Club History

 1905: First real association between Tarwin Lower, Meeniyan, Mt Eccles and Leongatha.

1905: Meeniyan Football Club formed.

1908: Dumbalk Football Club formed.

1915: Association was discontinued due to World War 1.

1919: Social football was again being played.

1920: Meeniyan & District Association reforms after World War 1.

1924: Dumbalk & District Association formed.

1925: Meeniyan - Stony Creek United was formed 

1926: Dumbalk & District Association collapsed.

1928: Dumbalk & District Association reformed with teams representing Dumbalk, Tarwin Lower, Leongatha Imperials, Ramblers, Mardan, Dollar, Meeniyan and Stony Creek.

1929: Meeniyan - Stony Creek United collapsed. Meeniyan Football Club reformed in it's own right. 

1930: Dumbalk & District now has 8 teams: Foster, Stony Creek, Dumbalk, Ruby, Ramblers, Mardan, Meeniyan and Lower Tarwin.

1934: Dumbalk & District Association changes its name to South Gippsland Football League. The League affiliated with the Central Gippsland section of the Victorian Country Football League.

1938: No player except the coach is to receive payment. Coach at Meeniyan was J.T. Rayer from Brunswick.

1944: Local league formed with Toora, Foster, Fish Creek and Dollar.

1945: Six club competition formed with sides representing Dumbalk-Dollar, Stony Creek, Fish Creek, Foster, Toora and Welshpool.

1945: Six club competition formed with sides representing Dumbalk-Dollar, Stony Creek, Fish Creek, Foster, Toora and Welshpool.

1946: Dumbalk seconds team started: War time league wound up and South Gippsland League reformed.

1949: Dumbalk Seniors win Grand Final against Stony Creek 10 – 12 to 8 – 13.

1950 – 54: Dumbalk Seconds win 5 successive Grand Finals.

1950: Dumbalk thirds win a premiership. 

1952: South Gippsland League folded over a dispute between Fish Creek and Meeniyan in a final.

1953 – 54: Dumbalk Football Club played in Wonthaggi & District Association.

1955 – 57: Dumbalk Football Club played in the Mid Gippsland Association wearing the colours of the current Leongatha side gold and green.

1958 – 63: Dumbalk again played in the South Gippsland Football League changing to jumpers described as a ‘calf shit’ colour with dark green sleeves. They then changed to Richmond colours of yellow and black.

1964: Dumbalk amalgamated with Meeniyan to become Meeniyan – Dumbalk United. The Seniors wore Richmond coloured jumpers while the seconds wore jumpers of black and red vertical stripes.

1969: M.D.U. entered the Alberton Football League and changed jumper colours to that of Melbourne as Foster played in the colours that M.D.U. were wearing in the South Gippsland League.

2021 - Meeniyan Dumbalk United enter the Mid Gippsland Football Netball League with fellow Alberton League clubs, Fish Creek, Foster, Stony Creek, Tarwin and Toora.

FOOTBALL

Meeniyan Football Club 

1912, 1936, 1952 

Dumbalk Football Club 

Thirds: 1950
Seniors: 1913, 1925  1949
Reserves: 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954

Meeniyan - Stony Creek United 

1925 

MEENIYAN DUMBALK UNITED 

Seniors

1975, 1976, 1981, 1988 & 1990

Reserves

1972, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997 & 2003

Thirds

1970, 1973, 1976, 1984, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 2019 & 2024 

Fourths

1986, 1989 & 1995

NETBALL

A Grade

1976, 1977 & 2017 & 2024 

B Grade

2004, 2005 & 2017

C Grade

1976, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2011, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2022, 2023 & 2024

D Grade

1975

Under 17

1988, 1998, 2001, 2003, 2014, 2017 & 2018 & 2022

Under 15

1994, 2001 & 2019

Under 13

1996