Leopold Football Club

Leopold Football Club
Names
Full nameLeopold Football Club
Nickname(s)Leos[1][2]
Club details
Founded1898; 126 years ago (1898)
Dissolved1924; 100 years ago (1924)
PresidentC.D.M. Thomson (1912)[3][4]
PremiershipsMJFA (5)
Ground(s)Warehousemen's Cricket Ground
Uniforms
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The Leopold Football Club was an Australian rules football club based in the suburb of South Melbourne.[5][6]

The club is best known for acting as the reserves team for the South Melbourne Football Club in the Victorian Junior Football League (VJFL, later AFL reserves) from 1919 until 1924.[7][8]

  1. ^ "LEOPOLD F.C. NOTES". Standard. 22 September 1900. p. 4. Retrieved 13 August 2024.
  2. ^ "LEOPOLD v. ST. IGNATIUS". Record. 26 July 1902. p. 3. Retrieved 13 October 2024.
  3. ^ "LEOPOLD CLUB". The Age. 26 March 1912. p. 8. Retrieved 13 August 2024.
  4. ^ "LEOPOLD CLUB". The Age. 20 March 1912. p. 13. Retrieved 13 August 2024.
  5. ^ "FOOTBALL TEAMS". Leader. 6 October 1900. p. 36. Retrieved 13 August 2024. The Leopolds, whose district is South Melbourne
  6. ^ "LEOPOLD FOOTBALL TEAM: PREMIERS METROPOLITAN FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION. 1900". The Australasian. 6 October 1900. p. 30. Retrieved 13 August 2024.
  7. ^ Dowd, David (30 April 2012). "Club History". Leopold Football Netball Club. Retrieved 13 August 2024.
  8. ^ "Coburg Two Years In League Seconds". Sporting Globe. 11 April 1945.