Great Southern Football League (South Australia)

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The Great Southern Football League (GSFL) is an Australian rules football competition based in the Fleurieu Peninsula region of South Australia, Australia. It is a affiliated member of the South Australian National Football League and is zoned to the South Adelaide Football Club. In 2006 Willunga Football Club were premiers (for the third year in a row), defeating Langhorne Creek Football Club.[1]

[edit] Current Clubs

Encounter Bay Football Club
Langhorne Creek Football Club
McLaren Football Club
Mt Compass Football Club
Myponga Sellicks Football Club
Saints Football Club (Goolwa/Pt Elliot)
Strathalbyn Football Club
Victor Harbor Football Club
Willunga Football Club
Yankalilla Football Club

[edit] Brief History

Although football was played in the area in the 1870's, with the Goolwa club dating themselves from 1878, it was not until 1923 that the Great Southern Football Association was formed. The founding clubs were Encounter Bay, Goolwa, Hindmarsh Valley, Port Elliot and Victor Harbor.

Since that time a number of clubs have formed part of the Association, which itself changed its name to Great Southern Football League. Current member clubs include Willunga, which is one of the oldest football clubs in South Australia, tracing its history back to 1874.[2]

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Australian rules football in South Australia
Governing Body	SANFL
Professional Clubs (AFL)	Adelaide Crows \| Port Adelaide Power
Metropolitan Leagues	SANFL \| South Australian Amateur Football League
Regional Leagues	Adelaide Plains \| Barossa Light & Gawler \| Broken Hill \| Eastern Eyre \| Far West \| Great Flinders \| Great Southern \| Hills \| Kangaroo Island \| Kowree-Naracoorte-Tatiara \| Mallee \| Mid Murray \| Mid South East \| Mid West \| North Eastern \| Northern Areas \| Port Lincoln \| Riverland \| River Murray \| Southern \| Spencer Gulf \| Western Border \| Whyalla \| Woomera & Districts \| Yorke Peninsula
Junior Leagues	Central District \| Metro South \| Metro West \| North East
Women's Leagues	South Australian Women's Football League
Masters Leagues	Masters Australian Football SA