The Melton Football Netball Club, nicknamed The Bloods, is an Australian rules football and netball club based in the Victorian town of Melton.
The football team currently plays in the Ballarat Football League.
History Melton Football Club was formed in 1879 when it was known as the Bloods, initially playing in the Bacchus Marsh District Football Association where the club was successful winning ten premierships between 1913 and 1972.
Ballan, Darley and Melton FC's were active in 1928, but did not have an association to play in when Bacchus Marsh and Rockbank joined the Werribee Football Association, which resulted in the abandonment of the Bacchus Marsh Football Association in 1928.
Melton pulled out of the Bacchus Marsh District Football Association in March 1941, due to World War Two player enlistment into the Army.
Melton moved into the Riddell District Football League in 1973 and upon entering the Riddell District Football League, Melton won the 1973 senior football premiership in its first year.
With the depth of football standard in the RDFL on the decline, together with considerable opposition from former second division clubs on the formation of one division, the club voted to make the move to the highly rated Ballarat Football League with Sunbury, Darley and Melton South clubs for the commencement of the 1997 playing season.
The club has won five BFL senior football premierships since 1997.
Football Premierships Seniors Ballarat Football League 2000, 2001, 2005, 2022, 2024 Riddell District Football League 1973, 1981, 1983, 1984, 1986 Bacchus Marsh Football League 1963 - Melton: 11.15 - 81 d Darley: 9.11 - 65 Bacchus Marsh & Melton District Football Association 1935 - Melton: 15.13 - 103 d Darley: 14.7 - 91 Bacchus Marsh District Football Association 1913 - Melton: 8.16 - 64 d Bacchus Marsh: 3.3 - 21 1914 - Melton: 10.14 - 74 d Bacchus Marsh: 6.7 - 43 1915 - Season abandoned in July 1915 due to World War One. Melton were on top of the ladder. 1916, 1917, 1918. There appears to be no evidence in the Melton Express newspaper or the Bacchus Marsh Express newspaper of any official football competition in and around the Bacchus Marsh and Melton area between 1916 and 1918. The Bacchus Marsh Football Association was in recess between 1916 and 1918. 1919 - Melton: 5.7 - 37 d Bacchus Marsh: 3.4 - 22 1921 - Melton: 4.7 - 31 d Bacchus Marsh: 2.9 - 21 1922 - Melton: 5.9 - 39 d Darley: 1.6 - 12 1929 - Melton: 9.13 - 67 d Toolern Vale Coimadal: 6.6 - 42 1930 - Melton: 6.11 - 47 d Toolern Vale Coimadal: 5.8 - 38 1931 - Melton: 7.11 - 53 d Rockbank: 7.10 - 52
Football League Best & Fairest Awards Seniors Bacchus Marsh & Melton District FA 1936 - Leo Ryan 1946 - Gordon Butler 1947 - Leon Jongebloed
Riddell District Football League 1987 - Mark Hunter Ballarat Football League 2000 - Darren Stanley
Bibliography History of Football in the Ballarat District, John Stoward,
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