Koonibba Football Club is anAustralian rules football club situated in the smallAboriginal Australian community ofKoonibba, South Australia. Founded in 1906, it is the oldest surviving Aboriginal football club in Australia. The players are known as theKoonibba Roosters.[1]
TheLutheran missionaries at Koonibba Mission (founded in 1901), helped the residents of the mission to establish the football club, which played against teams fromDenial Bay,Charra,Penong andCeduna.[1]
The club is a current member of theWestern Eyre Football League and a former member of theFar West Football Association.
At the celebrations for its 100th year in existence, 23 of its players past and present were added to the club'sTeam of the Century.[2]
AFL footballerGavin Wanganeen's great-grandfather played for Koonibba.[3]