Yorke Peninsula Football League

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The Yorke Peninsula Football League (YPFL) is an Australian rules football competition based in the Yorke Peninsula region of South Australia, Australia. It is an affiliated member of the South Australian National Football League. In 2006 CMS Crows Football Club were premiers, defeating Paskerville Football Club.[1]

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[edit] Current Clubs

  • Ardrossan Football Club
  • Bute Football Club
  • Central Yorke Cougars Football Club
  • CMS Crows Football Club
  • Kadina Football Club
  • Moonta Football Club
  • Paskeville Football Club
  • Southern Eagles Football Club
  • Wallaroo Football Club

[edit] Brief History

The current Yorke Peninsula Football League developed over a number of years and involved the gradual amalgamation of the Yorke Valley Football Association, Yorke Peninsula Football Association, and Southern Yorke Peninsula Football League.

[edit] Yorke Peninsula Football Association

The Yorke Peninsula Football Association was formed in 1888.

The founding clubs were:

  • Cross Roads
  • Moonta
  • Moonta Mines
  • Moonta Young Turks
  • Wallaroo
  • Wallaroo Young Turks (renamed from Kadina).

The final year of the Yorke Peninsula Football Association was in 1960 when the competing clubs were:

  • Kadina,
  • Moonta,
  • Paskeville
  • Wallaroo

These clubs then joined the Yorke Valley Football Association in 1961.

[edit] Southern Yorke Peninsula Football League

The Southern Yorke Peninsula Football League was formed in 1930. The founding clubs were:

  • Brentwood
  • Edithburgh
  • Stansbury
  • Sunbury
  • Warooka
  • Yorketown

In 1919 the Southern Yorke Peninsula Football Association and the Central Yorke Peninsula Football Association merged to form the Central And Southern Yorke Peninsula Association. This League went into recess during World War II and in 1945 the Southern Yorke Peninsula Football Association was reformed. The Southern Yorke Peninsula Football Association was renamed as the Southern Yorke Peninsula Football League in 1957.

The Southern Yorke Peninsula Football League were absorbed by the Yorke Valley Football League in 1994.

[edit] Yorke Valley FA

The Yorke Valley Football Association was formed in 1930.

The Yorke Valley Football Association disbanded in 1936, but was reformed in 1945. In 1961 the Association absorbed the clubs from the Yorke Peninsula Football Association (see above). The Association changed its name to Yorke Valley Football League in 1963. In 1994 the Yorke Valley Football League absorbed the Southern Yorke Peninsula (see above). At that time the participating clubs were:

  • Ardrossan
  • Arthurton
  • Bute
  • CMS (a new club, resulting from the merger of Curramulka, Minlaton and Stansbury)
  • Kadina
  • Maitland
  • Moonta
  • Paskeville
  • Southern Eagles (a new club, resulting from the merger of Edithburgh, Western United and Yorketown)
  • Wallaroo

In 1997 Central Yorke Football Club was formed from a merger between Arthurton and Maitland.

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