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{{Short description|Australian rules football club}}
{{Use Australian English|date=January 2018}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2019}}
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  | color3 = solid red
  | clubname  = Port Melbourne Football Club 
  | image     = Port melbourne fc logo.png
  | image_size= 180px 
  | fullname  = Port Melbourne Football Club
  | nicknames = ''Borough'', ''Port''
  | formernames = Sandridge Football Club (1874−1884)
  | motto     =
| season    = 2024
| home&away  = VFL 16th      
VFLW 6th      
VBFL 2nd
  | position  = 
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  | bestandfairest =
  | founded   = {{Start date and age|df=yes|1874}}
  | colours   = {{color box|Blue}} Blue {{color box|Red}} Red
  | league    = '''[[Victorian Football League|VFL]]:''' Senior men <br/> '''[[VFL Women's|VFLW]]:''' Senior women <br/> '''[[Victorian Blind Football League|VBFL]]:''' Blind (mixed)
  | coach     = '''VFL:''' Brendan McCartney<br />'''VFLW:''' Tom Chitsos
  | captain   = '''VFL:''' Harvey Hooper<br />'''VFLW:''' Olivia Barton
  | premierships = '''VFA/VFL (Div 1)''' (17) {{hlist|[[1897 VFA season|1897]]|[[1901 VFA season|1901]]|[[1922 VFA season|1922]]|[[1940 VFA season|1940]]|[[1941 VFA season|1941]]|[[1947 VFA season|1947]]|[[1953 VFA season|1953]]|[[1964 VFA season|1964]]|[[1966 VFA season|1966]]|[[1974 VFA season|1974]]|[[1976 VFA season|1976]]|[[1977 VFA season|1977]]|[[1980 VFA season|1980]]|[[1981 VFA season|1981]]|[[1982 VFA season|1982]]|[[2011 VFL season|2011]]|[[2017 VFL season|2017]]}} '''VFLW''' (1) {{hlist|[[2023 VFL Women's season|2023]]}}
  | most recent premiership = 2017
  | president = Michael Shulman
  | ceo       = Sophie Williams
  | membership = {{increase}} 1,285<ref>{{cite web |title=2024 ANNUAL REPORT |url=https://www.portmelbournefc.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/PMFC-Annual-Report-2024_FINAL-compressed.pdf |publisher=Port Melbourne Football Club |access-date=20 June 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250620134027/https://www.portmelbournefc.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/PMFC-Annual-Report-2024_FINAL-compressed.pdf |archive-date=20 June 2025 |date=December 2024}}</ref>
  | membership_year = 2024
  | ground    = [[North Port Oval]]
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The '''Port Melbourne Football Club''', nicknamed the '''Borough''', is an [[Australian rules football]] club based in the inner-Melbourne suburb of [[Port Melbourne]]. The club was founded in 1874 and has been competing in the [[Victorian Football League|Victorian Football League (VFL)]] – formerly known as the [[Victorian Football League|Victorian Football Association]] (VFA) – since 1886, and the [[VFL Women's]] (VFLW) since 2021.

Port Melbourne is the [[List of VFA/VFL premiers|most successful]] club in the VFA/VFL, having won 17 senior men's division 1 premierships three more than its nearest rival [[Williamstown Football Club|Williamstown]]. It has also won one VFL Women's premiership.

Port Melbourne is also the only VFA/VFL club never to have been relegated to the second division when the VFA had both first and second divisions. The club has maintained an independent and stand-alone status, without being in a formal [[Australian Football League reserves affiliations|reserves affiliation]] with a club from the [[Australian Football League]] (AFL) for all but five years of its history.

Consequently, Port Melbourne is considered one of the strongest Victorian-based football clubs that does not compete in the AFL. The club has had a women's team in the [[VFL Women's]] (VFLW) competition since 2021, and in the past it has fielded premiership-winning teams in the now-defunct [[VFL Development League|VFL reserves competition]]. In 2024, the club fielded its first team in the [[Victorian Blind Football League]] (VBFL).

