Current season or competition:
2012 NEAFL season | |
Sport | Australian rules football |
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Founded | November 2010 |
Inaugural season | 2011 |
No. of teams | 19 |
Country(ies) | Australia |
Most recent champion(s) | Brisbane Lions |
Most titles | Northern Territory (1)
Brisbane Lions (1) |
Official website | http://www.neafl.com.au/index.php? |
The North East Australian Football League is an Australian rules football league in New South Wales, Queensland, the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory in Australia. It was formed in November 2010, and its inaugural competition was in 2011.[1]
The NEAFL is operated in two conferences: the Northern Conference, serving Queensland and the Northern Territory, and the Eastern Conference, serving New South Wales and the ACT. Teams from the two conferences play matches against each other throughout the home-and-away season, before each conference stages a separate finals competition to determine both a northern premier and an eastern premier. The two premiers then play each other in the NEAFL Grand Final.
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[edit] History[]
The NEAFL was formed at the end of 2010 primarily as an amalgamation of the two major football leagues in Australia's north-east. The Queensland Australian Football League, based in South-East Queensland and including one team from the Northern Territory, became the Northern Conference; and AFL Canberra, based around ACT, and including one team from Sydney (the reserves team of the AFL's Sydney Swans) became the Eastern Conference. Two new teams also joined in 2011: the reserves team of Gold Coast Football Club (whose senior team joined the AFL in the same season); and the senior team of the Greater Western Sydney Football Club, which was preparing to join the AFL in 2012. These two clubs would have joined the QAFL and AFL Canberra respectively, had the NEAFL not been formed.
In 2012, two more clubs joined the Eastern Conference from the AFL Sydney competition: Sydney Hills and Sydney University. With Greater Western Sydney's senior team joining the AFL, its NEAFL side became a reserves team in partnership with, and under the name of the University of Western Sydney.
[edit] Premiers[]
Season | Premier | Runner-up | Score | Margin | Venue |
2011 | Northern Territory | Ainslie | 16.18 (114) - 13.14 (92) | 22 points | Traeger Park |
2012 | Brisbane Lions | Queanbeyan | 11.9 (75) - 22.12 (144) | 69 points | Manuka Oval |
[edit] Clubs[]
[edit] Most Successful Clubs[]
Club | Year Established | Leagues | Premiership Years | Premierships |
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Ainslie Football Club | 1927 | CANFL 1927-1974 | Canberra Australian National Football League: 1929, 1936, 1946, 1947, 1952, 1958, 1959, 1961, 1970
Australian Capital Territory Football League: 1979, 1980, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1987, 1990, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997 AFL Canberra: 2010 |
23 |
Southport Football Club | 1961 | GCAFL 1961-1982
QAFL 1983-2010 |
Gold Coast Australian Football League: 1961, 1962, 1966, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1979, 1980
Queensland Australian Football League: 1983, 1985, 1987, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2005, 2006, 2008 |
21 |
Eastlake Football Club | 1926 | CANFL 1926-1974 | Canberra Australian National Football League: 1928, 1930, 1933, 1934, 1937, 1942, 1945, 1948, 1957, 1960, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1972
Australian Capital Territory Football League: 1976, 1978 AFL Canberra: 2001 |
19 |
Queanbeyan Football Club | 1925 | CANFL 1925-1974 | Canberra Australian National Football League: 1939, 1940, 1941, 1953, 1954, 1956
Australian Capital Territory Football League: 1985, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1998, 1999 AFL Canberra: 2000 |
13 |
Aspley Football Club | 1964 | SQAFA 1964-1992 | South Queensland Australian Football Association: 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1992 | 8 |
Morningside Football Club | 1947 | QAFL 1947-2010
NEAFL 2011- |
Queensland Australian Football League: 1965, 1991, 1993, 1994, 2003, 2004, 2009, 2010 | 8 |
Sydney University Football Club | 1948 | NSWANFL 1948-1957, 1962-1968
SFA 1971-1987, 1995-2006
SFL 1988-1994
SAFL 2007-2011 |
Sydney Football Association: 1981, 1986, 1987, 1997, 2003, 2005
Sydney Football League: 1992 |
7 |
Mount Gravatt Football Club | 1964 | SQAFA 1964-1992 | South Queensland Australian Football Association: 1971, 1972, 1974, 1983
Queensland Australian Football League: 2002, 2007 |
6 |
Labrador Football Club | 1964 | GCAFL 1964-1996
QAFL 1997-2010 |
Gold Coast Australian Football League: 1970, 1986, 1991, 1993, 1994 | 5 |
Belconnen Football Club | 1948 | CANFL 1948-1974 | AFL Canberra: 2002, 2003, 2004, 2009 | 4 |
Redland Football Club | 1966 | SQAFA 1966-1992 | South Queensland Australian Football Association: 1975, 1987
Brisbane Australian Football League 1998, 1999 |
4 |
Sydney Swans Football Club (reserves) | 1874 | VFL 1877-1990 | AFL Canberra: 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 | 4 |
Sydney Hills Football Club | 1989 | SFA 1989-1992 | Sydney AFL: 2009, 2010, 2011 | 3 |
Brisbane Lions Football Club (reserves) | 1998 | QAFL 1998-2010
NEAFL 2011- |
Queensland Australian Football League: 2001
North East Australian Football League: 2012 |
2 |
Broadbeach Football Club | 1971 | GCAFL 1971-1996
QAFL 1997-2010 NEAFL 2011- |
Gold Coast Australian Football League: 1987, 1996 | 2 |
Northern Territory Football Club | 2008 | QAFL 2008-2010
NEAFL 2011- |
North East Australian Football League: 2011 | 1 |
Tuggeranong Football Club | 1968 | CANFL 1968-1974 | Australian Capital Territory Football League: 1986 | 1 |
Gold Coast Football Club (reserves) | 2011 | NEAFL 2011- | nil | 0 |
Greater Western Sydney Football Club (reserves) | 2011 | NEAFL 2011- | nil | 0 |
[edit] See also[]
- List of Australian rules football leagues
- AFL Canberra
- Queensland Australian Football League
- Sydney AFL
[edit] References[]
[edit] External links[]
- North East Australian Football League (NEAFL)
- AFL description of league
- AFL announces new north-eastern comp
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