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Congupna Football Club

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Congupna
Names
Full nameCongupna Football & Netball Club
Nickname(s)The Road
Leading goalkickerChris Drum (126) - 1978
Club details
Founded1956; 69 years ago (1956)
Colours   
CompetitionMurray Football League
Premierships8 (1956, 1963, 1964, 1971, 1978, 1991, 1993, 2024)
Ground(s)Memorial Park
 Congupna Recreation Reserve
Uniforms
1956 - 1961
1962 - 2012
Current

The Congupna Football & Netball Club, nicknamed the Road, is an Australian rules football and netball club based in the town of Congupna located just north of Shepparton, Victoria, that currently compete in the Murray FNL.

History

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A "Congupna" football club (with no ties with the current club) played in the Goulburn Valley Football Association from 1891 to 1906, being runners up fives times.[1]

Congupna Road Football Club (named after the township of the same name) was formed in 1956 and won the senior premiership of the Kyabram & District Football League in its first season. From 1956 until 1961, Congupna Road participated in the colours of dark navy with a white 'CFC' monogram. Congupna Road then transferred across to the Benalla Tungamah Football League in 1962. It was at this time when the club changed its colours to red with a white 'vee'. Senior football premierships followed in 1963 & 1964.

In 1963, the word "Road" was officially dropped from the town of Congupna Road. The football club took a year to catch up after the word "Road" was removed from the town name and won a premiership in 1963 as the Congupna Road Football Club. In 1964, the club won the premiership as the Congupna Football Club.

The Benalla Tungamah Football League changed its name in 1967 to the Tungamah Football League.

Congupna won Tungamah Football League senior premierships in 1971, 1978, 1991 & 1993

The club joined the Murray Football League in 1997.[2] making the grand final in just its second season in the competition.

At the beginning of the 2013 season, the Congupna Football Club changed to its current, more modern jumper style, red with a white 'sash'. The guernseys, still in Congupna's traditional red and white, now feature a road - complete with dotted line - as a diagonal sash.

Season 2023 saw Congupna finish in 2nd spot on the ladder after the Home & Away season and ultimately lost the Grand Final to Mulwala by 33 points.

The following year, 2024, Congupna won all but one match on its way to a 1 point Grand Final victory over Finley to claim their first senior football premiership in 31 years.

Club Song

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The official Congupna Football Club song is called "It's a Grand Old Flag" (sung to the tune of George M. Cohan's 1906 song "You're a Grand Old Flag").

It's a grand old flag, it's a high-flying flag,

It's the emblem for me and for you;

It's the emblem of the team we love,

The team of the Red and the White.

Every heart beats right for the Red and the White,

And we sing this song to you:

Should old acquaintance be forgot,

Keep your eye on the Red and the White.

Competition Timeline

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  • Kyabram District Football Association:[3] 1956 to 1961
  • Benalla Tungamah Football League:[4] 1962 - 1966
  • Tungamah Football League:[4] 1967 to 1995
  • Goulburn Valley Football League - Division 2: 1996
  • Murray Football League:[5] 1997 to Present

Football Premierships

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Seniors

Kyabram District Football Association:[3] 1956 to 1961

Year Premiers Score Runners Up Score
1956 Congupna 10.10 - 70 Merrigum 09.04 - 58

Benalla Tungamah Football League:[4] 1962 - 1966

Year Premiers Score Runners Up Score
1963 Congupna 10.09 - 69 Mulwala 04.11 - 59
1964 Congupna 12.15 - 87 Tungamah 08.14 - 62

Tungamah Football League:[4] 1967 to 1995

Year Premiers Score Runners Up Score
1971 Congupna 16.17 - 113 Katandra 14.12 - 96
1978 Congupna 15.16 - 106 Katandra 15.14 - 104
1991 Congupna 08.12 - 60 Katandra 03.16 - 34
1993 Congupna 15.12 - 102 Benalla All Blacks 15.07 - 97

Goulburn Valley Football League - Division 2: 1996

Murray Football League:[5] 1997 to Present

Year Premiers Score Runners Up Score
2024 Congupna 09.11 - 65 Finley 09.10 - 64

Football - League Best & Fairest Winners

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Seniors

Kyabram District Football Association: 1956 to 1961 - (McNamara Medal)

  • 1957 - W Roe

Benalla Tungamah Football League: 1962 to 1966 - (Lawless Family Medal)

  • 1963 - Harry Brittain

Tungamah Football League: 1967 to 1995 - (Lawless Family Medal)

  • 1980 - Damian Drum
  • 1983 - Chris Drum
  • 1995 - Stuart Joyce

Murray Football League: 1997 to Present - (O'Dwyer Medal)

  • 1998 - Shaun Gordon

Team of the Half-Century - 1956 to 2006

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Congupna Team of the Half Century
B: Don Dempster Peter Pyle Denis Smyth
HB: Mick Gleeson Pat Storer Phil Stevenson
C: Mark Simsen Damian Drum Gerald Farrell
HF: Xavier Tanner Chris Drum (Captain) Ted Pedretti
F: Ashley Bicknell Guy Madigan Alan Hueston
Foll: Jock O'Conner Stuart Joyce Shaun Gordon
Int: Andrew Woods John Hueston
Darren Humphrey Jim Horridge
Res: Bryan Leaf Ken Pettie Geoff Weppner
Coach: Jock O'Conner

Netball Premierships

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A Grade

Tungamah Football League: 1967 to 1995

  • 1968
  • 1972
  • 1977
  • 1978
  • 1981
  • 1982
  • 1984
  • 1986

Goulburn Valley Football League - Division 2: 1996

  • 1996

Netball - League Best & Fairest Winners

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A Grade

Tungamah Football League: 1967 to 1995

  • 1968 - Kerry Drum
  • 1972 - Pamela Hueston
  • 1973 - Pamela Hueston
  • 1974 - Pamela Hueston
  • 1975 - Pamela Hueston
  • 1977 - Pamela Hueston
  • 1978 - Pamela Hueston
  • 1981 - Pamela Hueston
  • 1982 - Pamela Hueston
  • 1984 - Marg Tait
  • 1986 - Tracey Wilson
  • 1987 - Tracey Wilson
  • 1989 - Jodi Willmott
  • 1990 - Sue Robinson (Howard)
  • 1992 - Helen Stevenson (Jackson)

Murray Football League: 1997 to Present

  • 2001 - Paula Ryan

References

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  1. ^ "1906 - GVFA - Final Ladders". Numurkah Leader. 7 September 1906. p. 3 – via Trove Newspapers.
  2. ^ Devaney, John. "Australian Football – Congupna Football Club – Stats". australianfootball.com. Retrieved 27 November 2016.
  3. ^ a b "Kyabram District Football Netball League", Wikipedia, 13 June 2025, retrieved 25 July 2025
  4. ^ a b c d "Benalla Tungamah Football League", Wikipedia, 23 July 2025, retrieved 25 July 2025
  5. ^ a b "Murray Football Netball League", Wikipedia, 16 July 2025, retrieved 25 July 2025
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