Southern Football Netball League

**Southern Football Netball League**


Founded	1963
Formerly known as	South East Suburban Football League
No. of senior divisions	3
No. of senior clubs	33
2015 Premiers	Div 1: Dingley Div 2: Oakleigh Districts Div 3: Black Rock
Website	SFL Website

The Southern Football Netball League is an Australian rules football league, based in the south and south eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria, for both seniors and juniors.^[1]

History

The South East Suburban Football League had been formed in 1963 as a merger of the East Suburban FL and the Caulfield Oakleigh District FL, after a number of clubs moved to the Croydon Ferntree Gully FL (now Eastern Football League).

By the time the Federal FL folded in 1981 the SESFL had twenty clubs, with the influx of the additional club the league had a sixteen team A grade and 12 team B grade competitions.

In a major project in 1991 the league underwent a major revamp of its administration and opted to employ a full-time administrator and staff to manage the league's affairs. The League's administration along with its member clubs undertook a far reaching corporate planning programme to map out future directions and objectives. The extra manpower allowed the elevation of League and club standards and the improved marketability of attracting the corporate sponsorship that modern football now required to keep the organization afloat. Much of this work was completed by early 1992 and it was decided that a new name would be required to flow on from the work already achieved. The Southern Football League was adopted to show that a new professionalism was running football in the southern suburbs.

The league in its current form was created in 1993, through the absorption of the Eastern Suburbs Churches Football Association by the Southern Football League. The newly merged league began in 1993 with around 50 clubs playing 5 divisions, though this had dropped to 28 clubs in 3 divisions by 2002 due to clubs folding, merging, or moving to other competitions.^[2]

Since that time, the league has grown slightly with the addition of the Southern Dragons in 2009, Endeavour Hills in 2011 and Hallam in 2012. The Dragons returned to the VAFA after the 2012 season,^[3] but the revival of Carrum Patterson Lakes in 2013 after almost 20 years in recess kept the league at 31 clubs.^[4]

The 2014 SFL third division seniors grand final was called off after a brawl broke out between players and supporters. The game in which Mount Waverley was taking on Carrum Patterson Lakes. A police spokeswoman said supporters started heckling one of the teams as it left the ground at half-time. A fight broke out and one person was treated in hospital. The game was called off when one of the teams refused to return to the field."^[5] In 2015 in acknowledging the netball part of the competition, the league changed its name to Southern Football Netball League. ^[6] In 2016 Port Melbourne Colts transferred in from Western Region Football League and Lyndhurst field a senior side for the first time. Southern Dragons went into recess during the 2015 season. ^[7]

Premiers

Year	Division 1	Division 2	Division 3	Division 4	Division 5
2015	Dingley	Oakleigh Districts	Black Rock
2014	East Brighton	Mordialloc	Match abandoned
2013	St Pauls	Bentleigh	Doveton Eagles
2012	East Brighton	East Malvern	Moorabbin
2011	St Pauls	Highett	Southern Dragons
2010	St Kilda City	Clayton	Hampton
2009	St Kilda City	Heatherton	Skye
2008	St Pauls	Dingley	South Yarra
2007	St Kilda City	Springvale District	Black Rock
2006	Clayton	Heatherton	Parkmore
2005	Balwyn	St Kilda City	Moorabbin
2004	East Brighton	Highett	Black Rock
2003	Balwyn	Murrumbeena	Canterbury
2002	St Kilda City	East Brighton	Hampton
2001	Clayton	Ashwood	Tooronga Malvern
2000	Balwyn	Chelsea Heights	Lyndale
1999	Balwyn	Mordialloc	North Kew
1998	Balwyn	St Kilda City	Heatherton	Mt Waverley Catholics
1997	Noble Park	Balwyn	Box Hill Pioneers	Lyndale
1996	Noble Park	Ashwood	Highett	Cheltenham Assumption
1995	Parkdale	Cheltenham	Chelsea Heights	Doveton Eagles	Lyndale
1994	Noble Park	Caulfield	St Kilda City	Syndal-Tally Ho	Carrum Downs
1993	East Brighton	Cheltenham	Murrumbeena	South Yarra	Moorabbin West
1992	Noble Park	Cheltenham

