Kyabram Football Club
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The Kyabram Football Club are an Australian rules football
Australian rules football
Australian rules football, officially known as Australian football, also called football, Aussie rules or footy is a sport played between two teams of 22 players on either...

 club which compete in the Goulburn Valley Football League
Goulburn Valley Football League
The Goulburn Valley Football League is an Australian rules football competition based in the Goulburn Valley region of Victoria, Australia...

 (GVFL). They are based in Kyabram, Victoria
Kyabram, Victoria
Kyabram is located in the centre of a rich irrigation district in the Goulburn River Valley, 200 kilometres north of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Kyabram, the second largest town in the Shire of Campaspe. is situated between the towns of Echuca and Shepparton and is close to the Murray River...

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Kyabram were a foundation club in the GVFL and have been one of the most dominant. Only the Shepparton Football Club have won more premierships.

Their most successful era was the 1920s, when he won five premierships.

The club has produced many VFL/AFL footballers, including Ross Dillon
Ross Dillon
Ross Dillon is a former Australian rules footballer who played for Melbourne in the VFL.A forward, Dillon topped Melbourne's goalkicking in 1969 with 48 goals and again the following season with 41. He joined Norwood in the SANFL in 1973 and won their best and fairest award in his third season at...

 and Garry Lyon
Garry Lyon
Garry Peter Lyon is a former professional Australian rules football player and was captain of the Melbourne Football Club in the Australian Football League. Since his retirement from football, he has been mainly an Australian rules football media personality, featuring on television, radio and in...

. Kyabram's Chris Stuhldreier won the GVFL goal-kicking every season from 1991 to 1994, including a record setting 164 goals in 1993.

Seven Kyabram footballers have won the Morris Medal; Wilf Cox (1934), Jeff Cooper (1958 & 1961), Charlie Stewart
Charlie Stewart (Australian rules footballer born 1939)
Charlie Stewart was an Australian rules football player and coach. He is most notable for playing for Footscray in the Victorian Football League. Stewart was of Indigenous Australian descent.-Playing career:...

 (1963), Dick Clay
Dick Clay
Richard Harold 'Dick' Clay is a former Australian rules footballer. As one of Richmond's greatest players in the post-war ear, Clay was renowned for his versatility, aerial strength and prodigious field kicking, and was duly named in the Tigers' Team of the Century.Clay began playing football for ...

(1964), Peter Gittos (1987), Benny Gugliotti (1993) and Lincoln Withers (2008).

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