About
The Sunshine Kangaroos were formed as the Sunshine YCW Football Club in 1959 as a junior club. The club then joined the YCW National Football Association, playing its first senior game in 1963. After winning 3 premierships the club transferred to the Footscray Districts Football league in 1978.
After losing consecutive Grand Finals in 1994 and 1995 in A2 grade the club was promoted to A1 grade (Division 1) in 1996 and have remained in the top level of the competition ever since.
At the end of the 2000 season, with the change in the League’s name the club followed suit by dropping the YCW from its title.
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Home Ground
Kinder Smith Reserve, Lily Street, Braybrook
Location
Sunshine is a suburb of Melbourne, located 12 km west of Melbourne’s CBD. Originally known as Braybrook Junction, it was renamed Sunshine in 1907, after residents had petitioned to change the name in honour of the Sunshine Harvester Works. Sunshine is a highly multicultural suburb, with many residents coming from all over Europe in the first few decades of the post-WW II period. It is the main centre for Melbourne’s Maltese community.
Premierships
1966, 1969, 1976