==History==
[[File:Port melbourne fc 1897.jpg|thumb|left|Port Melbourne team that won its first premiership in 1897]]
The Port Melbourne Football Club was formed in [[1874 Victorian football season|1874]] as the '''Sandridge Football Club'''. It changed its name to Port Melbourne in [[1884 VJFA season|1884]], in line with the renaming of [[City of Port Melbourne|the municipality]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Seisman Street |url=https://www.pmhps.org.au/2019/06/seisman-street/ |publisher=Port Melbourne Historical and Preservation Society |access-date=5 June 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250605055903/https://www.pmhps.org.au/2019/06/seisman-street/ |archive-date=5 June 2025 |date=6 June 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=William 'Billy' Hannaysee |url=https://blueseum.org/William+%27Billy%27+Hannaysee |publisher=Blueseum |access-date=5 June 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250605060307/https://blueseum.org/William+%27Billy%27+Hannaysee |archive-date=5 June 2025}}</ref>

Port Melbourne joined the senior ranks [[Victorian Football League|Victorian Football Association]] (VFA) in 1886, its inaugural team formed in large part from members of the powerful nearby [[Sydney Swans|South Melbourne Football Club]] which had dominated metropolitan football in [[1885 VFA season|1885]].<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=The Argus|publication-place=Melbourne, VIC|title=The Football Season|date=30 April 1885|page=6}}</ref> The club has played in every VFA/VFL season since that time. In 1897, Port Melbourne was left out of the group of eight clubs which formed the breakaway VFL competition, despite having regularly been about the sixth- or seventh- best performing team onfield. Historian Terry Keenan theorised that the likeliest reason for Port Melbourne's exclusion was the reputation for the poor behaviour that its players and spectators had developed over the previous decade; its [[Rivalries in the Victorian Football League|rivalry]] with and proximity to South Melbourne and the fact that Port Melbourne had supported the gate equalisation measures which the breakaway clubs were trying to escape were also speculated to have contributed to the decision.<ref name="riffraff">{{citation|last=Keenan|first=Terry|title=Keeping out the riff-raff – Port Melbourne's exclusion from the Victorian Football League in 1896|journal=Sporting Traditions|volume=17|issue=2|year=2001|pages=1–16}}</ref>

The club, and the suburb of Port Melbourne in general, were heavily associated with wharf labourers and the union movement. During a 1928 waterfront strike in Melbourne, a wharf labourer protesting the use of [[scab labour]] was shot by police; as a result, the club banned any police from playing with them. The policy remained in place until the late 1950s.<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=The Age|publication-place=Melbourne, VIC|page=43|author=Marc Fiddian|date=19 September 1981|title=Another proud day for Port}}</ref>

Port Melbourne went on to become one of the strongest clubs in the VFA, and today still attracts some of the biggest crowds to its games. The club had very strong links with the Port Melbourne community, arguably the strongest community relationship within the VFA; local juniors often held stronger aspirations to play for Port Melbourne than for the VFL's South Melbourne – which by the 1950s was perennially struggling and to which the Port Melbourne area was [[zoning (Australian rules football)|zoned]] – and even players as highly decorated as [[Brownlow Medal]]lists [[Peter Bedford]] and [[Bob Skilton]] returned to play with Port Melbourne after their VFL careers.<ref>{{citation|last=Amy|first=Paul|title=Fabulous Fred: the Strife and Times of Fred Cook|publisher=Melbourne Books|year=2014|pages=53–54}}</ref> Over the twenty-eight seasons from 1961 until 1988 that the VFA was partitioned into two divisions, Port Melbourne played every season in the first division – a distinction shared only with the [[Sandringham Football Club|Sandringham]].

Traditionally, Port Melbourne's [[Rivalries in the Victorian Football League|greatest rivals]] are {{VFL Wil}} and {{VFL San}}. As of 2025, all three teams continue to play in the VFL. Prior to the original breakaway of the VFL from the VFA in 1897, Port Melbourne's greatest rival was {{AFL SM}}.<ref name="riffraff" />

Since the [[Victorian State Football League|AFL reserves competition]] merged with the Victorian Football League in 2000, Port Melbourne has been involved in two [[Reserves affiliations of Australian Football League clubs|affiliations]]: with the [[Sydney Swans]] (2001–2002), and with the [[North Melbourne Football Club|Kangaroos]] (2003–2005); since 2006, Port Melbourne has existed as a stand-alone VFL club. The club has fielded a team in the [[VFL Women's]] competition since 2021.

