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EPPINGCurrent Affiliation: Northern Football League (NFL) since 2007Club Address: P.O. Box 19, Epping 3076, Victoria Colours: Navy blue and white Emblem: Blues Senior Grade Premierships: Bourke-Evelyn Football League (BEFL) - 1913, 1919, 1921-2-3, 1926-7-8-9 (9 total); Diamond Valley Football League (DVFL) - 1933, 1935-6, 1939-40, 1963 (6 total); DVFL Division Two - 1986, 1990 (2 total) Epping’s history dates back at least as far as 1904, when the club was a founder member of the Whittlesea District Football Association. Right from the outset the club boasted navy blue and white as its colours. Its first recorded premiership came in 1913 in the Bourke-Evelyn Football League. It claimed a second BEFL flag in 1919, and then during the 1920s was by some measure the competition’s most successful club, finishing top on no fewer than seven occasions. The 1933 season saw Epping commencing in the Diamond Valley Football League, forerunner of today’s Northern Football League. Once again the club succeeded in imposing itself on a competition in quite emphatic fashion, emerging victorious from the grand finals of 1933, 1935, 1936, 1939 and 1940. The interwar years remain far and away the most successful phase in Epping’s history. Since world war two the Blues have only enjoyed top grade premiership once, in 1963. Their two subsequent grand final triumphs, in 1986 and 1990, came in the DVFL’s division two competition, which was instigated in 1981. The 2007 season saw the DVFL undergo a metamorphosis into the Northern Football League. Epping commenced in division one of this competition, only to succumb immediately to relegation. In 2008 the Blues qualified for the division two finals in fourth place but then lost their elimination final clash with Watsonia by 4 points. The reserves meanwhile topped the ladder with some comfort only to bow out of the finals race in straight sets. Where now? or
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