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The Donvale Football Club is an Australian rules football club located in Donvale, Victoria. They play in Division 4 of the Eastern Football League. ==History== The club was founded in 1971 as Donvale United and played in the Eastern Suburban Churches Football Association in the A Grade competition. All clubs had to be aligned to a church. They lost the Grand Final to the Box Hill Pioneers in their first season. But they picked up their first premiership the next year avenging the 1971 loss. They repeated the performance against the same club in 1973. Donvale continued to make the finals and won another premiership in 1977 defeating Burwood United by two points, 108 to 106. From 1980 to 1984 however, Donvale only made the finals once in 1983, losing the first semi final. But from 1986 they started a golden run when the club dominated the ESCFA by playing off in six consecutive Grand finals and winning the last four over Hampton United, St Kevins Ormond, Burwood United and St Pauls. In 1992, Donvale United transferred to the Eastern District FL and dropped the "United" from its name. They won the third division flag at their first attempt〔http://www.sportingpulse.com/club_info.cgi?c=0-0-12954-0-0&sID=40147〕 without losing a game. Promoted to the second division, Donvale only took two years to win another flag〔http://www.sportingpulse.com/club_info.cgi?c=0-0-12954-0-0&sID=40147〕 and promotion to the first division for the 1995 season. In 1995, Donvale made the grand final but were beaten convincingly by Vermont. But in 1996 Donvale turned the tables and won yet another premiership over the Eagles.〔http://www.sportingpulse.com/club_info.cgi?c=0-0-12954-0-0&sID=40147〕 From there, Donvale struggled and were demoted to the second division after the 2000 season. In 2001, they rebounded back into first division defeating Mulgrave in the grand final.〔http://australianfootball.com/clubs/info/Donvale%250B/2123〕 But after a grand final appearance in 2005, Donvale were again demoted in 2008 failing to win a game for the season for the first time.〔http://australianfootball.com/clubs/info/Donvale%250B/2123〕 They competed in second division until 2013, twice just avoiding further relegation and also avoiding folding up after the 2010 season.〔http://www.heraldsun.com.au/leader/localfooty/donvale-stays-afloat/story-fn53kld9-1225944615118〕 In 2014 the club went into recess〔http://www.efl.org.au/index.php?id=320&tx_ttnews()=3595&cHash=3c59a2d5e5〕 before returning to play in the fourth division in 2015.〔http://www.efl.org.au/index.php?id=320&tx_ttnews()=3779&cHash=461b46abea〕〔http://www.efl.org.au/index.php?id=320&tx_ttnews()=3879&cHash=ee298a7dae〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Donvale Football Club」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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