Mitta United Football Club
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use Australian English Template:Infobox australian football club The Mitta United Football Netball Club, nicknamed the Mountain Men or the Blues, is an Australian rules football and netball club playing in the Tallangatta & District Football League. The club is based in Mitta Mitta, Victoria and Eskdale, Victoria.
History
The club is a merger of Mitta Town and Eskdale football teams, which initially occurred in 1940, then again in 1945, after World War Two
The club then was de-merged in 1947, into Mitta Town and Mitta Valley Football Club's.[1]
The club's then remerged in 1952 as a merger of Mitta Town and Eskdale (formerly Mitta Valley).[2]
A Gard won the club's inaugural best and award in 1952.[3]
- Mitta Mitta Football Club - Timeline
- 1883–1898: – local games[4]
- 1899: Benambra Football Association
- 1900 - 1901: Nobel's Hamburg Trophy[5][6]
- 1902 - 1906: Local games ?
- 1907: Mitta Mitta Football League
- 1908: Tallangatta & District Football League
- 1909–1923: Club in Recess
- 1924–1926: Mitta Mitta Football League
- 1927–1931: Club in Recess
- 1932: Yackandandah & District Football League
- 1933: Tallangatta & District Football Association
- 1934–1935: Club in Recess
- 1936: Chiltern & District Football Association
- 1937 & 1938: Club in Recess. Mitta applied to join the Dederang & District Football League in 1937, but were refused and went into recess in 1937 & 1938[7]
- 1939: Mitta Mitta Junior FC active playing matches against other local teams.[8]
- 1940: Kiewa & Mitta Football League as Mitta Valley
- 1944: Mitta Valley Patriotic Football Association[9]
- Premierships
- Benambra Football Association
- 1899: 1st - Mitta FC[10]
- Nobel's Hamburg Football Trophy
- 1900 - Mitta Mitta d Eskdale[11]
- Kiewa & District Football Association
- 1928 - Mitta Valley: 12.8 - 80 d Granya: 4.11 - 35[12]
- Tallangatta & District Football Association
- Yackandandah & District Football League
- 1932: Mitta Mitta: 12.9 - 81 defeated Tallangatta: 8.4 - 52[15]
- Eskdale Football Club - Timeline
- 1907: Mitta Mitta Football League
- 1908: Tallangatta & District Football League
- 1913: Mitta Valley Football Association
- 1935–1939: Dederang District Football Association
- 1940: Kiewa & Mitta Football League as Mitta Valley
- 1944: Mitta Valley Patriotic Football Association[16]
- 1945–1946: Tallangatta & District Football League as Eskdale-Mitta
- 1947–1950: Tallangatta & District Football League as Mitta Valley
- 1951: Tallangatta & District Football League as Eskdale
- Premierships
- Dederang & District Football Association
- Kiewa & Mitta Football League (1940)
Football Premierships
The Mitta United FC has won five senior football T&DFL grand finals by one point and was the first club in T&DFL to win four consecutive Grand Finals in - 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007.
- Seniors
- Tallangatta & District Football League (22)
- 1952, 1953, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1963, 1967, 1968, 1973, 1975, 1978, 1982, 1986, 1988, 1992, 1993, 1996, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2012.
League Best & Fairest Awards
- Kiewa & Mitta Valley Football Association
- Seniors - J A Paton Trophy
- Seniors - Barton Medal
- 1984 - P Tobin
- 1985 - John Smith
- 1988, 1989, 1991 - Hughie Giltrip
- 2003 - Justin Nelson
- 2007 - Chris Nelson
- 2012 - Nathan Reynoldson
- Reserves
VFL / AFL Players
The following footballers played with Mitta prior to playing senior VFL / AFL football.
- 1921 - Joe Scales - Fitzroy
- 1923 - Jack Scales - Fitzroy
- 1948 - Gordon Yea - Template:AFL NM
- 2018 - Ben Paton - St Kilda
The following footballers played VFL / AFL prior to playing with Mitta.
- 1975 - Frank Hodgkin - St Kilda
References
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