Gippsland Football League
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| Sport: | Australian Football & Netball | ||
| Formerly: | West Gippsland Football League Gippsland-Latrobe Football League |
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| Inaugural Season: | 2000 Originally Founded 1902 |
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| President: | Brian McKenzie | ||
| Website: | Official Website | ||
| Competitions (Football): | Seniors, Reserves, Under 18, Under 16[1] | ||
| Competitions (Netball): | A Grade, B Grade, C Grade, Under 17, Under 15, Under 13 | ||
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| Premiers | Traralgon | ||
| Minor Premiers | Traralgon | ||
| Wooden Spooners | Warragul | ||
The Gippsland Football League (formerly known as the West Gippsland Latrobe Football League), is an Australian rules football League in the Gippsland region of Victoria, Australia. It is considered the only major league governed by the Victorian Country Football League in Gippsland.[2]
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[edit] History
The Gippsland League has roots dating back to the Central Gippsland Football League which was founded in 1902. The CGFL morphed into the Latrobe Valley Football League in 1954. The promoters of the LVFL wanted to have a league that consisted of towns along the Orbost railway line, from Warragul to Sale. Three clubs form south Gippsland towns, Leongatha, Korumburra and Mirboo North, were therefore barred from joining the new league and went on to form the South Gippsland FL.
The LVFL changed its name, in 1995, to the Gippsland Latrobe FL.
At the end of 2001, The West Gippsland FL and the Gippsland Latrobe FL had an administrative merger. This created a two-division competition and a name change to West Gippsland Latrobe FL.
From 2002 until 2004, the league comprised a premier division, consisting mainly of the former Gippsland-Latrobe clubs, and a western division, comprising most of the former WGFL clubs.
After the 2004 season, the western division was dissolved, with Warragul, Drouin and Garfield joining the premier league. The remaining clubs from the western division moved to other competitions, such as the Alberton Football League, Ellinbank & District Football League and the Mornington Peninsula Nepean Football League.
In 2009 Garfield left the GFL for the Ellinbank & District Football League, whilst Wonthaggi[3] and Bairnsdale[4] joined the GFL in 2010 and 2011 respectively.
The Latrobe Valley area is currently the only large regional centre in Victoria that does not have a team participating in the Victorian Football League, although Traralgon competed in the VFL during 1996-97, winning just four matches.[5]
The region does have a representative team in the TAC Cup Under-18 competition, Gippsland Power.
[edit] Clubs
For 2011, the Gippsland Football League will consist of ten teams:
| Jumper | Club | Nickname | Founded | Ground | Premierships | Website |
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Bairnsdale Football Club | Redlegs | N/A | Bairnsdale Football Ground McCulloch St |
(24) 1902-03, 1908, 1912-13, 1928-30, 1947, 1951-52, 1954, 1956, 1958-59 (BDFL), 1981, 2000-02, 2004, 2006-07 2009-10(EGFL) | [1] |
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Drouin Football Club | Hawks | 1903 | Drouin Recreation Reserve Sinclair St |
(8) 1941, 1946, 1949, 1958, 1967, 1978, 1991-92 (WGFL) | [2] |
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Leongatha Football Club | Parrots | 1911 | Leongatha Recreation Reserve Roughead St |
(19) 1894 (KDFA), 1905 (WFA), 1923-24 (KDFA), 1931-32, 1955, 1960-61, 1963-64 (SGFL), 1970, 1977, 1979, 1982, 1989 (LVFL), 1995, 1997 (GLFL), 2001 (WGFL) | [3] |
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Maffra Football Club | Eagles | 1901 | Maffra Recreation Reserve McLean St |
(19) 1904, 1906-07, 1910, 1914, 1920-21, 1926, 1935, 1938, 1946, 1948 (GFL), 2002-04, 2006-7, 2009-10 | [4] |
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Moe Football Club | Lions | 1909 | Ted Summerton Reserve Vale St, Moe |
(2) 1956, 1967 (LVFL) | [5] |
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Morwell Football Club | Tigers | 1905 | Morwell Recreation Reserve Travers St |
(10) 1950, 1952-53 (CGFL), 1961, 1966, 1983, 1985, 1988, 1993 (LVFL), 1996 (GLFL) | [6] |
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Sale Football Club | Magpies | 1901 | Sale Recreation Reserve Palmerston St |
(19) 1901, 1905, 1911, 1924, 1927, 1931, 1934, 1937, 1949-50, 1953 (GFL), 1954, 1955, 1957, 1959, 1971, 1973, 1975, 1986 (LVFL) 2008 (GFL) | [7] |
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Traralgon Football Club | Maroons | 1883 | Traralgon Recreation Reserve Whittakers Rd |
(25) 1919, 1923, 1925 (GFL), 1945-46, 1949 (CGFL), 1960, 1963-65, 1968-69, 1972, 1978, 1980, 1987, 1990-92, 1994 (LVFL), 1998-2000 (GLFL), 2005, 2011 | [8] |
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Warragul Football Club | Gulls | 1902 | Western Park Tarwin St |
(4) 1974, 1976, 1984 (LVFL), 2003 (WGFL) | [9] |
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Wonthaggi Football Club | Power | 1956/2005 | Wonthaggi Recreation Reserve Strickland St |
(6) 1974-75, 1994-95 (as Wonthaggi Rovers) 2005-06 (AFL) | [10] |
