Ovens & Murray Football League
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| General Information | |
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| Founded | Early 1893 in Rutherglen, Victoria as Rutherglen & District Football Association |
| Sport(s) |
Australian Rules Football (1893–Present) Netball (1993–Present) |
| Affiliation |
AFL Victoria Country (2012–Present) Netball Victoria (1993–Present) |
| Participants Level | Semi-Pro |
| AFL Victoria Country Player Points Cap | |
| 2016 Season | 42 Points |
| 2017 Season | 38 Points |
| Known As | |
| 1893-1913 | Rutherglen And District Football Association |
| 1914-1925 | Ovens And Murray Football Association |
| 1926-1992 | Ovens And Murray Football League |
| 1993–present | Ovens And Murray Football Netball League |
| Compertitions | |
| Football |
OMFNL Seniors OMFNL Reserves OMFNL Under 18's |
| Netball |
ONFNL A-Grade OMFNL B-Grade OMFNL C-Grade OMFNL 16's & Under |
| Interleague Competitions | |
| Football & Netball | 2002-Present: AFL Victorian Country Championships |
The Ovens and Murray Football Netball League (O&MFNL) is an Australian rules football and Netball competition containing ten clubs based in north-eastern Victoria, the southern Riverina region of New South Wales and the Ovens and Murray area. The name comes from the Ovens River, the river in the part of north-eastern Victoria covered by the league, and the Murray River, which separates Victoria and New South Wales.
The league features three grades in the Australian rules football competition, with these being First-Grade, Reserve-Grade and Under 18s. In the netball competition, there are four grades, with these being A-Grade, B-Grade, C-Grade and Under 16s.
Currently a home and away season consisting of eighteen rounds is played. The best five teams then play off according to the McIntyre System, culminating in the O&MFNL Grand Final, which since 1995 has been held at Lavington Panthers Oval in the Albury suburb of Hamilton Valley.
Organised competition in the area started as the Ovens & Murray Football Association in 1893, although it was interrupted in 1911 when Albury was excluded, with the competition renamed Rutherglen DFA for that season. Albury was readmitted in 1912 and after some club shuffling with The Chiltern & District FA, the competition reformed under the Ovens & Murray Football Association banner again in 1914.
It is a fallacy to report that the Ovens & Murray Football Association changed its name in 1911 to the Rutherglen & District Football Association. In fact, the Ovens & Murray FA folded and ceased to exist in 1911. The previous years competition had attracted only three teams, Albury, Excelsior and premiers Rutherglen, and sides in the district refused to play against Rutherglen and Albury. The Ovens and Murray Junior Association held a meeting at McKays Hotel in Rutherglen on Wednesday April 19, 2011, attended among others by Messrs. Reid and Walter from Howlong, where a motion was carried to the effect that the Association change its name to the Rutherglen and District Football Association. The name change was necessary because if the Junior Association had continued under their original name, there would have been the impression that the Ovens & Murray Association still existed, which it did not. The Rutherglen & District FA continued for three years until the Ovens & Murray FA was reformed for 1914.
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