SOUTH WARRNAMBOOL
Current Affiliation: Hampden Football League (HFL) since 1933
Home Ground: Friendly Societies Park
Colours: White and red
Emblem: Roosters
Senior HFL Premierships: 1940, 1954, 1964, 1969, 1974, 1990-1, 1994, 1996, 2006 (10 total)
Maskell Medallists: Max Evans 1949; Ray Lee 1950; Ron Hoy 1954, 1955 & 1957; Gary Hughson 1964; Tom Smith 1981; Phil Bradmore 1989; Ben Kilday 2005 (7 Medallists/9 Medals)
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In 2006 South Warrnambool achieved the ultimate by winning Hampden Football League premierships in all three grades. The seniors and reserves both won comfortably, by 31 and 52 points against Camperdown and Koroit respectively, while the under eighteens had to withstand a somewhat stiffer challenge from Terang-Mortlake but still finished 15 points to the good.
The Roosters' senior flag was the tenth in the history, with all ten having been claimed in the Hampden Football League, where they first competed in 1933. Prior to that the club had spent five seasons in the Western Districts Football League. Between 1924 and 1927 South Warrnambool had amalgamated with Warrnambool City with the resultant club, known simply as Warrnambool, going top in the first and last of those years.
Perhaps the strangest of the Roosters' ten premierships was that of 1991, which was won at the expense of Terang in a grand final that produced just 3 goals. South Warrnambool kicked 2 of them, and won by 1 - 2.6 (18) to the Bloods' 1.6 (12).
The club's 2006 grand final triumphs came as the culmination of a season that had produced a collective tally over the three grades of 55 wins from 60 matches, which resolves to a success rate of almost 92%.
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