VAFA
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Collegians vs Melbourne University Blacks at Collegians home ground at Albert Park

The Victorian Amateur Football Association is an Australian rules football league in Victoria, Australia consisting purely of amateur players. Unlike the Victorian Football League and the VFL/AFL, the VAFA has always been strictly a purely amateur league and has affiliations with both AFL Victoria and the Australian Amateur Football Council.

The league is the largest amateur league in Australia and widely regarded as the best amateur Aussie Rules league in the world. The league consists of 7 senior divisions (with each club fielding a firsts and reserves team) and multiple Under 19 divisions.

The league's administration base is at Elsternwick Park, a former Victorian Football Association stadium in suburban Elsternwick, Victoria that was home to the now defunct Brighton Football Club. It has a small grandstand and capacity for around 15,000 spectators.

Crowds during home and away matches are modest in comparison to the professional leagues, however Grand Finals for each division often attract as many spectators as the Victorian Football League Grand Finals.

In addition there are also three Club XVIII divisions, primarily made up of either clubs only able to field one team, or clubs from higher divisions that can field a third team after their seniors and reverves. The league operates a promotion and relegation system between divisions with various rules dictating which division clubs can play in.

Many of the clubs are private school based where by the 'old boys' from the school generally play.

The reigning premiers for the A Section are St Bedes/Mentone Tigers.

A VAFA match featuring Old Melburnians at the Junction Oval.

History

The league began in 1892 as the Metropolitan Junior Football Association.

Premiers

Current Clubs

As of 2008^[update], the 7 senior divisions were structured as follows:

A Section

B Section

C Section

D1 Section

D2 Section

D3 Section

D4 Section

Former Clubs

This may consist of clubs that are currently playing in the Club XVIII section.

• Albanvale - now in WRFL
• Alberton Football Club
• Alphington Football Club
• AMP Society Football Club
• ANZ Bank Football Club - now known as the Albert Park Football Club
• Army Apprentices Football Club
• Associated Grammar Schools Football Club
• Assumption Old Collegians
• Australian Postal Institute Football Club
• Balaclava Football Club
• Balwyn Football Club - moved to the Eastern Football League
• Balwyn Combined Football Club
• Bellfield Football Club
• Beverley Football Club
• Beverley Hills Football Club
• Black Rock Football Club
• Booroondara Football Club
• Boronia Park Football Club
• Brighton Amateurs Football Club
• Brighton Technical School Old Boys
• Brighton Vale Cricket Club
• Brunswick Amateurs Football Club
• Bulleen Cobras Football Club (changed name after the 2008 season to Manningham Amateur Football Club)
• Bulleen United Football Club (merged in 1996 to become Bulleen Cobras Football Club)
• Camberwell Football Club
• Canterbury-North Balwyn Football Club (merged in 1996 to become Bulleen Cobras Football Club)
• Canterbury United Churches Football Club
• Carlton District Football Club
• Carnegie Football Club
• Carnegie Church Of Christ Football Club
• Cassie Club Football Club
• Caulfield City Football Club
• Celtic Amateur Football Club
• Chirnside Park Football Club - moved to the Eastern Football League
• Clayton Amateur Football Club
• Coburg Amateurs Football Club
• Collingwood District Football Club
• Commercial Bank Football Club
• Commonwealth Bank Football Club
• Coolaroo Rovers Football Club
• Dandenong KSP Football Club
• Doveton SJOC
• East Malvern Football Club
• Edlington Football Club
• Elwood Football Club
• ES&A Bank Football Club
• Fawkner Football Club
• Fitzroy District Football Club
• Fitzroy Juniors Football Club
• Footscray Technical School Old Boys
• Geelong Amateurs Football Club
• Glenroy Football Club - now member of EDFL
• GTV-9 Football Club
• Hampton Football Club
• Hawthorn Amateur Football Club
• Heatherton Football Club
• Heidelberg West Amateurs - member of DVFL since 1941
• Huntingdale Football Club
• Insurance Social Clubs Association Football Club
• Kingsville Rovers Football Club
• Kontias Football Club
• Kooyong Football Club
• Leopold Football Club
• Malvern Football Club
• Melbourne Shipping Company Football Club
• Melbourne Swimming Club Football Club
• Monash University Football Club
• Monash Whites Football Club Official Site
• Moreland Amateurs Football Club
• Mount Carmel Old Collegians
• Murrumbeena Football Club - member of SFL
• Myer Football Club
• National Bank Football Club
• Naval Base Flinders Football Club
• Newlands-Coburg Football Club
• North Alphington Football Club
• North Melbourne CBC Old Boys
• Nunawading Football Club
• Oakleigh Football Club
• Olinda Football Club
• Parkside Football Club (now in the Northern Football League)
• Pascoe Vale Football Club - now member of EDFL
• Patricians Football Club
• Pharmacy College Football Club
• Port Melbourne Amateurs Football Club
• Port Rovers Football Club
• Preston Amateurs Football Club
• Preston MBOB
• Princes Hill Football Club
• RAAF Cadets Football Club
• Reservoir Old Boys
• Salesian Old Collegians (Merged after the 2007 season to become St Marys/Salesain)
• Sandringham Amateurs
• Sandringham Juniors Football Club
• Southbank Football Club
• South Camberwell Football Club
• South Melbourne City Football Club
• South Melbourne Juniors Football Club
• South St Kilda Football Club
• South Yarra Amateur Football Club
• St Andrews Amateurs
• St Ignatius Football Club
• St Judes Football Club
• St Leonards Old Collegians
• St Mary's Amateur Football Club (Merged at the end of 2007 to become St Marys/Salesain)
• St Patricks Ballarat Old Collegians
• St Pius Football Club
• St Kilda CBC Old Boys
• State Electricity Commission Football Club
• State Saving Bank Football Club
• Surrey Hills Football Club
• Teachers College Football Club
• Thomastown Football Club (now in the Northern Football League)
• Thornbury Football Club
• Toorak-Grosvenor Football Club
• Tooronga-Malvern Football Club - now in Southern Football League
• Waltham Football Club
• Waverley Amateurs Football Club
• West Hawthorn Football Club
• Windsor Football Club
• YMCA Football Club

See also

• Australian rules football

External links

• Official Site
• Brief History
• VAFA Records and History at Full Points Footy

References