| Note: AFL (Alberton FL), CGFL (Central Gippsland FL), EGFL (East Gippsland FL), KDFA (Korumburra & District FA), LVFL (Latrobe Valley FL), SGFL (South Gippsland FL), WFA (Woorayl Football Association), WGFL (West Gippsland FL), GLFL (Gippsland Latrobe FL) | ||||||
[edit] Former clubs
| Jumper | Club | Nickname | Years competed | Home Ground | Premierships | Website |
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Churchill | Kangaroos | 1984-1994 | Gaskin Park, Churchill | (0) | [11] |
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Garfield Football Club | Stars | 2002-2009 | Garfield Recreation Reserve Beswick St |
(7)1963-64, 1966, 1983, 1993, 1994, 2004 (WGFL) | [12] |
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Heyfield | Kangaroos | 1960-1974 | Gordon St Rec Reserve | (0) | [13] |
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Newborough | Bulldogs | 1979-1985 | Newborough Rec Reserve Soutwell St |
(0) | [14] |
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Stratford | Swans | 1961-1964 | Stratford Rec Reserve Wellsford St |
(0) | [15] |
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Trafalgar | Bloods | 1954-1968 | Trafalgar Rec Reserve | (2) 1958, 1962 | [16] |
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Traralgon Tyers United | The Two Blues | 1983-1988 | Tyers Rec Reserve Main Road |
(0) | [17] |
| Yallourn | The Blues | 1954-1976 | Yallourn Rec Reserve | (0) | ||
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Yallourn Yallourn North | Bombers | 1977-1985 | Yallourn Rec Reserve | (0) | [18] |
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Yarragon | Panthers | 1954-1960 | Yarragon Football Ground Market St |
(0) | [19] |
[edit] Premiers and Best & Fairest Winners
| Year | Senior Premier | Senior B&F Winner | Season Summary (Ladder & Finals) |
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| 2012 | 2012 - Gippsland FL | ||
| 2011 |  Traralgon |
Andrew Soumilas ( Drouin) |
2011 - Gippsland FL |
| 2010 |  Maffra[6] |
Gary Jones ( Maffra) |
2010 - Gippsland FL |
| 2009 | Maffra[1] |
Adrian Cox ( Sale) & Michael Geary ( Traralgon) |
2009 - WGLFL |
| 2008 | Sale |
Nick Hider ( Maffra) |
2008 - WGLFL |
| 2007 | Maffra |
Nick Hider ( Maffra) |
2007 - WGLFL |
| 2006 | Maffra |
Desi Barr ( Warragul) |
2006 - WGLFL |
| 2005 | Traralgon |
Andrew Soumilas ( Garfield) |
2005 - WGLFL |
[edit] Records and Statistics
Club Finishing Positions
| Club | Premierships | Runners Up | 3rd | 4th | 5th |
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| Traralgon |
19 | 17 | 8 | 5 | 2 |
| Sale |
9 | 5 | 8 | 9 | 1 |
| Leongatha |
8 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 3 |
| Maffra |
7 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 2 |
| Warragul |
3 | 3 | 5 | 14 | 2 |
 Moe |
2 | 8 | 9 | 6 | 1 |
 Bairnsdale |
1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 |
 Wonthaggi |
0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Drouin |
0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Recent Finishing Positions
| Club | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 |
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| Bairnsdale |
-- | 8th | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Drouin |
-- | 2nd | 2nd | 5th | 9th | 9th | |
| Garfield |
-- | -- | -- | 9th | 6th | 3rd | 7th |
| Leongatha |
-- | 5th | 5th | 4th | 7th | 8th | |
| Maffra |
-- | 3rd | 1st | 2nd | 4th | 1st | 1st |
| Moe |
-- | 7th | 6th | 3rd | 5th | 5th | |
| Sale |
-- | 4th | 7th | 8th | 1st | 2nd | 2nd |
| Traralgon |
-- | 1st | 3rd | 1st | 8th | 3rd | |
| Warragul |
-- | 10th | 9th | 6th | 3rd | 4th | |
| Wonthaggi |
-- | 6th | 8th | -- | -- | -- | -- |
Significant Records
| Record | Detail |
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| Highest Score: | 45.22 (292) Traralgon vs. Churchill |
| Lowest Score: | 0.0 (2) Stratford vs. Traralgon; Bairnsdale vs. Traralgon |
| Most Goals in a Match: | (19) Adrian Campbell (Leongatha vs. Moe) |
| Most Goals in a Season: | 136 Shane Loveless (Sale) |
| Record Quarter Score | |
| 1st Quarter | 13.4 (82) Maffra vs. Newborough Warragul vs. Newborough Maffra vs. Churchill |
| 2nd Quarter | 14.3 (87) Leongatha vs. Heyfield |
| 3rd Quarter | 15.5 (95) Traralgon vs. Newborough |
| 4th Quarter | 16.7 (103) Leongatha vs. Moe |
[edit] References
- ^ a b Australian rules football: West Gippsland Latrobe Football League Grand Final, Wikinews, 20 September 2009
- ^ Australian rules football: West Gippsland Latrobe Football League becomes Gippsland League as Wonthaggi concedes move, Wikinews, 10 December 2009
- ^ http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Australian_rules_football:_West_Gippsland_Latrobe_Football_League_becomes_Gippsland_Football_League_as_Wonthaggi_concedes_move
- ^ http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Australian_rules_football:_Bairnsdale_join_Gippsland_League,_will_play_first_game_in_Warragul
- ^ The Sunday Age, 8 August 2004
- ^ Gillett, Patrick (20 September 2010). "Australian rules football: Maffra win 2010 Gippsland Football League grand final". http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Australian_rules_football:_Maffra_win_2010_Gippsland_Football_League_grand_final. Retrieved 2 December 2010.
[edit] External links
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