Nearing the turn of the century, around the 1880's the small railway town of Nyora recruited enough interested people to put together their first football team. During the early years of the football club, many players drifted in and out of the town. It wasn't until 1911 that the football club really started to settle down and play serious football. Their reward was the 1911 premiership flag. Nyora's next premiership came two years later in 1913, when they once again proved Nyora can play football and play it well.
After the two quick premierships Nyora had a lapse until 1920 when they won their third premiership. It was then another five years, before their next premeirship came in 1925. Five more years passed and Nyora were once again dominating the football scene, bringing home another premiership flag in 1930.
After their last premiership, eight slow years dragged by before Nyora had another chance at the flag. Playing in their new colours of navy blue with a red "v" or sash, Nyora fought strongly and grabbed another flag to hang in the old tin shed known as the club rooms in 1938.
With yet another change of colours to maroon with a blue "v" in 1946 Nyora once again showed their brilliant style and skillfull play to bring home yet another premiership flag. Nyora started off the following season in a new league, the Bass Valley Football League and once again new colours. This time mauve with a green "v". Not only were the colours revolting, but so was their play. It makes you wonder whether the ball was too frightened to go near the Nyora men in the terrible colours. Club officials must have felt the same way because the following year Nyora changed strip once again to maroon with a white "x". Nyora also changed leagues this time to WGFL and stuck with it for two years. During the last season Nyora played in the WGFL in 1949, they played all home matches at Lang Lang as the ground was reconstructed and enlarged. During 1948 the old tin shed was replaced with new club rooms which were the old railway refreshment rooms. An old club legend Frank Horobin once said "those old railway refreshment rooms were the biggest waste of money the footy club has ever spent".
Nyora still without a premiership since 1946, decided in 1950 it was time to change leagues and uniforms once again. They returned back BVFL, and their uniform changed from maroon with a white "x" to maroon with a white "v". During Nyora's time in the BVFL they scored one premiership in 1953. Nyora lead by 6 goals in the first quarter and the margin stayed that way for the rest of the match to defeat close town rival Poowong. It was said to have been Nyora's best quarter they've ever played. Nyora played in the BVFL until 1955, when the Bass Valley and Wonthaggi Football League broke up and the South Gippsland Football League was formed.
Nyora only played in the South Gippsland Football League until 1957 when the club went into recess. The league made it compulsary for all teams to feild a seconds eighteen team and Nyora did not have enough players and could no longer play.
Originally written by Wayne Richards
