Victorian Women's Football League
Current season, competition or edition: 2015 VWFL season
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| Sport | Women's Australian rules football |
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| Inaugural season | 1981 |
| No. of teams | 31 |
| Country | Australia |
| Headquarters | Melbourne, Australia |
| Most recent champion(s) |
Darebin Falcons (2014) |
| Most titles | Scorpions (11) |
| TV partner(s) | C31 |
| Official website | [1] |
The Victorian Women's Football League (VWFL) is the oldest and largest Australian rules football league for women in the world, consisting of 31 clubs from Victoria, Australia across six divisions and a total of over 1,000 players.
The VWFL complies with the Laws of Australian football. The official ball, a Sherrin, used by the VWFL is a custom made size 4.5 ball.
The Victorian Women's Football League was formed in 1981 with four teams competing at open level.
In 1995, Sal Rees caused controversy for applying for the 1995 AFL Draft. The nomination was voided, and the draft rules were amended by the AFL to prevent a repeat of this incident.
The VWFL grew quickly, increasing dramatically the number of players and participating teams with a Division 3 added in 2001.
In 2002 VWFL player Debbie Lee made headlines for pushing to play against men in the made-for-television team the Hammerheads. She has commented, "My whole idea with the Hammerheads was to promote women's football. At no point in time did I really think I was going to play against the men, and frankly it wouldn't really have been smart for me to do that. My whole idea was to cause a bit of activity."
An U17 Youth Girls Competition was established by Football Victoria in 2004 primarily to provide a pathway to the VWFL. This was following legal action taken against them in the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (following a complaint to the Equal Opportunity Commission) by junior players Penny Cula-Reid, Emily Stayner, and Helen Taylor.
In May 2004 the first VWFL game was played at the Melbourne Cricket Ground MCG with the Melbourne Uni MUGARS defeating St Albans SPURS on Mothers day. A second game was played at the G later in the same year featuring Melbourne Uni MUGARS against the St Kilda SHARKS reserves teams.
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