- Source: AFL Victoria Country
AFL Victoria Country is an Australian rules football governing body with jurisdiction over the state of Victoria outside metropolitan Melbourne on behalf of AFL Victoria. As well as administering and promoting the code in the regions, it often arbitrates disputes in areas such as player clearances and club movements between country leagues, and may also be called upon as a higher authority of appeal. The organisation was formed as a result of a merger between Victorian Country Football League (VCFL) and AFL Victoria in November 2012.
The then-VCFL aired telecasts beginning in 2010 on C31 Melbourne, along with Geelong Football League and Geelong & District Football League. The women's netball coverage also was broadcast on community TV in 2010.
Victorian Country Championships
The VCFL originally organised the interleague Victorian Country Football Championships back in 1954.
In 1958, the VCFL initiated the Centenary Championships, to mark the 100th anniversary of the inception of Australian Rules football. The 15 major leagues of Victoria and southern NSW were divided into four districts, with each pool conducting a championships.
Caltex had the naming rights of the Victorian Country Championships matches in the 1960s. The 16 league series would run over a two-year period, with knock out matches in the first season, followed by semi finals and a grand final in the following season.
The Country Championship were discontinued from 1975 before being re-established in 1978.
From 2004 to 2006 the championships were decided at a carnival round-robin competition at one venue over a single weekend, with each of the four sides playing the others in matches of two twenty-minute halves. The team on top of the ladder, based on points (4 for a win, 2 for a draw) and then percentage (points scored over points conceded) after these three matches, were declared the winner. Leagues not represented in the top four pools of four participated in other interleague matches organised by the VCFL. In 2007, there was no statewide VCFL Championships, just a rivalry round was played between close by leagues, (with the O&MFL playing the GVFL), with the round robin format returning in 2008.
In 2009, the championships reverted to head-to-head full matches on a rankings scale per year.
In 2020, the championships matches were cancelled due to COVID-19 and have since been discontinued. The Goulburn Valley Football League and the Ovens & Murray Football League continue to play each other once a year.
The Ash - Wilson Trophy was formed in 2001 and is only for matches involving the Goulburn Valley Football League and the Ovens & Murray Football League, In honour of former players, Stephen Ash and Mick Wilson.
VCFL - Division 1 Champions
Most Division 1 Country Championship wins / Runners Up
*Country Championships: Division 2
*Country Championships: Division 3
1994 - Bellarine FL
1995 - Riddell FL
2004 - Wimmera FL
2005 - Bellarine FL
2006 - Bendigo FL
*Country Championships: Division 4 / Pool D
2004 - Bellarine FL
2005 - Murray FL
2006 - Sunraysia FL
Representative Sides
On occasion, a Victoria Country representative side may be selected to play in one-off fixtures against other representative teams such as interstate counterparts or the Victorian Amateur Football Association, as well as the Australian Country Football Championships.
VCFL v VAFA matches
1984: VAFA: 15.10 - 100 d VCFL: 11.15 - 81 at the QE Oval, Bendigo
1985: VCFL: 18.9 - 117 d VAFA: 7.15 - 57 at Mildura Oval
1987: VCFL: 18.11 - 119 v VAFA: 7.13 - 55 at Lavington, NSW. 21/06/87
1993: VAFA: 13.14 - 92 d VCFL: 13.12 - 90 at Elsternwick Park Oval
1995: VAFA: 11.12 - 78 d VCFL: 10.10 - 70 at Morwell
1997: VCFL: 23.16 - 154 d VAFA: 8.9 - 57 at Elsternwick Park Oval
1999: VCFL: 19.14 - 128 d VAFA: 13.12 - 90 at Shell Stadium, Geelong
2001: VAFA: 23.14 - 152 d VCFL: 14.8 - 92 at Elsternwick Park
2003: VAFA: 14.11 - 95 d VCFL: 10.9 - 69 at Barooga, NSW
2005: VCFL: 13.13 - 91 d VAFA: 8.14 - 62 at Elsternwick Park
2007: VCFL: 11.11 - 77 d VAFA: 11.10 - 76 at Eastern Oval, Ballarat
2009: VCFL: 17.8 - 110 d VAFA: 15.16 - 106 at Junction Oval, St. Kilda
2011: VAFA: 13.14 - 92 d VCFL: 13.8 - 86 at Deakin Reserve, Shepparton
2013: VAFA: 11.16 - 82 d AFL Victorian Country: 11.13 - 79 at Junction Oval, St. Kilda
2015: AFL Victorian Country: 17.15 - 117 d VAFA: 8.7 - 55 at QE Oval, Bendigo
2017: VAFA: 24.8 - 152 d AFL Victorian Country: 10.10 - 70 at Frankston City Oval
2019: AFL Victorian Country: 11.15 - 81 d VAFA: 9.10 - 64 at Ikon (Princes) Park, Carlton
2021: No rep football due to COVID-19
2023: ?
VCFL v VFA
1992: VFA: 32.7 - 199 d VCFL: 15.7 - 97. At the Melbourne Cricket Ground. 26 May 1992.
Affiliated Boards & Leagues
Note: "Major Leagues" are shown in "Bold" / "District Leagues" are shown in "Italic".
= Ballarat
=Ballarat Football League (Est. 1893)
Central Highlands Football League (Est. 1979)
= Bendigo
=Bendigo Football League (Est. 1880)
Heathcote District Football League (Est. 1907)
Loddon Valley Football League (Est. 1903)
Maryborough Castlemaine District Football League (Est. 1907)
= Central Murray and North Central
=Central Murray Football League (Est. 1997)
Golden Rivers Football League (Est. 1919)
North Central Football League (Est. 1930)
= East Gippsland
=East Gippsland Football League (Est. 1974)
Mid Gippsland Football League (Est. 1935)
North Gippsland Football League (Est. 1955)
Omeo & District Football League (Est. 1893)
= Geelong
=Bellarine Football League (Est. 1971)
Geelong Football League (Est. 1979)
Geelong & District Football League (Est. 1879)
= Goulburn Murray
=Goulburn Valley Football League (Est. 1894)
Kyabram & District Football League (Est. 1932)
Murray Football League (Est. 1931)
Picola & District Football League (Est. 1934)
= Hampden
=Colac & District Football League (Est. 1937)
Hampden Football Netball League (Est. 1930)
Warrnambool District Football League (Est. 1946)
= Latrobe Valley
=Alberton Football Netball League (Est. 1946)
Ellinbank & District Football League (Est. 1937)
Gippsland Football League (Est. 1902)
= North East Border
=Ovens & King Football League (Est. 1903)
Ovens & Murray Football League (Est. 1893)
Tallangatta & District Football League (Est. 1945)
Upper Murray Football Netball League (Est. 1893)
AFLNEB Youth Girls League (Est. 2014)
Albury Wodonga Junior Football League (Est. ?)
Wangaratta & District Junior Football League (Est. 1938)
= South East
=Mornington Peninsula Nepean Football League (Est. 1987)
Outer East Football Netball League (Est. 2018)
= South West
=Mininera & District Football League (Est. 1925)
South West District Football League (Est. 1970)
Western Border Football League (Est. 1964)
= Sunraysia
=Millewa Football League (Est. 1926)
Sunraysia Football League (Est. 1945)
= Wimmera
=Horsham & District Football League (Est. 1937)
Mallee Football League (Est. 1997)
Wimmera Football League (Est. 1937)
References
External links
Official AFL Victoria Country website
[1] VCFL History: 1927 to 2011
1982 - VCFL Division One Premiers: Ballarat FL team photo
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