The club would like to thank and acknowledge the time and effort club historian Tassie Deacon has put into maintining its archives. Without his services a lot of this information would not be available... thank you Tassie we are extremely grateful.
AFFILIATIONS
1877-1953 GIPPSLAND FOOTBALL LEAGUE
1954-1994 LATROBE VALLEY FOOTBALL LEAGUE
1995-2001 GIPPSLAND LATROBE FOOTBALL LEAGUE
2002-2009 WEST GIPPSLAND LATROBE FOOTBALL LEAGUE
2010- GIPPSLAND LEAGUE
HOME GROUND : SALE OVAL – Palmerston St.Sale
CLUB COLOURS : BLACK & WHITE
CLUB EMBLEM : THE MAGPIE
CLUB SONG : “IT’S A GRAND OLD FLAG”
CLUB MOTTO : “ CEDE NULLI ”
SENIOR PREMIERSHIPS
GFL : 1901, 1911, 1924, 1927,1931,1934,1937,1949,1950,1953
LVFL : 1954, 1955,1957,1959,1971,1973,1975,1986
WGLFL: 2008
GL: 2012, A Grade Netball 2013
MOST CLUB GAMES
JACK SCHUBACK – in excess of 400
MOST SENIOR BEST & FAIREST AWARDS
SHANE FYFE ( 5)
200 PLUS SENIOR GAMES
BOB MASON, TOM HART, JIM HART, ALEX SCHUBACK, GREGOR McNAUGHTON,
NEIL BRISTOW, PETER SPEED, DAVID JACKSON, KANE FRASER, CHRIS LAVERTY, SHANE FYFE
MOST GOALS IN A SEASON
140 SHANE LOVELESS - 1987
MOST GOALS IN A GAME
15 SHANE LOVELESS - 1987
HIGHEST CLUB SCORE
39.20 (254) versus MOE - 1997
NUMBER OF PLAYERS CLEARED TO VFL/AFL
VFL 30
AFL 13
HIGHEST CAREER ACHIEVEMENT
1941 BROWNLOW MEDAL - NORMAN WARE
VCFL REPRESENTATION
BRAD SPARKS 1990, 1991, 1992
BRUCE COX 1990 (Trainer)
LUKE COLLINS 2012, 2013
ALL AUSTRALIAN COUNTRY TEAM
GARY MILLIGAN 1996
Sale Football Club was formed in 1877 and began playing Australian Football games under VFA rules. Matches were played on a property known as “Sunnyside” located in Guthridge Parade. Sale wore an all blue Guernsey. Inter-town competition matches began in 1882 and Sale were declared “premier town” in 1882, 1884, and 1888. Sale Football Club joined the Gippsland Football Association in 1889 and won the Pearson premiership cup in 1892,1894,1895, 1897, and 1890.
After joining the Gippsland Senior Premiership Competition in 1900, Sale won the Hagenauer premiership trophy in 1901, 1905, and 1911, the year that Sale first wore black and white vertical striped guernseys.
In the period between World Wars, Sale Football Club joined the Gippsland Football League and won premierships in 1924,1927, 1931, and 1937. Artie Davidson tied for the Trood Award - GFL Best & Fairest award in 1935.The most famous player of the period was champion ruckman Norman Ware who went to Footscray and won the 1940 Brownlow Medal.
After World War 2 Sale continued affiliation with the Gippsland Football League winning back to back flags in 1949-1950 and another in 1953. Bob Mason won the Trood Award in 1952.
Gippsland Football took a new direction in 1954 when a premier league competition was formed under the name of Latrobe Valley Football League. The club was led by president Joe Loughnan and coached by the legendary Hugh Murnane. The Magpies reverted to a new guernsey being black with a white yolk. The club had instant success with back to back premierships in 1954-1955. Under new president Cliff Gamlin the club appointed John Nix coach and won two more flags in 1957 and 1959. Bob Mason won two Trood Award & Rodda Medals and John Nix another. Mason played 263 senior games before retiring in 1962. Legendary player Jack Schuback retired in 1960 after having played over 400 games for the club.
The Magpies changed their guernsey back to black and white vertical stripes in 1967. The sixties proved to be a fruitless decade for the club and the premiership drought continued into the seventies when the club won flags in 1971, 1973, and 1975, the latter two were coached by Jim Hart who also coached LVFL sides.
President Alf Chown led the club in the eighties and under coach Kevin Greenwood the Magpies won the 1986 premiership. In season 1987, Shane Loveless kicked 136 goals which still stands as a league record.
Despite a number of grand finals appearances in the nineties and later in 2006 – 2007 the club had to wait for tasting premiership success under coach Adrian Cox in 2008. After missing out on finals action in Seasons 2009 & 2010 the club jumped back up the ladder to finish 4th in 2011. In 2012 new Captain Coach Matt Ferguson led the Magpies to a record breaking year capping it off with another premiership against cross town rivals Maffra.
