North East Australian Football League

North East Australian Football League

Current season or competition: 2012 NEAFL season
Sport	Australian rules football
Founded	November 2010
Inaugural season	2011
No. of teams	19
Country(ies)	Australia
Most recent champion(s)	Northern Territory
Most titles	Northern Territory (1)
Official website	http://www.neafl.com.au/index.php?id=1

The North East Australian Football League is an Australian rules football league in New South Wales, Queensland, the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory in Australia. It was formed in November 2010, and its inaugural competition was in 2011.^[1]

The NEAFL is operated in two conferences: the Northern Conference, serving Queensland and the Northern Territory, and the Eastern Conference, serving New South Wales and the ACT. Teams from the two conferences play matches against each other throughout the home-and-away season, before each conference stages a separate finals competition to determine both a northern premier and an eastern premier. The two premiers then play each other in the NEAFL Grand Final.

History

The NEAFL was formed at the end of 2010 primarily as an amalgamation of the two major football leagues in Australia's north-east. The Queensland Australian Football League, based in South-East Queensland and including one team from the Northern Territory, became the Northern Conference; and AFL Canberra, based around ACT, and including one team from Sydney (the reserves team of the AFL's Sydney Swans) became the Eastern Conference. Two new teams also joined in 2011: the reserves team of Gold Coast Football Club (whose senior team joined the AFL in the same season); and the senior team of the Greater Western Sydney Football Club, which was preparing to join the AFL in 2012. These two clubs would have joined the QAFL and AFL Canberra respectively, had the NEAFL not been formed.

In 2012, the Eastern Conference will expand to include two more Sydney-based clubs, who will transfer from the AFL Sydney competition: Sydney Hills and Sydney University. Additionally, Greater Western Sydney's senior team will join the AFL, and it will field its reserves team in partnership with, and under the name of the University of Western Sydney.

Premiers

Clubs

Conference	Guernsey	Club	Nickname	Location	Home ground and capacity	First season	Conference Premierships	Premierships
Eastern		Ainslie	Tri-Colours	Canberra, Australian Capital Territory	Ainslie Oval	2011	2011	-
Northern		Aspley	Hornets	Brisbane, Queensland	Graham Rd	2011	-	-
Eastern		Belconnen	Magpies	Canberra, Australian Capital Territory	Manuka Oval	2011	-	-
Northern		Brisbane (AFL reserves team)	Lions	Brisbane, Queensland	The Gabba	2011	-	-
Northern		Broadbeach	Cats	Gold Coast, Queensland	H & A Oval	2011	-	-
Eastern		Eastlake	Demons	Canberra, Australian Capital Territory	Manuka Oval	2011	-	-
Northern		Gold Coast (AFL reserves team)	Suns	Gold Coast, Queensland	Carrara Stadium	2011	-	-
Northern		Labrador	Tigers	Gold Coast, Queensland	Cooke-Murphy Oval	2011	-	-
Northern		Morningside	Panthers	Brisbane, Queensland	Esplen Oval	2011	-	-
Northern		Mount Gravatt	Vultures	Brisbane, Queensland	Dittmar Park	2011	-	-
Northern		Northern Territory	Thunder	Darwin, Northern Territory	TIO Stadium	2011	2011	2011
Eastern		Queanbeyan	Tigers	Canberra, Australian Capital Territory	Dairy Farmers Park	2011	-	-
Northern		Redland	Bombers	Brisbane, Queensland	Victoria Point	2011	-	-
Northern		Southport	Sharks	Gold Coast, Queensland	Frankhauser Reserve	2011	-	-
Eastern		Sydney Hills Eagles	Eagles	Sydney, New South Wales	Bruce Purser Reserve	2012	-	-
Eastern		Sydney Swans (AFL reserves team)	Swans	Sydney, New South Wales	Sydney Cricket Ground	2011	-	-
Eastern		Sydney University	Students	Sydney, New South Wales	Sydney University Oval	2012	-	-
Eastern		Tuggeranong	Hawks	Canberra, Australian Capital Territory	Greenway Oval	2011	-	-
Eastern		University of Western Sydney (AFL reserves team)	Giants	Sydney, New South Wales	Blacktown International Sports Park	2011	-	-

See also

• List of Australian rules football leagues
• AFL Canberra
• Queensland Australian Football League
• Sydney AFL

References

External links

• North East Australian Football League (NEAFL)
• AFL description of league
• AFL announces new north-eastern comp