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2022 VAFA Season
The 2022 VAFA season was the 121st season of the Victorian Amateur Football Association (VAFA), the largest senior community Australian rules football competition in Victoria. The season began on 2 April and concluded on 23 September, with 66 teams participating across seven divisions under a promotion and relegation system. This was the first VAFA season since 2019 where finals series were held and premiers awarded, following the cancellation of the 2020 season and the curtailing of the 2021 season due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Background KommunityTV, News Corp Australia's live-streaming platform, began a trial arrangement with the VAFA to broadcast finals matches in 2022. Notable events *After declining relegation from Premier C following their last-placed finish in 2021, the Preston Bullants had its first win in 931 days in round 1 against UHS-VU, the club it had defeated in the 2019 Division 1 grand final. *Several matches on 13 August 2022 were cancelled ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victorian Amateur Football Association
The Victorian Amateur Football Association (VAFA) is the largest senior community Australian rules football competition in Victoria, Australia, 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. In addition, the VAFA has under-19s and Thirds sections, primarily made up of either clubs only able to field one team, or clubs from higher sections that can field a third team after their seniors and reserves. The league operates a double promotion and relegation system between sections, with various rules dictating which section clubs can play in. The Association's administration base is at Elsternwick Park, a former Victorian Football League, Victorian Football Association (VFA) stadium in suburban Elsternwick, Victoria, Elsternwick, that was home to the now defunct Brighton Football Club and is now the home for the Elsternwick Football Club and the Old Melb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Old Trinity Grammarians Football Club
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Old Scotch Football Club
The Old Scotch Football Club, nicknamed the Cardinals, is an Australian rules football club based in the Melbourne suburb of Camberwell, Victoria, Camberwell. It affiliated with the List of Old Scotch Collegians, Old Scotch Collegians Association and maintains a close relationship with Scotch College, Melbourne, Scotch College. Old Scotch has competed in the top division of the Victorian Amateur Football Association (VAFA) for 72 out of a possible 88 years, the most of any club. The club has never competed lower than the Premier B division, and also held a 35-year continuous playing record in A Section/Premier Division until 2015. As of 2025, the club's men's and women's teams both compete in the Premier Division of the VAFA and the VAFA Women's (VAFAW) respectively. History In 1894 MJFA season, 1894, the Scotch Collegians Football Club entered the Victorian Amateur Football Association, Metropolitan Junior Football Association (MJFA). The club finished sixth in its inaugural sea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Collegians Football Club
Collegians Football Club, nicknamed the Lions, is an Australian rules football club based in the Melbourne suburb of Albert Park. Formed in 1892, it is the second-oldest club in the Victorian Amateur Football Association (VAFA), after Melbourne University Football Club, although Collegians is the only present-day club that competed in the inaugural VAFA season. As of 2024, the club's men's and women's teams both compete in the Premier Division of the VAFA and VAFA Women's (VAFAW) respectively. History In 1891, Lawrence Adamson Lawrence Arthur Adamson, CMG, (20 April 1860 – 14 December 1932) was a schoolmaster of Wesley College, Melbourne, Australia, and is considered to be one of the greatest and most influential in the nation's educational history. Upon his reti ... established a Wesley College Old Boys' XVIII, which formally became Collegians Football Club in 1892. Adamson, who was for thirty years the Headmaster of Wesley College, was the President of the club ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Old Melburnians Football Club
The Old Melburnians Football Club, also known as Old Melburnians, is an Australian rules football club composed of Melbourne Grammar School alumni, based in Elsternwick, Victoria. The team is, along with Old Caulfield Grammarians, the (equal) second oldest consecutively competing team in the Victorian Amateur Football Association (VAFA) (the oldest being Collegians). Metropolitan Junior Football Association (1892–1911) The Metropolitan Junior Football Association (MJFA) was founded in 1892. The foundation clubs were: Alberton; Brighton; Collegians; Footscray District; St Jude’s; St Mary’s; Toorak-Grosvenor; YMCA. Old Melburnians was admitted to the MJFA competition in 1896; the team withdrew from the competition at the end of the 1896 season. Metropolitan Amateur Football Association (1911–1915) In 1912 the MJFA became the Metropolitan Amateur Football Association. In late 1915, the Metropolitan Amateur Football Association announced that it had suspended its com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Old Brighton Grammarians Football Club
