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The following is a list of coaches who have coached the Western Bulldogs, previously known as Footscray, at a game of Australian rules football in the Australian Football League (AFL), formerly the VFL.
This is a list of Western Bulldogs players who have made one or more appearance in the Australian Football League, known as the Victorian Football League until 1990 and the AFL Women's The Western Bulldogs were previously known as the Footscray Football Club until 1997.
Western Bulldogs' club song is sung to the tune of "Sons of the Sea". Before the club changed its name from Footscray to Western Bulldogs, the club song was called "Sons of the 'Scray", sung to the same tune but with different lyrics. The club song for the Men's team is called "Sons of the west" Sons of the west, Red, white and blue,
The club would train at Western Oval, Footscray's home ground. The VFL would clear Footscray's and Fitzroy's existing debts, which combined to $3,400,000: to do this, it would use the regular dividends and allocations which would otherwise have gone to a stand-alone Footscray club over the next few years until the debt was repaid.
Charlie Sutton (3 April 1924 – 5 June 2012) was an Australian rules footballer who represented Footscray in the Victorian Football League (VFL).. Although he served the club for many years as coach and committee man, he is perhaps best known for captaining the Bulldogs to their first VFL premiership in 1954.
He played 85 games for East Fremantle over five seasons, where he was a member of the 1979 premiership team [1] and won the club's fairest and best award in 1981. [2] Purser was drafted No. 1 by the Footscray Football Club in the 1982 VFL draft. [3] He debuted for Footscray in 1983 and played 112 VFL games over five seasons. [4]
John Charles "Jack" Collins (3 January 1930 – 6 July 2008) was an Australian rules footballer who represented Footscray in the Victorian Football League (VFL).. His father, Jim Collins, who had been the captain-coach of the Yarraville Football Club from 1918 to 1919, played 30 senior games for Essendon from 1919 to 1921.
The following is a list of Western Bulldogs (formerly Footscray Football Club) leading goalkickers in each season of the Australian Football League (formerly the Victorian Football League) and AFL Women's.