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Eastern Devils Football Club
The Eastern Devils Football Club is a women's Australian rules football club based in Wheelers Hill, Victoria that currently competes in the Eastern Football Netball League. History The club was formed in 1999 as the Deakin Devils Women's Football Club, competing in the Victorian Women's Football League (VWFL) as a representative of Deakin University. The club continued in this guise until 2008, when it cut ties with the university and shifted its premises to Burwood East, aligning with the East Burwood Football Club to become the East Burwood Devils. In 2012, the club changed its name to the Eastern Devils, and again moved location a year later to Mulgrave Reserve in Wheelers Hill. In 2016, the Devils were an inaugural competitor in the VFL Women's (VFLW) competition, having taken part in the Premier Division of the final VWFL season in 2015. After finishing fourth and seventh respectively in their first two VFLW seasons, the Devils departed the statewide competition to instea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
VFL Women's
VFL Women's (VFLW) is the major state-level women's Australian rules football league in Victoria (Australia), Victoria. The league initially comprised the six premier division clubs and the top four division 1 clubs from the now-defunct Victorian Women's Football League (VWFL), and has since evolved into what is also the second primary competition for AFL Women's (AFLW) clubs in Victoria. Following the 2017 season, the VFL Women's was reconfigured to affiliate teams more closely with AFL clubs. Since 2021, twelve teams have appeared in the competition; nine of the ten Victorian AFL clubs either field their own women's team or have an affiliation of sorts with an existing club in the VFLW, with the other teams being the VFL-affiliated , and independent club . The reigning premiers are . The competition was not held in 2020 due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic; the grand final was also cancelled in 2021 due to the pandemic, with no premiership being awarded. History AFL V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Eastern Women's Football
South Eastern Women's Football (SEWF) was an Australian rules football competition, based near the southeastern region of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Victoria. Following the 2023 season, all clubs moved to the Mornington Peninsula Nepean Football League, thus disbanding the SEWF competition. History In 2017, women's football clubs from AFL Gippsland, AFL South East, AFL Yarra Ranges, the Eastern Football Netball League, Eastern Football League and Southern Football Netball League joined the South Eastern Women's Football Collective following the disbandment of the Victorian Women's Football League (VWFL). The competition was made up of former VWFL clubs, as well as teams from local competitions. The 2020 and 2021 seasons were abandoned due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. In its inaugural season until 2023, SEWF had Division 1 (renamed to Premier Division in 2021), Division 2 and a Development League (renamed to Division 3 in 2018). At the end of the 2022 season, Di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victorian Women's Football League
The Victorian Women's Football League (VWFL) was the oldest and largest Australian rules football league for women in the world, consisting of 47 clubs from Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia across seven divisions with a total of over 1,000 players. History Early years The Victorian Women's Football League was formed in 1981 with four teams competing at open level. In 1995, Sal Rees caused controversy when she nominated for the 1995 AFL draft: the nomination was subsequently voided, with the AFL amending its draft rules to prevent any repeat of this incident. The VWFL grew quickly, increasing dramatically the number of players and participating teams with a Division 3 added in 2001. In 2002, VWFL player Debbie Lee made headlines for pushing to play against men in the made-for-television team the Hammerheads. She has commented, "My whole idea with the Hammerheads was to promote women's football. At no point in time did I really think I was going to play against th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Women's Australian Rules Football
Women's Australian rules football (in areas where it is popular, known simply as women's football or women's footy or women's AFL), is the female-only form of Australian rules football, generally with some modification to the laws of the game. It is played by more than half a million women worldwide and with 119,447 Australian adult and 66,998 youth female participants in 2023 is the second most played code among women and girls in Australia behind soccer. The first Australian rules football matches involving women were organised late in the 19th century, but for several decades it occurred mostly in the form of scratch matches, charity matches and one-off exhibition games. The first all-female matches began early in the 20th century, and regular competition first emerged after World War II. State-based leagues emerged between the 1980s and 2000s: the first was the Victorian Women's Football League (VWFL) formed in Melbourne in 1981, with others including the West Australian W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wheelers Hill, Victoria
Wheelers Hill is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia, 23 km south-east of Melbourne's Melbourne central business district, Central Business District, located within the City of Monash Local government areas of Victoria, local government area. Wheelers Hill recorded a population of 20,652 at the . At 152m above sea level it includes one of the highest points in metropolitan Melbourne. History Wheelers Hill was named after James Wheeler in 1888, who was an early settler in the Dandenong, Victoria, Dandenong area. Wheeler came out from Kilbride, County Wicklow, Kilbride townland, Cavan, Ireland. James married Ellen Reilly née Glynn in 1848 after the death of her husband, Bernard. There was a five-room house on a creek that went down to the Dandenong Creek not far down the road from the Post Office. Wheeler had a disagreement with Joseph Jell about the cutting of trees which led to the lands being surveyed. He sold the land in 1854 and moved to Wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eastern Football Netball League
