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The South Gawler Football Club is a country Australian rules football club, founded by James Fitzgerald in the Gawler South area of the Barossa Valley town of Gawler, South Australia, in 1889. The Lions, who wear royal blue and white hoops, currently compete in the Barossa Light & Gawler Football Association. Their club and oval today situated at Eldred Riggs Reserve, Evanston, in Gawler.〔The history of the South Gawler Football Club 1889-1989〕 The Lions have produced some champion footballers, many who have played senior football in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) and the Australian Football League (AFL) as well as representing South Australia. Sam Butler became South Gawler's first fully professional footballer with the AFL's West Coast Eagles in 2004 and a member of the Eagles' 2006 Premiership team. Defender Yves Sibenaler has played in seven SANFL Premierships (2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010) for the Central District Football Club, while Alan Obst (a 2007 Premiership player also with Centrals) was listed with AFL clubs Adelaide and North Melbourne. According to a number of forums covering country Australian Rules football, South Gawler is possibly one of the most successful football clubs in Australia. With 37 first-grade premierships recorded and verified,〔Local historian Robert Laidlaw listed this in an article of the Gawler-based ''The Bunyip'' newspaper on the history of the Gawler and District Football league - ''The Bunyip'', 2008.〕 discussion in 2008 suggested that the Lions currently have accumulated the second-most premierships in South Australia and were the equal fourth winningest Australian Rules club in Australia.〔Information gleaned from a forum thread "Most Footy Flags" at www.footypedia.com, April 2008〕 Although the Lions' last senior Grand Final appearance was in 1996, and they have not won an A Grade premiership since 1993, their junior development programs continue to produce success. The club's Junior Colts won the 2012 flag, while the Senior Colts' completed a hat-trick of premierships from 2009 to 2011 before claiming the title once again in 2013. After he was appointed coach in 2012, former Adelaide Crows and Central District champion Scott Lee has taken the A Grade to the Grand Final in 2014 to be runners up, while the Reserves emphatically captured the 2012 flag – the club's last senior premiership, revitalising this historic club.〔The Bunyip newspaper, 2012〕 ==Premierships== Gawler Football Association 1891, 1893, 1894, 1899, 1901, 1902, 1906, 1907, 1909, 1910, 1911, 1920, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1927, 1929, 1931, 1932, 1934, 1952 Gawler and District Football League 1954, 1955, 1960 Adelaide Plains Football League 1961 Gawler and District Football League 1963, 1967, 1969, 1970, 1974, 1979, 1986 Barossa, Light and Gawler Football Association 1990, 1992, 1993 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「South Gawler Football Club」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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