Sorell Football Club
| Sorell Football Club | |||
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| Names | |||
| Full name | Sorell Football Club Inc. | ||
| Nickname | Eagles | ||
| Club song | "We Are The Mighty Sorell Team" | ||
| 2025 season | |||
| After finals | 5th | ||
| Home-and-away season | 5th | ||
| Leading goalkicker | Jacob Sawford (43) | ||
| Club details | |||
| Founded | 1883 | ||
| Colours | |||
| Competition | Southern Football League | ||
| President | Robbie Iles | ||
| Coach | Simon Harris | ||
| Captain | Adrian Butterworth / Alexander Jones | ||
| Premierships | TAFL Southern Division (3)
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| Ground | Pembroke Park (capacity: 1000) | ||
| Former ground | Sorell Showground (Until 1966) Sorell Memorial Oval (1967-1991) | ||
| Uniforms | |||
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The Sorell Football Club, nicknamed the Eagles, is an Australian rules football club currently playing in the SFL Community League in Tasmania, Australia. From 1996–1999, it was known as the East Coast Eagles.[1]
The club is based in the semi-rural township of Sorell 27 km east of Hobart and recruits from many small towns in its district. They play their home matches at Pembroke Park, where they have been based since 1992.
History
1883-1995
The Sorell Football Club was founded in 1883 and originally played in several competitions including the Sorell FA, Pembroke FA, Clarence Sub-Districts FA, East Coast FA and the South Eastern District FA until 1962.
In 1963 the Eagles joined the TAFL (Southern Division) where they won three premiership titles in 1966, 1983 and their most recent premiership in 1990, they remained a member of that competition until the League collapsed at the end of the 1995 season.
In 1967 Sorell Racecourse Ground, where the club played home games, was destroyed in the 1967 Tasmanian fires. In 1967 the Club started playing home games at Sorell Memorial Oval, until 1991 when they moved to Pembroke Park (which stands on the same same site formerly occupied by Sorell Racecourse Ground).
1996-2020
In 1996 Sorell switched from playing in their traditional Red, White, and Black playing uniform to a West Coast Eagles-style Blue and Gold uniform which they still use. The team was also breifly renammed the East Coast Eagles until 1999.[1]
Since 1996 Sorell have been a member of the STFL/SFL and were a participating club in the SFL Regional League when the competition split into two divisions (2002-2008) apart from 2002 when the club played in the SFL Premier League and in 2003 when the club went into recess for one season due to a lack of volunteers to run the club before rejoining the Regional League in 2004.[2]
Sorell's time in the SFL has seen little success; the Eagles' have made the finals a number of times and participated in two grand finals which resulted in a 77-point drubbing at the hands of Cygnet in 2004 and a narrow 10-point loss to South-Eastern rival, Dodges Ferry in 2006.
2020s
In 2025 they fielded a team of every type, with the seniors finishing 5th and losing to the two blues, the women missed the finals and the reserves made it to a preliminary final, only to lose by 1 point to Huonvile 6.9(45) to Sorell 6.8(44).Their colts team met a similar fate after their 23-point win over rivals Hobart in a Friday night elimination final, they faced their demons in the preliminary final after losing the last encounter 115-6 they played all day and led with 3 minutes left only to draw 7.5(47) all. Unfortunately they went out in extra time and it was Huonville who lost the grand final by a goal.
Club Records
Entered STFL/SFL
1996
STFL/SFL Premierships
Nil
STFL/SFL Runner Up
2004, 2006
TAFL (Southern Division) Premierships
1966, 1983, 1990
State Amateur Premierships – Condor Shield
1966
South Eastern District FA Premierships
1960, 1961, 1962
Clarence Sub-Districts FA Premierships
1952
Pembroke FA Premierships
1937, 1938, 1939
Player Records
Walter Howard Medal winners
(Best and fairest player in the TAFL (Southern Division)
1968 – Graeme Jones
1982 – Lindsey White
1987 – Lindsey White
1988 – Michael Waller
1990 – Michael Waller
1991 – M. Kerslake
Games record holder
Mark Clothier (410 games)
References
- 1 2 Bresnehan J (2 May 1996). "West Coast stars to join local Eagles' fun day". The Mercury. Gale A101214238. Retrieved 20 May 2026.
- ↑ Stockdale, David (7 May 2003). "Sorell Eagles must decide to fly or die". The Mercury. Gale A102602534. Retrieved 20 May 2026.
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