Formed in 1916 The Waratah Football Club is the only Club with an involvement in every year the competition has been played in Darwin.
The Waratah Football Club has won 15 League Premierships (including 3 consecutive Premierships from 1928/29 to 1930/31) 12 Reserves Premierships and 2 Under 18 Premierships.
The League side broke a 21 year drought in the 1998/99 season to win the League Premiership and followed this up with a back-to-back Premiership in 1999/2000. The Reserve Grade won the Premiership for 3 consecutive years over this period with Premiership wins in 1997/98, 1998/99 and 1999/2000, and again last season.
The prestigious AFLNT NICHOLS MEDAL has been won by 8 legends of the Club, with one of these players to have won dual medals. Dennis Gauley 1951/52, Bluey McKee 1952/53, Bill James 1953/54, Jim Wilson 1960/61, Bertram Kantilla 1962/63, Keith Nickels 1971/72, Hank McPhee 1979/80, Peter Ivanoff 1981/82 and 1986/87.
Last Season 2004/05 Waratah players won the Reserves `Mitch Lee' medal and the Under 16 Hickman medal, the AFLNT rising Star award and were Runners up in the Under 14 Gundersen Medal and the Reserves Mitch Lee medal.
The Club has continued with its history making last season for two reasons; firstly it introduced a two style Guernsey for all League players to wear for their Home and Away games. The Home Guernsey is predominately white with a red V and the Away is predominately red with a white V. Both styles are worn with red shorts and red and white hooped socks. The Club also progressed into the future by having its first women's football team ever to be entered into an NTFL competition. With 3 other women's teams in the competition the Waratah women's team finished 2nd on the ladder.
Waratah players now playing with AFL Dean Rioli (Essendon) and Tom Logan (Brisbane Lions).
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