Southern Mallee Football League
The Southern Mallee Football League (SMFL) was an Australian rules football competition that finished in 1996 based in the Mallee region of Victoria, Australia. The league featured three grades in the Australian rules football competition, being First-Grade, Reserve-Grade and Under 16s.
History
The Southern Mallee Football League was formed in the 1932 and continued until 1996 when it merged with the Northern Mallee Football League to form the Mallee Football League (Victoria).
Clubs
Club | Years in comp | SMFL Premierships | Moved to |
---|---|---|---|
Berri-Culgoa | 1979-1996 | 3 | Mallee Football League (Victoria) |
Beulah | 1932-1996 | 17 | Mallee Football League (Victoria) |
Brim | 1932-1996 | 5 | Mallee Football League (Victoria) |
Hopetoun | 1936-1996 | 13 | Mallee Football League (Victoria) |
Jeparit*# | 1957-1959, 1990-1996 | 0 | Mallee Football League (Victoria) |
Kenmare | 1932-1940, 1946-1954 | 1 | Disbanded |
Lascelles | 1946-1950 | 2 | Merged with Woomelang |
Nullawil | 1979-1996 | 3 | Mallee Football League (Victoria) |
Rainbow* | 1937-1996 | 3 | Mallee Football League (Victoria) |
Rosebery | 1932-1938, 1951-1954 | 1 | Mallee Football League (Victoria) |
Warracknabeal# | 1957-1959 | 0 | Wimmera Football League |
Woomelang | 1940-1950 | 1 | Merged with Lascelles |
Woomelang-Lascelles | 1951-1996 | 6 | Mallee Football League (Victoria) |
Yaapeet | 1946-1996 | 4 | Mallee Football League (Victoria) |
(*) Jeparit and Rainbow merged to form Jeparit-Rainbow at the end of the 1996 season before they moved into the newly formed Mallee Football League (Victoria) in 1997. (#) Between 1957-1959 Jeparit and Warracknabeal had a second 18 team competing in the Southern Mallee senior competition due to the Wimmera league disbanding their seconds competition.
Premierships
- 1932 Brim
- 1933 Beulah
- 1934 Rosebery
- 1935 Beulah
- 1936 Kenmare
- 1937 Hopetoun
- 1938 Hopetoun
- 1939 Hopetoun
- 1940 Woomelang
- 1941 (No competition due to the war)
- 1942 (No competition due to the war)
- 1943 (No competition due to the war)
- 1944 (No competition due to the war)
- 1945 (No competition due to the war)
- 1946 Lascelles
- 1947 Beulah
- 1948 Brim
- 1949 Lascelles
- 1950 Beulah
- 1951 Brim
- 1952 Brim
- 1953 Beulah
- 1954 Beulah
- 1955 Beulah
- 1956 Beulah
- 1957 Woomelang-Lascelles
- 1958 Yaapeet
- 1959 Rainbow
- 1960 Woomelang-Lascelles
- 1961 Beulah
- 1962 Beulah
- 1963 Rainbow
- 1964 Beulah
- 1965 Hopetoun
- 1966 Hopetoun
- 1967 Yaapeet
- 1968 Woomelang-Lascelles
- 1969 Hopetoun
- 1970 Rainbow
- 1971 Woomelang-Lascelles
- 1972 Hopetoun
- 1973 Hopetoun
- 1974 Beulah
- 1975 Hopetoun
- 1976 Hopetoun
- 1977 Yaapeet
- 1978 Yaapeet
- 1979 Nullawil
- 1980 Nullawil
- 1981 Beulah
- 1982 Beulah
- 1983 Hopetoun
- 1984 Hopetoun
- 1985 Beulah
- 1986 Nullawil
- 1987 Brim
- 1988 Woomelang-Lascelles
- 1989 Beulah
- 1990 Beulah
- 1991 Hopetoun
- 1992 Woomelang-Lascelles
- 1993 Woomelang-Lascelles
- 1994 Berri-Culgoa
- 1995 Berri-Culgoa
- 1996 Berri-Culgoa