Formed: 1990, when the Lockington, Bamawm and Bamawm Extension Football Clubs merged

Website: www.lockingtonbamawmunitedfc.vcfl.com.au

Colours: Navy blue and white

Emblem: Cats

Senior Grade Premierships: Nil

Cheatly Medallist: Michael Dobson 2002; Adrian Dohnt 2010 (2 total)

Lockington Bamawm United - LBU for short - has been in existence just two decades but has already competed in three different leagues. When the club commenced in 1990 it was affiliated with the Northern and Echuca Football League, which had begun that same year following a merger between the Northern and Echuca Football Leagues. LBU was itself the result of a merger involving three erstwhile EFL rivals, Lockington, Bamawm and Bamawm Extension.

The NEFL only lasted seven seasons, with the Cats coming closest to claiming a senior grade flag in 1994 and 1996 when they reached the grand final, only to lose to Leitchville in the former year and Moama in the latter. After the NEFL folded LBU crossed to the Bendigo Football League where it spent four largely inglorious seasons. Since commencing in the Heathcote District Football League in 2001 it has enjoyed rather more in the way of success without yet breaking through for a senior grade premiership. It has been a regular finalist, however, and in 2002 made it through to the grand final where it went down by 25 points to Colbinabbin. Another grand final appearance was achieved in 2010 but on this occasion LBU found Heathcote marginally too strong, and lost by 17 points.

LBU’s reserves have so far contested two HDFL grand finals for one win, while the under seventeens have claimed three premierships, the most recent of which, in 2008, was won unbeaten.

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