Originally known as the Cambrai Football Club, the club was formed in 1909. In the 1920s it won 3 premierships, then later changed its name to Sedan Cambrai Football Club winning a premiership for the Club in 1966. Towards the end of the 70's and well into the mid 80's the Club was run in maintenance mode. This coincided with the Sedan Cambrai Football Club being amalgamated with the Mt Torrens Football Club with only four home games being played at Cambrai each year. The reformation of the Sedan Cambrai Football Club happened in 1985. It rejuvenated the sporting community. The club became a Football Netball Club in 1986.
In the Mid Murray Football and Netball Associations the Club had a lot of success, winning 40 Football Association awards and 20 Netball Association awards.The Sub Junior netballers won the first netball premiership for the Club in 1986. The Football won their first premiership in 1988 with the A grade. The U13 and the U16s won their first premierships in 1989 and 1994. The first Senior netball premierships were won by A & C Grade in 1990.
In 2010 Sedan Cambrai Football Netball Club joined the Hills Football League and Mid Hills Netball Association. In 2011 the HFL Netball Association was born for clubs in the HFL Country Division (now Division 2) to have netball follow the football, with the Club being the driving force in it's establishment. The netballers were particularly successful in this period, winning the Division 1 titles in 2011, 2012 and 2013, Division 3 title in 2013 and Juniors title in 2011. Also among the successes were Katie Day in 2011, Juliann Fiebig in 2012 and Angela Eichler in 2014 winning the Association Best and Fairest, plus Katie in 2011 and Claire Harris winning Best on Courts in winning Grand Finals. While the football struggled, with experience the teams became more competitive, with multiple players selected to play in Interleague games.
In 2015, due to the Club having great difficulty fielding the required junior football teams in the HFL, the Club applied and was approved for participation in the Riverland Independent Football League. This gave the Club the opportunity to field one senior football side and two senior netball teams. Having only an U14 competition for the junior football, this gave the Club the opportunity to re-establish a junior football program. Junior Netball, while not available in the RIFL, will compete at Woodside in the Mid Hills Netball Association, and U9 Football joined with the Torrens Valley FC in a modified competition.
At the end of 2022, the RIFL and RINA combined to form the Murray Valley Football Netball Association, with the RIFL ending it's association with the RFL. The new competition commenced in 2023 and welcomed Murrayville FNC following the demise of the Mallee Football League.
The Club's history has also been summarised by John Devaney in his book, although not all information is able to be verified by the Club due to poor record keeping at those times.
"The dissolution of the Mid Murray Football League at the end of the 2009 season was in part precipitated by the decision of the Sedan Cambrai Football Club to ‘jump ship’ and join the Hills Football League. Thus, the somewhat convoluted nature of the club’s history continues. Originally known as Cambrai Sedan the club won premierships in the Murray Ranges Football Association in each of its first three seasons, beating Springton in the 1922 grand final and Eden Valley in those of 1923 and 1924. A fourth MRFA flag, once again achieved at the expense of Eden Valley, followed in 1927. In 1936 the MRFA disbanded and Sedan Cambrai as the club had by this time become known went into recess. On reforming ten years later the Magpies affiliated with the Barossa and Murray Valley Football Association and reached the grand final only to lose in both 1947 and 1948. Between 1951 and 1954 Sedan Cambrai again went into recess. There followed losing grand finals in the BMVFA in 1955 and 1956 and in the Torrens Valley Football Association’s A2 Grade competition in 1965. The Magpies won the premiership of this latter competition the following year, downing Heathfield Aldgate B in the grand final by 49 points. Between 1967 and 1975 Sedan Cambrai competed in the Hills Football League, claiming a division two premiership in 1974. Between 1976 and 1985 the club merged with the Mount Torrens Football Club to form the Mount Torrens Cambrai Football Club. The merged entity reached grand finals in 1982 and 1985 but lost them both. Upon reforming as a standalone club after the 1985 season the Magpies joined the Mid Murray Football League in which they would compete for the next twenty-four seasons. They reached the senior grade grand final half a dozen times for two wins."
KEY FACTS (As per John Devaney)
Known as
Sedan Cambrai
Formed
1922 as the Cambrai Sedan Football Club via the merger of the Cambrai and Sedan Football Clubs; renamed Sedan Cambrai 1930; disbanded 1936 and reformed 1946; in recess 1951; reformed 1955; merged with Mount Torrens Football Club 1976; reformed as a standalone club 1986
Colours
Black and white
Emblem
Magpies
Affiliation (Current)
MVFNL from 2023
Senior Football Premierships
Murray Ranges Football Association (MRFA) - 1922-3-4, 1927 (4 total); Torrens Valley Football Association (TVFA) A2 Grade - 1966 (1 total); HFL Division Two - 1974 (1 total); Mid Murray Football Association (MMFA) - 1988, 2000 (2 total); Riverland Independent Football League (RIFL) 2019; Murray Valley Football Netball League (MVFNL) 2023.
Mail Medallists R Payne 1926, S Atkinson 1932, V Martin 1935, Vern Nuske 1955, Phil McGorman 1986-7, 1994, Kym Habermann 1992, Travis Clarke 1996, Ashley Klose 1998, Gregg Falkenberg 2004, Hayden Lofts 2018, Brad Walkley 2021, Cameron Thompson 2022, Jacob Grieger 2023.
A Grade Netball Premierships
Mid Murray Netball Association 1990, 2008, HFLNA 2011-12-13, Riverland Independent Netball Association 2017, 2019, 2021, 2022.
Association A Grade Netball Best and Fairest
Jarden King 2003, Angela Starke 2005, Juliann Loffler 2007, Katie Day 2011, Juliann Fiebig (nee Loffler) 2012, Angela Eichler (nee Starke) 2014, Kimberley McGorman 2019, Katie Day 2022.
