The Valley Football Association is a former high school football conference with its membership based northeastern and central
Wisconsin
Wisconsin ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Great Lakes region, Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwest of the United States. It borders Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake Michigan to the east, Michig ...
. Active from the 2011 through 2023 football seasons, the conference and its member schools were affiliated with the
Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association
The Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association (WIAA) is the regulatory body for all high school sports in Wisconsin. Its history dates to 1895, making it the earliest continually existing high school athletic organization in the country. ...
.
History
The Valley Football Association was born from a merger of the football-playing members of two conferences for large high schools in eastern and central Wisconsin: the
Fox Valley Association and the
Wisconsin Valley Conference. The WVC was set to have only six football participants for the 2011 season, which created problems with scheduling nonconference opponents to fill game dates. Competition commenced with the 2011 football season, and the sixteen member schools were broken out into two divisions:
In 2014,
Hortonville replaced original member
Menasha, who departed the VFA for the
Bay Conference. Three years later,
Wausau East left the VFA to compete as an independent school for football, prompting the realignment of the conference into three five-team divisions:
Only five VFA members competed in the 2020 season due to the
COVID-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic (also known as the coronavirus pandemic and COVID pandemic), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), began with an disease outbreak, outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, in December ...
. Those teams, alongside returning member Wausau East, competed in a single division. The members that went on hiatus played in spring 2021 in the temporary
Fox Valley Classic Conference with members of the original
Fox River Classic Conference and the
Wisconsin Valley Conference. Of those teams, only Appleton West and Stevens Point returned to the VFA, while the remaining teams returned to the Fox Valley Association for football. The Valley Football Association name was in use until the 2023 football season, when the conference reverted back to the Wisconsin Valley Conference nomenclature for the 2024-2025 competition cycle.
Conference membership history
Membership timeline
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bar:3 color:green from:2011 till:2020 text:Appleton West (2011-2019)
bar:3 color:lavender from:2021 till:2024 text:(2021-2023)
bar:4 color:green from:2011 till:2017 text:D.C. Everest (2011-2023)
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bar:4 color:lavender from:2020 till:2024 text:
bar:5 color:yellowgreen from:2011 till:2020 text:Fond du Lac (2011-2019)
bar:6 color:green from:2011 till:2020 text:Kaukauna (2011-2019)
bar:7 color:green from:2011 till:2020 text:Kimberly (2011-2019)
bar:8 color:yellowgreen from:2011 till:2017 text:Marshfield (2011-2023)
bar:8 color:brightgreen from:2017 till:2020 text:
bar:8 color:lavender from:2020 till:2024 text:
bar:9 color:yellowgreen from:2011 till:2014 text:Menasha (2011-2013)
bar:10 color:yellowgreen from:2011 till:2020 text:Neenah (2011-2019)
bar:11 color:yellowgreen from:2011 till:2020 text:Oshkosh North (2011-2019)
bar:12 color:yellowgreen from:2011 till:2020 text:Oshkosh West (2011-2019)
bar:13 color:yellowgreen from:2011 till:2017 text:Stevens Point (2011-2019)
bar:13 color:brightgreen from:2017 till:2020 text:
bar:13 color:lavender from:2021 till:2024 text:(2021-2023)
bar:14 color:green from:2011 till:2017 text:Wausau East (2011-2016)
bar:14 color:lavender from:2020 till:2024 text:(2020-2023)
bar:15 color:green from:2011 till:2017 text:Wausau West (2011-2023)
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bar:16 color:yellowgreen from:2011 till:2017 text:Wisconsin Rapids (2011-2023)
bar:16 color:brightgreen from:2017 till:2020 text:
bar:16 color:lavender from:2020 till:2024 text:
bar:17 color:green from:2014 till:2020 text:Hortonville (2014-2023)
bar:17 color:lavender from:2020 till:2024 text:
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List of state champions
List of conference and division champions
References
External links
Valley Football Association
{{Wisconsin high school athletic conferences, state=collapsed
Sports organizations established in 2011
Wisconsin high school sports conferences
2011 establishments in Wisconsin
2023 disestablishments in Wisconsin