REYNELLA
Current Affiliation: Southern Football Association/League (SFL) since 1948
Formed: 1919
Colours: Black and white
Emblem: Wineflies
Senior SFL Premierships: 1969, 1975, 1977 (3 total)
Mail Medallists: R.Ryan 1949; D.Cox 1957; G.Gunn 1963; S.Wilkie 1992; S.Prescott 2004; S.Middleton 2005 (6 total)
Evocatively nicknamed the Wineflies, Reynella Football Club has been a stalwart member of the SFA/L for six decades, although the amount of senior premiership success it has enjoyed has arguably not been commensurate with the scale of its all round contribution.
The club also existed intermittently between the wars, competing at various times, without success, in both the SFA and the Glenelg-South Adelaide Football Association.
Having contested two losing grand finals in the 1950s the Wineflies finally broke through for a premiership in 1969, beating Christies Beach in the grand final by 16 points, 11.3 (69) to 7.11 (53). The victory might, and perhaps ought to, have been a springboard to even greater things as the side went on to contest seven of the next eight grand finals. However, only twice, in 1975 and 1977, was the premiership attained.
Senior premiership success is by no means the sole, or even necessarily the prime, indicator of a club's all round health, however, and Reynella's achievements at other levels over the years, which include a league record twelve reserves flags, have been second to none.
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