South East Suburban FL premiers

Year	A1 Grade	A2 Grade
1963	Murrumbeena
1964	Mt Waverley
1965	Glen Iris
1966	East Brighton	Kooyong
1967	Kooyong	Sandown
1968	Burwood	St Bedes Old Collegians
1969	Canterbury	East Malvern
1970	Burwood	Hawthorn District
1971	Hawthorn District	St Kilda City
1972	Canterbury	Sandown
1973	East Brighton	Ashburton
1974	Murrumbeena	Carnegie
1975	Carnegie	Port Colts
1976	East Brighton	South Melb Dist
1977	Ashburton	Beaumaris
1978	Ashburton	Tooronga-Malvern
1979	Burwood	Glen Iris
1980	Ashburton	St Kilda City
1981	Ashburton	East Hawthorn
1982	Clayton	East Hawthorn
1983	Noble Park	South Melb Dist
1984	Clayton	Parkdale
1985	Noble Park	Tooronga-Malvern
1986	Noble Park	Highett West
1987	Noble Park	Ashburton
1988	Caulfield-Ashburton	East Brighton
1989	Balwyn	Parkdale
1990	Noble Park	Tooronga-Malvern
1991	East Brighton	Canterbury

Current Clubs

Division 1

Club	Nickname	Location Ground	Website	Years in Comp	SFL Premierships
Bentleigh	Demons	Bentleigh Reserve	Official Site		Div 2: 2013
Cheltenham	Rosellas	Cheltenham Reserve	Official Site	1982-	Div 2: 1992-3, 1995
Clayton	Clays	Meade Reserve, Clayton	Official Site	1999 -	Div 1: 2001, 2006 Div 2: 2010
Dingley	Dingoes		Official Site	2007-	Div 1: 2015 Div 2: 2008
East Brighton	Vampires	Hurlingham Park, Brighton East	Official Site	1963 -	Div 1: 1993, 2004, 2012, 2014 Div 2: 2002
East Malvern	Panthers	Lucas Oval, Malvern East	Official Site	1964- (Known as Tooronga/Malvern until 2012)	Div 2: 2012 Div 3: 2001
Mordialloc	Bloodhounds	Ben Kavanagh Reserve, Mordialloc	Official Site	1988–	Div 2: 1999, 2014
Oakleigh District	Districts	Princes Highway Reserve, Oakleigh East	Official Site	1982-	Div 2: 2015
St Kilda City	Saints	Peanut Farm Reserve, St Kilda	Official Site		Div 1: 2002, 2007, 2009-10 Div 2: 1998, 2005 Div 3: 1994
St Pauls	Bulldogs	McKinnon Reserve, Bentleigh	Official Site	1993-	Div 1: 2008, 2011, 2013

Division 2

Club	Nickname	Suburb	Ground Location	Club Website	Years in Comp	SFL Premierships
Black Rock	Jets			Official Site		Div 3: 2004, 2007, 2015
Caulfield	Bears			Official Site	1993-	Div 2: 1994
Chelsea Heights	Demons			Official Site		Div 2: 2000 Div 3: 1995
Hampton	Hammers			Official Site		Div 3: 2002, 2010
Heatherton	Tunners			Official Site		Div 2: 2006, 2009 Div 3: 1998
Highett	Bulldogs			Official Site	1993- (known as Highett Districts until 1997)	Div 2: 2004, 2011 Div 3: 1996
Keysborough	Burras			Official Site	2015-	-
Murrumbeena	Lions			Official Site	1993-	Div 2: 2003 Div 3: 1993
Port Melbourne	Colts	Port Melbourne	JL Murphy Reserve	Official Site	1975-80, 2016-	A2 1975
Skye	Bombers			Official Site	2006-	Div 3: 2009
Springvale Districts	Demons			Official Site	1993-	Div 2: 2007

Division 3

Club	Nickname	Ground Location	Club website	Years in Comp	SFL Premierships
Ashwood	Magpies	Essex Heights Reserve, Ashwood	Official Site	1985-	Div 2: 1996, 2001
Carrum Patterson Lakes	Lions^[8]	Graham Rd, Carrum	Official Site	2013- Reformed, Carrum FC folded after the 1996 season in the MPNFL	-
Dandenong	Redlegs^[9]	Greaves Reserve, Dandenong	Official site	1993- (known as Dandenong West until 2003, Dandenong Demons until 2009) (Not connected to former VFA club Dandenong)	-
Doveton Eagles	Eagles	L.J. Reid Oval, Doveton	Official Site	1995-	Div 3: 2013 Div 4: 1995
Endeavour Hills	Falcons	Singleton Reserve, Endeavour Hills	Official site	2011-	-
Hallam	Hawks	Hallam Reserve, Hallam	Official site	2012-	-
Lyndale	Pumas	Barry Powell Reserve, Noble Park North	Official Site	1993-	Div 3: 2000 Div 4: 1997 Div 5: 1995
Lyndhurst	Lightning	Boland Drive, Lyndhurst		2016-
Moorabbin	Kangaroos	A.W Oliver Reserve Hampton East	Official Site	1993-	Div 3: 2005, 2012 Div 5: 1993
Mount Waverley	Mountain Lions^[10]	Mayfield Park, Mt Waverley	Official Site	1993-2002, 2005- (known as Mt Waverley Catholics until 1998)	Div 4: 1998
Sandown	Cobras	Edinburgh Reserve, Springvale	Official Site	2002- (known as Southern Cobras until 2004)
South Yarra	Lions	Fritsch Holzer Reserve, Hawthorn East	Official Site	1993-	Div 3: 2008 Div 4: 1993

