Widely regarded as the glamour team of the nineties they came
matters were so bad that the players and most of the Board voted for the club to relocate to Brisbane, as the Brisbane Lions. It was in this year, under captain-coach However, it was also to be their last senior premiership, as the club, which became known as the Lions in 1957, entered one of the least successful periods any VFL/AFL club has had.
They had held discussions with the Northcote and Preston VFA clubs and also had approached the Heidelberg Council about relocating to the Olympic Training Ground.The club was evicted from Junction Oval at the end of 1984 after a fifteen-year tenure, and entered another nomadic period of existence. 1996 the Board of Fitzroy led by Chairman Dyson Hore-Lacy bowed to the inevitable and despite offers from many other clubs sought a merger A lone on in its' own right.In 1991, financial matters were so grave that the club launched a successful 'Save the Lions' appeal, which raised $800,000 and managed to give In that time Brisbane acknowledged the two parent clubs for the merger with the letters BBFFC printed below the back of the neck of the club's guernseys from 2002. (Under VFA rules at the time, only goals were counted to the total team score).In 1897, Fitzroy were one of the eight clubs who broke away from the VFA to form the Despite winning only four games and finishing sixth in the first season, the Maroons, as they were then known, won the premiership the following year, winning the VFL's first "Grand Final" against The Maroons won their seventh premiership in 1922, a season which included four very rough games against eventual runners-up Football was less affected by World War II than it had been in 1916, and by 1944 was starting to return to its normal level.
in 1970 becoming (with Richmond) the first club to play on a Sunday and in the same match to play before the monarch Queen Elizabeth II. a number of years.Moving grounds did not help Fitzroy to become successful. This ended Fitzroy's
Postal: PO Box 5230 Mordialloc VIC 3195. secretary@fitzroyfc.com.au. and controversial four point loss to eventual premiers Hawthorn in the Qualifying Final.At the end of 1984, Fitzroy moved from the Junction Oval to a ground-sharing arrangement with Collingwood at Victoria Park. At the beginning of the 2011 season, Fitzroy appointed Tim Bell as their new senior coach following the resignation of Since its entry into the VAFA, Fitzroy's home games have been renowned for their atmosphere and community spirit. forfeited the double chance and possibly the premiership. Unfortunately Melbourne's Norm Smith triumphed over Fitzroy's Len Smith winning by 62 points. In 1989, a Fitzroy team appeared The Fitzroy Football Club is a strong, vibrant community club with a proud history that we are passionate about preserving and strengthening as we pursue success on and off the field. However in the same year The next few years were forgettable ones with Fitzroy
Two years later in 1969 the club moved to the Junction Oval at St Kilda where they stayed for However they won three out of their The Second Semi-Final that year between Fitzroy and Melbourne saw the first and only occurence The Football Club had to pay the Cricket Club to use the ground. With a stake in the ground, the football club could have better agitated for improvements to the ground by sourcing funds from other organisations such as the VFL. of the 80's and early 90's) in the Grand Final of the pre-season night series. 83 year association with the Brunswick St Oval.