In under-age football, Port Melbourne has been affiliated with the [[Oakleigh Chargers]] [[NAB League]] team since the 1999 season,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.portmelbournefc.com.au/borough-continue-to-build-on-oakleigh-chargers-relationship/|title=Borough Continue To Build on Oakleigh Chargers Relationship|date=23 February 2016|access-date=30 July 2016|publisher=Port Melbourne Football Club}}</ref> and the Chargers adopted Port Melbourne's colours as part of the affiliation. Port Melbourne had previously been affiliated with the [[Geelong Falcons]] (1996–1998),<ref name="octchanges">{{cite news|newspaper=Herald Sun|publication-place=Melbourne, VIC|page=86|author=Adrian Dunn|date=5 October 1995|title=Willy and the Bees merge order|edition=Afternoon}}</ref> and in 1995 was part of a three-way affiliation which saw it share the [[Calder Cannons]] and [[Western Jets]] with [[Williamstown Football Club|Williamstown]] and [[Coburg Football Club|Coburg]].<ref name="Prahran">{{cite news|newspaper=Herald Sun|publication-place=Melbourne, VIC|page=86|author=Adrian Dunn|date=17 September 1994|edition=Morning|title=Prahran calls time out}}</ref>

In 2024, Port Melbourne joined the [[Victorian Blind Football League]] (VBFL), becoming the first VFL club to do so.<ref>{{cite web |title=PORT MELBOURNE JOINS VICTORIAN BLIND FOOTBALL LEAGUE |url=https://www.aflvic.com.au/news/port-melbourne-joins-victorian-blind-football-league-219868 |publisher=AFL Victoria |access-date=8 May 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240508072202/https://www.aflvic.com.au/news/port-melbourne-joins-victorian-blind-football-league-219868 |archive-date=8 May 2024 |date=7 May 2024}}</ref>

The club's onfield nickname is the ''Borough'' or ''Boroughs''. Like many clubs, its earliest nickname was geographical, and the Borough nickname came from the club's location in what was once the Borough of [[Port Melbourne]]; the name stuck, even after the area was upgraded to the status of town in 1893, and eventually city in 1919.<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=Record|publication-place=Emerald Hill, VIC|title=Association topics|date=22 July 1922|page=2|author=Ciem}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|newspaper=Record|publication-place=Emerald Hill, VIC|title=Ports wilted at the finish|date=19 June 1937|page=5}}</ref> Unlike most other clubs, Port Melbourne never adopted a more modern nickname based on an animal or a profession, and remains known as the Borough. The name was sometimes written as Burra or Burras,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.afl.com.au/news/469473/the-williamstown-report-vfl-grand-final|title=The Williamstown Report: VFL Grand Final|date=16 September 2003|accessdate=14 April 2024|publisher=Australian Football League}}</ref> and in the 1970s and 1980s the nickname was sometimes depicted with a [[kookaburra]].<ref>{{citation|title=|work=VFA Recorder|date=6 April 1980|page=12|publication-place=Blackburn, VIC|publisher=Hall's Sporting Publicity}}</ref>

==Club jumper==
The Port Melbourne Football Club's guernsey is royal blue with red vertical stripes.

===Uniform evolution===
{|
|{{Australian rules football kit box
|pattern_b= _redsides_2|pattern_so= _hoops_red|body= 0000cc |shorts= 0000cc|socks= 0000cc|title= 1889 –1897}}
|{{Australian rules football kit box
|pattern_b= _redhoops|pattern_so= _hoops_red|body= 0000cc|shorts= 0000cc|socks= 0000cc|title= 1897–1908}}
|{{Australian rules football kit box
|pattern_b= _red stripes|pattern_so=_hoops_red|body= 0000cc|shorts= 0000cc|socks= 0000cc|title= 1909–present}}
|}

==Club song==
The official Port Melbourne 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]]"), which is also the club name and basis for the club songs of [[Casey Demons|Casey]], [[Maribyrnong Park Football Club|Maribyrnong Park]], and [[Melbourne Football Club|Melbourne]]. 

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 Blue.

Every heart beats true for the Red and the Blue,

And we sing this song to you:

Should old acquaintance be forgot,

Keep your eye on the Red and the Blue.

