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AFL Victoria Country is an Australian rules football governing body with jurisdiction over the state of Victoria outside metropolitan Melbourne on behalf of AFL Victoria.As well as administering and promoting the code in the regions, it often arbitrates disputes in areas such as player clearances and club movements between country leagues, and may also be called upon as a higher authority of ...
Dockerty Cup winners: Northumberland & Durham United. 1914. The Dockerty Challenge Cup competition was established in 1909 by Harry Dockerty.It coincided with re-establishment of the Victoria's 'British Association' league in 1909 after the economic depression of the 1890s.
The National Premier Leagues Victoria (NPL Victoria or NPL VIC) is a semi-professional soccer league in Victoria, Australia. The league is a part of the National Premier Leagues , and is the highest level within the Victorian soccer league system , serving jointly as the second tier within the overall Australian pyramid .
The league consists of eight separate regional senior leagues and is administered by the Football Federation Victoria. The Albury-Wodonga Football Association, which includes several clubs based in northern Victoria and southern NSW, is run by Football NSW , however since 2016 the Victorian based clubs have taken part in the Dockerty Cup & FFA ...
It is home to the second oldest football league in Australia, the semi-professional Victorian Football Association founded in 1877 which, like the AFL has also begun to expand nationally. While Victoria in 2017 accounted for just 30% of all players worldwide, and 40% of Australian players, more than 60% of professional AFL players are recruited ...
The 2024 Football Victoria season was the 113th season of competitive association football in Victoria. [ 1 ] The premier of the top tier of Victorian football was South Melbourne , which would later lose 1-0 to Oakleigh Cannons in the NPL Victoria Grand Final, making Oakleigh the 2024 NPL Victoria champions.
This ended the VFA's 97 years of independence from the VFL/AFL and, for the first time since 1896, created a single control for most Australian football in Victoria. [47] Victorian Football Association Limited was deregistered in 2012. [20] The VSFL retained the use of the VFA name for the competition for the 1995 season but, in 1996, renamed ...
Although Victoria had won Game 1 handily earlier that year by 54 points against Western Australia, South Australia were seen as a legitimate threat, as Victoria had not won a single game against South Australia since the 1984 Australian Football Championships, played five years prior, despite playing off each year (albeit one loss was a result ...