Glenorchy District Football Club - The Magpies
Membership Month: $1000 for 1000 members!
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"Sign up your mum, your brother, your sister, your dad, your daughter, your niece, your nephew!"
That's the message from club legend Pete Barwick as he launched 'Membership Month' at the Glenorchy District Football Club.
The club currently has 760 members and we are racing to reach 1000!
Tale of the Tape: Blowfield stars as Pies down Bombers
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The RSEA Magpies have produced a stirring 19-point win over arch-rivals Lauderdale at KGV in a game billed as a 'mini final' by coach Paul Kennedy.
The toll from the previous week's loss, with Adam Roberts, Brayden Webb, Darrean Wyatt, Sam Rundle and Zac Webster all forced omissions, meant one of the youngest Glenorchy sides in history took to the field in a must-win game in hurricane-like conditions.
RSEA Magpies retain Smith-Corrie Cup
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It was a huge week for the RSEA Magpies women's team who won their ninth straight game for season 2021 by defeating Clarence by 62 points.
With the return of stars like Sarah Skinner, Perri King and Molly Mitchell, the girls produced a stunning second quarter, booting 5.2 to 0.1 to bounce the Roos off Blundstone Arena and keep the Smith-Corrie Cup in Magpie hands.
Glenorchy finalists in Tasmanian Volunteer Awards
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The Glenorchy District Football Club was honoured to be a finalist at the Tasmanian Volunteering Awards at Blundstone Arena, as recognition for our Northern Heartland Community Project.
Magpies unveil new jumper
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The RSEA Magpies women's team have unveiled the club's new alternate jumpers, as designed by local Aboriginal artist Takira Simon-Brown.
A message from Danny Ling - become a member!
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Club legend Danny Ling has signed up as a Heartland Member, and he's asking all Glenorchy football folk to do the same to keep our club strong in challenging times. Here's his message:
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Senior Premierships
Our Senior Teams have won 19 Premierships from our first in 1919 to our last 2016.Click here to see the full list
The 2016 Premiership Team
Women Senior Premierships
Our Womens Team have won 1 Premiership in 2018.Click here to see the details
The 2018 Premiership Team
History
New Town Football Club
1878……New Town Football Club founded.
1879……New Town Football Club commenced competition in the newly formed Tasmanian Football Association.
1887……New Town amalgamated with Glenorchy Football Club to form the Victoria Football Club that played in a Junior competition.
1905……New Town had reformed under its original name to compete in the Southern Tasmanian Football Association until it became defunct in 1907.
1919……A group of enthusiastic football supporters came together in late 1918 to reform the New Town Football Club. The Club competed in a local junior competition during the early part of the 1919 season before joining the newly formed Southern Tasmanian Junior Football Association.
1921……New Town Football Club joined the senior competition, namely the Tasmanian Football League.
1942–1944……The Tasmanian Football League went into recess following the outbreak of the 2nd World War and resumed in 1945.
1945……The Tasmanian Football League resumed competition under the banner of a District Boundary system. Clubs in the competition adopted the word District to their respective names, hence the : New Town District Football Club.
1957……New Town changed its name to Glenorchy District Football Club and moved from its New Town oval to King George Fifth oval at Glenorchy.
Glenorchy District Football Club
1957……Glenorchy FC merged with New Town, forming the new Glenorchy District FC.
Read about the start of a new eraFind out about our Past Players and Officials Association
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2014……Glenorchy esrblished a senior womens team to play in the Tasmanian Women's Football League
2017……Glenorchy women's team joined the Tasmania State League Womans's league.
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