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The Swans also share a rivalry, along with a piece of silverware with Violet Town; the Scott
Kanters-Peter Ryan Cup, which the two clubs play for annually. The cup is awarded to the team that wins the game between the two sides each year. If the two clubs play each other twice during the home and
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Avenel shares a fierce rivalry with neighbours
Nagambie. With the two clubs' Under 18 football sides playing for the Tabilk Cup each year. The Cup is donated by the Tabilk Junior Football Club, where the junior footballers under the age of 16 from both Avenel and Nagambie play jointly for the one
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Football Club fields three football sides in the Senior, Reserve and Under 18 divisions of the Kyabram and District Football League. The Club wear a predominantly white jumper with a red "V", like that of the old
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club that was established in 1881 with evidence of a match against
Seymour and many more games against other local towns up until the late 1890s when it first competed in the North East Football Association in 1898.
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Kyabram and District Football League is a football league that covers an area similar to that of the Goulburn Valley and Picola & District Football Leagues, the league currently contains thirteen clubs.
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The club is known as the 'Swans'. The Swans have won 16 senior premierships in their history. Between 1956 and 1976 Avenel merged with
Longwood and were Avenel-Longwood Football Club.
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The most notable footballer of recent times to have played for Avenel
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away season, then the cup is contested when the team presently holding the cup hosts the other club.
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Football Association. Merged with
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451:1932 - Avenel: 14.13 - 97 d Alexandra: 11.6 - 72
435:1905 - Avenel: 10.12 - 72 d Tallarook: 5.10 - 40
878:Kyabram & District Football Netball League
743:"1906 - N E Football Association - Premiership"
725:"1905 - N E Football Association - Premiership"
707:"1903 - N E Football Association - Premiership"
689:"1901 - N E Football Association - Premiership"
671:"1900 - N E Football Association - Premiership"
653:"1898 - N E Football Association - Premiership"
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454:1933 - Avenel: 9.13 - 67 d Namgambie: 5.8 - 38
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448:1921 - Avenel: 6.3 - 39 d Broadford: 3.9 - 27
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761:"1921 - Football: Country Matches: Seymour"
432:1903 - Avenel: 4.6 - 30 d Seymour: 3.7 - 25
429:1901 - Avenel: 6.6 - 42 d Seymour: 2.3 - 15
426:1900 - Avenel: 2.6 - 18 d Seymour: 1.7 - 13
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155:Avenel Community Centre (capacity: 5,000)
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130:Kyabram & District Football League
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420:North Eastern Football Association
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981:1913 establishments in Australia
589:The other teams they don't fear,
587:To see the Swans fly up, up, up,
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731:. Yea Chronicle newspaper.
566:1984 - William Hannam (83)
323:, Australia, not far from
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635:"1881 - Seymour v Avenel"
577:Avenel Football Club song
561:KDFL Leading Goal Kickers
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64:"See the Swans Fly Up!"
713:. The Argus newspaper.
641:. The Argus Newspaper.
595:As the Swans fly up!"
498:1978, 1979, 1985, 2002
397:Longwood Football Club
613:"1881 - Country News"
505:Under 18 Premierships
410:Football Premierships
554:2023 - Braydon Avola
488:Reserve Premierships
329:Avenel Football Club
74:Home-and-away season
551:2016 - Kasey Duncan
548:2015 - Don Stirling
545:1991 - Peter Thorpe
542:1988 - Rohan Aldous
415:Senior Premierships
315:is located on the
284:Avenel FNC website
85:Dylan Hoysted (45)
82:Leading goalkicker
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319:in Central
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970:Categories
599:References
363:Barry Hall
24:Avenel FNC
930:Rushworth
920:Murchison
905:Lancaster
152:Ground(s)
136:President
61:Club song
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940:Stanhope
925:Nagambie
915:Merrigum
910:Longwood
900:Girgarre
811:30 March
789:30 March
767:30 March
619:23 March
367:St Kilda
327:and the
321:Victoria
160:Uniforms
833:5 April
308:History
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113:Colours
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