St Kilda Football Club

The St Kilda Football Club, nicknamed the Saints, is an Australian rules football club based in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The club plays in the Australian Football League, the sport's premier league.

The club's name originates from the bayside Melbourne suburb of St Kilda in which the club was established in 1873.

St Kilda were a foundation team of the Victorian Football Association (VFA) in 1877 and later, in 1897, became a foundation team in the Victorian Football League (VFL), which was renamed the Australian Football League (AFL) prior to the start of the 1990 season.

St Kilda have only won a single premiership to date, a famous one-point win in the 1966 VFL Grand Final. St Kilda have most recently won the minor premiership of the 2009 AFL season and were 2009 and 2010 grand finalists.

St Kilda developed a reputation as perennial underachievers, much of this attributed to their record of finishing last more often than any other club in the league (27 times), as well as having the third lowest all-time win percentage of any team still playing in the league.

Southern Melbourne Saints

The Southern Melbourne Saints, previously known as the St Kilda Saints and the Westside Melbourne Saints, was an Australian basketball team that played in Melbourne, Victoria, in the National Basketball League.

The Saints were one of the ten inaugural, foundation clubs of the NBL that competed in the league's first season in 1979, operating out of Albert Park Basketball Stadium at the time. The St Kilda Saints finished the 1979 season in first place and became the first champions of the league defeating the Canberra Cannons 94-93. Larry Sengstock, NBL Hall of Famer, won the inaugural Grand Final MVP award, which has now known as the "Larry Sengstock Medal". The Saints repeated their success in 1980, once again finishing in first place and by successfully defending their championship against the West Adelaide Bearcats. In 1981, finished in first position for a third straight season, but did not compete in the NBL finals. Instead they opted to compete in the 1981 World Club Championships. The team never regained this level of success. During this period, although the club was represented throughout in all the various age-grouped competitions down to the Under 10's, coached by Denis Towers, their highly successful senior side was coached by Brian Kerle.