# Kyabram Football Club

The Kyabram Football Netball Club, nicknamed the Bombers, is an Australian rules football and netball club based in the town of Kyabram, Victoria. The club teams currently compete in the Goulburn Valley Football League (GVFL).

## History

Kyabram was a foundation club in the Goulburn Valley Football League (GVDFA) in 1893 and initially wore a white and blue jersey, with red stockings.
Kyabram did not affiliate with the GVDFA between 1895 and 1898, but the "Kyabram Ramblers FC" were active playing a number of friendly matches against other local teams in 1896.
Kyabram FC rejoined the GVDFA in 1899.
The club had a successful era the 1920s, when they won five GVFL premierships, including the Kyabram Reserves winning the senior football premiership in the Northern Goulburn Football Association in 1929.
The club has produced many VFL/AFL footballers, including Ross Dillon, Garry Lyon, Kayne Pettifer, Nick Holman and Brett Deledio. Kyabram's Chris Stuhldreier won the GVFL goal-kicking every season from 1991 to 1994, including a record setting 164 goals in 1993.
Between round one of 2016 and the preliminary final of 2018 the club won an astounding 62 consecutive wins. The sequence stopped at the 2018 Grand Final. The club was then undefeated once again in 2019, then had their next loss in round three in 2021 against Echuca.
Only the Shepparton Football Club have won more premierships that Kyabram.

## Football Premierships
### Seniors

| League | Total flags | Premiership years |
| Goulburn Valley FL | 15 | 1919, 1921, 1922, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1948, 1950, 1958, 1975, 1996, 2013, 2016, 2017, 2019 |
| Northern Goulburn Football Association | 1 | 1929 |
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## League Best & Fairest Winners
### Senior Football

* Goulburn Valley Football League – Morrison Medal winners
** Jeff Cooper (1958, 1961)
** Charles Stewart (1963)
** Dick Clay (1964)
** Peter Gittos (1987)
** Benny Gugliotti (1993)
** Lincoln Withers (2008)
** Michael Mattingly (2019)

## VFL / AFL Players

The following footballers played with Kyabram prior to playing senior VFL / AFL football, with the year indicating their debut season.
* 1904 – Tom Hawking: South Melbourne
* 1914 – Charlie Fisher: Carlton (premiership player)
* 1919 – George Parkinson: Richmond
* 1920 – Billy James: Richmond (premiership player)
* 1920 – Roy Outram: Collingwood & Richmond
* 1925 – Percy Outram: Carlton
* 1955 – Peter Aitken: Carlton
* 1959 – Cliff Deacon: South Melbourne
* 1960 – Ian Howard: Footscray
* 1961 – Barry Bryant: Carlton
* 1961 – Graeme Haslem: Hawthorn
* 1965 – Bryan Pleitner: Footscray
* 1966 – Dick Clay: Richmond (premiership player)
* 1966 – Ross Dillon: Melbourne
* 1966 – Frank Fanning: Footscray
* 1966 – Maurie Fowler: Carlton
* 1969 – Paul Rowlands: Melbourne
* 1973 – Shane Fitzsimmons: Melbourne
* 1975 – Colin Graham: Melbourne
* 1975 – John Sparks: Melbourne
* 1976 – Maurice Wingate: Melbourne
* 1979 – Kelly O'Donnell: Melbourne
* 1982 – Trevor Castles: Melbourne
* 1982 – Stuart McKenzie: Melbourne
* 1985 – Daryl Bourke: Melbourne
* 1986 – Gary Lyon: Melbourne
* 1987 – Bradley Sparks: Melbourne
* 1995 – Glen Coghlan: St. Kilda
* 2001 – Kayne Pettifer: Richmond
* 2005 – Brett Deledio: Richmond
* 2014 – Nick Holman: Carlton & Gold Coast Suns