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 Victorian Football League Information
The VFA renamed itself the Victorian Football League in 1995, after admitting North Ballarat and Traralgon to the competition.
The VFL does not publish home and away attendance figures, however various sources quote attendances for some games of the stronger clubs that maintain home records of their own.
The VFL has undergone significant format changes since its induction which means several clubs have either left the league or changed identity for different reasons.
www.bookrags.com /Victorian_Football_League   (877 words)

  
 State Aussie Rules Leagues
The AFL is the Australian Football League; the highest level budding footballers aspire too.
The major hunting grounds are the Victorian Football League (VFL), the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) and the Western Australian Football League (WAFL).
Today’s VFL originated from the Victorian Football Association, which was established in 1877.
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/aussie_rules_football/68095   (448 words)

  
 Geelong - Geelong Football Club
The second-oldest football club in the world was born and bred in Geelong.
Australian football appears to be an amalgam of soccer, rugby and gaelic football, evolving its rules as the game was played.
The next major change in football was the formation of the Victorian Football League in 1896, with Geelong player and administrator Charles Brownlow one of the instigators.
www.greatoceanrd.org.au /geelong/geelongfc.asp   (657 words)

  
 Victorian Football League season 1905 - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Results and statistics for the Victorian Football League season of 1905.
See List of Australian Football League premiers for a complete list.
(For an explanation of scoring see Australian rules football).
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Victorian_Football_League_season_1905   (107 words)

  
 Green Left - Women's football makes its mark
The Victorian team was drawn from four of the seven teams in the VWFL -- Ballarat Lions, East Brunswick Scorpions, Rowville Cobras and Fairfield Falcons.
The Victorian side took numerous possessions and, with agility and grace, they took marks and kicked the ball flying through the goal posts.
Football allows women who want to use their body in that physical contact way the freedom to do it.
www.greenleft.org.au /1992/80/2071   (1486 words)

  
 WorkSafe Victorian Country Football League
Victorian country football has established itself as a key breeding ground for AFL champions with all the major individual AFL awards in 2007 being awarded to former Victorian country footballers.
Victorian country football has established itself as a key breeding ground for AFL champions with al...
Calivil United Football Netball Club are seeking coaches for the 2008 football season.
www.vcfl.com.au   (340 words)

  
 Victorian Football League - Definition, explanation
In 1990, the VFL renamed itself the Australian Football League (AFL).
In 2001 the Victorian AFL clubs' Reserves (2nd teams) competition became known as the Victorian State Football League (VSFL).
In 2000, the VFL merged with the VSFL.
www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/v/vi/victorian_football_league.php   (1032 words)

  
 VFL cards unearthed - News - www.realfooty.com.au
LOST images from Victorian football's golden age have been unearthed.
They show stars of the 1966 Victorian Football League, shot to appear on Scanlens trading cards, but pushed aside to make space for 10 players from the Western Australian Football League.
Stand-alone sets were later produced for the WA and South Australian leagues.
www.theage.com.au /realfooty/news/afl/in-the-cards/2006/09/22/1158431902810.html   (602 words)

  
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The Coburg Tigers Football Club have appointed Jade Rawlings as its senior coach for 2008.
Matthew Knights is the latest TRUenergy VFL coach to take the reins of an AFL club.
The Box Hill Hawks Football Club is pleased to announce the signing of Steve Kenna for the next two seasons.
vfl.footballvic.com.au   (229 words)

  
 Victorian Football League / Australian Football League (National)
Victorian Football League / Australian Football League (National)
VFA clubs North Melbourne and West Melbourne attempted a merger, hoping to be accepted into the VFL.
The league changed its name from the Victorian Football League to the Australian Football League.
www.footypedia.com /00001359.htm   (392 words)

  
 League - NRL, NRL Results, NRL Ladder, NRL Live Scores - Fox Sports
A RUGBY League Immortal and the club's most respected official have agreed yesterday's Sydney Roosters match against New Zealand Warriors was one of the great matches of the modern era.
CONCERNED about the shocking image set by Brad Morrin biting an opponent on prime-time television, the NRL is all set to "come down heavy" on the Bulldogs forward at the judiciary this week.
MATT GEYER will be able to finish his career on his terms, although the long-time outside back may spend part of his 2008 season at hooker under a strategy devised by Melbourne coach Craig Bellamy.
www.foxsports.com.au /league   (558 words)

