Geelong Football League
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| General Information | |
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| Founded | 1979 |
| Current Clubs |
Bell Park Colac Grovedale Geelong West Giants Lara Leopold Newtown & Chilwell North Shore South Barwon St Albans St Joseph's St Mary's |
| Former Clubs |
Barwon East Geelong Geelong Amateur Geelong West CFC North Geelong St Peters Thomson Geelong West St Peters |
| Stadiums | Burdoo Reserve Central Reserve Elderslie Reserve Hamlyn Park Herne Hill Reserve Kardinia Park West Lara Recreation Reserve Leopold Memorial Park McDonald Reserve St Albans Reserve West Oval Windsor Park |
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The Geelong Football League is an Australian rules football league in Victoria, Australia. It is the highest quality league in the Geelong area, with numerous former AFL players playing for various clubs.
The league was formed in 1979 when twelve clubs broke away from the Geelong & District Football League. The city and country clubs of the old GDFL were divided into the major league competition of the GFL and the minor league of the GDFL. Many of the teams in the lower league wanted a system of promotion and relegation, which was fought by the GFL until the early 1980s when the Victorian Country Football League held a hearing in Melbourne. As a result, a trial promotion-relegation system was put into place on a voluntary basis. Today, the GDFL is opposed to the promotion-relegation system, with a three-division, three league competition of the Geelong FL, Bellarine FL and Geelong & District FL in place in the Geelong region.
In 2015, The Geelong Advertiser football writer, Nick Wade, led a panel of some of the biggest names over the history of GFL footy, including Peter Kelly, Arthur Hodgson and John Fitzgerald, to compile 'the top 50 Geelong Football League players of all time' for those who had played at least 100 GFL games since 1979. North Shore and St Mary's onballer Frank Fopiani was named the best of the top 50 GFL greatest players.
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