Wagga Tigers

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. 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 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. 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. The club has gone on to sustained success with consistent premierships in each decade since. == Premierships ==

1887, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1961, 1962, 1975, 1977, 1978, 1980, 1981, 1985, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2007, 2016, 2019, 2020 == AFL/VFL players ==

There is a list of players who have played at AFL/VFL: • Ron Birch • James Byrne • John Bradley • Bryce Campbell • Paul Hawke • Paul Kelly • Kim Kershaw • Bill Lampe • Neville Miller • Bill Mohr • Jack Mohr • Ted Obudzinski • John Pitura • Brad Seymour • Isaac Smith • Matt Suckling ==References==