  
  TRUenergy Victorian Football League - TRUenergy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The competition, known as the TRUenergy Victorian Football League, consists of 13 teams who compete for the TRUenergy Cup.
Australian Rules football is one of this country’s great community past times and we’re thrilled to be able to contribute to its success.
Our support is also designed to assist AFL Victoria with their development programs across the State by extending benefits to grassroots football development as well as to the top-flight league.
www.truenergy.com.au /About/inthecommunity/vfl.xhtml   (212 words)

  
  Victorian Football Association
The Victorian Football Association (VFA) was the precursor to the Victorian Football League[?] (VFL).
The rules of the VFA differed slightly, and sometimes lagged behind those established by the VFL (and later Australian Football League, AFL).
The VFA was recently renamed to become the "Victorian Football League" as part of the consolidation with the reserves (2nds), so that AFL teams became aligned with VFL teams.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/vi/Victorian_Football_Association.html   (133 words)

  
 Victorian Football League
It was founded in 1877; in 1897 several clubs broke away to form the Victorian Football League (VFL).
The Victorian Football League renamed itself the Australian Football League (AFL) in 1990 and following year the Victorian clubs' reserves (2nd teams) competition became known as the Victorian State Football League (VSFL).
The VFA merged with the VSFL in 1998 and the new league (somewhat confusingly) renamed itself the "Victorian Football League".
www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/v/vi/victorian_football_league.html   (193 words)

  
 QE5: Chapter 7
Football supporters aged between 10 and 16 years were recruited by two methods: a mail-out to VFL Football Club members and an intercept survey at six VFL football grounds.
The finding that respondents with a high level of interest in VFL football were less likely to intend to smoke in future suggests that an interest in sports may be a predictor of the future uptake of smoking.
It is reassuring though that VFL footballers, when compared to people in their 20s, were perceived to be less likely to participate in habits such as smoking, eating junk food, drinking and driving, or drinking alcohol at parties.
www.quit.org.au /downloads/QE/QE5/Chap07QE5.html   (3248 words)

  
 Extracurricular Matches
The Victorian Football League won the match, 17.13 (115) to 10.10 (70), but the Ballarat Football League gained revenge, to the tune of 30 points, in the return match in Ballarat six weeks later.
These VFL teams were by no means weak or 'second string', containing as they did players of the calibre of Champions of the Colony Peter Burns, Mick Grace, Percy Trotter and 'Dookie' McKenzie, to name just a few.
Football in Broken Hill was arguably stronger than anywhere else in New South Wales for most of the first half of the twentieth century.
www.fullpointsfooty.net /extracurricular_matches.htm   (1362 words)

  
 Australian Football League
The Australian Football League is the main national competition of Australian rules football.
It was formed through the expansion of the Victorian Football League throughout the 1980s and 1990s into a nationally-based competition.
Particularly in Victoria, where a majority of teams are still based and in the traditional Australian Rules football states of South Australia, Western Australia, and Tasmania, much of the citizenry takes an obsessive interest in the competition.
www.guajara.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/a/au/australian_football_league.html   (236 words)

  
 Australian Football League   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Initially known as the Victorian Football League, the name was changed in 1990 to the Australian Football League after the addition of interstate teams during the previous decade.
The league, which began as a Victorian icon, has know grown to the premier league in Australia, a league in which every young footballer aspires to play in.
VFL Park opens on 18th of April, Fitzroy and Geelong contesting the first match.
users.nex.net.au /~kingstar/AFL/History.html   (293 words)

  
 NORTH MELBOURNE FOOTBALL CLUB
Formed soon after the formation of the first set of rules for Australian football it can be said to be one of the oldest football clubs in Australia and indeed one of the oldest football clubs, of any code in the world.
It was not until 1975 that they finally won their first League Premiership, the culmination of a plan hatched under the presidency of Allen Aylett 4 years before.
In 1990 the Victorian Football League became the Australian Football League as it extended its operations Australia wide.
www.geocities.com /shinboner_99/north1.htm   (1060 words)

  
 Berlin Crocodiles - Berlin Australian Football Club
Over the years the composition of the league has continually changed with the most dramatic occurring in 1897 when a break away group of clubs formed the forerunner of today's AFL, the Victorian Football League (VFL).
The South Australian Football Association became known as the South Australian Football League in 1907, later to become the SANFL.
The Western Australian Football Association, formed in 1885, became the Western Australian Football League in 1908 and the Western Australian National Football League in 1932.
www.berlin-crocodiles.de /about_afl/faqs_05.html   (990 words)

