Home Ground: Schramms Reserve

Formed: 1902

Club Address: JJ Tully Drive, Doncaster 3108, Victoria

Colours: Navy blue, white and silver

Emblem: Sharks

Senior Grade Premierships: Ringwood District Football Association (RDFA) - 1927-8-9, 1931, 1936 (5 total); Eastern Suburbs Football League (ESFL) - 1939 (1 total); E(D)FL Division Two - 1972, 1984, 1990 (3 total); Division Three - 1996 (1 total)

Senior Competition Best and Fairest Player Awards: RDFA - George Zelius 1931 (1 total); ESFL - R.Wake 1946; Bill Holly 1949 (2 total); E(D)FL Division One - Eric Houghton 1962; Jack Hirsch 1967; Bill Gehling 1975 (3 total); Division Two - Eddie Barake 1999 (1 total)

Most of Doncaster’s early years (1909 to 1926) were spent in the Box Hill Reporter District Football Association, but the club did not taste premiership success until it crossed to the Ringwood District Football Association in 1927. In that season’s grand final Doncaster defeated Blackburn by 23 points, 8.13 (61) to 5.8 (38), before going on to complete a hat trick of flag triumphs at the expense of Blackburn once more and Mitcham. Further RDFA premierships followed in 1931 and 1936, with Ringwood the grand final victims on both occasions.

In 1938 Doncaster transferred to the Eastern Suburbs Football League where it would remain until 1961. During that time it contested half a dozen senior grade grand finals, but only once, in 1939, did it emerge victorious.

When the Eastern Districts Football League was formed in 1962 Doncaster was a foundation member. The club competed initially in division one, but all four of its senior grade premierships have been attained in the lower grades. In 1972, 1984 and 1990 the Sharks were victorious in division two, while their most recent grand final triumph, in 1996, came in division three against Templestowe.

In addition to its ten senior grade flags Doncaster has claimed a total of half a dozen reserve grade premierships. In 2008 the club competed in division two, with the seniors winning 9 of their 18 matches to finish sixth (of ten), and the reserves coming ninth with a 5-13 record.

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