Mallee Football League (South Australia)
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The Mallee Football League (MFL) is an Australian rules football competition in South Australia. The League comprises teams located in south eastern South Australia and one team (Murrayville) located in western Victoria.
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[edit] Competing clubs
The league comprises the following teams:
The football season usually starts after Easter and ends in early September. The local newspaper The Border Times has extensive coverage of each week's results of the MFL. Coverage is also provided on WIN SA during the season. During the Queens Holiday Weekend the MFL selects a team to represent the Mallee against the Riverland, it has become a recent tradition and draws a fair crowd every year. The League's Best & Fairest award is called the Mail Medal. Prominent players to play at a higher level include Nathan D. Brown (Melbourne FC, Australian Football League), Trent Sporn (Carlton FC), Martin Mattner (Adelaide FC) and Rodney Maynard (Adelaide FC, AFL).
[edit] Brief history
In 1994 the Murray Lands Football League and the Lameroo & District Football League merged to form the Mallee Football League. Participating clubs at that time were Lameroo, Murrayville, Ngallo, Karoonda Districts, Peake & Districts and Pinnaroo. In 2000 Ngallo folded and due to lack of players so Border Downs Tintinara joined the league, after playing 10 years in the River Murray FL.
[edit] Season format
The Mallee Football League's season usually starts shortly after Easter. The season usually consists of 15 Rounds of three games, always on Saturdays (each team plays every other team three times) and two breaks during the season for the Queens Birthday weekend and the other for the SA Country Carnival. Recently the MFL introduced one night game a year, usually at Murrayville. The finals series is based on a top four system: The top two play each other and the winner goes through to the Grand Final, the loser plays the winner of the match between the 3rd and 4th placed team. then the winner of that game goes through to the grand final. the winner of the Grand Final is declared the premiers.
[edit] Season 2006
In 2006 the grand final was held in Coonalpyn and Border Downs-Tintinara won the A Grade, Reserves and the Under 16s competitions.
[edit] Season 2007
The 2007 season has not started yet. The first round will be on 14 April 2007.
[edit] External links
- Mallee League. Country Footy.
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