The Coburg Football Club, nicknamed The Lions, is an Australian rules football club based in Coburg, a northern suburb of Melbourne, and currently playing in the Victorian Football League. It is based at Coburg City Oval which has been renamed to Piranha Park, due to naming rights. Coburg has historically been a proud club and has won 6 VFA/VFL premierships with the most recent premiership in 1989. The club spent time aligned as a reserve side for the Richmond Football Club from 2001, but as of 2014 has become a stand-alone club in the Victorian Football League.
Coburg was immediately successful in the VFA, playing finals in its first season and winning three consecutive premierships from 1926 until 1928; however, these were the club's last top-division premiership for more than fifty years. Coburg was runners-up to the Northcote Football Club in three successive seasons from 1932 to 1934, and was also runners-up in 1941. The club was dominant in the junior/seconds competition from its inception in 1928 up to World War II, winning nine seconds premierships in thirteen seasons, including four in a row from 1937 until 1940.
A football team is the collective name given to a group of players selected together in the various team sports known as football.
Such teams could be selected to play in a match against an opposing team, to represent a football club, group, state or nation, an All-star team or even selected as a hypothetical team (such as a Dream Team or Team of the Century) and never play an actual match.
There are several varieties of football, notably Association football, Gridiron football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby league, and rugby union. The number of players selected for each team within these varieties and their associated codes can vary substantially. In some, use of the word "team" is sometimes limited to those who play on the field in a match and does not always include other players who may take part as replacements or emergency players. "Football squad" may be used to be inclusive of these support and reserve players.
The term football club is the most commonly used for a sports club which is an organised or incorporated body with a president, committee and a set of rules responsible for ensuring the continued playing existence of one or more teams which are selected for regular competition play (and which may participate in several different divisions or leagues). The oldest football clubs date back to the early 19th century. The words team and club are sometimes used interchangeably by supporters, although they typically refer to the team within the club playing in the highest division or competition.
Football club (short: FC) was a designation for the elite football teams in the GDR (German Democratic Republic, commonly East Germany). They were formed in the mid-1960s as centers of high-level football.
After World War II and the occupation of Germany by Allied forces, a separate football competition emerged in the Soviet-held eastern half of the country. The term "FC" continued to be used in its traditional sense in West Germany, but eventually became a specialized designation in the east.
Since the introduction of the Sportclub system in the mid-1950s their football departments had dominated play in the DDR-Oberliga. In late 1965 football was granted a special status in the East German elite sports, when the footballing departments were dissociated from the Sportclubs and - under the new designation of football club - were given the same rights as sport clubs.
This special status of the sports clubs and football clubs as the only centers of elite sports led to an establishment of a two-class society in the DDR-Oberliga: The heavily supported and largely professionalized clubs dominated play in every respect, the best Betriebssportgemeinschaften (BSG) were used as a talent pool. Their players were delegated to the big football clubs. After 1954, when the sportclubs were first established, there is just one instance when a BSG won the DDR-Oberliga: BSG Chemie Leipzig were crowned champions in 1964, however, the team had been formed from two dissolved sportclubs the year before. From 1968 to 1991 only football clubs finished in the top 3 of the DDR-Oberliga.
Coburg Lions theme song in Sing-A-Long style. There song has the same tune to "California Here I Come".
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published: 21 Jun 2016
Anyone's Game: A Year at West Coburg Football Club
UPDATE: watch the full documentary now at https://vimeo.com/63744021
published: 20 Jul 2009
Coburg FC Piranha Park Facilities Redevelopment Tour
'It's coming home, It's Coming..Football's coming home"
It's been over 700 Days since we last played at Piranha Park... But this Saturday we make our long awaited return home back to Piranha Park as we take on The Carlton Blues VFL side at 1pm‼️
Join us now as we take you for a tour into our new facilities that we'll soon get to enjoy.
published: 02 Jul 2021
AFL Academy v Coburg Lions Highlights | 2024
The nation's brightest draft prospects took the field for a game against the Coburg Lions.
Levi Ashcroft, Leo Lombard, Jack Whitlock and Tom Gross were some of the top performers on the day.
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published: 17 Apr 2024
Coburg Football Club 1988 VFA Premiership Highlights
published: 09 May 2018
Ben Jepson - Coburg FC 2023 Draft Prospect
A terrific ball user with great footy smarts for the Coburg Lions, Ben Jepson's highlights from the first 8 rounds of the 2023 VFL Season
published: 17 May 2023
Old Coburg Tigers Song
published: 12 Feb 2021
Match Breakdown: 2014 Essendon Ford Division 1 Grand Final - Tullamarine v West Coburg
EDFL Web TV thanks to The Sporting Globe, 690 Mt Alexander Rd Moonee Ponds.
EDFL Web TV breaks down the Essendon Ford Division 1 Grand Final.
Teo Pellizzeri and Adem Saricaoglu talk about the big moments and best highlights of West Coburg's win against Tullamarine.
Commentary also from Dave Kennedy.
