Club History

Brunswick Junior Football Club is affiliated with Brunswick NOBSPC, who play in the Victorian Amateur Football League (VAFL) and the Brunswick Renegades Womens’ AFL club.

Together, we are committed to working together as One Club, the Brunswick Football Club. Brunswick Football Club was an AFL club that played in the Victorian Football Association (VFA) from 1897 until 1991. Based in Brunswick for most of their time in the Association they were originally known as the Magpies and wore black and white guernseys.

Gillon Oval

Entry at Pearson Street, Brunswick – Melways Map 29E6 (map available HERE).

The history of the Brunswick Junior Football Club is much more recent!
• 2010 One U10 team
• 2011 U10 and an U11 side
• 2012 Four teams, from U9 through to U12. The Dragons’ first premiership (U12)!
• 2013 Five teams, and another premiership (U13)
• 2014 Seven teams
• 2015 U15 girls – our first all-girls team and a proud milestone for the club!
• 2018 Some of our founding U10 players played in the inaugural U19 BFC team
• 2019 we will have over 350 players registered. See our registration page for more
information.

Go to the Scorceboard Pressure website to find out more about the history of the ground and to see some great photos of Gillon.

OPENING ROUND OF VFA MATCH BETWEEN BRUNSWICK AND COBURG  AT GILLON OVAL ON SUNDAY 18 APRIL 1976.

CHILDREN OF BRUNSWICK PLAYERS POSING IN FRONT OF THE OLD GRANDSTAND AT GILLON OVAL IN 1908.