Ulverstone Robins Football Club
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The Ulverstone Football Club, nicknamed the Robins, is 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 based in Ulverstone
Ulverstone, Tasmania
Ulverstone is a town on the northwest coast of Tasmania, Australia. It lies at the mouth of the Leven River, on Bass Strait. It is on the Bass Highway, west of Devonport and east of Penguin....

, Tasmania
Tasmania
Tasmania is an Australian island and state. It is south of the continent, separated by Bass Strait. The state includes the island of Tasmania—the 26th largest island in the world—and the surrounding islands. The state has a population of 507,626 , of whom almost half reside in the greater Hobart...

, Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

. The club fields three teams in the Northern Tasmanian Football League
Northern Tasmanian Football League
The Northern Tasmanian Football League is an Australian rules football competition in northern Tasmania.-History:The Northern Tasmanian Football League was founded in 1987 to replace the former Northern Tasmanian Football Association - no relation to the current NTFA - and the North Western...

 and also fields two junior teams in the AFL Tasmania
AFL Tasmania
AFL Tasmania is the governing body for Australian rules football in Tasmania.The organisation is responsible for game development in the state. The organisation recently became affiliated with the Australian Football League and was formerly known as Football Tasmania.The body is responsible for...

 North West Competition.

History

  • Home ground – Ulverstone Recreation Ground
  • Established – 1888 as Leven Football Club
  • Playing colours – Red and black
  • Emblem – Robins
  • Club theme song – "We are the Red and Blacks" (Tune: "Lily of Laguna
    Lily of Laguna
    Lily of Laguna is a song written in 1898 by Leslie Stuart and performed by Eugene Stratton and G. H. Elliott. The Carlton Football Club's official theme, We Are The Navy Blues is based on the tune...

    ")
  • Affiliations – NWFA
    North Western Football Association
    The North Western Football Association is an Australian Rules Football competition based on the North West Coast of Tasmania, Australia.-Origins:...

     (1894–1909), NWFL (1909), NWFU
    North West Football Union
    The North West Football Union was an Australian rules football competition which ran from 1910 to 1986. In its time it was one of the three main leagues in Tasmania, with the Tasmanian Football League and Northern Tasmanian Football Association representing the rest of the state...

     (1910–1986), NTFL
    Northern Tasmanian Football League
    The Northern Tasmanian Football League is an Australian rules football competition in northern Tasmania.-History:The Northern Tasmanian Football League was founded in 1987 to replace the former Northern Tasmanian Football Association - no relation to the current NTFA - and the North Western...

     (1987–present)

Premiership titles

NWFA
North Western Football Association
The North Western Football Association is an Australian Rules Football competition based on the North West Coast of Tasmania, Australia.-Origins:...

 Premierships
  • 1900, 1903, 1906.


NWFU
North West Football Union
The North West Football Union was an Australian rules football competition which ran from 1910 to 1986. In its time it was one of the three main leagues in Tasmania, with the Tasmanian Football League and Northern Tasmanian Football Association representing the rest of the state...

 Premierships
  • 1910, 1923, 1935, 1947, 1950, 1951, 1953, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1976, 1986.


NTFL
Northern Tasmanian Football League
The Northern Tasmanian Football League is an Australian rules football competition in northern Tasmania.-History:The Northern Tasmanian Football League was founded in 1987 to replace the former Northern Tasmanian Football Association - no relation to the current NTFA - and the North Western...

 Premierships
  • 1987, 1990, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2009.


Tasmanian State Premiership
Tasmanian State Premiership
The Tasmanian State Premiership was an Australian rules football tournament which was competed originally between the reigning TFL/TANFL and NTFA premiers, with the NWFU joining in from 1954....

s
  • 1955, 1976.

Individual medal winners

Cheel Medal winners
  • 1923 – Stan Trebilco
    Stan Trebilco
    Stan Trebilco was an Australian rules footballer who played for Carlton in the Victorian Football League during the 1920s....

  • 1929 – Tas Langmaid


Wright Medal winners
  • 1930 – Jim Brown


Wander Medal winners
  • 1951 – Jack Rough
  • 1955 – Arthur Hodgson
  • 1962 – Jock O'Brien
  • 1981 – John Murphy


Ovaltine Medal winners
  • 1993 – Reg Horton
  • 1996 – Nathan Howard


Pivot Medal winners
  • 1997 – Nathan Howard
  • 1999 – Simon Walmsley


Darrel Baldock Medal winners
  • 2001 – Scott Blair

Competition leading goalkickers

NWFU
North West Football Union
The North West Football Union was an Australian rules football competition which ran from 1910 to 1986. In its time it was one of the three main leagues in Tasmania, with the Tasmanian Football League and Northern Tasmanian Football Association representing the rest of the state...

 leading goalkickers
  • 1912 – J. Palliser (24)
  • 1925 – H. McDonald (47)
  • 1935 – M. Johnson (60)
  • 1946 – R. Stott (80)
  • 1951 – S. Walker (73)
  • 1964 – W. Pearce (65)
  • 1969 – K. Mahoney (79)


NTFL
Northern Tasmanian Football League
The Northern Tasmanian Football League is an Australian rules football competition in northern Tasmania.-History:The Northern Tasmanian Football League was founded in 1987 to replace the former Northern Tasmanian Football Association - no relation to the current NTFA - and the North Western...

 leading goalkickers
  • 1997 – J. Auton (95)

Club records

Club record score
  • 44.28 (292) v Penguin 3.3 (21) in 1991


Club record games holder
  • Wayne Wing (369)

Club record match attendance

  • 11,866 – Ulverstone v East Devonport
    East Devonport Football Club
    The East Devonport Football Club is an Australian rules football club which competed on an irregular basis in various non-senior North Western competitions between 1901 and 1944 before being promoted to senior status to participate in the North West Football Union from 1945 to 1986.The club is a...

     at West Park Oval
    West Park (Burnie)
    West Park Oval is an Australian Rules football, cycling and athletics venue located on the shores of Bass Strait in Burnie, Tasmania.It is the current home of the Burnie Dockers in the Tasmanian State League and previously in the NTFL and in the original TFL Statewide League.-History:West Park...

     for the 1968 NWFU
    North West Football Union
    The North West Football Union was an Australian rules football competition which ran from 1910 to 1986. In its time it was one of the three main leagues in Tasmania, with the Tasmanian Football League and Northern Tasmanian Football Association representing the rest of the state...

    Grand Final.
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