About Us

The Elizabeth Football Club Inc was established in 1956 and first based at Ridley Reserve. It wasn’t until 1981 that we found our current home at Argana Park in Elizabeth Downs. We started in the Gawler District Football League where we got off to the perfect start taking home the Premiership in our first year. After 3 years we changed leagues and went into the Central Districts Football Association, then moved to the South Australian Football Association and then onto the Northern Metropolitan Football League. After 8 more years we finally found our home in the South Australian Amateur Football League (SAAFL) which was in 1995.

Throughout the chopping and changing of leagues we had our fair share of success taking home several Premierships in each of the Leagues. During our time in the SAAFL, we won a Division 4 Reserves Premiership in 1996, and again in 2005, won both the Seniors and Reserves Division 6 Premierships.  This was a great year for our Club!

Along with our two Premierships, our A Grade notched up an all time SAAFL record win against North Pines during that season. The final score was Elizabeth 70.30.450 to North Pines 1.3.9. In the second quarter alone we piled on 22 goals. Our most recent premiership was obtained in 2017 with our Division 6 Reserves defeating Pulteney 7.4-46 to 6.9-45

The Elizabeth Football Club are proud of all of their past and present players but a special mention goes to some of our past players who have gone on to bigger and better things. Elizabeth Football Club players have consistently won Association Medals throughout the years within each of the Leagues they’ve been part of. Our most recent Association Medal Winner was Ben Halliday in 2005. We have had too many players to list go on and play at the SANFL level and have done so very successfully. We have had 8 players go on to play AFL and within them two Magarey Medalists and a Brownlow Medalist.

This group consists of John Platten (Hawthorn), Paul Thomas (Essendon), Adam Switala (Essendon), Peter Vardy (Melbourne, Adelaide), Stewart Cochrane (North Melbourne, Port Power), Michael O’Loughlin (Sydney), Stephen Shwerdt (Adelaide), Adrian Wilson (Essendon) and Cameron Faulkner (Western Bulldogs).

It is great to look back and see the success we have had over our history but it is even better looking to the future and eyeing off the possible success to come. Our Club is thriving with our 3 Senior sides and currently 9 junior sides

Our Club has a great community atmosphere. It is this atmosphere that has helped us attract a number of first-rate sponsors who have been an asset to us. We look forward to our future.