AFFILIATIONS

1877-1953            GIPPSLAND FOOTBALL LEAGUE

1954-1994            LATROBE VALLEY FOOTBALL LEAGUE

1995-2001            GIPPSLAND LATROBE FOOTBALL LEAGUE

2002-                     WEST GIPPSLAND LATROBE FOOTBALL LEAGUE

HOME GROUND :             SALE OVAL – Palmerston St.Sale

CLUB COLOURS :             BLACK & WHITE

CLUB EMBLEM :             THE MAGPIE

CLUB SONG  :                      “IT’S A GRAND OLD FLAG”

CLUB MOTTO :                  “ CEDE NULLI ”

SENIOR PREMIERSHIPS

GFL        :               1901, 1911, 1924, 1927,1931,1934,1937,1949,1950,1953

LVFL     :               1954, 1955,1957,1959,1971,1973,1975,1986

WGLFL:                  2008

MOST CLUB GAMES

JACK SCHUBACK – in excess of 400

MOST SENIOR BEST & FAIREST AWARDS

SHANE FYFE ( 4)

200 PLUS SENIOR GAMES

BOB MASON, TOM HART, JIM HART, ALEX SCHUBACK, GREGOR McNAUGHTON,

NEIL BRISTOW, PETER SPEED, DAVID JACKSON

MOST GOALS IN A SEASON

140         SHANE LOVELESS - 1987

MOST GOALS IN A GAME

15           SHANE LOVELESS - 1987

HIGHEST CLUB SCORE

39.20 (254)  versus MOE - 1997

NUMBER OF PLAYERS CLEARED TO VFL/AFL

VFL        30 

AFL        6

HIGHEST CAREER ACHIEVEMENT

1941 BROWNLOW MEDAL - NORMAN WARE 

VCFL REPRESENTATION

BRAD SPARKS                  1990, 1991, 1992

BRUCE COX                        1990 (Trainer)

ALL AUSTRALIAN COUNTRY TEAM

GARY MILLIGAN               1996

Sale Football Club was formed in 1877 and began playing Australian Football games under VFA rules. Matches were played on a property known as “Sunnyside” located in Guthridge Parade. Sale wore an all blue Guernsey. Inter-town competition matches began in 1882 and Sale were declared “premier town” in 1882, 1884, and 1888. Sale Football Club joined the Gippsland Football Association in 1889 and won the Pearson premiership cup in 1892,1894,1895, 1897, and 1890.

After joining the Gippsland Senior Premiership Competition in 1900, Sale won the Hagenauer premiership trophy in 1901, 1905, and 1911, the year that Sale first wore black and white vertical striped guernseys.

In the period between World Wars, Sale Football Club joined the Gippsland Football League and won premierships in 1924,1927, 1931, and 1937. Artie Davidson tied for the Trood Award - GFL Best & Fairest award in 1935.The most famous player of the period was champion ruckman Norman Ware who went to Footscray and won the 1940 Brownlow Medal.

After World War 2 Sale continued affiliation with the Gippsland Football League winning back to back flags in 1949-1950 and another in 1953. Bob Mason won the Trood Award in 1952.

Gippsland Football took a new direction in 1954 when a premier league competition was formed under the name of Latrobe Valley Football League. The club was led by president Joe Loughnan and coached by the legendary Hugh Murnane. The Magpies reverted to a new guernsey being black with a white yolk. The club had instant success with back to back premierships in 1954-1955. Under new president Cliff Gamlin the club appointed John Nix coach and won two more flags in 1957 and 1959. Bob Mason won two Trood Award & Rodda Medals and John Nix another. Mason played 263 senior games before retiring in 1962. Legendary player Jack Schuback retired in 1960 after having played over 400 games for the club.

The Magpies changed their guernsey back to black and white vertical stripes in 1967. The sixties proved to be a fruitless decade for the club and the premiership drought continued into the seventies when the club won flags in 1971, 1973, and 1975, the latter two were coached by Jim Hart who also coached LVFL sides.

President Alf Chown led the club in the eighties and under coach Kevin Greenwood the Magpies won the 1986 premiership. In season 1987, Shane Loveless kicked 136 goals which still stands as a league record.

Despite a number of grand finals appearances in the nineties and later in 2006 – 2007 the club had to wait for tasting premiership success under coach Adrian Cox in 2008.