Mortlock Shield

Mortlock Shield
Sport	Australian rules football
Founded	1936
No. of teams	5
Most recent; champion(s)	Great Flinders; (26th Championship) ; (2021)
Most titles	Great Flinders; (26 Championships)
Sponsor(s)	Bendigo Bank
Related; competitions	Eastern Eyre Football League, Great Flinders Football League, Port Lincoln Football League, Western Eyre Football League, South Australian Country Football Championships, SANFL
Official website	www.mortlockshield.com.au

The Mortlock Shield, known for commercial reasons as the Bendigo Bank Mortlock Shield, is an annual Australian rules football competition based in the Port Lincoln, South Australia. The competition takes place every year at Centenary Oval and it consists of teams from the Eyre Peninsula and beyond. It is an affiliated competition of the South Australian National Football League. The current champions are Great Flinders, beating Lincoln Districts by 3.28%^{[clarification needed]}

Brief history[]

The Mortlock Shield began in 1936 when the Football leagues of Central Eyre, Cleve, Eastern Eyre, Great Flinders and Port Lincoln banded together to form a carnival for the best players in their respective leagues to compete in.

Recent Premiers[]

List of recent premiers of Mortlock Shield Champions.^[1]

1936 Great Flinders
1939 Eastern Eyre
1947 Port Lincoln 1
1949 Le Hunte
1951 Great Flinders
1953 Port Lincoln
1955 Great Flinders
1956 Great Flinders
1957 Great Flinders
1958 Eastern Eyre
1959 Great Flinders
1960 Far West
1961 Port Lincoln
1962 Port Lincoln
1963 County Jervois
1964 Lincoln City
1965 Lincoln City
1966 County Jervois

1967 Lincoln City
1968 Lincoln Districts
1969 Far West
1970 Lincoln City
1971 Lincoln Districts
1972 Great Flinders
1973 Le Hunte
1974 Great Flinders
1975 Great Flinders
1976 Great Flinders
1977 Lincoln Districts
1978 Great Flinders
1979 Lincoln Districts
1980 Great Flinders
1981 Lincoln Districts
1982 Great Flinders
1983 Far West
1984 Far West

1985 Lincoln Districts
1986 Far West
1987 Lincoln Districts
1988 Far West
1989 Eastern Eyre
1990 Far West
1991 Eastern Eyre
1992 Great Flinders
1993 Great Flinders
1994 Lincoln Districts
1995 Eastern Eyre
1996 Great Flinders
1997 Mid West
1998 Great Flinders
1999 Lincoln Districts
2000 Mid West
2001 Great Flinders
2002 Great Flinders

2003 Mid West
2004 Lincoln City
2005 Mid West
2006 Great Flinders
2007 Great Flinders
2008 Great Flinders
2009 Port Lincoln
2010 Port Lincoln
2011 Port Lincoln
2012 Lincoln City
2013 Great Flinders
2014 Great Flinders
2015 EP Sharks
2016 Eastern Eyre
2017 Lincoln City
2018 EP Sharks
2019 Great Flinders
2020 Competition cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic

2021 Great Flinders

Current Leagues[]

Legaue	Nickname	Years in comp	Shields	Championship years
Eastern Eyre Football League	Eastern Eyre	1936–1962, 1989-	6	1939, 1958, 1989, 1991, 1995, 2016
Great Flinders Football League	Great Flinders	1936-	26	1936, 1951, 1955-56-57, 1959, 1972,1974-75-76, 1978, 1980, 1982, 1992–93, 1996, 1998, 2001–02, 2006-07-08, 2013–14, 2019, 2021
Port Lincoln Football League, (Lincoln Districts)	Lincoln Districts	1964–2006 2012-	9	1968, 1971, 1977, 1979, 1981, 1985, 1987, 1994, 1999
Port Lincoln Football League, (Lincoln City)	Lincoln City	1964–2006 2012-	7	1964-65, 1967, 1970, 2004, 2012, 2017
Western Eyre Football League (Formally Far West)	Western Eyre	1957-	7	1960, 1969, 1983–84, 1986, 1988, 1990

References[]

^ "History – Bendigo Bank Mortlock Shield Championships".

[1] "History – Bendigo Bank Mortlock Shield Championships".

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