Morphettville Park Football Club

Morphettville Park
Names
Full nameMorphettville Park Football Club
NicknameRoos
Club song"We're a Happy Team at Morphies"
Club details
Founded1958 (1958)
Colours  red   gold
CompetitionAdelaide Footy League – Division 4
PresidentPaul Farrelly
GroundKellett Reserve
Uniforms
Home
Away

The Morphettville Park Football Club is a sports club first formed in 1958 and initial games were against sides who had forfeits or byes.[1] The club is mostly known for their Australian rules football team, which joined the Glenelg-South-West District Football Association A2 Division in 1959.

Other sports practised at Morphettville Park are cricket and netball.

History

After winning the A2 Premiership in 1963, Morphettville Park were promoted to the A1 division where they remained until the competition, then known as the Southern Metropolitan Football League, folded at the end of the 1986 season. Morphettville Park transferred to the Southern Football League with the Marion and Plympton clubs in 1987 and moved to the Adelaide Footy League in 2017 alongside Brighton Districts and Old Scholars Football Club.

The Women’s team started in 2007, when the Sturt Women’s team relocated to Morphettville Park. [2]and since then has become one of the most successful amateur teams in women’s football in South Australia. As part of the South Australian Women's Football League they won three consecutive premierships from 2014 to 2016, continued their success as part of the Adelaide Footy League, winning three more premierships, in 2021, 2023 and 2025.

Morphettville Park FC has produced one Australian Football League (AFL) player, Tony McGuinness, formerly of Adelaide and Footscray.[3]

A number of AFLW players have represented Morphetville Park, including Adelaide Crows premiership players Deni Varnhagen, Jess Sedunary, Courtney Cramey, Justine Mules, Ebony Marinoff, Anne Hatchard. State cricketer Alex Price won the league goalkicking medal representing Morphetville Park in 2014.

Honours

References

  1. ^ "Club History". Morphettville Park Football Club. Archived from the original on 30 June 2013. Retrieved 7 June 2013.
  2. ^ "Women's History". Morphetville Park Sports and Community Club. Retrieved 31 August 2025.
  3. ^ "SFL to AFL". Southern Football League. Retrieved 22 May 2013.
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