Royals Football Club or Royals Football and Sporting Club, is an Australian rules football

Australian rules football

Australian rules football, officially known as Australian football, also called football, Aussie rules or footy is a sport played between two teams of 22 players on either...

 club located in Albany

Albany, Western Australia

Albany is a port city in the Great Southern region of Western Australia, some 418 km SE of Perth, the state capital. As of 2009, Albany's population was estimated at 33,600, making it the 6th-largest city in the state....

, Western Australia

Western Australia

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 playing in the Great Southern Football League.

The home ground is called Centennial Oval which is situated in the suburb of Centennial Park

Centennial Park, Western Australia

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. The oval is part of the Albany show grounds.

Royals won a hat-trick of premiership

AFL Grand Final

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s in 1993, 1994 and 1995. They then won an unprecedented six premierships in a row between 1999 and 2004 under the reign of coach Darrell Panizza

Darrell Panizza

Darrell Panizza is a former Australian rules footballer and coach. Panizza played for the Claremont Football Club and Woodville Football Club. He is a member of the West Australian Football Hall of Fame-Claremont:...

.

The Royals League team were defeated in the 2007 Grand Final

Grand Final

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 by North Albany

North Albany Football Club

North Albany Football Club or North Albany Football and Sporting Club, the Kangas, is an Australian rules football club located in Albany, Western Australia playing in the Great Southern Football League.The home ground is called Collingwood Park...

 the score was North Albany 18.19 (127) Royals 15.15 (105).

North Albany 15.8 (98) beat Royals 5.7 (37) again in the 2008 Grand Final.

In 2009, Royals had a better season with them winning the minor premiership

Minor premiership

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 and then defeating North Albany in the Grand Final. The scoreline was Royals 13.13 (91) to North Albany 12.10 (82). Cleve Humphries from Royals was judged best on ground.

Royals commenced the 2010 season without there captain

Captain (Australian rules football)

A captain of an Australian rules football team, sometimes known as a skipper is a player who, during the course of a match and off the field, has several additional roles and responsibilities over and above those of a regular player....

, Trevor Craig, and other senior players from the 2009 season. James McRae also has left the club to become the captain-coach of the Denmark Magpies.