St Kilda Football Club

The St Kilda Football Club, nicknamed the Saints, is a professional Australian rules football club based in Melbourne, Victoria. The club plays in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's elite competition.

Founded in 1873, the club originated in the bayside Melbourne suburb of St Kilda and was originally based at Junction Oval. It was a foundation member of both the Victorian Football Association (VFA) in 1877 and the Victorian Football League in 1897, now the national Australian Football League. St Kilda has competed in seven VFL/AFL Grand Finals, winning only once, in 1966 against Collingwood by one point. St Kilda has also won the minor premiership three times, in 1965, 1997 and 2009.

St Kilda have developed a reputation as perennial underachievers, largely due to finishing last more than any other club (27 times), holding the league's longest active premiership drought (58 years) and fourth-longest overall, and having the second-lowest all-time win percentage among current teams (ahead of only the Gold Coast Suns).

Beyond bayside St Kilda, the club also has strong ties to the south-eastern suburb of Moorabbin, where Moorabbin Oval served as its home ground from 1965 to 1992. While the club continues to train there, it now plays its home matches at Docklands Stadium.

St Kilda fields both a women's team in the AFL Women's (AFLW) and reserves men's side in the Victorian Football League, having ended a long-term affiliation with the Sandringham Football Club in the latter competition in 2025. The Sandringham affiliation remains in place in the VFL Women's (VFLW). Provided by Wikipedia