title: Bungaree Football Club
text: # Bungaree Football Club
  
  The Bungaree Football & Netball Club is an Australian rules football and netball club from Bungaree, Victoria which competes in the Central Highlands Football League. The Demons are one of the founding members of the CHFL and most widely recognised through their best export, former St Kilda captain, Victorian representative and media personality Danny Frawley. The Demons play their home games at the Bungaree Recreation Reserve which underwent a full redevelopment in 2012, with the changeroom facility being named the Danny Frawley Pavilion.
  
  Bungaree emerged from a lean decade in the 2000s to play four preliminary finals in a row from 2012–15, culminating in their first premiership in 23 years in 2014 with a 9-goal thrashing of arch rivals Springbank. The Reserves were also able to break their 34-year drought with a comprehensive win over Waubra FC.
  
  ## Premierships
  
  Seniors- 1919, 1922, 1924, 1947, 1949, 1954, 1956, 1957, 1959, 1971, 1973, 1976, 1991, 2014
  
  Reserves- 1972, 1973, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 2014
  
  U18- 1972, 1980, 1989, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2015
  
  U15- 1988, 2005
  
  ## Champion Club
  
  THE CHFL awards the Merv & Mary Howard Champion Club award at the conclusion of each home and away season to the club that has performed the best across 4 grades of football and 6 grades of netball. Bungaree have won the award on 10 occasions, double that of the next most successful club.
  
  CHFL Merv & Mary Howard Champion Club- 1979, 1998, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2012
  
  ## VFL/AFL players
  
  * Danny Frawley - St Kilda , Richmond coach
  * Maurice Frawley - North Melbourne
  * Danny Guinane - Richmond
  * Maurice O'Keefe - St Kilda, Geelong
  
  ## Book
  
  * History of Football in the Ballarat District by John Stoward - ISBN 978-0-9805929-0-0
  