Metro Football League

The Metro Football League (MFL) is one of two community based football leagues based in Perth, Western Australia. The league is made up of 10 clubs over two divisions.[1]

Formerly known as the Mercantile Football Association, the league had its origins as a social league playing fortnightly in the late 1980s. Some of the clubs were Cockburn Cement, Komatsu and the Rosemount Hotel. A change in the administration in the late 1990s saw a more formalised competition, meaning, incorporation of the league, board of control, a regular season, transfers, and accredited umpires officiating. New clubs joining had more of a community base, rather than social or workplace, with some of those being Quinns and Ellenbrook. Transitions in the clubs occurred also, with Cockburn Cement becoming Cockburn and based in that suburb. Yanchep and Dwellingup also became active in promoting the game and junior development in their areas. Bayswater and Queens Park joined the MFL for Season 2013, with Baldivis, Secret Harbour leaving the MFL.[2]

The league made headlines in 2009 when former Richmond AFL player Andrew Krakouer, imprisoned for assault, played for the Wooroloo Prison Farm football team whilst serving his sentence. The Wooroloo team went through the season undefeated and won the grand final.[3]

Premiers
YearDiv 1Div 2
1993Cockburn d Dwellingup
1994Dwellingup d Cockburn
1995Cockburn d Dwellingup
1996Tigers d Cockburn
1997Cockburn
1998Tigers d Cockburn
1999Cockburn 9.9.63 d Yanchep 9.3.57
2000Yanchep 10.9.69 d Cockburn 6.10.46
2001Quinns Districts 13.9.87 d Yanchep 8.8.56
2002Yanchep 20.13.133 d Ellenbrook 14.8.92
2003Midvale 16.15.111 d Yanchep 10.10.70
2004Midvale 10.17.77 d Innaloo 7.13.55
2005Cockburn 19.13.127 d Dwellingup 5.11.41
2006Cockburn 15.18.108 d Yanchep 8.9.57
2007Wanneroo-Kingsway 14.16.100 d Midland 12.9.81
2008Cockburn 19.14.128 d Noranda 15.3.93Dwellingup 17.20.122 d Innaloo 12.12.84
2009Wooroloo 20.14.134 d Cockburn 13.16.94Midland 16.23.119 d Osborne Park 13.13.91
2010Kwinana 7.8.50 d Noranda ECU 4.15.39Innaloo 16.2.98 d Warwick Greenwood 9.9.63
2011Secret Harbour 16.11.107 d Osborne Park 12.8.80Warwick Greenwood 20.16.136 d Cockburn 5.12.42
2012Secret Harbour 12.19.91 d Kwinana 10.11.71Midland 15.8.98 d Secret Harbour 11.9.75
2013Kwinana 19.11.125 d Yanchep 9.5.59Queens Park 15.13.103 d Kwinana 7.8.50
2014Yanchep 13.11.89 d Warwick Greenwood 11.11.77Dwellingup 15.11.101 d Safety Bay 14.5.89
2015Warwick Greenwood A 13.7.85 d Baldivis 12.8.80
2016Queens Park Red 13.15.93 d Warwick Greenwood Gold 8.5.53Midland 14.12.96 d Dwellingup 11.5.71

Source: AustralianRulesFootball.com.au

gollark: C makes that very unpleasant.
gollark: I really enjoy horribly abusing itertools in Python.
gollark: They're not consistent with any of the rest of the syntax, and they don't support good iterator things like Python.
gollark: C-style for loops are actually bad, though?
gollark: So writing files might be not good.

References
  1. "Competitions at Metro Football League". SportsTG.com. Retrieved 13 September 2016.
  2. "MFL HISTORY". metroflperth.com. Archived from the original on 24 September 2014.
  3. "Andrew Krakouer's Woorooloo Prison team wins grand final". PerthNow.com.au. 20 September 2009. Retrieved 13 September 2016.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.