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The Perth Football Club, nicknamed the Demons, is an Australian rules football club based in Lathlain, Western Australia, currently playing in the West Australian Football League (WAFL). Representing the south-east area of the Perth metropolitan region, the club currently trains and plays its home games at Lathlain Park, having previously played at the WACA Ground between 1899 and 1958 and later in 1987 and 1988. The club was founded in 1899 and began playing in the First Rate Junior Association, but was promoted to the WAFL in place of the Rovers Football Club midway through the season, from which it drew much of its original squad. Perth won its first premiership in 1907, but did not win another until 1955. Overall, the club has won seven premierships, including a hat-trick between 1966 and 1968, with the last coming in 1977. Perth is statistically one of the least successful teams in the competition, having not made a finals series since 1997, and not played in a grand final since 1978. The current coach the club is Earl Spalding, appointed for the 2015 season on 13 October 2014.〔(Perth Demons Welcome New Coach, Earl Spalding )〕 Perth finished last of nine teams in 2014, and their run of fourteen consecutive defeats to end the season is their third-longest winless streak and second-longest actual losing streak on record. ==History== Formed in 1899, Perth is the fourth-oldest of the nine WAFL clubs. The club played its early football in the Perth First Rate Junior Competition before replacing Rovers mid-way during the 1899 WAFL season after was unable to continue.〔Devaney, John; ''Full Points Footy’s WA Football Companion''; p. 218. ISBN 978-0-9556897-1-0〕 Perth remained competitive for the following decade despite a brief lapse that saw them fall to last in 1912. In the 1915 Grand Final they dominated against Subiaco but could not convert, losing a low-scoring game 2.7 (19) to 3.3 (21). During the war years Perth continued to be prominent, finishing third in each of 1916, 1917 and 1918, but following the end of the war Perth (or Victoria Park as they were known in 1934 and 1935) was to have a long period in the doldrums. In the twenty-five open-age seasons from 1919 to 1946 Perth played in the finals only three times for just one win over East Perth in 1934. This record is made much worse by the fact that up to 1925 before were admitted four of six teams played off and to 1933 four of seven did so. From 1921 to 1923 the club suffered the ignominy of a hat-trick of wooden spoons, and though it became more competitive in the ensuing decade only in 1927, 1934 and 1939 did the Redlegs win more games than they lost. Despite the team’s lack of collective success, Perth in the inter-war years was home to a number of outstanding players, including ruckman/forward Doug Oliphant, pacy centreman Cyril Hoft and full-forwards Alan Evans (who against East Fremantle in 1921 kicked thirteen of fourteen goals〔‘East Fremantle Again Defeated’; in ''The West Australian''; 5 September 1921; p. 10〕) and Albert Gook. Like most clubs, Perth lost a number of players due to the First and Second World Wars, with many players enlisted in the Australian Defence Force. In total, nineteen Perth players were killed on active duty in the two wars. Anthony Alexander Forrest, who played two games for the club in 1900, was killed in the Second Boer War in 1901.〔Davies, Steve, and Greg Wardell-Johnson (2009). (WA FOOTBALL LEAGUE WAR CASUALTIES ) – West Australian Football League. Published October 2009. Retrieved 4 April 2012.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Perth Football Club」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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