About
The Aquinas Old Collegians Football Club, nicknamed the Bloods, is an amateur Australian rules football club in Ringwood, playing in the VAFA.
During 1980, informal discussions among a group of former students of Aquinas College gave rise to the idea to form a football club. The idea quickly spread, and at a meeting in the Ringwood Parish Hall on 18th February 1981 the Aquinas Old Boys Football Club was formally brought into being. At the meeting it was agreed to approach the Eastern Suburbs Churches Football Association with a request to be admitted to its E Grade competition for the season ahead. Despite the fact that the official draw had already been made and circulated to member clubs, Aquinas committee members found the ESCFA quite receptive to the idea.
Given the fact that when the club first approached the ESCFA it boasted assets of precisely $50 (donated by the chairman, Con Hickey), had no players, coaches, trainers or equipment, and nowhere to train and play, its achievement in having both seniors and reserves teams in place by the time the season got underway just 10 weeks later is remarkable.
The club has been a member of the VAFA since 1987.
Website
Aquinas Old Collegians Bloods
Home Ground
Aquinas College, Great Ryrie Street, Ringwood
Location
Ringwood is a suburb of Melbourne, located 23 km east of Melbourne’s CBD. Perhaps Ringwood’s most global notoriety is the development in 1958 of the “Pride of Ringwood” hop variety, which today flavours Fosters Lager, Victoria Bitter and many other beers around the world.
Premierships
Eastern Suburbs Churches Football Association: 1983 (E Grade), 1984 (D Grade)
VAFA E East Section: 1996
F Section/Division Four: 1987, 2017
