|
|
MACCLESFIELDCurrent Affiliation: Hills Football League (HFL) since 1987 Home Ground: Macclesfield Recreation Grounds Formed: 1880 Colours: Black and red Emblem: Blood and Tars Senior Grade Premierships: Hills Central Football Association (HCFA) - 1929, 1948, 1958-9 (4 total); HFL Southern Zone - 1969 (1 total); Division Two - 1980 (1 total); Division Four - 1972-3 (2 total) Mail Medallists: Brenton Smith 1974, 1976, 1977 & 1978 (1 Medallist/4 Medals) Details of Macclesfield’s early history were lost in a bush fire in 1939. However, it is known that the club commenced in the Hills Central Football Association as a founder member in 1923, and won the first of an eventual four senior grade premierships in the competition in 1929. Macclesfield remained in the HCFA until 1967 when it transferred to the newly established Hills Football League Southern Zone competition. For most of the last four decades the Blood and Tars have competed in one or other of the HFL’s divisions. The sole exception to this was the period between 1984 and 1987 when the club was a member of the Southern Districts Football Association. Where now? or
|