==2011 season==
In [[2011 VFL season|2011]], Port Melbourne completed a [[perfect season]], winning all eighteen home-and-away games, then three finals matches, culminating in a 56-point win against [[Williamstown Football Club|Williamstown]] in the Grand Final.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/port-melbourne-crushes-williamstown-to-claim-vfl-flag/story-fn53khop-1226145834302|archive-url=https://archive.today/20121230184313/http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/port-melbourne-crushes-williamstown-to-claim-vfl-flag/story-fn53khop-1226145834302|url-status=dead|archive-date=30 December 2012|first=Paul|last=Amy|title=Port Melbourne crushes Williamstown to claim VFL flag|date=25 September 2011|access-date=25 September 2011|newspaper=Leader}}</ref> It was the first perfect season in the VFA/VFL first division since 1918, and the first to not be shortened by war.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.marngrookfootyshow.com.au/node/1447|title=This weekend in the VFL|publisher=The Marngrook Footy Show|date=26 August 2011|access-date=9 September 2011}}</ref>

==Team of the century==
The Port Melbourne team of the century was selected in August 2003:
  
{{Aussie rules team | title = {{font color|#0000cc|Port Melbourne|link=Port Melbourne Football Club}} |color =  
| backpocket1 = Stan Plumridge 
| fullback = Joe Garbutt 
| backpocket2 = [[Vic Aanensen]]
| halfbackflank1 = [[David King (footballer, born 1972)|David King]]
| centrehalfback = Bob Kelsey 
| halfbackflank2 = [[Bob Withers]] 
| wing1 = [[Bill Swan (footballer)|Bill Swan]]	 
| centre = [[Peter Bedford]]  
| wing2 = [[Billy McGee (footballer)|Billy McGee]] 
| halfforwardflank1 = Rob Freyer   
| centrehalfforward = [[Ted Freyer]]  
| halfforwardflank2 = Brian Walsh  
| forwardpocket1 = [[Bob Bonnett]] 
| fullforward = [[Fred Cook (Australian footballer, born 1947)|Fred Cook]] 
| forwardpocket2 = [[Tommy Lahiff]] 
| ruck = [[Frank Johnson (footballer, born 1932)|Frank Johnson]] 
| ruckrover = [[Graeme Anderson (footballer, born 1953)|Graeme Anderson]] 
| rover = [[Bill Findlay (Australian footballer)|Bill Findlay]]
| interchange1 = David Holt	 
| interchange2 = Reg Murray	
| interchange3 = [[Norm Goss Jr.]] 
| interchange4 = Bill Bedford  
| interchange5 = Carl Bowen	
| interchange6 = [[Gary Brice]]
| coach = [[Gary Brice]]  
}}

==Honours==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
| colspan="4" style="background:#bdb76b;" align="center"| '''Premierships'''
|- style="background:#bdb76b;"
!Competition
!Level
!Wins
!Years Won
|-
|'''[[Victorian Football League]]'''||Seniors||17||[[1897 VFA season|1897]], [[1901 VFA season|1901]], [[1922 VFA season|1922]], [[1940 VFA season|1940]], [[1941 VFA season|1941]], [[1947 VFA season|1947]], [[1953 VFA season|1953]], [[1964 VFA season|1964]], [[1966 VFA season|1966]], [[1974 VFA season|1974]], [[1976 VFA season|1976]], [[1977 VFA season|1977]], [[1980 VFA season|1980]], [[1981 VFA season|1981]], [[1982 VFA season|1982]], [[2011 VFL season|2011]], [[2017 VFL season|2017]]
|-
|'''[[VFL Women's]]'''||Seniors||1||[[2023 VFL Women's season|2023]]
|-
|'''[[List of VFA/VFL premiers#Seconds/Reserves/Development League|VFA/VFL Reserves]]'''||Division 1||14||1944, 1949, 1951, 1959, 1964, 1965, 1968, 1970, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1980, 1996, 2004
|-
|'''[[List of VFA/VFL premiers#Thirds|VFA/VFL Thirds]]'''||Division 1||2||1952, 1993
|-
| colspan="4" style="background:#bdb76b;" align="center"| '''Other titles and honours'''
|-
|'''[[1977 VFA season#Centenary Cup|Centenary Cup]]'''||Seniors||1||1977 
|-
| colspan="4" style="background:#bdb76b;" align="center"| '''Finishing positions'''
|-
|rowspan=3 scope="row" style="text-align: left"|'''[[Victorian Football League]]'''||[[Minor premiership]]||20||1941, 1947, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1966, 1974, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1981, 1987, 1993, 2003, 2004, 2008, 2011, 2014
|-
||[[List of VFA/VFL premiers#Premierships by team|Grand Finalists]]||21||1902, 1923, 1925, 1928, 1929, 1945, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1965, 1967, 1987, 1993, 2002, 2004, 2008, 2012
|-
||[[Wooden spoon (award)|Wooden spoons]]||3||1909, 1936, 2006
|}

