The History of Eastern Suburbs AFC

 

Eastern Suburbs Association Football Club Inc. was formed in 1934 through the amalgamation of Tamaki United AFC (formed 1924) and Glen Innes (formed 1930) and has proved a great nursery for Auckland Football talent. During our 85 years of existence, Eastern Suburbs have won every honour available to a club in Auckland Football.

 

The club’s catchment area extends from central suburbs, Parnell, Newmarket and Remuera, through to Meadowbank, Mission Bay, Kohimarama, St Heliers, Glendowie, Glen Innes, St. Johns, Stonefields, and into Panmure. As the club continues to grow, we now see players travelling from across Auckland to be a part of our top-level teams.

THE STORY OF MADILLS FARM

OUR ACHIEVEMENTS

 

Over the years, Eastern Suburbs AFC have proudly achieved the following titles;

 

Chatham Cup: 1951, 1953, 1965, 1968, 1969, & 2015

Kate Sheppard Cup: 2019

Rothmans National League (now ISPS Handa): 1971, 2018/19

Northern League Champions: 1965, 1966, & 2015

Northern League Div 1 Champions: 2011

Northern League Div 2 Champions: 2003

Northern League Div 3 Champions: 1997

Auckland FA Champions: 1948, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1957, & 1962

Women’s Premier Champions: 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 2013, 2019, 2021

 

PLAYER REPRESENTATIVES

Whilst the above victories have brought great prestige and publicity to the club, we view our greatest success as having provided a recreational and sporting environment for thousands of youngsters and their families in and around our community. Eastern Suburbs have been able to do this through the support of successive club committees and their commitment to fostering the development of Junior and Youth Football.  Some of the products of our development programmes across the ages can be seen in both Men’s and Women’s national teams across the decades;

 

Men’s Representatives		Women’s Representatives
R. Stone	1933	S. Twiname	1975
K. Fleet	1951, 55	B. Cox	1976
M. Cooper	1951, 54, 55	E. Lee	1978
D. Kendrick	1952	J. Porter	1979
R. King	1954, 55	M. Loos	1980, 81
T. Van Den Broek	1958	M. Oostdam	2005, 07
J. Wrathall	1959, 61	R. Tegg	2007
C. J. Middleton	1961	E. Naylor	2011, 13
J. Legg	1967, 68, 69, 73, 75	S. Gregorious	2011, 14
T. McNabb	1967, 68, 69	K. Hill	2012
R. Mears	1967, 68, 69	K. Hoyle	2013
P. Rennell	1967, 68	A. Green	2013
W. de Graaf	1968, 69, 70, 71	G. Jale	2016, 17, 18
J. Staines	1968, 71, 73	D. Cleverley	2016
M. Bland	1971, 73	A. Phillips	2017
P. Eliadis	1971
P. Jeram	1971, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79
W. Fleet	1972, 75, 76, 77
C. Latimour	1973
R. Armstrong	1978
A. Stamp	1978, 79
W. E. Thomas	1978
C. Gosling	1978
G. Jenkins	1979
S. Malcolmson	1979
N. Hickey	2005
M. Dyer	2016, 18
T. Payne	2017, 18, 19
A. De Jong	2017, 18, 19

 

 

 

Men’s Youth Representatives		Women’s Youth Representatives
T. Myers U17s	2007, 08	R. E. Brown U17s	2007, 08
E. Wong U17s	2008	Y. Nguyen U17s	2008
M. Patterson U17s	2013	L. Kemp U20s	2010
M. Palmer U17s/U20s	2017, 18	E. Naylor U20s	2010, 12
K. Sinclair U20s	2018	E. Millyn U17s/U20s	2010, 12, 14
C. Spragg U20s	2018	B. Dudley-Smith U17s	2010
L. van den Hoven U20s	2018	J. Muir U17s	2011, 12
C. Strong U17s	2018	E. Stotter U17s	2013
N. Milner U17s	2018	M. Robertson U20	2014
		J. Parris U20s	2016
		D. Cleverley U20s	2016
		G. Jale U17/U20	2016, 17, 18
		J. Hand U17/U20	2016, 17. 18
		N. Mettam U20s	2016, 17, 18
		H. Blake U20s	2017
		A. Waters U17s	2017
		A. Collins U20s	2019