The Sandhurst Football Club are 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 which compete in the Bendigo Football League

Bendigo Football League

The Bendigo Football League is an Australian rules football competition based in the Bendigo region of Victoria, Australia.Formed in 1880, it is one of the oldest football leagues in Australia, and among its members are some of the oldest football clubs in Australia, including the Castlemaine...

 (BFL). Sandhurst is the former name of the city of Bendigo.

History

Sandhurst, who were then known as the Maroons, were one of the league's foundation clubs in 1880. They had been formed in June 1861, by Melbourne Football Club

Melbourne Football Club

The Melbourne Football Club, nicknamed The Demons, is an Australian rules football club playing in the Australian Football League , based in Melbourne, Victoria....

 rulemaker J.B. Thompson.

The club didn't play in the BFL from 1901 to 1914, but returned to the league after the war in 1919 and have appeared in every season since.

They are the second most successful club in BFL history with 26 premierships, one behind Eaglehawk

Eaglehawk Football Club

The Eaglehawk Football Club are an Australian rules football club which compete in the Bendigo Football League .They are based in the town of Eaglehawk, Victoria and have competed in every BFL season since the league began in 1880, with the exception of 1904.Eaglehawk drew level with Sandhurst in...

.

Notable players

• Graham Arthur
  Graham Arthur
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   (Hawthorn
  Hawthorn Football Club
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   premiership captain)
• The Selwood brothers (Adam
  Adam Selwood
  Adam Murray Selwood is an Australian rules footballer who plays for the West Coast Eagles in the Australian Football League.-Career:...
  
  , Joel
  Joel Selwood
  Joel Anthony Selwood is an Australian rules footballer for the Geelong Football Club in the Australian Football League...
  
  , Scott
  Scott Selwood
  Scott Francis Selwood is an Australian rules footballer who plays for the West Coast Eagles in the Australian Football League .-Career:...
  
   and Troy
  Troy Selwood
  Troy Selwood is a former Australian rules footballer who played 75 games for the Brisbane Lions in the Australian Football League . He is the current co-captain of the Geelong Football Club's team in the Victorian Football League ....
  
  )
• Geoff Southby
  Geoff Southby
  Geoff Southby was an Australian rules footballer in the Victorian Football League .An attacking full-back who ran hard from defence and stopped the best full-forwards, Southby was a key contributor to Carlton Football Club's success in the 1970s.In 2000 Southby was inducted into the Australian...
  
   (Carlton
  Carlton Football Club
  The Carlton Football Club is a professional Australian rules football club based in Melbourne, Victoria. The club competes in the Australian Football League, and was one of the eight founding members of that competition in 1897...
  
   Team of the Century member)
• Fred Swift
  Fred Swift
  Frederick Norman "Fred" Swift was an Australian rules footballer who played in the Victorian Football League for the Richmond Football Club between 1958 and 1967, and captained the club to a premiership in 1967...
  
   (Richmond
  Richmond Football Club
  The Richmond Football Club, nicknamed The Tigers, is an Australian rules football club which competes in the Australian Football League. Richmond shares healthy rivalries with Carlton, Collingwood and Essendon. After winning five premierships between 1967 and 1980, the club hit the depths in 1990,...
  
  premiership captain)