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Doveton Football Club

Names

Full name

Doveton Football Club

Nickname(s)

Doves

Club details

Founded

1959; 65 years ago (1959)

Colours

Black, Green

Competition

Southern FL

Ground(s)

ROBINSON OVAL , Cnr Oak Avenue and Paperbark Street, Doveton

Uniforms

Home

Other information

Official website

http://dovetonfnc.com.au

The Doveton Football Club is an Australian rules football club which plays in the Southern FNL.

History

Founded in 1959, the Doves commenced senior football in the South West Gippsland Football League, taking a decade to win their first premiership in 1969. Doveton seeking greater competition transferred to the strong Federal Football League for five years from 1972. The club won 22 games out of 86 games.

The club returned to the SWGFL in 1977 and was particularly successful during the late 1970s and early 1980s when it won four premierships in six years.

In 1995 the SWGFL was absorbed by the Mornington Peninsula Nepean Football League and Doveton regularly made the finals but never won a Grand Final. The club won the premiership in the Casey Cardinia League 2015 grand final by defeating Narre Warren.

Doveton was one of nine founding clubs of the South East Football Netball League in 2015. Four years later the league merged with the Yarra Valley Mountain Football League to create the Outer East Football Netball League where, competing in Division One competition, they won the Grand Final against Pakenham.

The club moved to the Southern FNL in 2022 after two years of Covid interrupted seasons.

Leagues and Premierships

South West Gippsland FL (1959–1971)
- 1969
Federal Football League (1972–1976)
- No premierships
South West Gippsland FL (1977–1994)
- 1983, 1984, 1985, 1988
Mornington Peninsula Nepean FL (1995–2004)
- No Premierships
Casey Cardinia FL (2005–2014)
- 2005
South East FNL (2015–2018)
- No Premierships
Outer East FNL (2019–2021)
- 2019
Southern FNL (2022-)
- No Premierships

VFL/AFL players

References

"Doves laud their history". 27 May 2009.
"Winless one year, Premier the next - the Doveton Football Club Story". 9 October 2020.
"Australian Football - Doveton Football Club - Info".
Mornington Peninsula Nepean FL
"VFL/AFL Players from Doveton Doves - Draftguru".

External Sources

Official Site

v t e Clubs in the Southern Football Netball League
Division 1	Bentleigh Chelsea Heights Cranbourne Eagles Cheltenham Dingley East Brighton Mordialloc Port Melbourne Colts Springvale Districts St Pauls
Division 2	Caulfield Bears Doveton Doves East Malvern Endeavour Hills Hampton Park Highett Keysborough Murrumbeena Skye St Kilda City
Division 3	Ashwood Black Rock Carrum Patterson Lakes Frankston Dolphins Heatherton Lyndhurst Narre South South Mornington
Division 4	Clayton Dandenong West Doveton Eagles Hallam Hampton Lyndale Moorabbin Kangaroos South Yarra
Other Clubs	Casey Thunder Cerberus Heatherhill Sandown Cobras

v t e Federal Football League
Clubs	Bentleigh Black Rock Brighton Districts Camden Carrum Chelsea Cheltenham Clayton Dandenong Darling Doveton East Burwood East Caulfield East Malvern Ellindale Elsternwick Glen Orme Glen Huntly Glen Waverley Hampton Heatherton Highett McKinnon Mentone Moorabbin (1909–1950) Moorabbin (1979–1981) Moorabbin Park Mordialloc Noble Park Oakleigh District Parkdale South Caulfield Springvale University Reds Vermont Victoria Brewery
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