Campbelltown Monarch Blues

Campbelltown Football Club was formed in 1975 and was admitted to the second tier of organised football in Sydney, the Sydney Football Association, the following year. The club was successful almost immediately, winning the 1978 premiership and gaining admission to Sydney's top Australian football competition, the Sydney Football League, four years later.

The Blues as they were then known became the dominant force in Sydney football for most of the remainder of the decade, reaching the grand final for the first time in 1985, and then winning four consecutive premierships from 1986 to 1989. The success continued into the 1990s and by the middle of the decade the feeling among certain members of the club hierarchy was that the SFL afforded insufficient challenge if the club was wholly to fulfill its potential. Accordingly, a move to a better competition was sought and the Blues moved to the Canberra-based ACTAFL.

Life proved measurably harder in the ACTAFL as the Blues failed to add to their tally of flags. However, it soon became clear that the costs, problems and pressures associated with involvement in a competition centred many kilometres away from the club's home base were insurmountable. In 1999 Campbelltown returned to Sydney and immediately reaffirmed its status as the number one club in the SFL, downing Balmain by 22 points in the grand final.

In 2000 Campbelltown struck a deal with Penrith Panthers Leagues Club, sacrificing something of its identity by changing the club emblem from Blues to Panthers, but consolidating its financial position, and hence its long term survival prospects, in the process.

In 2001 the Panthers reached the grand final, losing narrowly to North Shore. After finishing 8th in 2002, they returned to finals contention in 2003, under the new moniker of the 'Campbelltown Monarch Kangaroos'. In 2004, the Roos endured their worst season in over a decade, losing all 18 matches contested en route to the wooden spoon, and while there was marginal improvement in 2005 - 2 wins from 16 matches - they collected their second consecutive wooden spoon.

In 2007 Campbelltown reassumed the Blues monicker.

Club Snapshot

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City	Sydney
Home Ground	Bob Prenter Oval, Fields Road, Macquarie Fields
Established	1975
Nickname:	Blues
President:	Paul Coughlan
Coach:	Steve Bird
Premierships:	1978, 1986-87-88-89, 1994-95, 1999
Song:	Come on boys, make a noise
Phone Contact:	0410 596 555
Email Contact:	coughlanpj@bigpond.com.au
Website:	http://blues.sydneyafl.com.au