Previous Clubs

Folded/In Recess

Club	Last season
Ashburton-Chadstone Football Club	1994
Box Hill Adelphians Football Club	1995
Brooklyn Football Club	2004
Carnegie Football Club	1999
Cerberus Football Club	2010
Cheltenham Assumption Football Club	1998
Collingwood Districts Football Club	1995
Camberwell Power Football Club	1996
Fairfield Football Club	1995
Heidelberg Colts Football Club	1995
North Blackburn Football Club	1995
Parkmore Football Club	2007
Richmond Rosellas Football Club	1995
Southern Dragons	2015

Merged

Club	Club	Year	Resulting club
Burwood Football Club	Mount Waverley (not the current club in Div 3)	1993	Mt Waverley-Burwood
East Bentleigh	St Paul's		St Paul's-East Bentleigh
East Camberwell	Surrey Hills	1994	Surrey Park (moved to EFL in 2001)
Mentone	St Bedes Old Collegians (VAFA)	1993	St Bedes Mentone Tigers (VAFA)
Parkdale	Mentone Amateurs (previously St Patrick's Mentone) (VAFA)	2003	Parkdale Vultures (VAFA)
Mount Waverley-Burwood	Waverley Amateurs	2000	Waverley Blues (EFL)

Moved to Eastern Football League

Club	Last season in SFL
Balwyn	2006
Box Hill Pioneers (now known as Whitehorse Pioneers)	1997
Canterbury	2008
Noble Park	1999
Surrey Park	2001

Moved to Mornington Peninsula Nepean Football League

Carrum Downs Football Club

Moved to Northern Football League

Lower Plenty Football Club

Moved to Victorian Amateur Football Association

Club	Last season in SFL
Beaumaris	1994
Box Hill North	2001
South Melbourne Districts	1999
South Mornington	2006
Syndal-Tally Ho (now known as Chadstone)	1996

Moved to Yarra Valley Mountain District Football League

Boronia Park Football Club 1999

References

Official Southern Football League Site

Clubs in the Southern Football League (Victoria)

First Division	Bentleigh Cheltenham Clayton Dingley East Brighton East Malvern Heatherton Oakleigh Districts St Kilda City St Pauls East Bentleigh

Second Division	Black Rock Caulfield Chelsea Heights Hampton Highett Keysborough Mordialloc Murrumbeena Port Melbourne Colts Springvale Districts

Third Division	Ashwood Carrum Patterson Lakes Dandenong Doveton Endeavour Hills Hallam Lyndale Lyndhurst Moorabbin Kangaroos Mount Waverley Sandown South Yarra

Australian rules football in Victoria

Representative side	Victoria

Governing bodies	AFL Victoria (metropolitan) AFL Victoria Country (country)

Professional clubs	Carlton Collingwood Essendon Geelong Hawthorn Melbourne North Melbourne Richmond St Kilda Western Bulldogs

Statewide leagues	Victorian Football League TAC Cup (under-18) List of Australian rules football competitions in Victoria

Metropolitan leagues	Eastern Essendon District Northern Riddell District Southern VAFA Western Region

Regional leagues (major)	Ballarat Bellarine Bendigo Central Murray Geelong Gippsland Goulburn Valley Hampden Mornington Peninsula Nepean Murray North Central Ovens & Murray Sunraysia Wimmera Yarra Valley Mountain

Regional leagues (district)	Alberton Central Highlands Colac & District East Gippsland Ellinbank & District Geelong & District Golden Rivers Heathcote Horsham & District Kowree-Naracoorte-Tatiara Kyabram & District Loddon Valley Maryborough Castlemaine Mid Gippsland Millewa Mininera North Gippsland Omeo & District Ovens & King Picola & District South East South West Tallangatta Upper Murray Warrnambool Western Border

Women's leagues	Victorian Women's Football League AFL Victoria Youth Girls Competition

Defunct leagues	Benalla (1946-2009) Federal (1909-1981) Lexton Plains (1999-2010) Mallee (1997-2015) Riviera (1986-2003) Tyrrell (1945-1978) List of former Australian rules football competitions in Victoria

Principal venues	Melbourne Cricket Ground Docklands Stadium Princes Park Kardinia Park

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