Formed: 1998, by means of a merger between the McLaren Flat and McLaren Vale Football Clubs

Colours: Navy blue, red and gold

Emblem: Eagles

Senior GSFL Premierships: 2003 (1 total)

Mail Medallists: Nil

The Eagles competed initially in division two of the Southern Football League, reaching the 2000 grand final, but losing to Kangarilla. Their sole premiership since commencing in the Great Southern Football League in 2001 came via a 16.12 (108) to 15.6 (96) grand final defeat of Strathalbyn in 2003.

McLaren Flat had been established in 1946 and, prior to its merger with McLaren Vale, had contested a total of ten senior grade grand finals in various competitions, emerging victorious in 1946, 1947, 1966, 1976, 1983, 1988 and 1989. McLaren Vale could trace its history as far back as 1886 and won the first of an eventual ten senior grade flags in 1906.

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