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KEY FACTS

Official name
East Fremantle Football Club

Known as
East Fremantle

Nickname
Sharks (formerly 'Old Easts')

Formed
1898

Colours
Royal blue and white

Associated clubs
East Fremantle Reserves; East Fremantle U19s; East Fremantle WFC

Affiliation (Current)
West Australian Football League (WAFL) 1898–2025

Home Ground
East Fremantle Oval

WAFL Premierships
1900, 1902-03-04, 1906, 1908-09-10-11, 1914, 1918, 1925, 1928-29-30-31, 1933, 1937, 1943*, 1945-46, 1957, 1965, 1974, 1979, 1985, 1992, 1994, 1998, 2023 (30 total)

Senior Premierships
WA State Premierships: 1904, 1906, 1909-10 (4 total); R.P. Rodriguez Shield: 1957, 1977, 1985, 1996, 1997, 1998 (6 total)

Most Games
305 - Brian Peake (1972-1980, 1985-1990)

Most Goals
1095 - George Doig (1933-1945)

League Top Goalkickers
E.Kelly (25) 1904; H.Sharpe (50) 1905, (34) 1906, (48) 1907 & (22) 1908; A.Rawlinson (32) 1917; J.Lawn (47) 1919. Bernie Naylor Medallists: D.Coffey (36) 1923; G.Doig (106) 1933, (152) 1934, (113) 1935, (109) 1936, (144) 1937 & (141) 1941; G.Prince (82) 1949; R.Johnson (92) 1966; K.Taylor (102) 1979; N.Lester-Smith (90) 1989; R.Tregenza (57) 1999 & (86) 2000 (20 total)

Sandover Medalists
Lin Richards 1931; Jim Conway 1950; Jack Clarke 1957; Ray Sorrell 1961 & 1963; David Hollins 1971; Graham Melrose 1974; Brian Peake 1977; Murray Wrensted 1985; Craig Treleven 1995; Adrian Bromage 1998; Rory O'Brien 2013 (11 Medallists/12 Medals)

Headquarters
Moss St & Marmion St, East Fremantle, WA 6158

Postal Address
PO Box 43, Palmyra, WA, 6157

Phone: (08) 9339 5533 

Email
[email protected]

Website
effc.com.au

East Fremantle



"With skipper Graham Melrose playing probably the best football of his life to secure not only the Sandover Medal but virtually every media award going, East Fremantle at long last returned to the winners’ list in 1974. In what, even for the era, was an extraordinarily closely contested season, East Fremantle finished the home and away rounds in pole position half a game clear of Perth (and, indeed, just six and a half games ahead of wooden spooners West Perth). Once the finals arrived, however, East Fremantle became pre-eminently, as the cliché has it, “a team on a mission” ... "

  • John Devaney reports on the must successful club side in WA football, the mighty Sharks of East Fremantle

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2023 Season (WAFL) Fixture

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East Fremantle's 2023 Fixture

Rnd H&A Club Q1Q2Q3Q4 S R Opponent Q1Q2Q3Q4 S Mgn Grd Date SC
1 A East Fremantle 3.17.411.611.9 75 LOST Peel Thunder 3.44.77.911.13 79 -4 RUS Apr 7 (Fri, 4:10) Scores
2 A East Fremantle 1.65.86.127.15 57 WON Swan Districts 1.13.44.87.11 53 4 BAS Apr 15 (Sat, 2:10) Scores
3 A East Fremantle 7.415.717.825.11 161 WON West Coast Reserves 2.12.16.58.5 53 108 LAT Apr 23 (Sun, 2:10) Scores
4 H East Fremantle 4.36.412.516.9 105 WON Perth 1.36.38.512.5 77 28 WAC Apr 29 (Sat, 11:40) Scores
5 H East Fremantle 0.33.73.107.15 57 LOST West Perth 4.35.66.1010.12 72 -15 WAC May 6 (Sat, 2:10) Scores
6 H East Fremantle 4.47.911.1013.10 88 WON Subiaco 1.34.66.97.14 56 32 WAC May 13 (Sat, 4:10) Scores
7 A East Fremantle 2.24.79.911.14 80 WON Claremont 2.25.56.69.8 62 18 MCM May 27 (Sat, 2:05) Scores
8 H East Fremantle 0.11.32.52.11 23 LOST South Fremantle 0.41.54.65.7 37 -14 WAC Jun 5 (Mon, 1:40) Scores
9 A East Fremantle 3.06.09.211.4 70 LOST East Perth 3.25.710.1016.12 108 -38 LEE Jun 11 (Sun, 2:10) Scores
10 H East Fremantle 3.67.812.1013.13 91 WON Swan Districts 2.25.66.109.13 67 24 WAC Jun 17 (Sat, 2:10) Scores
11 East Fremantle       Bye        
12 H East Fremantle 11.318.826.1433.17 215 WON West Coast Reserves 0.11.33.54.7 31 184 WAC Jul 1 (Sat, 2:10) Scores
13 A East Fremantle 2.36.67.1212.19 91 WON West Perth 3.45.46.57.8 50 41 AJO Jul 8 (Sat, 2:10) Scores
14 H East Fremantle 3.18.111.413.6 84 WON Peel Thunder 5.07.39.410.5 65 19 GER Jul 16 (Sun, 2:10) Scores
15 East Fremantle       Bye        
16 A East Fremantle 3.13.45.49.6 60 WON South Fremantle 2.24.36.57.6 48 12 FRE Jul 29 (Sat, 2:10) Scores
17 H East Fremantle 1.04.58.611.10 76 WON Claremont 2.54.95.137.14 56 20 WAC Aug 5 (Sat, 2:40) Scores
18 H East Fremantle 3.010.313.515.6 96 WON East Perth 3.47.411.612.10 82 14 WAC Aug 12 (Sat, 2:10) Scores
19 A East Fremantle 3.36.513.717.10 112 WON Perth 0.43.74.89.9 63 49 LAT Aug 19 (Sat, 2:10) Scores
20 A East Fremantle 1.34.86.1615.19 109 WON Subiaco 4.26.38.49.5 59 50 LEE Aug 26 (Sat, 2:40) Scores
2SF H East Fremantle 3.35.48.59.6 60 WON Peel Thunder 3.13.34.87.13 55 5 FRE Sep 9 (Sat, 2:10) Scores
GF H East Fremantle 3.56.69.1112.13 85 WON Peel Thunder 2.04.45.76.10 46 39 PER Sep 24 (Sun, 3:20) Scores
 

Footnotes

* Behinds calculated from the 1965 season on.
+ Score at the end of extra time.