Southern Mallee Football League

The Southern Mallee Football League (SMFL) was an Australian rules football competition that finished in 1996 based in the Mallee region of Victoria, Australia. The league featured three grades in the Australian rules football competition, being First-Grade, Reserve-Grade and Under 16s.

History[]

The Southern Mallee Football League was formed in the 1932 and continued until 1996 when it merged with the Northern Mallee Football League to form the Mallee Football League (Victoria).

Clubs[]

Club	Years in comp	SMFL Premierships	Moved to
Berri-Culgoa	1979-1996	3	Mallee Football League (Victoria)
Beulah	1932-1996	18	Mallee Football League (Victoria)
Brim	1932-1996	5	Mallee Football League (Victoria)
Hopetoun	1936-1996	13	Mallee Football League (Victoria)
Jeparit*#	1957–1959, 1990-1996	0	Mallee Football League (Victoria)
Kenmare	1932–1940, 1946-1954	1	Disbanded
Lascelles	1946-1950	2	Merged with Woomelang
Nullawil	1979-1996	3	Mallee Football League (Victoria)
Rainbow*	1937-1996	3	Mallee Football League (Victoria)
Rosebery	1932–1938, 1951-1954	1	Mallee Football League (Victoria)
Warracknabeal#	1957-1959	0	Wimmera Football League
Woomelang	1940-1950	1	Merged with Lascelles
Woomelang-Lascelles	1951-1996	6	Mallee Football League (Victoria)
Yaapeet	1946-1996	4	Mallee Football League (Victoria)

(*) Jeparit and Rainbow merged to form Jeparit-Rainbow at the end of the 1996 season before they moved into the newly formed Mallee Football League (Victoria) in 1997. (#) Between 1957-1959 Jeparit and Warracknabeal had a second 18 team competing in the Southern Mallee senior competition due to the Wimmera league disbanding their seconds competition.

Premierships[]


Year	Premiers	Score	Runner-up	Score
1932	Brim
1933	Beulah
1934	Rosebery
1935	Beulah
1936	Kenmare
1937	Hopetoun
1938	Hopetoun	21-11-137	Rainbow	11-6-72
1939	Hopetoun	15-5-95	Brim	11-9-75
1940	Woomelang
1941-1945	No Competition Due To War
1946	Lascelles
1947	Beulah
1948	Brim
1949	Lascelles
1950	Beulah
1951	Brim
1952	Brim
1953	Beulah
1954	Beulah
1955	Beulah
1956	Beulah
1957	Woomelang-Lascelles
1958	Yaapeet
1959	Rainbow
1960	Woomelang-Lascelles
1961	Beulah
1962	Beulah
1963	Rainbow
1964	Beulah
1965	Hopetoun
1966	Hopetoun
1967	Yaapeet
1968	Woomelang-Lascelles	13-11-89	Rainbow	11-10-76
1969	Hopetoun
1970	Rainbow
1971	Woomelang-Lascelles
1972	Hopetoun
1973	Hopetoun
1974	Beulah	10-16-76	Hopetoun	9-12-66
1975	Hopetoun
1976	Hopetoun
1977	Yaapeet		Hopetoun
1978	Yaapeet		Woomelang-Lascelles
1979	Nullawil		Beulah
1980	Nullawil	15-14-104	Hopetoun	11-12-78
1981	Beulah	17-19-121	Hopetoun	17-8-110
1982	Beulah	13-21-99	Nullawil	8-12-60
1983	Hopetoun	19-14-128	Nullawil	11-15-81
1984	Hopetoun	18-19-127	Nullawil	9-9-63
1985	Beulah	21-14-140	Yaapeet	12-10-82
1986	Nullawil	12-10-82	Beulah	10-7-67
1987	Brim		Nullawil
1988	Woomelang-Lascelles	8-15-63	Berri-Culgoa	3-13-31
1989	Beulah	14-7-91	Berri-Culgoa	10-12-72
1990	Beulah	18-13-121	Hopetoun	13-6-84
1991	Hopetoun	17-16-118	Beulah	16-9-105
1992	Beulah	10-12-72	Berri-Culgoa	7-19-61
1993	Woomelang-Lascelles	15-11-101	Beulah	12-11-83
1994	Berri-Culgoa	24.20-164	Nullawil	11-4-70
1995	Berri-Culgoa	16-19-115	Jeparit	7-11-53
1996	Berri-Culgoa	22-21-153	Nullawil	7-10-52

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