Formed: 1890

Website: www.kalkee.vcfl.com.au/

Colours: Royal blue and red

Emblem: Red and Blues

Senior HDFL Premierships: 1946-7-8, 1974, 1978-9, 1982-3, 1989, 2000, 2008-9-10 (13 total)

With a total of thirteen senior grade premierships to their credit the Red and Blues have been the Horsham and District Football League’s most successful club. They commenced in the competition in 1945, ten years after its formation, and rapidly imposed themselves by becoming the first club to claim a hat trick of premierships. They did this between 1946 and 1948, scoring grand final wins over Homers by 17 points, Wonwondah by 3 points, and Horsham RSL by 15 points. In 1949 the club crossed to the Central Wimmera Football League, finishing as runner-up in its debut season, but failing to claim any flags during its time in the competition, which came to an end in 1953 when it spent a year in recess. Upon reforming the following season, Kalkee affiliated once more with the HDFL where it has remained ever since.

Kalkee Football Club was formed in 1890, and between then and the outbreak of the first world war competed in a number of different associations, claiming at least a couple of premierships. During the 1920s and early 1930s the club once again participated in several different competitions before encountering hard times and going into recess in 1935.

After resuming in the HDFL in 1954 the Red and Blues found the going tough, and it was a couple of decades before they re-emerged as a force. In 1974 they qualified for the grand final, and were narrow victors over Natimuk, 11.13 (79) to 10.13 (73).

In contrast to the preceding couple of decades, the next two would see Kalkee consistently featuring in the ‘business end’ of the season. The seniors next grand final appearance came in 1977, but resulted in a loss to Quantong by 10 points. The following year they made emphatic amends when they trounced Laharum in the grand final by 102 points, and the 1979 season brought back to back premiership honours at the expense of Quantong.

During the 1980s the Red and Blues added another three flags courtesy of grand final wins over Pimpinio in 1982, Noradjuha in 1983, and St Michael’s in a replay in 1989. The 1990s brought four senior grade grand final appearances, but no further premierships. Kalkee’s seniors did not again go top until 2000 season when they accounted for Rupanyup in the grand final by a margin of four straight kicks, 9.12 (66) to 6.6 (42).

The Red and Blues are the reigning HDFL premiers following their 25.15 (165) to 8.5 (53) annihilation of Harrow Balmoral in the 2010 grand final. This was the club's third successive senior grade flag, coming after a 14.13 (97) to 10.10 (70) grand final defeat of Laharum in 2008 and a 20.13 (133) to 7.6 (48) triumph over Harrow Balmoral in 2009. Kalkee's history has thus, in a sense, come full circle, with its modern day side emulating the feat of its embryonic 1946-7-8 combination by capturing a hat-trick of premierships.

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