Westminster Old Scholars Football Club

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The Westminster Old Scholars Football Club was formed in 1969 and joined the SAAFL in that year. Its early years were success filled as it rose from A4 to A2 in 5 seasons, but like with most amateur clubs, after 3 seasons in A2 players got careers and families and priorities changed.

The new group coming through took some time to gel and the club spent several years battling back in A4. With the same group of people playing also administering the club it all got too much and the club disbanded at the end of the 1981 season.

Some 19 years later, a group of 18 & 19 year olds mainly from Westminster School decided that they wanted an Old Scholars team again. In the two years prior to its reformation, in 2000, the boys played at Colonel Light Gardens whilst the administration arrangements were sorted out. In their inaugural season of reformation, the club won the Division 7 A Grade Premiership and came runners up in the B Grade.