The Old Brighton Grammarians Football Club, nicknamed the Tonners, is an Australian rules football club based in the Melbourne suburb of Brighton. The club maintains a close relationship with Brighton Grammar School. Old Brighton has won five senior premierships since it was formed in 1957, although the club has never won a top division (A Section/Premier Division) grand final in the Victorian Amateur Football Association (VAFA), finishing runners-up in 2007 and 2024. As of 2024, Old Brighton's men's team competes in the Premier Division of the VAFA, while the women's team is in Division 1 of the VAFA Women's (VAFAW). History Origins The Old Brightonians Football Club was formed in 1921 and entered the Metropolitan Amateur Football Association (MAFA, later VAFA) the same year. Owing to the difficulty of maintaining a strong team, the club failed to win a single game and withdrew prior to the start of the 1922 season. In 1924, the club returned to the MAFA, but only lasted ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Blues
Melbourne University Football Club, often known simply as University, is an Australian rules football club based at the University of Melbourne. Founded in 1859, it is one of the oldest football clubs in the world. The club fields two teams, known as the "Blacks" and "Blues", who both compete in the Victorian Amateur Football Association (VAFA) in the William Buck Premier Division and the women's team (nicknamed the "Mugars") in the VAFA Women's. The club achieved prominence by being a member of Victoria's elite competition in the early 20th century, the Victorian Football League (VFL, now AFL), between 1908 and 1914, departing after its strict policy of amateurism left it uncompetitive in an increasingly professional league. It is one of only three clubs to leave the competition in its entire history. It is one of 13 clubs to have competed in both the VFA and the breakaway VFL competition prior to its expansion into a national competition. The women's team also competed at th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sam Grimley
Sam Grimley (born 3 January 1991) is an Australian rules footballer who currently plays for the University Blues in the Victorian Amateur Football Association (VAFA). He previously played professionally for the Hawthorn Football Club and Essendon Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). Career After Hawthorn won the 2008 premiership, the Hawthorn recruitment officer concentrated on the younger players in the 2009 AFL draft. Grimley was a third-round selection (Hawthorn), No. 39 overall. The lightly built former junior basketballer came to Hawthorn as a long-term project. After three years of development, the club started seeing good results. Grimley spent much time close to goal in 2012, hoping to set himself up as a forward/ruck option. He played six games in Box Hill's senior team early in the year but suffered a hand injury. Grimley started 2013 showing strong performances for Box Hill and the selectors were watching. Grimley was named as an emergency for the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Kevin's Old Boys Football Club
St Kevin's Old Boys Football Club (SKOB) is an Australian rules football club based in the Melbourne suburb of Glen Iris. The club is linked to St Kevin's College. As of 2024, SKOB's men's and women's teams both compete in the Premier Division of the Victorian Amateur Football Association (VAFA) and the VAFA Women's (VAFAW) respectively. History St Kevin's Old Boys was founded in 1947 and joined the VAFA the same year, along with fellow new clubs Commonwealth Bank and State Electricity Commission. Its first season was in C Section, however the club was relegated to D Section for the 1948 season. The club won its first premiership in 1952 with a victory in the D Section Grand Final, and returned to C Section in 1953. SKOB won its first senior Premier Division premiership in 2017, with a three-point victory over Collegians. In 2018, SKOB went back-to-back, defeating Collegians by 5 points. Four members of the club's premiership side − Lachie Sullivan, Ned Reeves, Tom Jok ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AFL Victoria
AFL Victoria (formerly Football Victoria) is the state-level sport governing body for Australian rules football in the state of Victoria, Australia. Responsibility AFL Victoria, as part of the sport's national governing body the Australian Football League, AFL, has the overarching responsibility for approximately 115 Sports league, 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 as developmental, Coach (sport), coaching, and Umpire (Australian rules football), umpiring bodies. Football Victoria took over the organisation of the VFL competition in 1999, replacing the Victorian State Football League as the peak governing body for Australian rules football in Victoria, under the Australian Football League Commission. The organisation filling the gap created in 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Division 1
Division 1 or Division One may refer to: Association football * Azadegan League, the second-tier professional football league in Iran * Brisbane Premier League Division 1, the second-tier professional football league in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia * Danish 1st Division, of the Danish football league system * Division 1 (Guernsey), the second-tier football league in the Channel Island Guernsey * Division 1 (Swedish football), now Ettan Football, the third-tier football league in Sweden * Football League First Division, the former top division of the English football league system * Hong Kong First Division League, the second-tier football league in Hong Kong * I liga, the second-tier football league in Poland * J1 League, Japan Professional Football League * League of Ireland First Division, the top-flight division of the Irish football league system * Ligue 1, the top-flight division of the football league system in France * The Saudi First Division League, the second-tier footb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
