Home Ground: Pennell Reserve

Formed: 1874

Colours: Black and red

Emblem: Bombers

Senior WRFL Premierships: Division One - 1942, 1944-5-6, 1952, 1954-5-6, 1973-4-5, 1979 (12 total); Division Two - 1936, 1974, 1978, 1993, 1999 (5 total); Division Three - 1990, 1997 (2 total)

Senior WRFL Best and Fairest Awards: Division One - G.Saunders 1966; B.Priest 1973 & 1975; L.Hawkins 1978; M.Hewat 1984 (4 Winners/5 Wins); Division Two - L.Braun 2007 (1 total)

Braybrook is perhaps best known for being the launching pad for the careers of such luminaries as Brian Wilson, Doug Hawkins and the immortal Ted Whitten. It should not therefore come as a surprise to learn that the club has enjoyed more senior grade premiership success than any of its Western Region Football League rivals.

The Bombers commenced in the competition in its inaugural year of 1931, when it went by the name of the Footscray District Junior Football League. Five years later, when the word ‘junior’ had been dropped from the league’s name, Braybrook won its first flag, in division two. This triumph was a prelude to the greatest era in the club’s history. Commencing in 1942, Braybrook won a total of eight senior grade premierships in fifteen years, all in division one. No other club in WRFL history has enjoyed a period of such sustained dominance.

By contrast with the previous two decades, the 1960s proved to be a barren time for the Bombers who did not return to their flag-winning ways until 1973, once again in division one. Clearly relishing the achievement, they repeated it in 1974 and 1975, adding division two premierships for good measure in 1974 and 1978. They then rounded off the decade with their last division one grand final win to date. More recent successes have been in division two in 1993 and 1999, and division three in 1990 and 1997.

Currently members of division two, the Bombers endured a mediocre time in 2008 when they won just 7 of their 18 home and away matches, consigning them to eighth position on the ten team premiership ladder.

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