Clarence Football Club

Clarence
Full name Clarence Football Club
Nickname Roos
Sport Australian rules football
Founded 1884
League Tasmanian State League
Home ground Blundstone Arena
Anthem "Clarence are the team to beat, I sing to you!"
President Roger Viney
Head coach Cameron Blight & Jeromey Webberly
Captain Monty Haydon
2016 (TSL) 7th
Strip

The Clarence Football Club, nicknamed the Kangaroos (and usually referred to as simply "The Roos"), is an Australian rules football club playing in the Tasmanian State League, based in Bellerive, Tasmania.

Before 1947, they existed as Bellerive Football Club. And then Howrah football club in 1969

The Club play their home games at Bellerive Oval, Hobart's Test Cricket ground, they share the facilities with Tasmania's cricket team, the Tasmanian Tigers.

History

Clarence joined the Tasmanian Football League in 1947 on a two-year probationary period from the Southern District Football Association, later being granted permanent status on 7 August 1950, and continued to participate in the league until it was disbanded in December 2000.

They then joined the Southern Football League and participated until the end of the 2008 season whereby the club opted to join the newly reformed Tasmanian State League from 2009 and have won the first two premiership titles on offer since joining the competition and only in the 2015 season missed out on the finals.

Club details

Achievements

Premiership titles

TANFL/TFL Statewide/SWL/TSL premierships

TANFL/TFL Statewide League runners-up

SFL Premier League premierships

SFL Premier League runners-up

Competition medal winners

William Leitch Medallists (Best and fairest player – TFL senior football)

Tassie Medallists (Best and fairest player – TSL senior football from 2009)

George Watt Medallists (Best and fairest player – TFL reserves football)

V. A. Geard Medallists (Best and fairest player – TFL thirds football)

D. R. Plaister Medallists (Best and fairest player – TFL fourths football)

Delphin Medallists (Best and fairest player – NFL Shield)

Lefroy Medallists (Best and fairest player – Tasmanian team)

All-Australian team members

Club record score:

Club games record holder:

Attendance records

Record home attendance: Bellerive Oval

Record roster match attendance: all time

Record TANFL/TFL finals attendance:

Record SFL Premier League finals attendance:

Notable players

There is a list of past and present Clarence players who have played at AFL/VFL:

External links

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