WEST BRUNSWICK
Current Affiliation: Victorian Amateur Football Association (VAFA) since 1959
Home Ground: McAllister Oval, Parkville
Formed: 1959
Colours: Black and white
Senior VAFA Premierships: E/D3 Section 1960, 1980, 2002 (3 total); F Section - 1976 (1 total)
Senior Competition Best and Fairest Awards: L.S. Pepper Medal (D Section) - T.Allen 1969-70; B.Ivey 1981 (2 Medallists/3 Medals); O.J. Meehan Medal (D2 Section) - A.Cannane 2001 (1 total); D3 Best and Fairest - A.Cannane 2002; Bill Irving 2006 (2 total); J. Fullerton Medal (E/E White Section) - I.Hughes 1959; B.Ivey 1972; A.Cannane 1999 (3 total); O.J. Meehan Medal (F Section) - B.Ivey 1976; J.Jackson 1992 (2 total)
A club known as West Brunswick competed in the Victorian Amateur Football Association between 1932 and 1939, winning a D Section premiership in its first season, and finishing runner-up to ES & A Bank in C Section in its second.
Today's West Brunswick Amateur Football Club was established in 1959 and was admitted that year to E Section of the VAFA, from which it soon escaped by winning the 1960 premiership. Two further promotions followed in immediate succession via losing grand finals against Caulfield Grammarians (D Section, 1961) and Kew (C Section, 1962).
The club recruits most of its players locally and has a commendable record of encouraging widespread involvement in the game, including a major programme of disabled football, conducted in association with the Football Integration Development Association (FIDA). The club's premises at McAllister Oval have been steadily upgraded and enhanced over the years, most recently with the opening of modern, state of the art facilities in 2003.
Over the course of almost half a century of involvement in the VAFA West Brunswick has acquired a reputation for solid, forward thinking administration, as exemplified by its organisation and hosting of a series of lightning premiership competitions under lights on its own ground during the early 1980s. On the field, the club has always been competitive, winning a total of four senior premierships over the years, with the most recent coming via a 12.19 (91) to 4.11 (35) thrashing of Hawthorn Amateurs in the D3 grand final of 2002.
The 2006 season was memorable for West Brunswick in that it provided the D3 Section best and fairest award winner in the shape of Bill Irving, who won his second club best and fairest trophy the same year. By contrast, the 2007 season proved memorable for all the wrong reasons as the side plummeted to relegation to D4 Section after winning just 6 matches for the year to finish 9th. Eighth placed Monash Gryphons also won 6 games, but had a marginally superior percentage.
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