FLAGSTAFF HILL (Brighton Methodist/Brighton Tigers)
Current Affiliation: Southern Football League (SFL) since 1985
Club Address: P.O. Box 283, Flagstaff Hill, South Australia 5159
Formed: 1963 as Brighton Methodist Football Club; changed name to Brighton Tigers in 1977, and to Flagstaff Hill in 1979
Colours: Red and blue (previously black and yellow)
Emblem: Falcons (previously Tigers)
Senior Premierships: United Churches Football League (UCFL) Division Two - 1974 (1 total); SFL Division Two - 1985 (1 total)
Senior Competition Best and Fairest Awards: Glenelg-South Adelaide Football League (GSAFL) Division Two/Southern Metropolitan Football League (SMFL) Division Two - N.Wuttke 1980; G.Drechsler 1983; G.Todman 1984 (3 total)
Highest Score: 65.30 (420) in 1985
Flagstaff Hill began life as the Brighton Methodist Football Club in 1963. The club spent the first fifteen seasons of its existence in the United Churches Football League, winning an A Grade premiership in Division Two in 1974, and altering its name to Brighton Tigers in 1977. In 1978 the Tigers crossed to the Glenelg-South Adelaide Football Association where they gradually gained in strength, contesting consecutive grand finals in Division Two in 1983 and 1984. Both games, however, were lost.
In 1979 the club had changed its name for a second time, becoming known as Flagstaff Hill. The 1985 season brought two further changes: the club crossed from the Southern Metropolitan Football League, as the GSAFL had become known, to the Southern Football League, and it swapped its black and yellow playing uniform for red and blue. Competing in the SFL's Division Two competition the side won its second senior premiership in its very first season after going through the entire year unbeaten. Remarkably, the club's reserves team did likewise.
Flagstaff Hill spent the ensuing fourteen seasons in the SFL's Division One competition, with the highlight being a losing grand final clash with a powerful Plympton side in 1987. The club spent the 2000 and 2001 seasons back in Division Two, getting as far as the preliminary final both years. In 2002 the SFL reverted to a single division format, and in the five seasons since the Falcons as they are nowadays known finished 11th, 12th, 13th, 11th and 7th.
One of Flagstaff Hill's most noteworthy playing products was Adam Cooney who in 2000 was a member of the club's unbeaten under fourteen premiership side. Cooney later played in a losing SANFL grand final with West Adelaide in 2003 and was taken by the Western Bulldogs as the number one choice in that year's AFL national draft.
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