SMOSH West Lakes Junior Football Club is one of the largest junior football clubs in South Australia, fielding no less than 22 junior teams in 2021 including boys/mixed teams from U7-17.5yrs and girls-only teams from U11 to U17.5yrs. OUR HISTORY
Formed in 1996, when the SMOSH (St. Michaels Old Scholars & Hindmarsh) Football Club and the West Lakes Football Club merged, SMOSH had previously played
at Royal Park and had enjoyed success as a senior football club playing in the Amateur League competition, however did not field junior teams. The West Lakes Football Club originated as the Semaphore Park Football Club and was founded in 1946 with the club base being an oval at the current West Lakes Primary School. The original colours of the club were yellow and red with the Guernsey being yellow with a red stripe. These original colours were chosen from the Shell Company colours as most of the players in the founding years were working for that company on the Port River. In the 1970’s the club relocated to the current oval at Bartley Terrace and by the mid 1970’s was fielding teams in local junior football competitions. Many parents associated with the current crop of juniors refer fondly to the Semaphore Park “egg & sauce” guernsey of their early footballing years. In the early years the junior club fielded only 2 or 3 teams per season. In the 1980’s the Semaphore Park Football Club changed its name to the West Lakes Football Club with a change in colours to navy blue, green and white in the form of a “prison bar” Guernsey before subsequently changing to a Navy and white Guernsey. At the merger of the two clubs in 1996 the current Lion logo and Guernsey were adopted. The West Lakes Football club commenced participation in the Metro West Junior Football League (MWJFL) in 1992 and continued playing in this league as the SMOSH West Lakes Junior Football club following the merger of the two clubs. Over the years the club has seen and assisted with the development of many talented players with some of these going on to play at elite levels of sport including:
• Lleyton Hewitt (Tennis);
• Erin Phillips (Basketball & AFLW);
• Shaun Burgoyne (AFL - Port Adelaide, Hawthorn);
• Brian Lake (AFL – Western Bulldogs);
• Warren Tredrea (AFL – Port Adelaide);
• Brett Ebert (AFL – Port Adelaide);
• Jackson Mead (AFL – Port Adelaide);
and
• Brodie Smith (AFL – Adelaide)
