Founded in 1861, the Wagga Tigers compete in the Riverina Football Netball League (RFNL) in New South Wales.
History
The Federal Football Club was formed at the Imperial Hotel in Wagga Wagga in 1861, making it the oldest Australian rules football club outside of Victoria, however little else of the early history of the club. Its first recorded interclub matches did not appear for at least another decade. Federal wore red and white vertical stripes. It appears to have organised scratch intraclub scratch matches and early records appear to indicate that it aligned with the Victorian Rules of football.
In response to the rapid growth of the Victorian code the newly formed Sydney based Southern Rugby Football Union (SRFU) in 1874 instituted a ban on its member clubs from playing any matches under those rules. Wagga were left with little other option than to organise local scratch matches[4] as most surrounding clubs had by then begun adopting rugby.
Its first recorded interclub match was in 1881 against the Albury Football Club in Wagga, just a year before the first rugby matches were held in the region. Despite the SRFU ban, the Victorian code was rapidly growing in popularity and by 1882 there were two more clubs in Wagga. Local competition between clubs commenced in earnest in 1884 around Wagga Wagga which became the Wagga Football Association.
In 1949, the Richmond Football Club provided jumpers and the club was renamed the Wagga Tigers.
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Home Ground
Robertson Oval, Wagga Wagga
Location
Wagga Wagga (also known as Wagga) is a major regional city in the Riverina region of New South Wales. The ninth largest inland city in Australia, Wagga Wagga is located midway between Sydney and Melbourne. Straddling the Murrumbidgee River, it is the major regional centre for the Riverina and South West Slopes regions.
Premierships
1887, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1961, 1962, 1975, 1977, 1978, 1980, 1981, 1985, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2007, 2016, 2019, 2020
