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Kew Football Club
The Kew Football Club, nicknamed the Bears, is an Australian rules football club based in the Melbourne suburb of Kew, Victoria, Kew. As of 2025, the club's men's team currently competes in Division 1 of the Victorian Amateur Football Association (VAFA), while the women's team is in the Premier Division of the VAFA Women's (VAFAW) competition. History Early years Kew was founded in 1876 and won its first premiership in 1880 in the second-rate ranks of the Hawthorn District Zone competition. The club entered a first-rate league for the first time in 1889 when it joined the Victorian Junior Football Association (VJFA), finishing 20th with two wins and six draws. The club withdrew during the 1891 season after failing to win a game, and dropped down to the 2nd rate and 3rd rate ranks of the VJFA. The club continued in the Association until 1896, when the VJFA mandated that all clubs must play on a fenced oval. As Victoria Park was unfenced, the club withdrew from the VJFA and "reluctan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2024 VAFA Season
The 2024 VAFA season was the 123rd season of the Victorian Amateur Football Association (VAFA), the largest senior community Australian rules football competition in Victoria (state), Victoria. The season began on 13 April and concluded on 27 September, with 61 teams participating across six divisions under a promotion and relegation system. Association membership Following the conclusion of the 2023 VAFA season, 2023 season, Ivanhoe Football Club, Ivanhoe and Old Paradians Football Club, Old Paradians left the VAFA and transferred to the Northern Football Netball League (NFNL) for 2024. This resulted in the abolishment of 2023 VAFA season#Division 4, Division 4, which subsequently merged into #Division 3, Division 3. Additionally, because of extremely low player numbers during pre-season training, Masala Dandenong Football Club, Masala Dandenong announced in January 2024 that it would withdraw from Division 3 and instead compete in the Thirds competition. After seven years in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victorian Junior Football Association
The Victorian Junior Football Association (VJFA), sometimes known simply as the Victorian Junior Association (VJA), was an open age Australian rules football competition and administrative body. It was the first successful junior football competition in Melbourne, and was in existence from 1883 until 1932. For most of its history it was a competition of independent junior level clubs, before it eventually transitioned to become the VFL Development League, second eighteens competition for the senior Victorian Football Association (VFA). History During the 1870s in Victoria (state), Victoria, junior football – which was the term used at the time for open age football of a lower standard than senior football, rather than for under age football – was mostly administered on an ''ad hoc'' basis. A couple of short-lived junior associations had been attempted, but none were successful until the Victorian Junior Football Association was established on 26 April 1883. Eleven clubs − , ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reserves Team
In sports, a reserve team is a team composed of players who are under contract to a club but who do not regularly play in matches for the club's primary team. Reserve teams usually include players who are part of the larger first-team squad but unable to command a place in the team itself as well as young players who need playing time to improve their skills before progressing to the first team. In some countries, reserve or development teams compete in entirely separate competitions from first teams, while some countries allow reserve teams or farm teams to compete in the same league system as their club's first team, although usually in separate divisions. In association football Reserve teams usually consist of a combination of emerging youth players and first-team squad players. These teams are distinct from a club's youth team, which usually consists of players under a certain age and plays in an age-specific league. In England, Argentina and the United States the term ''re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fairfield Football Club
Fairfield may refer to: Places Australia * Fairfield, New South Wales, a western suburb of Sydney **Electoral district of Fairfield, the corresponding seat in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly * Fairfield City Council, in Sydney * Fairfield, Queensland * Fairfield, Victoria ** Fairfield railway station, Melbourne * Fairfield West, New South Wales * Fairfield Heights, New South Wales * Fairfield East, New South Wales Canada * Fairfield (Greater Victoria), a neighbourhood of Victoria, British Columbia New Zealand * Fairfield, Otago, a suburb of Dunedin * Fairfield, Waikato, a suburb of Hamilton * Fairfield, Lower Hutt, a suburb in the Hutt Valley United Kingdom * Fairfield (Croydon ward) * Fairfield (Wandsworth ward) * Fairfield, Bedfordshire, a village * Fairfield, Bromsgrove, a village in north-east Worcestershire * Fairfield, Bury, part of Bury, Greater Manchester * Fairfield, Clackmannanshire, a location in Scotland * Fairfield, County Durham, a suburb * Fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
VFL Sub-Districts
The VFL Sub-Districts (VFLSD), sometimes referred to as the Victorian Sub-District Football League (VSDFL), was an Australian rules football competition played in the state of Victoria and managed by the Victorian Football League (VFL), now known as the Australian Football League (AFL). The competition was preceded by the Melbourne District Football Association (MDFA) and succeeded by the Metropolitan Football League (MFL). The Sub-Districts included a number of "thirds" teams for senior VFL clubs, prior to the introduction of the VFL thirds (later VFL/AFL under-19s) in 1946. A similar competition, the VFA Sub-Districts, also existed at the time of the VFLSD and was managed by the Victorian Football Association (VFA). History MDFA The Melbourne District Football Association (MDFA) was formed in the 1900s. The MDFA appears to stopped play during World War I, although a different competition (known as the Melbourne Junior Football Association) was formed in April 1918. It is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1927 VFA Season
