Website: http://www.greatwesternfc.vcfl.com.au/

Colours: Maroon, blue and gold

Emblem: Lions

Senior Grade Premierships: Stawell and District Football Association (SDFA) - 1927 (1 total); Ararat and District Football Association (ADFA) - 1941, 1962, 1972, 1983 (4 total); South Wimmera Football League (SWFL) - 1951 (1 total)

Great Western has spent ten seasons in the Horsham and District Football League and it would probably be fair to suggest that it has yet to impose itself on the competition. However, the club has enjoyed a fair amount of success in the past, dating as far back as the 1920s.

After the first world war Great Western competed for a time in the Ararat and District Football Association before crossing to the Stawell and District Football Association in 1926. The club spent the next seven seasons in this competition and claimed a premiership in 1927 thanks to a 7.9 (51) to 3.15 (33) grand final defeat of Stawell Imperials. In 1933 Great Western resumed in the ADFA, reaching a grand final five years later, but losing to Methodists. The 1941 season brought a first ever ADFA flag, and after the war the club would add three more. However, its involvement in the competition was broken by a two season stint in the South Wimmera Football League during which it won the 1951 grand final, downing Swifts by 8 points, 9.12 (66) to 8.10 (58).

Between the late 1950s and the early 1980s the Demons, as they were known prior to becoming the Lions in 2000, were consistently among the pacesetters in the ADFA. Over the course of the twenty-six seasons from 1958 to 1983 they contested a total of ten senior grade grand finals, with the three triumphs alluded to earlier coming in 1962 at the expense of Landsborough, 1972 against Methodists, and 1983 against Warriors.

Prior to transferring to the Horsham and District Football League in 2000 Great Western qualified for another two ADFA grand finals, losing to Caledonians in 1985, and to St Mary’s in 1998.

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