Wangaratta Football Club


The Wangaratta Magpies Football Club, officially known as the Wangaratta Magpies Football & Netball Club, is an Australian rules football club which plays in the Ovens and Murray Football League based in Wangaratta, Victoria at the Wangaratta Showgrounds and play on the Norm Minns Oval.
The Wangaratta Football Club was the first football club to be founded in Wangaratta, in the mid 1870s, when matches were played intermittently against other local towns like - Albury, Beechworth, Benalla, Chiltern, Corowa, Howlong, Rutherglen, Tarrawingee and Wahgunyah.
Wangaratta FC entered a team into the Ovens and King FL in its first year of competition in 1903.
Wangaratta FC entered two sides into the Ovens & King FL in 1941 and they both played off in the grand final, with the "Rainbows" defeating Wangaratta.
In 1945 Wangaratta entered a team in the Murray Valley Football League and they became undefeated premiers.
Wangaratta FC have been in the Ovens & Murray Football League continuously since 1946.
Since 2012, the club has three football teams and four netball teams in the Ovens & Murray Football League.

Football Premierships

;Seniors
LeagueTotal flagsPremiership year
Wangaratta Football Association11892
Murray Valley Football League21898, 1945
Ovens & King Football Association51905, 1906, 1920, 1931, 1932, 1941
Corowa & District Knockout Competition - "VFL Cup"11949
Ovens & Murray Football Association141925, 1933, 1936, 1938, 1946, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1957, 1976, 2007, 2008, 2017