The Sunbury Kangaroos Football Club,. nicknamed the Kangaroos, 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, previously known as Sunbury Rovers and situated 35 km north west of Melbourne in the town of Sunbury

Sunbury, Victoria

Sunbury is a regional city, located north-west of Melbourne's central business district, in the state of Victoria, Australia. Its Local Government Area is the City of Hume. At the 2006 Census, Sunbury had a population of 31,000...

 and affiliated with the Riddell District Football League

Riddell District Football League

The Riddell District Football League is an Australian rules football league affiliated with Football Victoria.The league covers towns in the Macedon Ranges Victoria and an area from Rockbank in the south to Broadford in the north....

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Originally known as the Sunbury Rovers , the team was formed so Sunbury had a team in both divisions of RDFL. The Rovers always struggled because the better players would join the other club, Fortunes improved when Sunbury FC left for the Ballarat Football League

Ballarat Football League

The Ballarat Football League is an Australian rules football competition that operates in the Ballarat region of Victoria, Australia.The competition formed in 1893 as the Ballarat Football Association and was renamed Ballarat Football League in 1908 and was briefly known as the Ballarat-Wimmera...

. The club changed to the Kangaroos after incentives from the North Melbourne Football Club to do so.

External links

• Sunbury Kangaroos Junior Football Club