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SORELL
Affiliated: Various junior competitions, notably the Tasmanian Amateur Football League Southern Division (TAFLSD), 1883-1995; Southern Tasmanian Football League (SthFL) 1996-present
Home Grounds: Pembroke Oval
Formed: 1883
Colours: Royal blue and gold (initially black and white, then red, black and white)
Emblem: Eagles
Senior Premierships: Pembroke Football Association (PFA) - 1937-8-9 (3 total); Clarence Sub-Districts Football Association (CSDFA) - 1952 (1 total); South Eastern Districts Football Association (SEDFA) - 1960 (1 total); Tasmanian Amateur Football League Southern Division (TAFLSD) - 1966, 1983, 1990 (3 total); TAFL State Championship (Conder Shield) - 1966 (1 total); TAFLSD Districts - 1983 (1 total)
Senior Competition Best and Fairest Player Awards: Walter Howard Medal - Graeme Jones 1968; Lindsey White 1982 & 1987; Michael Waller 1988 & 1990; M.Kerslake 1991 (4 Medallists/6 Medals)
Most Games: 410 by Mark Clothier
A Sorell player has front position in this 2004 action shot from a match between the Eagles and Kermandie. (Image used by kind permission of Dan Garlick of OzVox Media.)
Sorell was a founder member, in 1996, of the SthFL. When the competition split into two sections in 2002, the side initially competed in the Premier League, but is now a member of the Regional Division.
The Eagles qualified for the major round in 2005, but bowed out in the elimination final against Huonville. A year later they went all the way to the grand final, only to lose by 10 points to Dodges Ferry. The 2007 season brought a disappointing slide down the premiership ladder as the Eagles managed just 7 wins from 18 roster matches to finish 8th (of 10).
Sorell's first known premiership was won in the Pembroke Football Association in 1937, thanks to an 8.11 (59) to 7.7 (49) grand final defeat of Nugent. Sorell downed Nugent again in the next year's grand final, and in 1939 made it three flags in succession with an 11.9 (75) to 3.14 (32) win over Dunalley.
After World War Two Sorrell espoused a peripatetic lifestyle for a time, winning premierships in the Clarence Sub-Districts Football Association in 1952, and the South Eastern Districts Football Association eight years later. Between 1963 and 1995 the club competed in the Southern Division of the Tasmanian Amateur Football League where it won 3 senior flags. In 1966 it claimed the coveted 'double' of southern and state titles after respectively overcoming Ogilvie Tech Old Scholars by 15 points and northern premier Mowbray by 51 points.
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