The Calder Cannons is an Australian rules football club from Melbourne, Australia. The club competes in the Talent League, the Victorian Statewide Under-18s competition, and fields squads in the Under-15s, Under-16s and Under-18s. The club was formed in 1995 after the need for two more metropolitan clubs. The geographic catchment area for the club is the north western suburbs of Melbourne extending to cover the Macedon Ranges area.
Honours Premierships (6): 2001, 2003, 2004, 2007, 2009, 2010 Runners-up (3): 2002, 2006, 2014 Minor Premiers (4): 2003, 2004, 2011, 2014 Wooden Spoons: Nil
Talent League Girls Premierships (1): 2017 Runners-up (1): 2019
Performances The club has been a strong competitor since its inception, and in 2006 lost in the final to eventual premiers the Oakleigh Chargers at the MCG. They won the competition in 2001, 2003, 2004 and 2007, and have appeared in 6 out of the last 7 grand finals.
Club information The club trains and play home matches at the Highgate Recreation Reserve (known since 2014 as RAMS Arena) in northern Craigieburn. It was previously based at the Coburg City Oval in Coburg.
Former Collingwood footballer and Copeland Trophy winner, Robert Hyde, coached the Cannons from 1996 to 2006. The club's best and fairest award is called the Robert Hyde medal, in honour of Hyde. Currently The club is the Feeder Club to the Coburg Football Club in the VFL
Players drafted from Calder Cannons Many notable players in the Australian Football League have been recruited from the Cannons.
1995 – David Round, Darren Milburn, Ashley Fernee 1996 – Mark Kinnear, Jason Johnson, Marcus Barham, Mark Johnson 1997 – Marcus Baldwin, George Bakoulas, Jamie Cann 1998 – Jude Bolton, Teghan Henderson 1999 – Paul Koulouriotis, Ezra Bray, Paul Chapman, Ryan O'Keefe, Adam Pickering, David Johnson 2000 – Jordan Bannister 2001 – Brent Reilly, James Kelly, David Rodan, Andrew Welsh, Dane Swan, Jordan Barham, Scott Howard, Adan Winter 2002 – Bo Nixon, Tom Lonergan, Brad Murphy, Cameron Wright, Cameron Hunter, Ryan Crowley, Daniel Sipthorp 2003 – Brock McLean, David Trotter, Zac Dawson, Brent Hartigan, Ben Clifton, Adam Bentick 2004 – Lynden Dunn, Matthew Little, James Ezard, Ivan Maric, Jesse W. Smith, Dean Limbach, Adam Iacobucci, Eddie Betts, Jesse D. Smith, Ben Jolley, Nick Becker 2005 – Richard Douglas, Matthew White, Lachlan McKinnon, James Wall, Shane Neaves, Tim O'Keefe 2006 – Jarryd Allen, Peter Faulks 2007 – Addam Maric, Darcy Daniher, James Polkinghorne, Mitchell Farmer, Dean Putt, Aaron Kite, Phil Smith, Ashley Arrowsmith, Jeremy Laidler 2008 – Jackson Trengove, Shaun McKernan, Marcus White, Thomas German 2009 – Jake Melksham, Daniel Talia, Jake Carlisle, Anthony Long, Robert Hicks, Thomas Hunter 2010 – Dion Prestia, Matthew Watson, Mitch Wallis, Cameron Guthrie, Tom Liberatore, Luke Mitchell, Jordan Schroder, Josh Toy 2011 – Brandon Ellis, Tom Sheridan, Daniel Markworth, Michael Talia, Fraser Dale, Hal Hunter 2012 – Jonathan O'Rourke, Lachie Plowman, Liam McBean, Matthew Dick, Rory Atkins, Sean Gregory, Joe Daniher 2013 – 2014 – Paul Ahern, Peter Wright, Jake Lever, Touk Miller, Matthew Goodyear, Jayden Foster, Damien Cavka, Roarke Smith, Reilly O'Brien 2015 – Nick O'Kearney, Callum Moore, Tom Wallis 2016 – Mitchell Lewis, Ben Ronke, Zach Guthrie 2017 – Noah Balta 2018 – Rhylee West, Jack Bytel, Curtis Taylor, Lachlan Sholl 2019 – Harrison Jones, Francis Evans, Sam Ramsay, Lachlan Gollant 2020 – Matthew McLeod-Allison, Josh Eyre, Cody Brand 2021 – Josh Goater, Zac Taylor 2022 – Harry Rowston 2023 – Hugo Garcia 2024 – Isaac Kako, Harry O'Farrell, Patrick Said, Jayden Nguyen 2025 – Cooper Duff-Tytler, Adam Sweid, Hussein El Achkar
References
External links
Calder Cannons home page