===Grand final performances===
*'''1897''' – runners-up '''North Melbourne'''
*'''1901''' – runners-up '''Richmond'''
*'''1922''' – '''Port Melbourne''' 9.6 (60) d Footscray 8.10 (58) (Crowd: 22,000)
*'''1940''' – '''Port Melbourne''' 23.22 (160) d Prahran 17.11 (113) (Crowd: 30,882)
*'''1941''' – '''Port Melbourne''' 15.18 (108) d Coburg 11.23 (89) (Crowd: 36,289)
*'''1947''' – '''Port Melbourne''' 15.13 (103) d Sandringham 11.8 (74) (Crowd: 24,000)
*'''1953''' – '''Port Melbourne''' 21.15 (141) d Yarraville 12.9 (81) (Crowd: 40,000)
*'''1964''' – '''Port Melbourne''' 14.17 (101) d Williamstown 10.5 (65) (Crowd: 20,000)
*'''1966''' – '''Port Melbourne''' 13.12 (90) d Waverley 6.11 (47) (Crowd: 20,000)
*'''1974''' – '''Port Melbourne''' 22.20 (152) d Oakleigh 11.17 (83) (Crowd: 23,936)
*'''1976''' – '''Port Melbourne''' 19.18 (132) d Dandenong 10.15 (75) (Crowd: 32,317)
*'''1977''' – '''Port Melbourne''' 23.19 (157) d Sandringham 7.15 (57) (Crowd: 29,664)
*'''1980''' – '''Port Melbourne''' 11.15 (81) d Coburg 10.10 (70) (Crowd: 22,010)
*'''1981''' – '''Port Melbourne''' 32.19 (211) d Preston 15.8 (98) (Crowd: 20,186)
*'''1982''' – '''Port Melbourne''' 21.15 (141) d Preston 20.14 (134) (Crowd: 20,732)
*'''2011''' – '''Port Melbourne''' 22.12 (144) d Williamstown 13.10 (88) (Crowd: 11,896)
*'''2017''' – '''Port Melbourne''' 11.8 (74) d Richmond 10.10 (70) (Crowd: 17,159)
*'''Total premierships''' – 17
*'''Total grand finals''' – 33

==Records==

*'''League History''': [[Victorian Football League|VFA/VFL]] 1886–15, 1918–41, 1945–present
*'''Record Attendance''': 36,289 v the [[Coburg Lions]] in 1941
*'''Most Games''': 253 by [[Fred Cook (Australian footballer born 1947)|Fred Cook]]
*'''Most Goals''': 1210 by [[Fred Cook (Australian footballer born 1947)|Fred Cook]]
*'''Liston Medallists''': E. Hyde (1930), W. Findlay (1946), F. Johnson (1952), V. Aanensen (1979, 1981), [[Stephen Allender|S. Allender]] (1980), W. Swan (1982, 1983), S. Harkins (1990), [[Shane Valenti|S. Valenti]] (2010, 2011)
*'''Highest Score''': 43.29 (287) v [[Sandringham Zebras|Sandringham]] in 1941
*'''Lowest Score''': 0.2 (2) v Prahran in 1902
*'''Longest Winning Run''': 28 (2011–2012)
*'''Longest Losing Run''': 14 (1909)

