Wallsend Football Club is a football club in Australia.

Colours

The original club colours consisted of red shirts with a golden sash, white shorts and red and white socks. This strip was worn by the Wallsend Rovers, the original club name in 1887. The presence of red and white has been continuous, with evolving designs and styles always involving the use of these colours. There are plans to return to the original strip with the revival of the golden sash for the club's 125th anniversary.

Ground

Wallsend Football Club is based at The Gardens Sporting Complex, which was formerly used by the Newcastle Breakers

Newcastle Breakers

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 until their demise. The ground has been developed into a multi-use greyhound and sports venue, not merely a site for football. The previous capacity to hold 11,000 spectators has dropped to one of 2,000, with 1,100 of those being seated.

Rivalries

Wallsend Football Club's principal rivals are the nearby clubs of West Wallsend FC

West Wallsend FC

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 and Adamstown Rosebuds FC

Adamstown Rosebuds FC

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, against whom they have been playing matches for over a century.

More recently, a series of encounters with new rivals Lambton Jaffas FC have seen the two clubs compete in pre-season shields. Lambton Jaffas are Wallsend's nearest rival in geographic terms.

Major Premierships

• State Premiers: 3

1942, 1943, 1944

• Northern Premiers: 3

1945, 1951, 1953

• State Premiership: 3

1957, 1959, 1965

• State League Premiership: 2

1932, 1933

• Northern League Premiership: 1

1929

Other

• Premiership Runners-Up: 11

1930, 1949, 1954, 1956, 1971, 1976, 1980, 1984, 1985, 1994, 1995

• Minor Premierships: 4

1951, 1965, 1985, 1994

• Club Championships: 2

1994, 2003

Cup wins

• Daniel's Cup: 16

1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1950, 1951, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964

• Ellis Cup: 5

1889, 1919, 1920, 1923, 1924

• State Cup: 5

1926, 1932, 1933, 1937, 1942

• Robinson Cup: 5

1932, 1933, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1962

• Ampol Cup: 4

1960, 1961, 1963, 1964

• Richardson Cup: 3

1921, 1926, 1937

• State League Cup: 3

1944, 1950, 1957

• Gardiner Cup: 3

1944, 1945, 1947

• Priest Cup: 3

1943, 1944, 1945

• Sheahan Cup: 2

1938, 1941

• Northern Cup: 2

1931, 1932

• Badge Trophy: 2

1900, 1903

Australian representatives

A number of Wallsend have representational honours at various levels. In 1933 one Australian national team fielded five Wallsend players, being; C Edgetton, Winky Forrester, J Osborne, Jock Parkes, and Alf Quill. The match was played against New Zealand and ended as a draw with C Edgetton captaining the side and Alf Quill scoring both Australian goals.
Les Burnett Reg Date

Reg Date

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 C Edgetton Winky Forrester Ron Giles A Hearney Ernest [Dick] Kemp
William [Bill] Mahoney A Mascord Jack O'Brien Snr Jack O'Brien Jnr J Osborne E Owens Hedley Parkes
Jock Parkes Dan Rees Alf Quill Harold Whitelaw Hugh Whitelaw Jack Whitelaw

Olympians

The Melbourne Olympic Games of 1956 saw two representatives from Wallsend Football Club play for Australia, George Arthur

George Arthur

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 and Bruce Morrow

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.
George Arthur

George Arthur

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 Bruce Morrow

Bruce Morrow

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