Victorian Amateur Football Association
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The Victorian Amateur Football Association is an Australian rules football league in Victoria, Australia consisting purely of amateur players. Unlike the Victorian Football League and the VFL/AFL, the VAFA has always been strictly a purely amateur league.
The league is the largest amateur league in Australia and widely regarded as the best amateur Aussie Rules league in the world. The league consists of 7 senior divisions (with each club fielding a firsts and reserves team) and multiple Under 19 divisions.
The league's administration base is at Elsternwick Park, a former Victorian Football League stadium in suburban Elsternwick, Victoria with some small grandstands and capacity for around 15,000 spectators.
Crowds during home and away matches are modest in comparison to the professional leagues, however Grand Finals for each division often attract as many spectators as the Victorian Football League Grand Finals.
In addition there are also three Club XVIII divisions, primarily made up of either clubs only able to field one team, or clubs from higher divisions that can field a third team after their seniors and reverves.
Almost all of the clubs are private school based where by the 'old boys' from the school play (sometimes are coerced to play through employment/schollorship incentives). Suburban teams such as Oakleigh, Ormond and Hampton find it hard to compete agaisnt the private school teams.
The reigning premiers for the A Section are Old Haileybury.
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[edit] 2007 Season
On March 15, 2007 the VAFA announced that the start of the 2007 season would be pushed back 2 weeks from the original starting date of April 14 to April 28. This decision was due to the water shortage facing Melbourne and the lack of suitable grounds to play games on. [1]
Some effects of the restructure involve moving the games scheduled for Rounds 1 and 2 to later in the season, the cancellation of the representative match against the Southern Football League and the reduction of the number of teams to make the finals in section D4 from five teams down to four.
[edit] Current Clubs
As of 2006, the 7 senior divisions were structured as follows:
[edit] A Section
- De La Salle Old Collegians Official Site
- Marcellin Old Collegians
- Old Haileyburians
- Old Ivanhoe Grammarians
- Old Melburnians
- Old Scotch
- Old Trinity Grammarians
- Old Xaverians
- St Bernards Old Collegians
- University Blues
[edit] B Section
- Beaumaris Football Club Official Site
- Caulfield Grammarians Official Site
- Collegians Football Club Official Site
- Mazenod Old Collegians
- Melbourne High School Old Boys
- Old Brighton Grammarians
- Old Essendon Grammarians
- St Kevins Old Boys
- University Blacks
- Whitefriars Old Collegians
[edit] C Section
- AJAX Football Club Official Site
- Fitzroy Reds Football Club
- Hampton Rovers Football Club Official Site
- Monash Blues
- North Old Boys
- Old Camberwell Grammarians
- Old Paradians
- Ormond Amateur Football Club Official Site
- Parkdale Vultures
- St Bedes/Mentone Tigers Football Club
[edit] D1 Section
- Banyule Football Club Official Site
- Bulleen-Templestowe Football Club Official Site
- Emmaus St Leo's Old Collegians Football Club
- Old Carey Grammarians
- Old Geelong
- Old Mentonians
- Prahran Amateur Football Club
- Rupertswood Football Club Official Site
- Therry Penola Old Boys
- Yarra Valley Old Boys
[edit] D2 Section
- Aquinas Old Collegians Official Site
- Glen Eira Amateur Football Club Official Site
- Ivanhoe Assumption Football Club
- La Trobe University Football Club Official Site
- Oakleigh Amateur Football Club
- Peninsula Old Boys
- Salesian Old Collegians
- St Johns Old Collegians
- Werribee Amateur Football Club
- Williamstown CYMS
[edit] D3 Section
- Bentleigh Football Club Official Site
- Elsternwick Football Club
- Kew Football Club
- Monash Gryphons
- Old Westbourne
- South Melbourne Districts Football Club
- St Mary's Amateur Football Club Official Site
- Swinburne Football Club
- University High School-Victoria University Football Club
- West Brunswick Football Club
[edit] D4 Section
- Albert Park Football Club Official Site
- Box Hill North Football Club Official Site
- Bulleen Cobras Football Club Official Site
- Eley Park Football Club Official Site
- Eltham Old Collegians
- Hawthorn Amateur Football Club
- North Brunswick Football Club
- Powerhouse Football Club Official Site
- Richmond Central Football Club Official Site
- Syndal-Tally Ho Football Club Official Site
[edit] Former Clubs
This may consist of clubs that are currently playing in the Club XVIII section.
