Royals Football Club

Infobox aus sport club | clubname = Royals Football Club


fullname = Royals Football Club
emblem =
strip = Blue with White V
founded =
firstseason =
sport = Australian rules football
league = Great Southern Football League
ground = Centennial Oval, Albany
capacity =
song =
president =
coach = Darrell Panizza. [cite web|url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/australia/wa/albany/200509/s1469928.htm|title=ABC News Online - Football club hits out at Gardiner graffiti|year=2005|accessdate=2008-08-14]
captain =
season = 2007
position =2nd of 5

Royals Football Club or The Royals Football and sporting Club, is an Australian rules football club located in Albany, Western Australia playing in the Great Southern Football League. [cite web|url=http://www.sportingpulse.com/comp_info.cgi?a=LADDER&compID=66658&c=0-3977-0-0-0|title=SportingPulse -Great Southern Football League|year=2008|accessdate=2008-08-14]

The home ground is called Centennial Oval.

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 [cite web|url=http://www.fullpointsfooty.net/great_southern_football_league1.htm|title=Full Points Footy -Great Southern Football League|year=2008|accessdate=2008-08-14] under the reign of coach Darrell Panizza. [cite web|url=http://www.parliament.wa.gov.au/Hansard/HANS35.NSF/(ATT)/C45A953E5B409B3948256DB10026F220/$file/A36+S2+20030925+p11776b-11776b.pdf|title=Hansard Transcript - Darrell Panizza|year=2002|accessdate=2008-08-14]

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). [cite web|url=http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2007/05/28/1934765.htm?site=greatsouthern|title=ABC Great Southern - GSFL Grand Final|year=2007|accessdate=2008-08-14]

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