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Old Xaverians Football Club

The Old Xaverians Football Club is an Australian rules football club based in Toorak, an inner suburb of Melbourne.

The club was established in 1923 by alumni of Jesuit school Xavier College in Kew. The club is one of the most successful in the Victorian Amateur Football Association, having won 14 VAFA Premier Section flags, with its first in 1981. It won an unprecedented six premierships in six years between 1995 and 2000.

The OXFC currently fields nine teams in the VAFA competition (seven men's, two women's). And are renowned as one of the most successful clubs in the VAFA. With Toorak park in Armadale being the seniors main home ground, the other men's teams (including the u19's) are based at Stradbroke Park, Kew East. The women's team, established in 2017 and a foundation member of the VAFA's Premier Women Section, plays home games at Xavier College, Kew.

History

The club was established in 1923 by four alumni of Xavier College of Kew. The team entered to the Metropolitan Amateur Football Association where it started to compete at a very high standard among other Old boy football associations. After a first difficult season, the club realised it would need to recruit new players.

Premierships

Senior

  • Premier A (14): 1981, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2013, 2016
  • Premier B (3): 1948, 1962, 1980
  • Premier C (2): 1938, 1978
  • Division 1 (1): 1976

Reserves

  • Reserve Division (18): 1964, 1966, 1995, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2006, 2007, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2025

Thirds

  • OXFC Blacks (Les Ménages) (6): 2005, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2019, 2023
  • OXFC Reds (U23) (4): 2011, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2019

U19

  • U19 Premier Section (12): 1987, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2011, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2022
  • U19 Reserves Premierships (2): 2011, 2018

Club XVIII

  • OXFC Crocodiles (21): 1983, 1988, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2017

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