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The Fitzroy Football Club is an Australian rules football club currently competing in the Victorian Amateur Football Association (VAFA). Formed in 1883 to represent the inner- Melbourne municipality of Fitzroy , the club is based at the W. T. Peterson Community Oval in Fitzroy North .
The ground is the home of the Fitzroy Football Club in the Victorian Amateur Football Association.It was also Fitzroy's home in the Victorian Football Association from 1884 to 1896, and in the Victorian Football League from 1897 until 1966, with the last game being played there on Saturday 20 August 1966 against St Kilda, a game which the Lions lost by 84 points.
The Fitzroy Reds was an Australian rules football club based in the Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy. The club was formed in 1954 as the University Reds (or simply Uni Reds), competing in the Victorian Amateur Football Association (VAFA). In December 2008, the Reds merged with the Fitzroy Football Club, which is now officially known as "Fitzroy ...
The venue also served as the primary home ground of the Fitzroy Football Club in 1985 and 1986, after the club moved their home games from Junction Oval to Victoria Park, sharing the venue with Collingwood Football Club. In 1987, The Fitzroy Football Club moved their home games to Princes Park, sharing the ground with Carlton Football Club.
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Fitzroy Memorial Rotunda, erected in 1925. Edinburgh Gardens is a large park located in the inner Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy North.It is bounded by Brunswick Street and St Georges Road to the west, the curve of Alfred Crescent to the north and east, and Freeman Street to the south.
Bill Stephen, Fitzroy's longest-serving coach, coached the club on three separate occasions – from 1955 to 1957, 1965 to 1970, and 1979 to 1980 – for a total of 212 games. Fitzroy's last period of success came in the 1980s, with the club making the finals on five separate occasions between 1979 and 1986.
The Fitzroy Bulldogs was a proposed Australian rules football club which was to have formed from the merger between the Fitzroy Lions and the Footscray Bulldogs, and was to have competed in the Victorian Football League Note 1 from 1990. The merger was arranged in October 1989 to avert the imminent financial collapse of the Footscray Football ...