Horsham & District Football League

Horsham & District Football League
General Information
Founded 1937
Records
Highest Score 356 - Homers 56.20.356 (v Gerang-Kiata 1.0.6) - 1991
Most goals in a game 25 - Kevin Smith – Homers (v College) – 1965
Most goals in a season 170 - Geoff Parish – Homers - 1992, Paul Morgan – Rupanyup - 1998
Most flags in a row 5 – Kalkee – 2008-2012
Most wins in a row 45 – Kalkee – 2008-2010
Most losses in a row 46 - Natimuk – 1999-2002

The Horsham & District Football League is an amateur Australian rules football league based in the Wimmera area of Western Victoria.

History

The league in its present form was created in 1946. Prior to World War 2 a number of local leagues existed around Horsham, shrinking to one in 1934. The clubs that played in the previous incarnation in 1934 were Green Park (which won the premiership), CYMS, Quantong, Adelphians, Church of England, Longerenong and Pimpinio Seconds. The clubs that played in 1946 were Kalkee (which won the premiership), Horsham Homers, Wonwondah, Jung, Wail, Laharum, RSL, Longerenong College, Taylors Lake and YCW.

In 1982 the league expanded after the West Wimmera Football League disbanded and five clubs joined: Goroke, Noradjuha, Douglas-Harrow-Miga Lake, Gerang - Kiata, and Netherby-Lorquon. This brought the total to sixteen clubs. Since then Netherby-Lorquon has gone into recess, and Imperials-Wonwondah has moved to the Wimmera Football League in 1983.

In 2000, after the folding of the Ararat District Football Association, Stawell Swifts and Great Western joined the competition.

Edenhope-Apsley joined from the Kowree Naracoorte Tatiara Football League in 2007. Natimuk and Horsham Diggers (Wimmera Football League) voted on a merger for 2014 season and beyond under the banner of Natimuk United Football Netball Club. The club wore the Natimuk jumper for home games and Horsham Diggers jumper for away games. They kept scheduling a match on Anzac Day.[1][2]

Swifts were premiers in 2014 after defeating the previously undefeated Laharum in the grand final.[3]

Laharum are the current premiers after defeating Kalkee in the 2015 grand final.[3]

Clubs

Current

Jumper Club Nickname Years in comp HDFL Premierships Premiership Years
Edenhope Apsley Saints 2007- (merger) - -
Harrow Balmoral Kangaroos 1997- (merger) 4 1999, 2002, 2004, 2007
Jeparit Rainbow The Storm 2015- (merger) - -
 Kalkee Killers 1945–1948, 1954–1958, 1960- 15 1946-7-8, 1974, 1978-9, 1982-3, 1989, 2000, 2008-9-10-11-12
Laharum The mountain men 1936- 9 1958-9, 1962-3-4, 1987, 1995, 2013, 2015
Natimuk United Rams 1971-2013 : 2014- (Merged with Horsham united to become Natimuk United) 1 1975
Noradjuha-Quantong Bombers 1997- (merger) - -
Pimpinio Tigers 1968- 2 2005-6
Rupanyup Panthers 1981- 7 1985-6, 1990, 1996-7-8, 2001
Southern Mallee Giants 2016-[4] 0 -
Swifts Baggies 2000- 2 2003, 2014
 Taylors Lake Lakers 1946- 1 1952

Past Clubs

Recent Premierships

References

  1. ↑ "Horsham, Natimuk football clubs may merge". Dimboola Courier. 2014-01-29. Retrieved 2015-11-10.
  2. ↑ "Natimuk and Horsham Diggers Merge". AFL Victoria. Retrieved 2015-11-10.
  3. 1 2 Venosta, Jeremy (2015-09-12). "Laharum v Kalkee: 2015 HDFNL grand final". Dimboola Courier. Retrieved 2015-11-10.
  4. ↑ MacGillivray, Colin (2015-07-02). "Southern Mallee Giants confirmed for HDFNL". Wimmera Mail-Times. Retrieved 2015-11-10.

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