  
 The Dispatch - Serving the Lexington, NC - News
The rules of the VFA sometimes differed slightly to those of the VFL (and later Australian Football League): for example, 16 players afield as opposed to the now typical 18 in the AFL.
These days the VFL is mildly popular in Victoria, although not nearly as popular as the dominant Australian Football League.
The VFL does not publish home and away attendance figures as some games are played as AFL curtain raisers, however various sources quote attendances for some games of the stronger clubs that maintain home records of their own.
www.the-dispatch.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Victorian_Football_League   (1020 words)

  
 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Victorian Football Association   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The VFA continued to run independently, although more clubs shifted to the VFL in 1908 and 1925.
Like the ex-VSFL teams, the former VFA clubs became aligned with AFL clubs, as part of a feeder competition like the WAFL and SANFL.
The rules of the VFA sometimes differed slightly to those of the VFL (and later Australian Football League, AFL).
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Victorian-Football-Association   (298 words)

  
 State of Origin Australian Football
Unlike the state teams of Rugby League which evoke great passion, it was impossible to have pride in a representative team like the Allies than didn't actually represent anything.
In Rugby League, clubs lobby for their star players to be chosen for State of Origin.
In rugby league, even if a fan's club is going poorly, State of Origin gives them the chance to follow and cheer on a successful team every year.
www.convictcreations.com /football/stateoforigin.htm   (630 words)

  
 Preston Junior Bullants Football Club
The Yarra Junior Football League was formed in 1997 through amalgamation of the former Doncaster & Districts Junior Football League and the Hawthorn Districts Junior Football League and is now one of the largest Junior Leagues in Melbourne.
The League also offers a Tackers (Under 9 years) competition with modified rules where young players are introduced to Club football in a non-competitive environment.
The Preston Bullants Junior Football Club was formed in 2000 in recognition of the need around the Preston area for children to develop their football skills in a competitive environment after their experiences with Auskick.
www.users.bigpond.com /northernbullants/PJBFC/pjbfcHome.html   (277 words)

  
 Coburg Football Club
After last years improved standing within the ranks of the very competitive VFL competition the Coburg team has been further improved by the recruitment of such players as Dean Talbot and the retention of Paddy Steinfort as Captain and Ryan Pagan and Leigh Carlson as Vice Captains.
The Victorian Football League, through its recent restructuring, has provided an opportunity for all VFL Clubs to promote new experiences in Victoria's premier football competition.
The Coburg Football Club is rising to the challenge and both new and past supporters from the local communities are embracing this new culture.
home.iprimus.com.au /coburgtigers/coburg/sydneycup.htm   (370 words)

  
 Official AFL Website of the Adelaide Football Club   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
It is appropriate then that the Adelaide Football Club tells the story and itemises the sequence of events which brought about the formation of the club and it's entry into the Australian Football League.
On August 27th, 1981, the VFL advised that the application for entry into Season 1982 had not been approved, but that it wished to continue discussions on the possibility of a team being accepted in 1983 or 1984.
Discussion and negotiations with the VFL continued through 1987, 1988, and 1989, still without agreement reached; and in 1990 the VFL became the Australian Football League.
afc.com.au /default.asp?pg=history&spg=afcthestart   (763 words)

  
 History of Australian Rules Football
The Victorian Football Association was formed in 1877.
In 1897, some of the stronger teams from the VFA formed a breakaway league, which became known as the Victorian Football League (VFL).
With the inclusion of interstate clubs such as the West Coast Eagles, Adelaide, Fremantle, Sydney, Port Adelaide and Brisbane to league could not called VFL and the name was changed to the AFL (Australian Football League).
www.topendsports.com /sport/afl/history.htm   (292 words)

  
 The economics of achieving competitive balance in the Australian football league, 1897-2004 Economic Papers (Economic ...
The Victorian Football Association (VFA) was formed in Melbourne in 1877.
In 1896, eight of the original VFA clubs broke away to form the Victorian Football League (VFL) and the first season of competition was played in 1897.
Over time, the number of VFL clubs in Melbourne grew and in the 1980s and 1990s clubs from cities outside Victoria were admitted.
findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0PAO/is_4_23/ai_n8585478   (923 words)

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