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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 ...
Football Victoria is the state governing body for soccer in Victoria, Australia. It is affiliated with Football Australia, the sport's national governing body.
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.
This page is a complete chronological listing of the premiers of the Australian rules football competition known as the Victorian Football Association until 1995 and as the Victorian Football League since 1996. The Victorian Football Association was the top Victorian competition in Australian rules football from 1877 until 1896, and has been ...
The Victorian Football Association (VFA) was formed on 7 May 1877 at Oliver's Cafe in Melbourne, which was just seven days after the SAFA (later SANFL), which formed on 30 April 1877. The VFA took over and controlled the Victorian Junior Football Association (VJFA), although the VJFA had its own
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 ...
The Victorian Amateur Football Association (VAFA) is the largest senior community Australian rules football competition in Victoria.Founded in 1892, it consists of six senior divisions, ranging from Premier to Division 3 in the men's competition and Premier to Division 4 in the women's competition.
The Victorian Football League was established in 1896 when six of the strongest clubs in Victoria—Collingwood, Essendon, Fitzroy, Geelong, Melbourne, and South Melbourne—broke away from the established Victorian Football Association to establish the new league. [1]