The Downriver League is an athletic conference for high schools in Michigan. It was formed in 2009 after the dissolution of the

Michigan Mega Conference The Michigan Mega Conference was a large high school athletic league comprising twenty-eight schools which disbanded in mid-2009, with its former members either becoming independent or forming their own leagues. Member schools were predominantly ...

by schools in the " Downriver" area of Metro Detroit. In 2018, Dearborn Edsel Ford was brought into the league to the fill the opening left by Taylor Kennedy after it closed and consolidated with Taylor Truman to make Taylor High. In 2019, Melvindale left to join the Western Wayne Athletic Conference.

Member schools

Membership timeline

DateFormat = yyyy ImageSize = width:800 height:auto barincrement:20 Period = from:2009 till:2021 TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal PlotArea = right:5 left:5 bottom:50 top:5 #> to display a count on left side of graph, use "left:20" to suppress the count, use "left:20"<# Colors = id:barcolor value:rgb(0.99,0.7,0.7) id:line value:black id:bg value:white id:Full value:rgb(0.742,0.727,0.852) # Use this color to denote a team that is a member in all sports id:FullxF value:rgb(0.551,0.824,0.777) # Use this color to denote a team that is a member in all sports except for football id:AssocF value:rgb(0.98,0.5,0.445) # Use this color to denote a team that is a member for football only id:AssocOS value:rgb(0.5,0.691,0.824) # Use this color to denote a team that is a member in some sports, but not all (consider identifying in legend or a footnote) id:OtherC1 value:rgb(0.996,0.996,0.699) # Use this color to denote a team that has moved to another conference id:OtherC2 value:rgb(0.988,0.703,0.383) # Use this color to denote a team that has moved to another conference where OtherC1 has already been used, to distinguish the two id:Bar1 value:rgb(0.8,0.8,0.7) id:Bar2 value:rgb(0.9,0.9,0.6) PlotData= width:15 textcolor:black shift:(5,-5) anchor:from fontsize:s bar:1 color:Full from:2009 till:end text:

Allen Park Allen Park is a city in Wayne County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2020 Census, the population was 28,638. Ford Motor Company is an integral part of the community. Many of the company's offices and facilities lie within the city lim ...

(2009-Present) bar:2 color:Full from:2009 till:end text: Gibraltar Carlson (2009-Present) bar:3 color:Full from:2009 till:end text:

Lincoln Park Lincoln Park is a park along Lake Michigan on the North Side of Chicago, Illinois. Named after US President Abraham Lincoln, it is the city's largest public park and stretches for seven miles (11 km) from Grand Avenue (500 N), on the south, ...

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Melvindale Melvindale is a city in Wayne County of the U.S. state of Michigan. At the 2020 census, the city population was 12,851. History Melvindale began as the unincorporated settlement of Oakwood Heights in the northwestern part of Ecorse Township i ...

(2009-2019) bar:5 color:Full from:2009 till:end text: Southgate Anderson (2009-present) bar:6 color:Full from:2009 till:2018 text: Taylor Kennedy (2009-2018) bar:7 color:Full from:2009 till:2018 text: Taylor Truman (2009-2018) bar:7 color:Full from:2018 till:end text: Taylor (2018-Present) bar:8 color:Full from:2009 till:end text: Trenton (2009-Present) bar:9 color:Full from:2009 till:end text: Woodhaven (2009-Present) bar:10 color:Full from:2009 till:end text: Wyandotte Roosevelt (2009-present) bar:11 color:Full from:2018 till:end text: Dearborn Edsel Ford (2018-present) ScaleMajor = gridcolor:line unit:year increment:1 start:2009 TextData = fontsize:L textcolor:black pos:(0,30) tabs:(400-center) text:^"Downriver League Membership History"

Football

This list goes through the 2021 season.

References

Michigan high school sports conferences 2009 establishments in Michigan {{Michigan-sport-stub