Royals Football Club

Royals Football Club or Royals Football and Sporting Club, is an Australian rules football club located in Albany, Western Australia playing in the Great Southern Football League.

The home ground is called Centennial Oval which is situated in the suburb of Centennial Park. The oval is part of the Albany show grounds.

Royals won a hat-trick of premierships in 1993, 1994 and 1995. They then won an unprecedented six premierships in a row between 1999 and 2004 under the reign of coach Darrell Panizza.

The Royals League team were defeated in the 2007 Grand Final by North Albany the score was North Albany 18.19 (127) Royals 15.15 (105).

North Albany 15.8 (98) beat Royals 5.7 (37) again in the 2008 Grand Final.

In 2009, Royals had a better season with them winning the minor premiership and then defeating North Albany in the Grand Final. The scoreline was Royals 13.13 (91) to North Albany 12.10 (82). Cleve Humphries from Royals was judged best on ground.

Royals commenced the 2010 season without their captain, Trevor Craig, and other senior players from the 2009 season. James McRae also has left the club to become the captain-coach of the Denmark Magpies.

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