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Australian rules football club

Geelong West Giants
Full name	Geelong West Giants Inc.[1]
Nickname(s)	Giants
Founded	23 November 2016[1]
Colours
Competition	GFNL and GDFNL
Coach	GFNL: Chris Browne GDFNL: Scott Frangos
Ground(s)	West Oval Bakers Oval[2]
Official website	geelongwestgiants.com.au

The Geelong West Giants are an Australian rules football and netball club based in the Victorian suburb of North Geelong. The club fields teams in both the Geelong Football Netball League (GFNL) and Geelong & District Football Netball League (GDFNL).

The Geelong West Giants were born out of a merger of the Geelong West St Peters Football Club (the Roosters, also known as “Red West”) and Geelong West Sporting Club (the Cheetahs, also known as “Blue West”) in 2016. At the time, both clubs were struggling with periods of minimal on-field success.^[3]

Initially, the “Giants” name was to be used as part of a rebrand by the Roosters to align with Australian Football League (AFL) club Greater Western Sydney Giants, given the similarities between the Roosters’ abbreviation, “GWSP”, and the AFL Giants’ abbreviation, GWS. Officials from the Roosters met with officials from GWS in July 2016 to facilitate the move, with the potential to incorporate the Cheetahs into the new club should it be agreed upon by all parties.^[4]

Later that month, members of the Roosters voted unanimously to rebrand the club under the new moniker and to continue fielding teams in their current respective leagues, the GFNL and GDFNL. Two weeks, the merger became a formality as an “overwhelming majority” of Cheetahs members voted to join forces with the Roosters.^[2]