Lara Football Club

The Lara Football Club is over 100 years old, established in 1881. Up to 1988, Lara won seven premierships in various leagues, including the Geelong and District Football Association. We joined the Geelong Football League (GFL) in 1989. GFL premierships: 1994 and 2002. Runners-up: 1992, 1993, 1995 and 2000. Proudly, many senior players are products of our junior system Current and former AFL players include Allen Christensen, Josh Walker, Devon Smith, twins Michael and Nigel Kol, brothers Damien and Marty Christensen and Jack Walker. We have many teams playing with GFL and GJFL competitions: Senior (men and women’s) and reserves sides along with junior boys and girls teams: Under 9’s through to U19 Colts, Auskick and an All-abilities team. This represents more than 500 players at the club.

Latest news

November update 2024

30 Nov 2024

Pre-season has commenced for several of our squads, with our senior men, senior women, U18 boys, U14 boys and U16 girls all having completed one or more sessions to prepare for 2025. Our senior men’s squad has seen a bit of turnover from last season. Several of our older and/or established players have moved to other clubs, mostly other leagues in the Geelong area but in some cases to clubs outside the Barwon region. We are particularly encouraged by the new faces in our squad, with around 18 · Read more

October update 2024

31 Oct 2024

LSC Football Section held our Annual General Meeting on the 22nd of October in the club’s netball pavilion. Our Chairman, Treasurer and Manager of Junior Programs all provided summary reports for the year, with the highlights being a small operating profit for the 2024 season after taking into account a couple of extraordinary items, and a 15 percent YoY rise in junior participation excluding Auskick, which sees us approach but not yet return to Pre-COVID numbers. · Read more

August update 2024

25 Oct 2024

Saturday 31 August sees us move closer to the end of 2024 season. · Read more