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This is a list of active Australian rules football leagues ... Greater South West Junior Football League; ... List of Australian rules football competitions in Victoria.
The Australian Football League (AFL) is the pre-eminent professional competition of Australian rules football.It was originally named the Victorian Football League (VFL) and was founded in 1896 as a breakaway competition from the Victorian Football Association (VFA), with its inaugural season in 1897.
AFL Victoria, as part of the sport's national governing body the AFL, has the overarching responsibility for approximately 115 leagues — including the Victorian Football League (VFL), the Victorian Amateur Football Association, the AFL Victoria Country, and all local metropolitan and country leagues — and 1,942 clubs, (not including the state's ten Australian Football League clubs) as well ...
This is an incomplete list of men's Australian rules football leagues in Australia.. There is also a Victorian only list of former Associations and Leagues too. In the early 1900s a lot of club's would move from one association to another and other football associations would be formed amongst nearby small rural clubs and towns.
The national Australian Football League (AFL) grew out of the Victorian Football League, founded in 1896, as it expanded nationally in the 1980s. 10 of 18 AFL clubs remain Victoria-based including the 4 oldest and the most successful with two thirds of all premierships.
Ballarat District Football League (1959–1973) [14] Merged with Bacchus Marsh Football League to form the Ballarat and Bacchus Marsh Football League. Ballarat and Bacchus Marsh Football League (1974–1978) [15] Merged with Clunes Football League to form the Central Highlands Football League. Bass Valley Football League (1922), [16] (1946–1954)
Football Victoria began operation in 1884 under the name Anglo Australian Football Association of Victoria and is one of the oldest sporting associations in Victoria. [1] It has had several name changes over the years, but has survived as the governing body of soccer in Victoria since this time.
AFL clubs' reserves teams first entered the competition in 2000. In 2021, the competition expanded geographically, when the Australian Football League merged the Victorian Football League with the North East Australian Football League to include clubs from New South Wales and Queensland. In 2022, it comprised 21 teams from the eastern states ...