- Albanvale Football Club
- Alberton Football Club
- Alphington Football Club
- AMP Society Football Club
- ANZ Bank Football Club
- Army Apprentices Football Club
- Associated Grammar Schools Football Club
- Assumption Old Collegians
- Australian Postal Institute Football Club
- Balaclava Football Club
- Balwyn Football Club
- Balwyn Combined Football Club
- Bellfield Football Club
- Beverley Football Club
- Beverley Hills Football Club
- Black Rock Football Club
- Booroondara Football Club
- Boronia Park Football Club
- Brighton Amateurs Football Club
- Brighton Tehcnical School Old Boys
- Brighton Vale Cricket Club
- Brunswick Amateurs Football Club
- Bulleen United Football Club
- Camberwell Football Club
- Canterbury-North Balwyn Football Club
- Canterbury United Churches Football Club
- Carlton District Football Club
- Carnegie Football Club
- Carnegie Church Of Christ Football Club
- Cassie Club Football Club
- Caulfield City Football Club
- Celtic Amateur Football Club
- Chirnside Park Football Club
- Clayton Amateur Football Club
- Coburg Amateurs Football Club
- Collingwood District Football Club
- Commercial Bank Football Club
- Commonwealth Bank Football Club
- Coolaroo Rovers Football Club
- Dandenong KSP Football Club
- Doveton SJOC
- East Malvern Football Club
- Edlington Football Club
- Elwood Football Club
- ES&A Bank Football Club
- Fawkner Football Club
- Fitzroy District Football Club
- Fitzroy Juniors Football Club
- Footscray Technical School Old Boys
- Geelong Amateurs Football Club
- Glenroy Football Club
- GTV-9 Football Club
- Hampton Football Club
- Hawthorn Amateur Football Club
- Heatherton Football Club
- Heidelberg West Amateurs
- Huntingdale Football Club
- Insurance Social Clubs Association Football Club
- Kingsville Rovers Football Club
- Kontias Football Club
- Kooyong Football Club
- Leopold Football Club
- Malvern Football Club
- Melbourne Shipping Company Football Club
- Melbourne Swimming Club Football Club
- Monash University Football Club
- Monash Whites Football Club Official Site
- Moreland Amateurs Football Club
- Mount Carmel Old Collegians
- Mount Lilydale Old Collegians
- Murrumbeena Football Club
- Myer Football Club
- National Bank Football Club
- Naval Base Flinders Football Club
- Newlands-Coburg Football Club
- North Alphington Football Club
- North Melbourne CBC Old Boys
- Nunawading Football Club
- Oakleigh Football Club
- Olinda Football Club
- Parkside Football Club
- Pascoe Vale Football Club
- Patricians Football Club
- Pharmacy College Football Club
- Port Melbourne Amateurs Football Club
- Port Rovers Football Club
- Preston Amateurs Football Club
- Preston MBOB
- Princes Hill Football Club
- RAAF Cadets Football Club
- Reservoir Old Boys
- Sandringham Amateurs
- Sandringham Juniors Football Club
- Southbank Football Club
- South Camberwell Football Club
- South Melbourne City Football Club
- South Melbourne Juniors Football Club
- South St Kilda Football Club
- South Yarra Amateur Football Club
- St Andrews Amateurs
- St Francis Xaviers Football Club
- St Ignatius Football Club
- St Judes Football Club
- St Leonards Old Collegians
- St Patricks Ballarat Old Collegians
- St Pius Football Club
- St Kilda CBC Old Boys
- State Electricity Commission Football Club
- State Saving Bank Football Club
- Surrey Hills Football Club
- Teachers College Football Club
- Thomastown Football Club
- Thornbury Football Club
- Toorak-Grosvenor Football Club
- Tooronga-Malvern Football Club
- Waltham Football Club
- Waverley Amateurs Football Club
- West Hawthorn Football Club
- Windsor Football Club
- YMCA Football Club
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
[edit] References
| Governing Bodies |
Football Victoria (Metropolitan) | Victorian Country Football League (Country) |
| Professional Clubs (AFL) |
Carlton | Collingwood | Essendon | Hawthorn | North Melbourne | Melbourne | Richmond | St Kilda | Western Bulldogs | Geelong |
| Statewide Leagues | |
| Metropolitan Leagues |
Diamond Valley | Eastern | Essendon District | Southern | VAFA | Western Region |
| Regional Leagues |
Alberton | Ballarat | Bellarine | Benalla | Bendigo | Central Goulburn | Central Highlands | Central Murray | Colac & District | East Gippsland | Ellinbark & District | Geelong | Geelong & District | Goulburn Valley | Golden Rivers | Hampden | Heathcote | Horsham & District | Kowree-Naracoorte-Tatiara | Kyabram & District | Lexton Plains | Loddon Valley | Mallee | Maryborough Castlemaine | Mid Gippsland | Millewa | Mininera | Mornington Peninsula | Murray | North Central | North Gippsland | Omeo & District | Ovens & King | Ovens & Murray | Picola & District | Riddell District | South West | Sunraysia | Tallangata | Upper Murray | Warrnambool | West Gippsland Latrobe | West Gippsland | Western Border | Wimmera | Yarra Valley Mountain |
| Junior Leagues - Auskick |
Riddell District Juniors | Waverley Juniors | Moorabbin | Dandenong | Yarra Juniors |
| Women's Leagues | |
| Masters Leagues |
Metropolitan Superules | Country Masters |