The Eastern Football Netball League (EFNL), formerly known as the Eastern Districts Football League (EDFL) and later the Eastern Football League (EFL) is an Australian rules football and netball league based in the eastern suburbs of metropolitan Melbourne. History The Eastern Districts Football League was established on 15 February 1962, but its origins can be traced back to the Reporter District Football League established in 1903, with the following clubs - Bayswater, Box Hill, Canterbury, Ferntree Gully, Mitcham and Ringwood. The following football associations all played their part in the now Eastern Football Netball League: *The Ringwood District Football Association was established in 1922 and consisted of the following clubs - Croydon, Ferntree Gully, Kilsyth-Monbulk, Ringwood B and Warrandyte. *The Croydon Mail Football League was established in 1945 and consisted of the following clubs - Bayswater, Boronia, Croydon and Kilsyth. It appears that the League's name w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deakin University
Deakin University is a public university in Victoria, Australia. Founded in 1974 with antecedent history since 1887, the university was named after Alfred Deakin, the second Prime Minister of Australia and a founding father of Australian Federation. Its main campuses are in Melbourne's Burwood suburb, Geelong Waurn Ponds, Geelong Waterfront, and Warrnambool. Deakin also has a learning centre in Werribee. Deakin University is ranked among the top 1% of universities in the world, is the 3rd-highest-ranked university in the world for Sport Science, is one of the top 29 universities in the world for Nursing, is one of the top 32 universities in the world for Education, and is among fewer than 5% of Business Schools worldwide with Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business accreditation. Deakin University consistently ranks highly in undergraduate student satisfaction; in the 2019 Student Experience Survey, Deakin had the fourth-highest student satisfaction rating ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burwood East, Victoria
Burwood East is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia, located east of Melbourne's Melbourne central business district, Central Business District, located within the City of Whitehorse Local government areas of Victoria, local government area. Burwood East recorded a population of 10,675 at the 2021 Australian census, 2021 census. Burwood East is bounded by Route 40, Melbourne, Springvale Road to the east, Middleborough Road to the west, Eley Road and Hawthorn Road to the north and Highbury Road to the south. History The Wurundjeri Indigenous Australians, Aboriginal clan, one of four Koorie clans that inhabited the Port Phillip region, were the original occupants of the area now occupied by East Burwood. To the east of present-day Middleborough Road, much of the land was initially not very attractive to European squatters for settlement and parts were mostly covered with open forests, consisting of Red Stringybark, Eucalyptus polyanthemos, Red Box, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
East Burwood Football Club
The East Burwood Football Club is an Australian rules football club located in East Burwood, Victoria. They play in Division 2 of the Eastern Football League. History The club formed in 1910 and began playing in the Box Hill Reporter DFA in 1911. In its early years, the club had a habit of moving from competition to competition: they were a founding member of the Scoresby DFA in 1925 and won the last two premierships in 1929 and 1930, then in 1931, they joined the Federal FL and were premiers in 1932. They left at the end of the 1937 season. In 1940 the club appeared in the East Suburban FL and played in the "East Section" and then in "B" grade until winning in 1954 as premiers and champions. Promoted to "A" Grade in 1955, they returned to "B" Grade in 1956 before regaining a place in "A" Grade in 1959. In 1960 they won the "A" Grade flag. East Burwood then joined the Eastern Districts Football League in 1961 where it remains today. Starting in Division 1, it maintained t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victorian Football League
The Victorian Football League (VFL) is an Australian rules football competition in Australia operated by the Australian Football League (AFL) as a second-tier, regional, semi-professional competition. It includes teams from clubs based in eastern states of Australia: Victoria (Australia), Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland, including reserve team, reserves teams for the eastern state AFL clubs. It succeeded and continues the competition of the former Victorian Football Association (VFA) which began in 1877. The name of the competition was changed to the Victorian Football League in 1996. Under its VFL brand, the AFL also operates a women's football competition known as VFL Women's, which was established in 2016. The VFA was formed in 1877 and was the second-oldest Australian rules football league, replacing the loose affiliation of clubs that existed in the History of Australian rules football in Victoria (1859–1900), early years of the game. It was the top-level club c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leader Community Newspapers
The Leader Community Newspaper group publishes 20 digital titles covering metropolitan Melbourne. The group was downsized in 2016 and in 2020. Prior to this, it published 33 weekly print titles which were delivered to over 1.4 million homes. In early 2016, it had 569,000 digital unique audience each month. History In the early 1850s George Mott arrived in the Colony of Victoria and began work as a journalist with the ''Melbourne Argus''. In 1854 he started publishing newspapers in the Victorian goldfields near Beechworth and Chiltern, Victoria, Chiltern. George Mott's two sons commenced publishing newspapers in Albury and one brother's branch of the family until recently (2005) published ''The Border Mail'' in that town. The other brother, Decimus Mott, left the Murray area in 1924 and, with his sons, took over the established ''Northcote and Preston Leader'' (first published in 1888). From this paper, the Leader Community Newspaper group grew into its present stable of 33 sep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Rules Football Clubs In Melbourne
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