- Source: Koonibba Football Club
Koonibba Football Club is an Australian rules football club situated in the small Aboriginal Australian community of Koonibba, South Australia. Founded in 1906, it is the oldest surviving Aboriginal football club in Australia. The players are known as the Koonibba Roosters.
The Lutheran missionaries at Koonibba Mission (founded in 1901), helped the residents of the mission to establish the football club, which played against teams from Denial Bay, Charra, Penong and Ceduna.
At the celebrations for its 100th year in existence, 23 of its players past and present were added to the club's Team of the Century.
AFL footballer Gavin Wanganeen's great-grandfather played for Koonibba.
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- Koonibba Football Club
- Koonibba
- Koonibba (disambiguation)
- List of Australian rules football clubs in Australia
- Gavin Wanganeen
- List of Aboriginal schools in South Australia
- Western Eyre Football League
- Witjira National Park
- Hindmarsh Island bridge controversy
- Kati Thanda–Lake Eyre National Park