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Western Australian Amateur Football League
The Perth Football League is an Australian rules football competition based in Perth Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia. It is the fourth most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a population of 2.1 million (80% of the state) living in Greater Perth in 2020. Perth is ..., Western Australia. It is the largest Australian rules football competition in Western Australia. History The competition began in 1922 with five teams as the Mercantile Football Association (MFA). The MFA changed its name in 1924 to the Perth Districts Football Association and then, in 1929, to the Western Australian Amateur Football Association. It changed to Western Australian Amateur Football League (WAAFL) in 1971. In 2019, the league rebranded as the Perth Football League. University are the most successful club, with 20 A-grade premierships and 96 overall, as of the conclusion of the 2020 season. Greg Erskine (University) is the games record ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 one division. History 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. The league made headlines in 2009 when former Richmond ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hills Rangers Football Club Colours
A hill is a landform that extends above the surrounding terrain. It often has a distinct summit. Terminology The distinction between a hill and a mountain is unclear and largely subjective, but a hill is universally considered to be not as tall, or as steep as a mountain. Geographers historically regarded mountains as hills greater than above sea level, which formed the basis of the plot of the 1995 film ''The Englishman who Went up a Hill but Came down a Mountain''. In contrast, hillwalkers have tended to regard mountains as peaks above sea level. The ''Oxford English Dictionary'' also suggests a limit of and Whittow states "Some authorities regard eminences above as mountains, those below being referred to as hills." Today, a mountain is usually defined in the UK and Ireland as any summit at least high, while the official UK government's definition of a mountain is a summit of or higher. Some definitions include a topographical prominence requirement, typically or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
High Wycombe Football Club Colours
High may refer to: Science and technology * Height * High (atmospheric), a high-pressure area * High (computability), a quality of a Turing degree, in computability theory * High (tectonics), in geology an area where relative tectonic uplift took or takes place * Substance intoxication, also known by the slang description "being high" * Sugar high, a misconception about the supposed psychological effects of sucrose Music Performers * High (musical group), a 1974–1990 Indian rock group * The High, an English rock band formed in 1989 Albums * ''High'' (The Blue Nile album) or the title song, 2004 * ''High'' (Flotsam and Jetsam album), 1997 * ''High'' (New Model Army album) or the title song, 2007 * ''High'' (Royal Headache album) or the title song, 2015 * ''High'' (EP), by Jarryd James, or the title song, 2016 Songs * "High" (Alison Wonderland song), 2018 * "High" (The Chainsmokers song), 2022 * "High" (The Cure song), 1992 * "High" (David Hallyday song), 1988 * "Hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hamersley Carine Football Club Colours
Hamersley may refer to: People *Hamersley (surname) *The Hamersley family, Australian family Toponyms *Hamersley, Western Australia is a suburb of Perth, Western Australia *Hamersley Range, a mountain range in northwestern Western Australia *Hamersley River, an ephemeral river in the Great Southern region of Western Australia * Hamersley National Park, the former name of Karijini National Park in northwestern Western Australia *Hamersley Station Hamersley or Hamersley Station is a pastoral lease and cattle station located between Tom Price and Pannawonica in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. The iron ore mining group Rio Tinto manages the station along with several others. T ..., a pastoral lease in the Pilbara region of Western Australia See also * Hammersley {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gosnells Football Club Colours
The name Gosnells may refer to: Places * City of Gosnells, a local government area in Western Australia * Gosnells, Western Australia, a suburb located south-southeast of Perth Other uses * Electoral district of Gosnells, represented in the Western Australian Legislative Assembly * Gosnells railway station, Perth, located on the Armadale railway line See also * Gosnell (other) Gosnell may refer to: People * Bert Gosnell (1880–1972), English international footballer * Harold Foote Gosnell (1896–1997), American political scientist and author * James Frederick Gosnell, mayor of London, Ontario, Canada * Jim Gosne ... * List of mayors of Gosnells {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fremantle CBC Football Club Colours
Fremantle () () is a port city in Western Australia, located at the mouth of the Swan River in the metropolitan area of Perth, the state capital. Fremantle Harbour serves as the port of Perth. The Western Australian vernacular diminutive for Fremantle is Freo. Prior to British settlement, the indigenous Noongar people inhabited the area for millennia, and knew it by the name of Walyalup ("place of the woylie")."(26/3/2018) Inaugural Woylie Festival starts tomorrow" fremantle.gov.au. Retrieved 5 July 2020. Visited by in the 1600s, Fremantle was the first area settled ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ellenbrook Football Club Colours
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Ellenbrook could be In the United Kingdom: *Ellenbrook, Greater Manchester * Ellenbrook, Hertfordshire In Australia: *Ellenbrook, Western Australia Ellenbrook is a northeastern suburb of Perth, Western Australia, about from Perth's central business district (CBD), located within the City of Swan. Ellenbrook, and its neighbouring suburbs of The Vines and Aveley, are unusual for Perth in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Its name generally refers to a metropolitan area known as Greater Melbourne, comprising an urban agglomeration of 31 local municipalities, although the name is also used specifically for the local municipality of City of Melbourne based around its central business area. The metropolis occupies much of the northern and eastern coastlines of Port Phillip Bay and spreads into the Mornington Peninsula, part of West Gippsland, as well as the hinterlands towards the Yarra Valley, the Dandenong and Macedon Ranges. It has a population over 5 million (19% of the population of Australia, as per 2021 census), mostly residing to the east side of the city centre, and its inhabitants are commonly referred to as "Melburnians". The area of Melbourne has been home to Aboriginal Victorians fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