==Coaches==
{{div col|colwidth=20em}}
* [[Percy Wilson (footballer)|Percy Wilson]] (1927–1929)
* [[Charlie Stanbridge]] (1930–31)
* [[Percy Wilson (footballer)|Percy Wilson]] (1932)
* B Lovett (1933)
* [[Gus Dobrigh]] (1934)
* [[Tommy Lahiff]], [[Ron Shapter]] (1935)
* B Rudd (1936)
* [[Jack Bissett]] (1937)
* H Crompton (1937)
* [[Tommy Lahiff]] (1937–38)
* [[Frank Kelly (footballer, born 1910)|Frank Kelly]] (1940–41)
* [[Tommy Lahiff]] (1941, 1945–46)
* [[Bill Findlay (Australian footballer)|Bill Findlay]] (1947–48)
* [[Jim Cleary (Australian footballer)|Jim Cleary]] (1949–1952)
* [[Don Fraser Jr.|Don Fraser]] (1953–55)
* [[Frank Johnson (footballer, born 1932)|Frank Johnson]] (1956–57)
* T Brooker (1958–59)
* [[Don Furness (Australian rules footballer)|Don Furness]] (1960–61)
* [[Tommy Lahiff]] (1962)
* [[Laurie Mithen]] (1963–65)
* [[Brian Buckley (footballer, born 1935)|Brian Buckley]] (1966–68)
* [[Bob Bonnett]] (1969–71)
* [[Ian Collins (Australian)|Ian Collins]] (1972–73)
* [[Norm Brown]] (1974–78)
* [[Peter McKenna (Australian footballer)|Peter McKenna]] (1979)
* [[Gary Brice]] (1980–1983)
* [[Warwick Irwin]] (1984)
* [[Gary Brice]] (1985)
* [[Peter Chisnall]] (1986)
* G Allen (1987–88)
* [[Brett Yorgey]] (1989–90)
* [[Doug Searl]] (1991–92)
* [[Damian Drum]] (1993)
* [[David Cloke]] (1994)
* [[Shane Molloy]] (1995)
* Neil Ross (1996–1998)
* [[Darren Crocker]] (1999)
* David Dunbar (2000–2003)
* [[Gerard FitzGerald]] (2004)
* Saade Ghazi (2005–2007)
* [[Gary Ayres]] (2008–2021)
* Adam Skrobalak (2022–2024)
* Brendan McCartney (2025-current)
{{Div col end}}

==Women's team==
Port Melbourne have fielded a [[VFL Women's]] team since 2021, in affiliation with the [[Richmond Football Club]]. They have won one premiership as of 2024.

{| class="wikitable"
|- style="background:#bdb76b;font-size: 87%"
! colspan="9" | Port Melbourne VFLW honour roll
|- style="background:#bdb76b;font-size: 87%;"
! Season !! Final position
!Coach
!Captain!! Best and fairest !! Leading goal kicker
|-style="font-size: 87%;"
|-style="font-size: 87%; background:#C0C0C0"
|2020
|colspan=6|''Season cancelled due to the [[COVID-19 pandemic in Australia|COVID-19 pandemic]]''
|-
|-style="font-size: 87%;"
|[[2021 VFL Women's season|2021]]
|3rd
|Lachlan Harris
|[[Melissa Kuys]]
|Claire Dyett
|Emily Harley (14)
|-
|-style="font-size: 87%;"
|[[2022 VFL Women's season|2022]]
|10th
|Sean Buncle
|Claire Dyett/[[Melissa Kuys]]
|Kaitlyn O'Keefe
|Sophie Locke (6)
|-
|-style="font-size: 87%;"
|[[2023 VFL Women's season|2023]]
|'''Premiers'''
|Sean Buncle
|Claire Dyett
|Lauren Caruso
|Emily Harley (9)
|-
|-style="font-size: 87%;"
|[[2024 VFL Women's season|2024]]
|6th
|Sean Buncle
|Olivia Barton
|TBA
|Emily Harley (13)
|}

==See also==
* [[1967 VFA Grand Final]]
* [[Port Melbourne Railway United Football Club]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==Sources==
{{Refbegin}}
* Atkinson, G. (1982) ''Everything you ever wanted to know about Australian rules football but couldn't be bothered asking'', The Five Mile Press: Melbourne. {{ISBN|0 86788 009 0}}.
*Terry Keenan. 2006. ''Unduly Rough Play – A History of the Port Melbourne Football Club, Volume 2 1918 – 1944''. Albert Park: Eucalyptus Press
*Terry Keenan. 2004. ''Kicking into the Wind – A History of the Formative Years of the Port Melbourne Football Club 1874–1917''. Petersham: Walla Walla Press
*Terry Keenan. 1999. ''A Taste of Port''. Albert Park: Eucalyptus Press
*Terry Keenan. ''A Family Feud''. Port Melbourne: Port Melbourne Historical and Preservation Society.
*Terry Keenan. ''Keeping Out the Riff-Raff''. Port Melbourne: Port Melbourne Historical and Preservation Society.
*Marc Fiddian. ''The VFA – A History of the Victorian Football Association 1877–1995''.
{{Refend}}

==External links==
{{Commons category}}
* {{official website}}
* [http://australianfootball.com/clubs/stats/port+melbourne/193/2019 Full Points Footy Profile for Port Melbourne]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20081203200407/http://www.vicnet.net.au/~pmhps Port Melbourne Historical and Preservation Society] (archived)

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