AFL Under 19 Championships

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NAB AFL Under-19 Championships
Most recent season or competition:
FormerlyTeal Cup (1953–1995)
SportAustralian rules football
Inaugural season1953
AdministratorAustralian Football League
No. of teams8
Most recent
champion(s)
(D1) Western Australia
(2019)
Most titles(D1) Vic Metro (17)
(D2) Tasmania (8)
TV partner(s)Fox Footy (Div. 1 games)
Sponsor(s)National Australia Bank
Related
competitions
AFL Women's Under 18 Championships

The AFL Under-19 Championships (for sponsorship reasons, the NAB AFL Under-19 Championships) is an annual Australian national underage representative championship in Australian rules football tournament. It is seen as one of the main pathways towards being drafted into a team in the fully professional Australian Football League (AFL).

Originally known as the Teal Cup, it began in 1953 as a junior representative competition between the Australian states of Queensland and New South Wales. The Australian Capital Territory was the first other side to enter in 1973. With the addition of teams from each Australian state and mainland territory in 1976 was rebranded as the "National Championships" and split into two divisions with the strongest states including Victoria (later split into two sides: Vic Metro and Vic Country) comprising Division 1. Papua New Guinea was the first other country to field a team in 1979. The division 2 competition was replaced by the Under-19 Academy Series in 2017, with teams from the 4 Queensland and NSW AFL clubs' academies in addition to Northern Territory and Tasmania state teams. The entire competition was changed to under-19s in 2021 (the competition has previously operated under-17s and under-18s competitions).

With the AFL Commission phasing out representative football at senior level since 1994, the National Championships are one of the few opportunities to play for their state or territory. Players typically share the senior team's guernsey (with the exception of Victorian teams which play in variations of the state team guernsey, Vic Metro has a light blue Big V insignia and Vic Country plays in a reverse white with navy Big V).

The best players from the academy competition then combine to form an 'Allies' team in conjunction with South Australia, Western Australia and two Victoria teams, Metro (Melbourne Metropolitan Area) and Country to contest the division 1 tournament.

The winner of the 2019 division 1 tournament was Western Australia.

Winners and awards[]

Under 18 All-Australian and WA's Most Valuable Player award winner Anthony Morabito from the 2009 championship.

Individual Awards[]

The Larke Medal is awarded to the best player in Division 1 of the competition. It is named in honour of a junior footballer, Michael Larke, who was killed in a bus crash while attending a trial match for New South Wales. The Hunter Harrison Medal is awarded to the best player in Division 2 and is named in honour of the former president and life member of the Northern Territory Football League, Hunter Harrison, who played a major role in the development of the AFL youth championships.[1] Each tournament an underage All-Australian team is named and an MVP is also named for each team.

Past winners[]

