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 The Eastern Football Netball League (known previously as the Eastern Districts Football League and later the Eastern Football League) is an Australian rules football league, based in the eastern suburbs of metropolitan Melbourne. History The E ...

History

The club was formed in 1999 as the Deakin Devils Women's Football Club, competing in the

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, across seven divisions and a total of over 1,000 players. The ...

(VWFL) as a representative of

Deakin University Deakin University is a public university in Victoria, Australia. Founded in 1974, the university was named after Alfred Deakin, the second Prime Minister of Australia. Its main campuses are in Melbourne's Burwood suburb, Geelong Waurn P ...

. 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 VFL Women's (VFLW) is the major state-level women's Australian rules football league in 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 ...

(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 instead field multiple teams in the South Eastern Women's Football competition from 2018 onwards. In 2022, the club transferred to the

, where they have since remained.

References

{{VFL Women's Australian rules football clubs in Melbourne Women's Australian rules football clubs in Australia Sports clubs and teams established in 1999