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. The league was known as the Yorke Valley Football League until 1996, having previously absorbed the Yorke Peninsula Football Association in 1961, and the Southern Yorke Peninsula Football League in 1994.
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| Jumper | Club | Nickname | Years in YVFL/YPFL | YPFL/YVFL premierships (since 1961) |
Premiership years[1] |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ardrossan | Kangaroos | 1930- | 9 | 1965, 1967-68, 1970-71-72, 1974, 1989 , 2004 | |
| Bute | Roosters | 1962- | 5 | 1969, 1973, 1978, 1991, 1993 | |
| Central Yorke | Cougars | 1998- (Merger of Arthurton and Maitland) |
1 | 2007 | |
| CMS | Crows | 1994- (Merger of Curramulka, Minlaton and Stansbury) |
3 | 1999, 2003, 2006 | |
| Kadina | Bloodhounds | 1961- | 3 | 1984, 2002, 2010 | |
| Moonta | Demons | 1961- | 1 | 1963 | |
| Paskeville | Magpies | 1961- | 3 | 1964, 1985, 2001 | |
| Southern Eagles | Eagles | 1994- (Merger of Edithburgh, Yorketown and Western United) |
3 | 1995, 2008-9 | |
| Wallaroo | Bulldogs | 1961- | 7 | 1976, 1990, 1992, 1996-97-98, 2000 |
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.
The Yorke Peninsula Football Association was formed in 1888.
The founding clubs were:
The final year of the Yorke Peninsula Football Association was in 1960 when the competing clubs were:
These clubs then joined the Yorke Valley Football Association in 1961.
The Southern Yorke Peninsula Football League was formed in 1930. The founding clubs were:
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.
At the end of the 1993 season, all six SYPFL clubs were merged into two new clubs - Curramulka, Minlaton and Stansbury as the CMS Crows, and Yorketown, Edithburgh and Western United as the Southern Eagles - and the two resulting clubs absorbed into the YVFL.
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:
In 1996, the YVFL changed its name to the current title.
In 1997 Central Yorke Football Club was formed from a merger between Arthurton and Maitland.
| Year | A Grade | B Grade | Senior Colts | Junior Colts |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1961 | Port Victoria | |||
| 1962 | Paskeville | |||
| 1963 | Moonta | |||
| 1964 | Paskeville | |||
| 1965 | Ardrossan | |||
| 1966 | Port Victoria | |||
| 1967 | Ardrossan | |||
| 1968 | Ardrossan | |||
| 1969 | Bute | |||
| 1970 | Ardrossan | |||
| 1971 | Ardrossan | |||
| 1972 | Ardrossan | |||
| 1973 | Bute | |||
| 1974 | Ardrossan | |||
| 1975 | Port Victoria | |||
| 1976 | Wallaroo | |||
| 1977 | Port Vicotria | |||
| 1978 | Bute | |||
| 1979 | Port Victoria | |||
| 1980 | Maitland | |||
| 1981 | Maitland | |||
| 1982 | Arthurton | |||
| 1983 | Wallaroo | Kadina | ||
| 1984 | Kadina def Arthurton | Kadina | Maitland | |
| 1985 | Paskeville def Kadina | Paskeville | Ardrossan | |
| 1986 | Arthurton (after drawn Grand Final) | Port Victoria | ||
| 1987 | Paskeville | Arthurton | ||
| 1988 | Arthurton | Arthurton | ||
| 1989 | Ardrossan | |||
| 1990 | Wallaroo | |||
| 1991 | Bute | Wallaroo | ||
| 1992 | Wallaroo | |||
| 1993 | Bute | Arthurton | ||
| 1994 | Maitland | |||
| 1995 | Southern Eagles | |||
| 1996 | Wallaroo | Wallaroo | ||
| 1997 | Wallaroo | Wallaroo | CY Cougars | |
| 1998 | Wallaroo | Wallaroo | ||
| 1999 | CMS Crows | CMS Crows | CMS Crows | CMS Crows |
| 2000 | Wallaroo | CMS Crows | ||
| 2001 | Paskeville | Kadina | ||
| 2002 | Kadina | Kadina | ||
| 2003 | CMS Crows | Kadina | ||
| 2004 | Ardrossan | Kadina | Kadina | Southern Eagles |
| 2005 | Moonta | Kadina | CY Cougars | CMS Crows |
| 2006 | CMS Crows | Moonta | CMS Crows | |
| 2007 | CY Cougars | CY Cougars | Southern Eagles | Moonta |
| 2008 | Southern Eagles | Southern Eagles | Ardrossan | CMS Crows |
| 2009 | Southern Eagles | Moonta | Kadina | Moonta |
| 2010 | Kadina | Southern Eagles | CMS Crows | Kadina |
| 2011 | Kadina | Southern Eagles | Kadina | Southern Eagles |
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