The 1927 Victorian Football Association season was the 49th season of the Australian rules football competition. The premiership was won by the Coburg Football Club, after it defeated Brighton by 34 points in the Grand Final on 15 October. It was the club's second VFA premiership, achieved in only its third season of senior competition, and was the second in a sequence of three premierships won consecutively from 1926 until 1928; and, it came after the team was undefeated in the home-and-home season. Association membership In the off-season, the Brunswick Football Club was re-admitted to the association, after having withdrawn from the competition in late 1926 in protest at suspensions given to two of its players. As such, the association membership remained the same as it had been at the start of 1926. Premiership The home-and-home season was played over eighteen rounds, with each club playing the others twice; then, the top four clubs contested a finals series under the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brunswick Football Club
The Brunswick Football Club, nicknamed the Magpies, was an Australian rules football club based in the Melbourne suburb of Brunswick, Victoria, Brunswick. Brunswick played in the Victorian Football League, Victorian Football Association (VFA) from 1897 until 1991, when it withdrew midway early in the season and folded shortly after. In its final two seasons in the VFA, the club was known as Brunswick-Broadmeadows. History Brunswick Football Club was formed in 1865 and joined the VFA in the 1897 season. The club was colloquially known in its early days as the ''Pottery Workers'' or the ''Brickfielders'', and its fans were known for sounding clayhole bells at matches; after changing their colours from light blue and red colors to black and white, they became informally, and then later formally, known as the Magpies. They struggled to be competitive in the league early on, finishing last in 1898, 1899 and 1902. They won the first of their three 1st division premierships in 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victorian Football Association
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] |
World War I
World War I or the First World War (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918), also known as the Great War, was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War I, Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers. Fighting took place mainly in European theatre of World War I, Europe and the Middle Eastern theatre of World War I, Middle East, as well as in parts of African theatre of World War I, Africa and the Asian and Pacific theatre of World War I, Asia-Pacific, and in Europe was characterised by trench warfare; the widespread use of Artillery of World War I, artillery, machine guns, and Chemical weapons in World War I, chemical weapons (gas); and the introductions of Tanks in World War I, tanks and Aviation in World War I, aircraft. World War I was one of the List of wars by death toll, deadliest conflicts in history, resulting in an estimated World War I casualties, 10 million military dead and more than 20 million wounded, plus some 10 million civilian de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reporter District Football Association
The Reporter District Football Association (RDFA), also known simply simply as the Reporter Football Association (RFA), was an Australian rules football competition based around the Melbourne suburb of Box Hill. History The RDFA was formed in 1903 by EFG Hodges, the proprietor of the "Reporter" newspaper. Six clubs − Bayswater, Box Hill, Canterbury, Ferntree Gully, Mitcham and Ringwood − participated in the inaugural season. Mitcham were the inaugural premiers after defeating Box Hill in the grand final, after both club finished the season with an equal win-loss record. In 1928, the RDFA was absorbed into the Ringwood District Football League, which eventually became part of the present-day 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 metropolita ... ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 retirement in 1932 it was written that he'd been "not only a teacher of boys, but a leader of men." Early life Lawrence Adamson was born at Douglas, Isle of Man, the second son of Lawrence William Adamson. LL.D., Grand Seneschal of the IoM and his wife Annie Jane née Flint. In 1866, the family went to Newcastle-on-Tyne, where his father served as High Sheriff of Northumberland in 1900. At fourteen years of age Lawrence went to Rugby School, where he educated in the Classics, and represented his school at football. At the University of Oxford he read Classics and Jurisprudence, taking the degree of MA, before being called to the Bar in 1885. That year Adamson was arrested with another man for sexual involvement with two teenagers: the heir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1900 MJFA Season
The 1900 MJFA season, also known as the 1900 MFA season, was the 9th season of the Metropolitan Junior Football Association (MJFA). Leopold won the MJFA premiership for the first time, defeating South Melbourne Juniors in the 1900 MJFA Grand Final. This was the first time a grand final had been held in the MJFA, as prior to this season it was not necessary. Association name On 27 March 1900, the MJFA decided on a change of name to the Metropolitan Football Association (MFA). MJFA president Lawrence Adamson believed that his association was now a senior competition and the "junior" label no longer applied. Adamson brokered a deal that the existing MFA (of 1899) became the MJFA, giving his MJFA (of 1892) the "Metropolitan Football Association" name. Despite this, various newspaper reports from 1900 until 1912 still use the MJFA (or simply "Metropolitan Junior Association") name when referring to Adamson's competition. Most consensus is that "MJFA" in this time period refers t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
