Gippsland Football League

Gippsland Football League

Most recent season or competition: 2015 Gippsland Football League
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Formerly	West Gippsland Football League Gippsland-Latrobe Football League Latrobe Valley Football League Central Gippsland Football League
Sport	Australian Football & Netball
Founded	1902 (originally founded)
Inaugural season	2000
President	Brian McKenzie
Divisions	Competitions (Football): Seniors, Reserves, Under 18, Under 16 Competitions (Netball): A Grade, B Grade, C Grade, Under 17, Under 15, Under 13
No. of teams	10
Competitors	Bairnsdale Drouin Leongatha Maffra Moe Morwell Sale Traralgon Warragul Wonthaggi
Most recent champion(s)	Premiers: Traralgon
Official website	Official Website

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.

History

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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 from 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 and Bairnsdale joined the GFL in 2010 and 2011 respectively.

The Latrobe Valley area does not have a team participating in the Victorian Football League. Traralgon competed in the VFL during 1996-97, winning just four matches across those two years, before returning to the regional competition. The region does have a representative team in the TAC Cup Under-18 competition, Gippsland Power.

Clubs

For 2013, the Gippsland Football League will consist of ten teams:

Jumper/Colours	Club	Nickname	Founded	Ground	Premierships	Website
35px	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]
	Drouin Football Club	Hawks	1903	Drouin Recreation Reserve Sinclair St	(8) 1941, 1946, 1949, 1958, 1967, 1978, 1991-92 (WGFL)	[2]
	Leongatha Football Club	Parrots	1894	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]
35px	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]
35px	Moe Football Club	Lions	1909	Ted Summerton Reserve Vale St, Moe	(2) 1956, 1967 (LVFL)	[5]
	Morwell Football Club	Tigers	1905	Morwell Recreation Reserve Travers St	(12) 1950, 1952-53 (CGFL), 1961, 1966, 1983, 1985, 1988, 1993 (LVFL), 1996 (GLFL), 2013, 2014 (GFL)	[6]
	Sale Football Club	Magpies	1901	Sale Recreation Reserve Palmerston St	(20) 1901, 1905, 1911, 1924, 1927, 1931, 1934, 1937, 1949–50, 1953 (GFL), 1954, 1955, 1957, 1959, 1971, 1973, 1975, 1986 (LVFL) 2008, 2012 (GFL)	[7]
35px	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, 2015	[8]
	Warragul Football Club	Gulls	1902	Western Park Tarwin St	(4) 1974, 1976, 1984 (LVFL), 2003 (WGFL)	[9]
35px	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)

Former clubs

Jumper	Club	Nickname	Years competed	Home Ground	Premierships	Website
	Churchill	Kangaroos	1984-1994	Gaskin Park, Churchill	(0)	[11]
	Garfield Football Club	Stars	2002-2009	Garfield Recreation Reserve Beswick St	(7)1963-64, 1966, 1983, 1993, 1994, 2004 (WGFL)	[12]
	Heyfield	Kangaroos	1960-1974	Gordon St Rec Reserve	(0)	[13]
	Newborough	Bulldogs	1979-1985	Newborough Rec Reserve Soutwell St	(0)	[14]
	Stratford	Swans	1961-1964	Stratford Rec Reserve Wellsford St	(0)	[15]
	Trafalgar	Bloods	1954-1968	Trafalgar Rec Reserve	(2) 1958, 1962	[16]
	Traralgon Tyers United	The Two Blues	1983-1988	Tyers Rec Reserve Main Road	(0)	[17]
	Yallourn	The Blues	1954-1976	Yallourn Rec Reserve	(0)
	Yallourn Yallourn North	Bombers	1977-1985	Yallourn Rec Reserve	(0)	[18]
	Yarragon	Panthers	1954-1960	Yarragon Football Ground Market St	(0)	[19]

Premiers and Best & Fairest Winners

Main articles: Gippsland Football League Premiership Teams and Gippsland Football League Best & Fairest Winners

Year	Senior Premier	Senior B&F Winner	Season Summary (Ladder & Finals)
2014	Traralgon	--	2015 Season
2014	Morwell	--	2014 Season
2013	Morwell	--	2013 Season
2012	Sale	Luke Collins ( Sale)	2012 Season
2011	Traralgon	Andrew Soumilas ( Drouin)	2011 Season
2010	Maffra	Gary Jones ( Maffra)	2010 Season
2009	Maffra	Adrian Cox ( Sale) & Michael Geary ( Traralgon)	2009 Season
2008	Sale	Nick Hider ( Maffra)	2008 Season
2007	Maffra	Nick Hider ( Maffra)	2007 Season
2006	Maffra	Desi Barr ( Warragul)	2006 Season
2005	Traralgon	Andrew Soumilas ( Garfield)	2005 Season

Records and Statistics

Club Finishing Positions

Club	Premierships	Runners Up	3rd	4th	5th
Traralgon	20	17	8	6	2
Sale	11	5	8	9	2
Leongatha	8	6	7	6	3
Morwell	7	8	10	4	6
Maffra	7	3	6	5	2
Warragul	3	3	5	14	2
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Moe	2	8	9	6	1
Bairnsdale	1	2	3	2	0
15px Wonthaggi	0	3	2	2	1
Drouin	0	2	0	0	1

Recent Finishing Positions

Club	2012	2011	2010	2009	2008	2007	2006
Bairnsdale	9th	8th	--	--	--	--	--
Drouin	7th	2nd	2nd	5th	9th		9th
Garfield	--	--	--	9th	6th	3rd	7th
Leongatha	4th	5th	5th	4th	7th		8th
Maffra	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	4th	1st	1st
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Moe	10th	7th	6th	3rd	5th		5th
Sale	1st	4th	7th	8th	1st	2nd	2nd
Traralgon	3rd	1st	3rd	1st	8th		3rd
Warragul	8th	10th	9th	6th	3rd		4th
15px Wonthaggi	6th	6th	8th	--	--	--	--

Significant Records

Record	Detail
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

External links

• Full Points Footy -West Gippsland Latrobe Football League
• West Gippsland Latrobe Football League
• Gippsland Power