Year Division 1 Premiers Larke Medal Division 2 Premiers Hunter Harrison Medal
1953 Queensland Queensland
1963 Queensland Queensland
1971 Queensland Queensland
1972 Queensland Queensland
1973 Queensland Queensland
1974 New South Wales New South Wales
1975 New South Wales New South Wales
1976 Victoria (Australia) Victoria (Vic)
1977 Victoria (Australia) Victoria (Vic)
1978 South Australia South Australia Mark Weideman (SA)
1979 South Australia South Australia (WA)
1980 South Australia South Australia (ACT)
1981 Victoria (Australia) Victoria Paul Salmon (Vic)
1982 Victoria (Australia) Victoria Michael Phyland (NSW)
1983 Victoria (Australia) Victoria Greg Anderson (SA)
1984 Victoria (Australia) Victoria (NSW)
1985 Western Australia Western Australia (NSW)
1986 Victoria (Australia) Victoria Stephen Lawrence (Qld)
1987 Victoria (Australia) Victoria Steven Kolyniuk (Vic)
1988 Victoria (Australia) Victoria (NSW)
1989 Victoria (Australia) Vic Country Ray Windsor (Qld)
1990 Victoria (Australia) Vic Metro Paul Williams (Tas)
1991 South Australia South Australia Robert Neill (ACT)
1992 Victoria (Australia) Vic Metro Daniel Southern (WA) Victoria (Australia) Vic Country Michael Voss (Qld)
1993 Victoria (Australia) Vic Metro Shaun McManus (WA) New South Wales New South Wales (NT)
1994 Victoria (Australia) Vic Metro Daniel Harford (Vic Metro) Victoria (Australia) Vic Country Michael Martin (Tas)
1995 South Australia South Australia Luke Godden (Vic Metro)
(Vic Country)
Western Australia Western Australia Steven Koops (NT)
1996 Victoria (Australia) Vic Metro (Vic Metro) Tasmania Tasmania (Tas)
1997 Victoria (Australia) Vic Metro Tim Finocchiaro (Vic Metro) Queensland Queensland Fred Campbell (NT)
1998 Victoria (Australia) Vic Metro Garth Taylor (WA) New South Wales/Australian Capital Territory NSW/ACT Shane Young (Qld)
Derek Murray (NSW/ACT)
1999 Western Australia Western Australia Paul Hasleby (WA) Queensland Queensland Brad Green (Tas)
2000 Victoria (Australia) Vic Country Kayne Pettifer (Vic Country) New South Wales/Australian Capital Territory NSW/ACT Ian Callinan (Tas)
2001 Victoria (Australia) Vic Metro Sam Power (Vic Metro)
Steven Armstrong (WA)
Tasmania Tasmania Tom Davidson (Tas)
2002 Victoria (Australia) Vic Metro Byron Schammer (SA) New South Wales/Australian Capital Territory NSW/ACT Anthony Corrie (NT)
2003 Victoria (Australia) Vic Country Kepler Bradley (WA) New South Wales/Australian Capital Territory NSW/ACT (Qld)
2004 Victoria (Australia) Vic Metro Jesse Smith (Vic Metro) Northern Territory Northern Territory Richard Tambling (NT)
2005 Victoria (Australia) Vic Metro Marc Murphy (Vic Metro) Tasmania Tasmania Grant Birchall (Tas)
2006 Victoria (Australia) Vic Metro Tom Hawkins (Vic Metro) Queensland Queensland Ricky Petterd (Qld)
2007 Western Australia Western Australia Cale Morton (WA) New South Wales/Australian Capital Territory NSW/ACT Craig Bird (NSW/ACT)
2008 Victoria (Australia) Vic Metro Jack Watts (Vic Metro) Tasmania Tasmania Mitch Robinson (Tas)
2009 Western Australia Western Australia David Swallow (WA)
Andrew Hooper (Vic Country)
New South Wales/Australian Capital Territory NSW/ACT (NSW/ACT)
2010 Victoria (Australia) Vic Country Harley Bennell (WA) Tasmania Tasmania Sam Darley (Tas)
2011 Victoria (Australia) Vic Metro Stephen Coniglio (WA) Tasmania Tasmania (Tas)
2012 Victoria (Australia) Vic Metro Lachie Whitfield (Vic Country) Northern Territory Northern Territory Jake Neade (NT)
2013 South Australia South Australia Dom Sheed (WA) Tasmania Tasmania Liam Dawson (Qld)
Kade Kolodjashnij (Tas)
Toby Nankervis (Tas)
2014 South Australia South Australia Christian Petracca (Vic Metro) New South Wales/Australian Capital Territory NSW/ACT Isaac Heeney (NSW/ACT)
2015 Victoria (Australia) Vic Country Josh Schache (Vic Country) Queensland Queensland Ben Keays (Qld)
2016 Victoria (Australia) Vic Metro Jack Graham (South Australia) New South Wales/Australian Capital Territory NSW/ACT Jack Bowes (Qld)
2017 Victoria (Australia) Vic Metro Oscar Allen (Western Australia) Nick Blakey (Sydney)
2018 South Australia South Australia Sam Walsh (Vic Country) Tasmania Tasmania Tarryn Thomas (Tasmania)
2019 Western Australia Western Australia Deven Robertson (WA) Connor Budarick (Qld)

Participating teams[]

Current[]

Division 1[]

  • Victoria (Australia) Vic Metro
  • Victoria (Australia) Vic Country
  • South Australia South Australia (SA)
  • Western Australia Western Australia (WA)

Division 2[]

  • New South Wales/Australian Capital Territory New South Wales/Australian Capital Territory (NSW/ACT)
  • Queensland Queensland (Qld)
  • Northern Territory Northern Territory (NT)
  • Tasmania Tasmania (Tas)

Past[]

Sponsors[]

The tournament is currently sponsored by the National Australia Bank, having previously been sponsored by Caltex and the Commonwealth Bank.[4]

See also[]

Notes[]

  1. ^ Barfoot, Michael (December 1995). History of NTFL. p. 107.
  2. ^ "Last chance for bottom teams". The Canberra Times. Vol. 47, no. 13,456. 8 June 1973. p. 19. Retrieved 21 December 2021 – via Trove.
  3. ^ "Qld seeks junior rules game". The Canberra Times. Vol. 44, no. 12,494. 16 December 1969. p. 23. Retrieved 21 December 2021 – via Trove.
  4. ^ Taylor, Kevin. The Story of the Teal Cup and AFL National Under 18 Championships – Full Points Footy. Retrieved 4 July 2013, from the Pandora Archive.

References[]

  • Lovett, Michael, ed. (2005). AFL Record Guide to Season 2005. p. 764. ISBN 0-9580300-6-5.
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