The first and oldest official winner of the Swans Club Champion award was the great Roy Cazaly, one of 12 inaugural Legends in the AFL Hall of Fame.

Cazaly is recognised in this fashion in Swans and AFL records despite the fact some sources suggest Cazaly won the ‘most consistent player’ award rather than the club championship.

A high-flying ruckman despite being only 180cm tall, he was 33 years and 261 days old when he was recognised with the award at the end of the 1926 season.

It was all part of a remarkable career for the man whose name famously featured in the “Up There Cazaly” battle cry of Australian forces during the Second World War and was the inspiration for the equally famous football song of the same name launched by Mike Brady in 1979.

Born in Middle Park in Melbourne in 1893, he was the 10^th child of English-born James Cazaly and his wife Elizabeth and trialled with rival club Carlton as a 17-year-old in 1910. He injured his shoulder in a Reserves match, and according to football history, quit the club when he could not get the Carlton medical staff to treat him.

Cazaly joined St Kilda in 1911 and debuted late in the season when a number of regular senior players refused to play due to a dispute with management over the club’s dressing rooms.

After 99 games with St Kilda Cazaly joined South Melbourne in 1921, and played a further 99 games in the famous red and white from 1921-24 and 1926-27.

Remarkably, his historic Swans club championship win in 1926 came after he missed the 1925 season at South to serve as playing coach with Minyip, in the Wimmera region of Victoria.

The second-oldest Swans Club Champion is Barry Round, who was 31 years and 328 days old when he won the award for the second time in his Brownlow Medal year of 1981.

Adam Goodes ranks third on the list – he was 31 years and 266 days when he was named Club Champion for the third time in 2011.

Cazaly, Round and Goodes are among seven players to have won the Swans Club Champion award beyond their 30^th birthday. A further eight players won the award aged 29. They were: