Tungamah Football Club

The Tungamah Football Netball Club Inc, nicknamed the Bears, is an Australian Rules football club playing in the Picola & District Football League.

The club is based in the small Victorian town of Tungamah, a town of just 300 people located approximately 250 km north of Melbourne.

The earliest recorded match involving Tungamah was a game against Lake Rowan on Saturday, 29 July 1882.

In 1883 there was also a Murray District Football Club based in Tungamah.

Tungamah FC joined the Benalla Tungamah Football League in 1938.

The club changed leagues following an administration disagreement between the AFL Goulburn-Valley and the Picola & District Football League in 2019, but returned to the P&DFL for season 2021.

VFL / AFL Players
The following footballers were either born in Tungamah or played with the Tungamah FC prior to playing VFL / AFL senior grade football. The year indicates their VFL debut.
 * 1898 – Matthew Fell – Collingwood
 * 1899 – Wilfred Fell – Collingwood
 * 1909 – Joe Bourke – Richmond
 * 1913 – Don Munro – Fitzroy
 * 1918 – Claude Fell – Richmond
 * 1920 – Les Carbarns – St. Kilda & Hawthorn
 * 1920 – Sir Albert Chadwick – Melbourne & Hawthorn
 * 1924 – Ted Bourke – Richmond & South Melbourne
 * 1926 – Jack Kidd – Essendon, Carlton & Fitzroy
 * 1952 - Kevin Bond - Hawthorn
 * 1933 – Jack Cooper – Carlton
 * 1980 – Les Parish – Fitzroy & Melbourne