The Wynyard Football 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 based in Wynyard, Tasmania

Wynyard, Tasmania

Wynyard is a rural town on the north-west coast of Tasmania, Australia. It lies west of Burnie on the Bass Highway at the mouth of the Inglis River....

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Club history

The Wynyard Football Club was believed to be formed in 1885 as Table Cape and adopted the name of Wynyard in 1890.


The Wynyard Cats entered the North West Football Union

North West Football Union

The North West Football Union was an Australian rules football competition which ran from 1910 to 1986. In its time it was one of the three main leagues in Tasmania, with the Tasmanian Football League and Northern Tasmanian Football Association representing the rest of the state...

 (NWFU) in 1925 after playing in a variety of competitions for the first four decades.


The Cats were involved with the infamous "Goalpost Final" against North Hobart at West Park Oval in 1967, which was declared a "no result" after hudereds of fans invaded the ground and tore down the goalposts as North Hobart full-forward David "Dickie" Collins went back to take a kick after the siren with Wynyard leading by one point.


Home Ground:

• Wynyard Football Ground, Austin Street Wynyard, Tasmania
  Wynyard, Tasmania
  Wynyard is a rural town on the north-west coast of Tasmania, Australia. It lies west of Burnie on the Bass Highway at the mouth of the Inglis River....
  
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Colours:

• Navy Blue with a white "WFC" Emblem

Senior Premierships (NWFU):

• 1952
• 1967
• 1975
• 1979

League Best and Fairest Winners (NWFU):

• 1930 - E O'Brien & Jack Stewart (Wright Medal)
• 1945 - Len Hayes
• 1945 - Len Hayes
• 1953 - Darrell Eaton (Wander Medal)
• 1961 - Lloyd Robson (Wander Medal)
• 1977 - Ricky Smith (Wander Medal)

League Best and Fairest Winners (NTFL):

• 1987 - Anthony Flint (Ovaltine Medal)

Alstergen Trophy Winners:

• 1968 - John Neal
• 1976 - Ricky Smith

League Leading Goal Kickers (NWFU):

• 1949 - R Rocher (81)
• 1950 - R Rocher (69)
• 1953 - W Baker (45)
• 1955 - W Baker (39)
• 1959 - R London(68)
• 1963 - R London(51)
• 1967 - J Coughlan (81)
• 1968 - J Coughlan (92)
• 1974 - A Hodgetts (69)
• 1977 - K Madden(83)

League Leading Goal Kickers (NTFL):

• 1987 - K Taylor (141)
• 1995 - G Williams (80)
• 1999 - G Williams (60)

Notable Players:

• Colin Robertson
  Colin Robertson (Australian rules footballer)
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• Chris Bond
  Chris Bond
  Chris Bond is a former Australian rules footballer who played as a rover for the , and Fremantle Football Clubs in the Australian Football League . Since retiring as a player he has coached Werribee in the Victorian Football League and has also been an assistant coach for the Western Bulldogs...
  
  
• Alistair Lynch
• Robert “Scratcher” Neal
• Simon Atkins
  Simon Atkins
  Simon Atkins was an Australian rules football player who played with Footscray from 1987 to 1994, before joining Fitzroy in its last two seasons as a club in its own right . Atkins and his twin brother Paul were recruited from Wynyard Football Club in Tasmania...
  
  
• Paul Atkins
• Joe Littler
  Joe Littler
  Harold 'Joe' Littler was an Australian rules footballer who played for South Melbourne in the Victorian Football League . He also had a long career in the North West Football Union , and before that the North West Football Association .Littler was a premiership player in his debut season at...
  
  

Club Song

(To the tune of ‘Yankee Doodle Dandy

Yankee Doodle Dandy

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We’re a happy team at Wynyard

We’re the mighty fighting cats

We love our club and we play to win

Riding the bumps with a grin at Wynyard

Come what may you’ll find us striving

Team work is the thing that counts

One for all and all for one

Is the way we play at Wynyard

We are the mighty fighting cats!