RICHMOND

Current Affiliation:  Old Scholars Football Association (OSFA) since 2001

Home Ground:  Richmond War Memorial Oval

Formed:  1878; merged with Campania 1980, and played as Richmond-Campania 1980-90; reverted to Richmond 1991

Colours:  Dark blue and white

Senior Premierships:  Southern County Football Association (SCFA) - 1925-6 (2 total); South Eastern Districts Football Association (SEDFA) - 1945-6-7, 1951, 1958, 1964, 1974, 1976, 1978 (9 total); Tasman Football Association (TFA) - 1993-4-5-6, 2000 (5 total); OSFA - 2004-5, 2009 (3 total)  [Campania, which had been formed in 1882, won senior premierships in the Richmond Football Association in 1933, and the SEDFA in 1949, 1953 and 1963.]

Senior Competition Best and Fairest Awards:  SEDFA Best and Fairest - Derek Parremore 1954 (1 total, but competition records incomplete); Tas Bryan Medal (TFA) - Mark Scott 1993 (1 total); Peter Fitzgerald Medal - A.Daft 2005 (1 total)

Football of some sort is recorded as having been played in Richmond in 1867 by two teams of Irish settlers.  The Richmond Football Club was formed in 1878, and played its first match against another club (Oatlands) two years later.  One presumes that, prior to this, the club's members only engaged in informal matches among themselves.

In 1895, Richmond joined the Midlands Football Association, but details of its record in that competition have disappeared.  The club's history becomes easier to trace after World War One, and particularly after it joined the Southern County Football Association in 1923.  Richmond won two SCFA premierships before transferring to the Richmond Football Association, where it remained until the competition was suspended owing to the war at the end of the 1940 season.

After the war, Richmond competed with a reasonable amount of success (9 flags in 36 seasons) in the South Eastern Districts Football Association.  In 1980 the club underwent an amalgamation with Campania, and competed under the name of Richmond-Campania until 1990.  From 1981 to 1990 the club competed without noteworthy success in the Southern Division of the Tasmanian Amateur Football League.  It then crossed to the Tasman Football Association where it contested half a dozen grand finals during the course of an involvement lasting ten seasons, winning a total of 5 premierships, including 4 in succession between 1993 and 1996.  With the future of the TFA seemingly in doubt (see footnote 1), Richmond sought, and was granted, admission to the Old Scholars Football Association in 2001.  The club adapted quickly to its new home, winning senior flags in both 2004 and 2005, reaching another grand final in 2008, which was narrowly lost against Old Hobartians, and claiming a third premiership in 2009 thanks to a 15.15 105) to 9.9 (63) grand final victory over Saint Virgil's.

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Footnotes

1.  The Tasman Football Association duly went into recess at the end of the 2001 season.  Return to Main Text