Shepparton Swans Football Club


The Shepparton Swans Football Netball Club is an Australian rules football and netball club based in the city of Shepparton in northern Victoria. The club teams currently compete in the Goulburn Valley League.

History

The Shepparton Swans were originally known as the "Lemnos Football Club", named after the Greek island of the same name where some local Shepparton men were posted during WWI and played in black and yellow jumpers. The club would play in the Goulburn Valley Second Eighteens Football Association from its establishment in 1928 to 1936. The association's name was changed to the Goulburn Valley Football Association at the 1937 AGM.
When the GVFA's title was changed to the Central Goulburn Football League in 1946, Lemnos applied for admission into the newly formed league, but was refused. It also found that their colours were already being used by the Shepparton East Football Club, who joined the GVFA in 1945. As a result, the club applied for and entered the Goulburn Valley Football League in 1946. Being a town-based league, the club's name was changed to Lemnos-Shepparton. Again, the black and yellow colours were already in use. As a result, in 1946 the club took up the use of a white jumper with a red v. The first premiership the club won in this league was in 1959, beating Kyabram by 39 points.
In the 1960s a series of improvements led to the club moving from Deakin Reserve to Princess Park in Shepparton. It wasn't until 1970 that Lemnos-Shepparton won another premiership, again beating Kyabram. In 1999, Lemnos-Shepparton formally adopted the new names of the Shepparton Swans, staying with this permanently.

Honours

Premierships

Football League - Best & Fairest winners

;Seniors

Goulburn Valley Second Eighteen Football Association - N Gribble Cup

Lemnos

Lemnos

The following four, former Lemnos FC players died in active duty during World War Two.