Essendon District Football League

Essendon District Football League

Founded	1930
Chairman	Brett Scott
C.E.O	Marc Turri
No. of senior club	27
2014 Premier Division Premiers	Strathmore
Website EDFL Website

The Essendon District Football League (EDFL) is an Australian rules football league based in the north-west suburbs of Melbourne, which was established in 1930.

The EDFL consists of 27 Senior Clubs, 10 clubs in Premier Division, 9 clubs in Division 1 and 8 clubs in Division 2. All 3 Division's have a Reserve side and an Under 18's side that align with the Senior matches.

The League has also established an EDFL Umpires Association, EDFL Trainers Association and EDFL Auskick.

2014 clubs

Premier Division 10 clubs

Division 1 9 clubs

Division 2 8 clubs

Premiers

Juniors matches

The juniors consist of: Under 10s, Under 12s, Under 14s and Under 16s. There are eight junior divisions at this level and each team listed in the senior section has at least one junior team in divisions 1, 2 or 3 for each age group, however many clubs have more in divisions 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8.

AFL players

EDFL players who have gone on to play in the VFL/AFL

The following is an incomplete list of EDFL players who later played in the VFL or AFL:

• Jeremy Laidler
• Ahmed Saad
• Jake Melksham
• Jake Carlisle
• Tom Allison
• Zac Dawson
• Michael Talia
• Brandon Ellis
• Matthew Watson
• Michael Rischitelli
• Peter Faulks
• Ryan O'Keefe
• Shaun McKernan
• Addam Maric
• Aaron Kite
• Brent Hartigan
• Lynden Dunn
• Jim Gutterson
• Paul Koulouriotis
• Ivan Maric
• Steven Alessio
• Paul Chapman
• David Dench
• Ron Evans
• Mark Harvey
• Matthew Lloyd
• Wes Lofts
• Glenn Manton
• Corey McKernan
• Brock McLean
• Mark Mercuri
• Joe Misiti
• Daryl O'Brien
• Dean Limbach
• Jesse W. Smith
• Jesse D. Smith
• David Calthorpe
• David Rodan
• Dane Swan
• Mark Thompson
• Andrew Welsh
• Damien Peverill
• Adam Pickering
• Dale Morris
• Dick Reynolds
• Adam Contessa

VFL/AFL players who have played in the EDFL

The following is an incomplete list of VFL and AFL players who later played in the EDFL:

• John Barnes^[1]
• Jon Hassall
• Stephen Paxman
• Anthony Aloi
• Sedat Sir
• Paul Barnard
• Mark Mecuri
• Dean Laidley
• Justin Madden
• Simon Minton-Connell^[2]
• Damien Peverill
• Winis Imbi
• Aaron James
• Scott Lucas
• Chris Johnson
• Brodie Holland
• Digby Morrell
• Hayden Skipworth
• Jason Akermanis
• Lance Whitnall
• Barry Brooks
• Steven Baker
• Wayne Carey
• Patrick Veszpremi
• Andrew Browne
• Patrick Rose
• Ryan Gale

References

External links

• Official EDFL Site
• List of A grade EDFL premiers
• EDFL Records and History at Full Points Footy