The Eastern Devils Football Club is a

women's Australian rules football Women's Australian rules football (in areas where it is popular, known simply as women's football or women's footy or women's AFL), is the female-only form of Australian rules football, generally with some modification to the laws of the game. ...

club based in

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that currently competes in the

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History

The club was formed in 1999 as the Deakin Devils Women's Football Club, competing in the

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(VWFL) as a representative of

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. The club continued in this guise until 2008, when it cut ties with the university and shifted its premises to

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, aligning with the

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to become the East Burwood Devils. In 2012, the club changed its name to the Eastern Devils, and again moved location a year later to Mulgrave Reserve in

Wheelers Hill Wheelers Hill is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 22 km south-east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Monash local government area. Wheelers Hill recorded a population of 20,652 at the . At 152m ...

. In 2016, the Devils were an inaugural competitor in the

VFL Women's VFL Women's (VFLW) is the major state-level women's Australian rules football league in Victoria. The league initially comprised the six premier division clubs and the top four division 1 clubs from the now-defunct Victorian Women's Football L ...

(VFLW) competition, having taken part in the Premier Division of the final VWFL season in 2015. After finishing fourth and seventh respectively in their first two VFLW seasons, the Devils departed the statewide competition to instead field multiple teams in the South Eastern Women's Football competition from 2018 onwards. In 2022, the club transferred to the

, where they have since remained.

References

{{VFL Women's Australian rules football clubs in Melbourne Women's Australian rules football clubs in Australia Sports clubs and teams established in 1999