Clarence Football Club

Clarence
Names
Full nameClarence Football Club
Former name(s)Bellerive Football Club
Nickname(s)Roos
Club song"Clarence are the team to beat, I sing to you!"
2023 season
After finals3rd
Home-and-away season3rd
Leading goalkickerBryce Alomes (36)
Club details
Founded1884; 140 years ago (1884)
Colours   
CompetitionTasmanian Statewide League
PresidentScott Wade
CEOPatrick Merrick
CoachPeter Ryan
Captain(s)Jarrod Harper
Ground(s)Ninja Stadium (capacity: 19,500)
Uniforms
Home
Away
Other information
Official websitegoroos.com.au

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.[1]

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

History

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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

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Honours

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Club

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  • Tasmanian Football League
    • Premiers (11): 1970, 1979, 1981, 1984, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2009, 2010
    • Runners-up (6): 1962, 1969, 1971, 1985, 1995, 1998
  • Southern Football League (4)
    • Premiers (4): 2001, 2002, 2004, 2006
    • Runners-up (2): 2005, 2007

Individual

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

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

  • 2010 – Brett Geappen

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

  • 1957 – B. Burn (tied)
  • 1974 – P. Smith

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

  • 1957 – Russell Newell
  • 1965 – Royce Hart
  • 1973 – P. Smith
  • 1979 – M. Kruene

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

  • 1978 – T. Carter
  • 1984 – Brendan Mayne
  • 1990 – Steven Old

Dolphin Medallists (Best and fairest player – NFL Shield)

  • 1989 – Scott Wade

Lefroy Medallists (Best and fairest player – Tasmanian team)

All-Australian team members

Club record score:

Club games record holder:

  • 315 – Scott McCallum from 1989 to 2007
  • 314 – Gavin Cooney from 1989 to 2006 and 2009

Attendance records

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Record home attendance: Bellerive Oval

Record roster match attendance: all time

Record TANFL/TFL finals attendance:

Record SFL Premier League finals attendance:

Current Playing List

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Current playing list

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Senior list Coaching staff
  •  1 James Holmes (vc)
  •  2 Wade Wall
  •  3 Baker Smith
  •  4 Tyson Hanslow
  •  5 Baxter Norton (vc)
  •  6 Sam Green
  •  7 Keegan Wylie
  •  8 Jarrod Harper (c)
  •  9 Keren Howlett
  •  10 James Bealey
  •  12 Mitch Rainbird
  •  13 Ben Cato
  •  14 Jack Preshaw
  •  15 Jacques Barwick
  • 16 Tom McCallum
  • 17 Jack Callinan
  • 18 Oscar Paprotny
  • 19 Colin Garland
  • 20 Trent Hope
  • 21 Harry Burgess
  • 22 Colby Whitelaw
  • 23 Keegan Ryan
  • 24 Oliver Preshaw
  • 25 Lachie Borsboom
  • 26 Bryce Alomes
  • 27 Corey Lovell
  • 28 Dylan Howlett
  • 29 Cam Owen
  • 30 Josh Curtis
  • 31 Jonte Doran
  • 32 Liam Howard
  • 33 Luke Swinton
  • 34 Harry Fisher
  • 36 George Auchterlonie
  • 38 Brendan Hay
  • 39 Tom Murrell
  • 40 Jack Tremayne
  • 41 Kayde Saward
  • 42 Blake Jones
  • 43 Thomas Hugo
  • 44 Cooper Warmbrunn
  • 45 Bayley Aziz
  • 46 Ruben Tomkins
  • 47 Sebastian Storic
  • 48 Harry Cornelius
  • 49 Ned Ward
  • 50 Nick Bealey
  • 51 Jamahl Veneable
  • 52 Ryan Borsboom
  • 53 Flynn Marshall
  • 54 Connor McGee
  • 55 Blake Harper
  • 56 Will Busch
  • 57 Dominic Leauma
  • 58 Cooper Pace
  • 59 Josh Barnes
  • 60 Jack Mansfield
  • 62 Sam Chivers

Head coach

  • Peter Ryan



Legend:
  • (c) Captain(s)
  • (vc) Vice-captain(s)

Updated: 2022
Source(s): [1]


Notable players

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

References

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  1. ^ "About the club". Clarence Football Club. Archived from the original on 4 February 2024. Retrieved 4 February 2024.
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