The Lavington Panthers Football & Netball Club is an Australian rules football and netball club and was formed in 1918 and currently competes in the Ovens & Murray Football League.
The club is based in Lavington, a suburb of Albury, New South Wales.
Several Lavington footballers have gone on to play in the Australian Football League, including Darren Holmes, Hamish McIntosh, Allan Murray, Derek Murray and Mark Powell.
League honours: Football
Albury & Border Football Association (1921–1927) Senior premierships (2): 1922 (Div.2), 1924
Central Hume Football Association (1928–1932) (No listed honours)
HFL/Hume Football League (1933–1939) Senior premierships (1): 1938 Senior runners-up (2): 1934, 1939 Senior HFL Best & Fairest winners (1): 1934 - Harold McIntosh
Albury & Border Football Association (1945) Finished 5th of six in 1945 3 wins, 6 losses, 1 draw
Chiltern & District Football Association (1946–1956) Senior runners-up (2): 1955, 1956. Senior CDFL Best & Fairest winner - "Huggins Medal" (1): 1947 - Brian O'Shaughnessy
TDFL / Tallangatta & District Football League (1958–1976) Senior premierships (3): 1965, 1966, 1971 Senior runners-up (7): 1960, 1961, 1964, 1969, 1970, 1973, 1974 Senior TDFL Best & Fairest winners (1): 1973 - Max Urquhart Senior TDFL Leading Goal Kickers (2): 1963 - Ray Thomas, 1976 - Russell Sawyer Reserves premierships (5): 1968, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1975 Thirds premierships (3): 1974, 1975, 1976
HFL / Hume Football League (1975–1976) (No listed honours)
Farrer Football League (1977–1978) (No listed honours)
OMFL / Ovens & Murray Football League (1979–present) Senior premierships (5): 1983, 1986, 2001, 2005, 2019 Senior runners-up (10): 1982, 1985, 1987, 1988, 1990, 1996, 1998, 2008, 2015, 2016 Senior OMFL Best & Fairest winners - "Morris Medal" (2): 1985 - Ralph Aalbers, 1987 - Richard Hamilton Senior OMFL Leading Goal Kickers - "Doug Strang Medal" (5): 1996 - Chris Stuhldrier, 1997 - Chris Stuhldrier, 1998 - Chris Stuhldrier, 1999 - Chris Stuhldrier, 2015 - Adam Prior Reserves premierships (2): 1982, 2015 Thirds premierships (2): 1993, 2009
Honour boards: Football (1921–present)
Rugby League Club
The Albury Thunder were originally founded as the Albury Blues in 1934, playing in the Group 13 Rugby League competition, in which they won 8 titles. Then in 1991, Group 13 folded, and they moved to Group 9 and they changed their name to the Albury Southern Rams.
Then in 2004, the club was rebranded as Lavington Panthers, the latter name change occurring because of the Penrith Panthers NRL team buying the Rams (and the Lavington Blues Australian Football Club) and renaming them the 'Lavington Panthers RLFC'.
In 2012, after Penrith Leagues Club sold the Lavington Sports Club, the club rebranded to the 'Albury Thunder' name, to be more inclusive to the whole city of Albury, not just the suburb of Lavington. The Australian Football club was to remain as the Lavington Panthers.