Avenel Football Club

Infobox aus sport club | clubname = Avenel F.C.


fullname = Avenel Football Netball Club
emblem = The Swans
strip =
founded = 1913
sport = Australian rules football
first season = 1913
league = Kyabram & District Football League
ground = Avenel Community Centre
song = See the Swans Fly Up!
president = Martin White
coach =
captain = Paul Arandt & Brett Carrol
season = 2008
position = 6^th

Avenel Football Club is an Australian rules football club that was established in 1913 and first competed in the Waranga-North East Football Association. Avenel is located on the Hume Highway in Central Victoria, Australia, not far from Seymour, Victoria. The club is known as the 'Swans'. The Swans have won nine senior premierships in their history. Between 1956 and 1976 Avenel merged with Longwood and were Avenel-Longwood Football Club.

The club currently competes in the Kyabram District Football League, where it has been one of the more successful clubs winning six premierships over the last thirty years, including back to back premierships in 1978 & 1979 and 1984 & 1985. The Kyabram and District Football League is a football league that covers an area similar to that of the Goulburn Valley and Picola & District Football Leagues, the league currently contains 12 clubs. The Avenel Football club shares a fierce rivalry with neighbouring town Nagambie. The extent of this rivalry is shown through the Tabilk Cup, which the Nagambie and Avenel Under 18 football sides play for each year. The Cup is donated by the Tabilk Junior Football Club, where the junior footballers under the age of 16 from both Avenel and Nagambie play jointly for the one club.

The Avenel Football club fields three football sides in the Senior, Reserve and Under 18 divisions of the Kyabram and District Football League. The Club wear a predominantly white jumper with a red ' V ', like that of the old South Melbourne Football Club in the VFL. The most famous footballer of recent times to have played for Avenel Football Club is the Sydney Swans' Barry Hall, who played in the club's 1994 Under 18 premiership.

Premierships

SENIOR PREMIERSHIPS
*1921 (Waranga-North East Football Association)
*1932 (Waranga-North East Football Association)
*1933 (Waranga-North East Football Association)
*1978 (Kyabram & District Football League)
*1979 (Kyabram & District Football League)
*1984 (Kyabram & District Football League)
*1985 (Kyabram & District Football League)
*1989 (Kyabram & District Football League)
*1994 (Kyabram & District Football League)RESERVE PREMIERSHIPS
*1978 (Kyabram & District Football League)
*1979 (Kyabram & District Football League)
*1985 (Kyabram & District Football League)
*2002 (Kyabram & District Football League)UNDER 18 PREMIERSHIPS
*1979 (Kyabram & District Football League)
*1983 (Kyabram & District Football League)
*1984 (Kyabram & District Football League)
*1994 (Kyabram & District Football League)
*2000 (Kyabram & District Football League)
*2005 (Kyabram & District Football League)
*2006 (Kyabram & District Football League)

KDFL Best & Fairest Winners

*1988 Rohan Aldous
*1991 Peter Thorpe

KDFL Leading Goal Kickers

*1984 William Hannam (83)
*1994 Darren Brock (77)

Avenel Football Club Song

"See the Swans fly up, up, to win the premiership flag,
Our boys who play this grand old game,
Are always striving for glory and fame,
To see the Swans fly up, up, up,
The other teams they don't fear,
They all try their best,
But they can't get near,
As the Swans fly up!"