# St Albans Football Club (EDFL)

The St Albans Football Club is an Australian rules football club based at Kings Park Reserve in Kings Park, a north-western suburb of Melbourne.
Founded in 1947, the club participated in the Western Region Football League until 2022, after which the club moved to the Essendon District Football League. To date, St Albans has won five Division One Premierships, the most recent being in 2001. They have also won 1 Division 2 Premiership.
St Albans currently has 7 Junior teams, ranging from Under 10s to Under 18s, two open age Female teams and two Senior Men's teams.

## History

A public meeting was called to be held at the St Albans Fire Station in September 1946. The reason for this meeting was to form a Football Club, that is the St Albans Football Club as we know it today. Twenty-six people attended this meeting and Mr W E Perrett was elected as President for the first year. Moreover, Mr J Douglas and Mr S Taylor were appointed secretary and coach respectively. The club was to be located at Errington Reserve. Mr S Taylor and Mr A McPherson were elected as captain and vice captain respectively.
In March, St Albans FC was officially accepted into the Western Region Football League, which was at the time known as the Footscray District Football League. Competitive matches were to start on the 26th of the following month. Nevertheless, before the commencement of the league, St Albans opted to play a practice match against ICI from Deer Park, its first ever match.
In December 2022 the club transitioned across to the Essendon District Football League and will compete in the 2023 season in Division One.

## Honours
### Club

* Western Region Football League
** Division One (5): 1966, 1969, 1988, 1989, 2001
** Division Two (1): 1997

### Individual
#### Best & Fairest

    1947 R Priest
    1949 S Taylor/A McPherson
    1950 K Priest
    1951 D McPherson
    1958 G Haynes
    1959 G Haynes
    1960 G Haynes
    1961 W Dawidowicz
    1962 T McIntyre
    1963 W Dawidowicz
    1964 G Haynes
    1965 F Uscinas
    1966 I Sharp
    1967 T Munday
    1968 R Toby
    1969 G Cameron
    1970 F Van Leeuwen
    1971 G Cameron
    1972 J Stanecki
    1973 N Farrell
    1974 R Szwaj
    1975 A Tansis
    1976 R Szwaj
    1977 R Bradley
    1978 J Blyth
    1979 J Blyth
    1980 R Peterson
    1981 J Blyth
    1982 R Peterson
    1983 R Peterson
    1984 R Peterson
    1985 L Foreman
    1986 L Foreman
    1987 D Templar
    1988 S McGhie
    1989 S McGhie
    1990 S Haynes
    1991 A Walsh
    1992 P Mala
    1993 S Millo
    1994 J Fitzpatrick
    1995 S Millo
    1996 M Antonowicz
    1997 A Fennessy
    1998 M Antonowicz
    1999 M Antonowicz
    2000 J Skinner
    2001 J Fitzpatrick
    2002 A Ibrahim
    2003 A Szwadiak
    2004 D McFerran
    2005 S Arena
    2006 S Arena
    2007 M Agius
    2008 B Hollow
    2009 T Jenkins
    2010 T Jenkins
    2011 S Hoare
    2012 B Taylor
    2013 L Baddeley
    2014 J West
    2015 M Quigley
    2016 T Jenkins
    2017 T Jenkins
    2018 T Donoghue
    2019 D Kovacevic

#### 300 Game Players

    Joe Maziarz
    Rod Toby
    Paul Shanley
    Jeff Parker
    Rod Brown
    Michael Portelli
    Robert Paterson
    Wayne Duffy
    Joe Capelli
    Corey Bissett
    Mark Antonowicz
    Daniel McFerran
    Jason Fitzpatrick
    David Pettenon
    Simon Millo
    Aaron Edwards
    Travis Edwards
    Mark Magor
    Jim Vickens
    Joe Murphy
    Zammy Muhtari
    Brian O'Donovan
    Dale Marshall
    Adam Szwadiak
    Colin Baulch
    Rudi Jakavicius
    Peter Trimboli
    Craig Psaila

## Team of the Century

St Albans Team of the Century :
| B: | R Priest | R Jimenez | M McBean |
| HB: | S Millo | J Maziarz | J Fitzpatrick |
| C: | J Blythe | C Missen | L Dickson |
| HF: | P Mala | T Munday | D Stephens |
| F: | M Antonowicz | A Priest | D Dawidowicz |
| Foll: | R Peterson | S McGhie (Captain) | G Haynes |
| Int: | S Taylor | B Szwaj | G Cameron |
| Int: | S Haynes | | |
| Coach: | G Haynes | G Haynes | G Haynes |