'It's coming home, It's Coming..Football's coming home"
It's been over 700 Days since we last played at Piranha Park... But this Saturday we make our long await...
'It's coming home, It's Coming..Football's coming home"
It's been over 700 Days since we last played at Piranha Park... But this Saturday we make our long awaited return home back to Piranha Park as we take on The Carlton Blues VFL side at 1pm‼️
Join us now as we take you for a tour into our new facilities that we'll soon get to enjoy.
'It's coming home, It's Coming..Football's coming home"
It's been over 700 Days since we last played at Piranha Park... But this Saturday we make our long awaited return home back to Piranha Park as we take on The Carlton Blues VFL side at 1pm‼️
Join us now as we take you for a tour into our new facilities that we'll soon get to enjoy.
The nation's brightest draft prospects took the field for a game against the Coburg Lions.
Levi Ashcroft, Leo Lombard, Jack Whitlock and Tom Gross were some of...
The nation's brightest draft prospects took the field for a game against the Coburg Lions.
Levi Ashcroft, Leo Lombard, Jack Whitlock and Tom Gross were some of the top performers on the day.
For more footy highlights, stories, news and info, head to http://afl.com.au
Join the millions in our social community and get more footy in your feed:
http://www.instagram.com/afl
https://www.tiktok.com/@afl
http://www.facebook.com/AFL
http://www.twitter.com/AFL
Find out how to watch AFL games here: http://bit.ly/3SyHQp0
#AFL #footy #aussierules
The nation's brightest draft prospects took the field for a game against the Coburg Lions.
Levi Ashcroft, Leo Lombard, Jack Whitlock and Tom Gross were some of the top performers on the day.
For more footy highlights, stories, news and info, head to http://afl.com.au
Join the millions in our social community and get more footy in your feed:
http://www.instagram.com/afl
https://www.tiktok.com/@afl
http://www.facebook.com/AFL
http://www.twitter.com/AFL
Find out how to watch AFL games here: http://bit.ly/3SyHQp0
#AFL #footy #aussierules
EDFL Web TV thanks to The Sporting Globe, 690 Mt Alexander Rd Moonee Ponds.
EDFL Web TV breaks down the Essendon Ford Division 1 Grand Final.
Teo Pellizzeri a...
EDFL Web TV thanks to The Sporting Globe, 690 Mt Alexander Rd Moonee Ponds.
EDFL Web TV breaks down the Essendon Ford Division 1 Grand Final.
Teo Pellizzeri and Adem Saricaoglu talk about the big moments and best highlights of West Coburg's win against Tullamarine.
Commentary also from Dave Kennedy.
EDFL Web TV thanks to The Sporting Globe, 690 Mt Alexander Rd Moonee Ponds.
EDFL Web TV breaks down the Essendon Ford Division 1 Grand Final.
Teo Pellizzeri and Adem Saricaoglu talk about the big moments and best highlights of West Coburg's win against Tullamarine.
Commentary also from Dave Kennedy.
'It's coming home, It's Coming..Football's coming home"
It's been over 700 Days since we last played at Piranha Park... But this Saturday we make our long awaited return home back to Piranha Park as we take on The Carlton Blues VFL side at 1pm‼️
Join us now as we take you for a tour into our new facilities that we'll soon get to enjoy.
The nation's brightest draft prospects took the field for a game against the Coburg Lions.
Levi Ashcroft, Leo Lombard, Jack Whitlock and Tom Gross were some of the top performers on the day.
For more footy highlights, stories, news and info, head to http://afl.com.au
Join the millions in our social community and get more footy in your feed:
http://www.instagram.com/afl
https://www.tiktok.com/@afl
http://www.facebook.com/AFL
http://www.twitter.com/AFL
Find out how to watch AFL games here: http://bit.ly/3SyHQp0
#AFL #footy #aussierules
EDFL Web TV thanks to The Sporting Globe, 690 Mt Alexander Rd Moonee Ponds.
EDFL Web TV breaks down the Essendon Ford Division 1 Grand Final.
Teo Pellizzeri and Adem Saricaoglu talk about the big moments and best highlights of West Coburg's win against Tullamarine.
Commentary also from Dave Kennedy.
The Coburg Football Club, nicknamed The Lions, is an Australian rules football club based in Coburg, a northern suburb of Melbourne, and currently playing in the Victorian Football League. It is based at Coburg City Oval which has been renamed to Piranha Park, due to naming rights. Coburg has historically been a proud club and has won 6 VFA/VFL premierships with the most recent premiership in 1989. The club spent time aligned as a reserve side for the Richmond Football Club from 2001, but as of 2014 has become a stand-alone club in the Victorian Football League.
Coburg was immediately successful in the VFA, playing finals in its first season and winning three consecutive premierships from 1926 until 1928; however, these were the club's last top-division premiership for more than fifty years. Coburg was runners-up to the Northcote Football Club in three successive seasons from 1932 to 1934, and was also runners-up in 1941. The club was dominant in the junior/seconds competition from its inception in 1928 up to World War II, winning nine seconds premierships in thirteen seasons, including four in a row from 1937 until 1940.