for all,
the way we play at Blackburn
We are the Mighty Fighting 'Burns.
- Sung to the tune of The Yankee Doodle Boy, and similar to AFL club HawthornHawthorn Football ClubThe Hawthorn Football Club, nicknamed the Hawks, is a professional Australian rules football club in the Australian Football League . The club, founded in 1902, is the youngest of the Victorian-based teams in the AFL. The team play in Brown & Gold vertically striped guernseys...
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