Sunshine Football Club / Sunshine Districts Football Club (Vic)

Guernseys & Nicknames :
1958 - Sunshine wore a blue and white hooped guernsey.
1959 - Sunshine became known as the Crows, and adopted a navy blue guernsey with a white yoke.
1986 - Sunshine were known as the Crows.

Grounds :
1959-65 - Sunshine's home ground was Selwyn Park.
1966-? - Sunshine's home ground was Skinner Reserve, Braybrook.

Timeline :
1938 - Footscray DFL B Grade : Sunshine Districts FC was formed.
1942 - Footscray DFL B Grade Grand Final : Kingsville 17.12.114 defeated Sunshine Districts 11.13.79.
1944 - Footscray DFL B Grade Grand Final : Spotswood 10.9.69 defeated Sunshine Districts 7.7.49.
1945 - Footscray DFL A Grade : Sunshine Districts participated.
1946 - Footscray DFL B Grade Grand Final : Sunshine Districts 11.17.83 defeated Spotswood 8.5.53.
1947-48 - Footscray DFL A Grade : Sunshine Districts participated.
1949 - Footscray DFL A Grade Grand Final : Parkside 9.7.61 defeated Sunshine Districts 7.8.50.

1950 (Metropolitan FL) :
Sunshine Districts joined the Metropolitan FL.
Sunshine Districts also placed a least one new team in the Footscray DFL, (refer Sunshine 3rds).

1951 (Metropolitan FL) :
Second Semi-Final - Sunshine Districts defeated East Brunswick.
Grand Final - Sunshine Districts defeated East Brunswick.

1952 - Metropolitan FL A Grade Grand Final : East Brunswick 14.15.99 defeated Sunshine Districts 6.11.47.
1955 - Metropolitan FL A Grade : Sunshine Districts were runners-up.
1956 - Metropolitan FL A Grade Grand Final : Sunshine Districts 11.10.76 defeated Richmond District 5.12.42.
1958 - Metropolitan FL A Grade Grand Final : East Hawthorn 9.10.64 defeated Sunshine Districts 7.13.55.

1959 (VFA) :
Various Sunshine teams were merged or dissolved to help form the team which would join this league, most likely as described below :
 - 2 teams from the Metropolitan FL (Sunshine Districts & Sunshine Districts 2nds) and
 - 3 teams from the Footscray DFL (including Sunshine 3rds).

1960 - Metropolitan FL B Grade Grand Final : Sunshine Districts 9.6.60 defeated Northcote Park 7.10.52.
1961 - VFA : Sunshine participated.
1962 - VFA Division 2 : Sunshine participated.
1963 - VFA : Sunshine participated.
1964 - VFA Division 2 Grand Final : Geelong West 14.14.98 defeated Sunshine 11.11.77 @ Toorak Park.
1965-67 - VFA : Sunshine participated.
1968 - VFA Division 2 First Semi-Final : Sunshine 13.24.102 defeated Werribee 10.11.71 @ Yarraville.
1969 - VFA Division 2 Grand Final : Williamstown 15.14.104 defeated Sunshine 12.12.84 @ Toorak Park.

1970 (VFA Division 2) :
Second Semi-Final - Coburg 25.12.162 defeated Sunshine 14.12.96.
Preliminary Final - Box Hill 16.7.103 defeated Sunshine 12.12.84.

1971 - VFA Division 2 Grand Final : Sunshine 22.26.158 defeated Brunswick 16.8.104 @ Toorak Park.
1972-74 - VFA Division 1 : Sunshine participated.
1975-83 - VFA Division 2 : Sunshine participated.
1984-85 - VFA : Sunshine participated.

1986 (VFA Division 2) :
Second Semi-Final - Box Hill defeated Sunshine ‘comfortably’.
Grand Final - Box Hill 14.14.98 defeated Sunshine 11.14.80 @ Junction Oval.

1987 - VFA : Sunshine participated.
1988 - VFA Division 2 Grand Final : Oakleigh 22.17.149 defeated Sunshine 15.9 .9 @ Windy Hill.
1989 - VFA : Sunshine disbanded mid-season.

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