Geelong Amateur Football & Netball Club

The Geelong Amateur Football & Netball Club, nicknamed the Ammos, is an Australian rules football and netball club situated in the regional city of Geelong, Victoria, Australia.

Geelong Amateur
Names
Full name	The Geelong Amateur Football & Netball Club Inc.
Nickname(s)	Ammos
Club details
Founded	1926; 99 years ago (1926)
Colours
Competition	Bellarine Football League
Premierships	1931, 1953, 1966, 1972, 1985, 2004, 2008, 2014, 2015, 2016
Ground(s)	Queens Park, Highton
Uniforms
Home
Other information
Official website	geelongamateur.com.au

GAFNC teams currently play in the Bellarine Football League.

History

The Geelong Amateur Football Club was formed in 1926 as a result of teachers and students from The Geelong College and Geelong Grammar forming a football team to play in the Victorian Amateur Football Association.^[1] As such, it uses the green (College) and light blue (Grammar) colours, plus the Pegasus logo of The Geelong College.^[2]

They moved to their current home at Queens Park, Highton, in 1957.

They started in the VAFA,^[3] participating as high as A Grade before in 1983 the club decided to base itself in Geelong and joined the Geelong and District Football League. Playing in the VAFA meant travelling to Melbourne every fortnight, whereas joining the Geelong & District Football League meant that all games were played locally.

In 1985, they won the GDFL premiership. The club then briefly went up to the Geelong Football League but was unable to sustain itself there and moved back to the GDFL in 1989.

The club experienced a period of troubled times over the next few years and, after much soul-searching and survival meetings, in 1995 the club joined the Bellarine Football League and has remained there since, winning Senior Football Premierships in 2004, 2008, 2014, 2015 & 2016.

Premierships

Men's football (10)

• Victorian Amateur Football Association
  • 1931, 1953, 1966, 1972
• Geelong & District Football League
  • 1985
• Bellarine Football League
  • 2004, 2008, 2014, 2015, 2016

Women's football (2)

• AFL Barwon Female Football (Division 1)
  • 2022, 2023

League awards

League Best & Fairest

• 2001: Mark Trevaskis
• 2009: Lindsay Smith

League Leading Goalkickers

• 2010 Jason Tom: 89
• 2011 Jason Tom: 120
• 2015 Mitchell Day: 114
• 2016 Mitchell Day: 87

Notable players

VFL/AFL players

• Graeme Linke with Geelong and Footscray.
• David Clarke with Geelong and Carlton.
• Tim Clarke with Hawthorn.
• Spiro Malakellis with Geelong
• Tony Malakellis with Geelong and Sydney Swans.
• Tim Clark with Geelong Football club
• Ben Bucovaz with Fremantle
• Josh Saunders with St Kilda
• Mason Wood with North Melbourne
• Hugh Goddard with St Kilda
• Peter Featherby with Footscray 1975–76 and Geelong 1979–83
• Jai Sheahan with Melbourne FC.

Other

• Lindsay Hassett (Test cricketer)
• Ian Redpath (Test cricketer)

Seasons

Premiers

Grand Finalist

Minor premiers

Finals appearance

Wooden spoon

Division leading goalkicker

Division best and fairest

Men's

Seniors

Year	League	Division	Finish	W	L	D	Coach	Captain	Best and fairest	Leading goalkicker	Ref
1926	MAFA	A Section	7th									[4]
1927	MAFA	A Section	9th	4	14	0						[5]