The Geelong West Football Club are a Australian rules football club which played in the Victorian Football Association (VFA) from 1963 until 1988. Geelong West, nicknamed the 'Roosters', wore white and red during their time in the league. They now compete in the Geelong Football League, under the name Geelong West St Peters.

[edit] History

Formed in 1878, Geelong West began in the Geelong & District Football Association and were a consistently strong club there before joining the Ballarat Football League in 1946. Premiership success followed in the 1950s and in 1963 the club was admitted into division two of the VFA. In their inaugural season they only missed out on the finals by percentage but took out the premiership the following year, thus earning promotion to the first division.

Geelong West only spent one season at the top league before being demoted again but in 1968, after losing the previous two Grand Finals, they won their second division two premiership.

Once again, the club weren't good enough to last in the first division but things changed in the 1970s, beginning with their third premiership in 1972. On this occasion they deserved to be competing amongst the best teams and in 1975, under the coaching of Bill Goggin, Geelong West claimed a surprise first division premiership by defeating Dandenong in the VFA Grand Final.

[edit] Honours

VFA 1st Division Premierships (1)

• 1975

VFA 2nd Division Premierships (3)

• 1964, 1968, 1972

BFL Premierships (4)

• 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959

GDFA Premierships (25)

[edit] References

• Full Points Footy: Geelong West Saint Peters

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