Club History
CLUB HISTORY
Knox Gardens Cricket Club was formed to accompany the football club at the reserve aligning them with the local council, adopting the brown and gold colours of the football club and in keeping with the council logo and the Knox name were known as the Falcons. A concerted effort to tap into the youth well in the area and provide a ‘local’ sport outlet for the young families, members of the club were moved to form the Knox Gardens Junior Football Club. Due to the unfashionable and becoming outdated brown and gold colours and the preference of the founders, the junior team wore Essendon jumpers and adopted the Falcons as their mascot. The first premiership for the club was achieved by the Reserves, but the winning feeling would dissipate in the following few years.
Sensing that the immediate surroundings of the club were ageing and the facilities were being outgrown, the club then searched for a new home. Now trading as the Knox Football Club, they moved to the current location at Knox Gardens Reserve, Argyle Way, in the new estate opposite the brick factory on Stud Road, Wantirna South. With a ground which had virtually been untouched and brand new pavilion, changerooms and a pool of young families, there was much anticipation of better things to come for the hawks.This was realised almost instantaneously with the club reaching its first senior Grand Final, unfortunately losing to Hawthorn Citizens. The opportunity to join the strongest metropolitan league in the state arose and with the club traveling to suburbs such as Richmond, Collingwood, Fairfield, Caulfield and Malvern, the prospect of playing against the best in the Eastern suburbs was a good one. Joining the Eastern Districts Football League (now the EFL) in fourth division, the club was ready to take on the mighty challenge of moving up the ranks.