Western Bulldogs
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The Western Bulldogs are a professional Australian rules football club based in the Melbourne suburb of Footscray. The club competes in the Australian Football League, the sport's premier competition.
The team that won Footscray's first premiership in 1898
Con McCarthy captained the club to VFA premierships in 1923 and 1924, as well as a victory in the 1924 Championship of Victoria.
Footscray players line up for the unfurling of the 1954 VFL Grand Final premiership flag
Footscray legend E. J. Whitten played his 321st and final game in 1970 to become the VFL games record holder. (Pictured: Statue of Whitten outside Whitten Oval.)
Marcus Bontempelli
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Marcus Bontempelli is a professional Australian rules footballer playing for the Western Bulldogs in the Australian Football League. He has served as Western Bulldogs captain since the 2020 season, an
Western Bulldogs
…background. Fourteen players from the club are members of the Australian Football Hall of Fame, including inaugural inductee and Legend Ted Whitten. Marcus Bontempelli and Luke Beveridge serve as the club's current captain and head coach respectively. At the end of 1996, as part of a broader rebranding scheme, the…
Bontempelli training at Whitten Oval in 2018
Marcus Bontempelli celebrating a goal against Sydney on 31 March 2017
Marcus Bontempelli playing for Victoria in the 2020 Bushfire Relief Match