The Yorke Peninsula Football League (YPFL) is an

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competition based in the

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region of

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, Australia. It is an affiliated member of the

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. The league was known as the Yorke Valley Football League until 1996, having previously absorbed the Yorke Peninsula Football Association in 1961, and the Southern Yorke Peninsula Football League in 1994.

Media

At the moment there are several different services covering the YPFL, the main one being the Yorke Peninsula Country Times (Newspaper)

Brief history

The current Yorke Peninsula Football League developed over a number of years and involved the gradual amalgamation of the Yorke Valley Football Association, Yorke Peninsula Football Association, and Southern Yorke Peninsula Football League.

Current clubs

Former clubs

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Yorke Peninsula Football Association

The Yorke Peninsula Football Association was formed in 1888. The founding clubs were: * Cross Roads * Moonta * Moonta Mines Turks * East Moonta * Wallaroo * Wallaroo Mines (renamed from Kadina). The final year of the Yorke Peninsula Football Association was in 1960 when the competing clubs were: * Kadina, * Moonta, * Paskeville * Wallaroo These clubs then joined the Yorke Valley Football Association in 1961.

Southern Yorke Peninsula Football League

The Southern Yorke Peninsula Football League was formed in 1908 with 5 founding clubs, and after World War 2 the league remained largely structurally unchanged until it was absorber in 1993. The following 7 clubs remained for much of the competition's duration: In 1919 the Southern Yorke Peninsula Football Association and the Central Yorke Peninsula Football Association merged to form the Central And Southern Yorke Peninsula Association. This League went into recess during World War II and in 1945 the Southern Yorke Peninsula Football Association was reformed. The Southern Yorke Peninsula Football Association was renamed as the Southern Yorke Peninsula Football League in 1957. At the end of the 1993 season, after years of diminishing player numbers, the six remaining clubs were amalgamated into two new clubs – Curramulka, Minlaton and Stansbury as the CMS Crows, and Yorketown, Edithburgh and Western United as the Southern Eagles – and the two resulting clubs joined the YVFL for the 1994 season.

Yorke Valley FA

The Yorke Valley Football Association was formed in 1930. The Yorke Valley Football Association disbanded in 1936, but was reformed in 1945. In 1961 the Association absorbed the clubs from the Yorke Peninsula Football Association (see above). The Association changed its name to Yorke Valley Football League in 1963. In 1994 the Yorke Valley Football League absorbed the Southern Yorke Peninsula (see above). At that time the participating clubs were: * Ardrossan * Arthurton * Bute * CMS (a new club, resulting from the merger of

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, Minlaton and Stansbury) * Kadina *

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* Moonta * Paskeville * Southern Eagles (a new club, resulting from the merger of

Edithburgh Edithburgh is a small town on the south-east corner of Yorke Peninsula situated on the coastline of Salt Creek Bay, in the state of South Australia. Edithburgh is about west of Adelaide across Gulf St Vincent, but away by road. At the 2016 ...

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and Yorketown) * Wallaroo In 1996, the YVFL changed its name to the current title. At the end of the 1996 season the Central Yorke Football Club was formed from a merger between Arthurton and Maitland.

Premierships

Yorke Valley FL

Yorke Peninsula FL

Southern Yorke Peninsula Football League

*Yorke Peninsula Country Times

2009 Ladder

2010 Ladder

2011 Ladder

2012 Ladder

2013 Ladder

2014 Ladder

2015 Ladder

2017 Ladder

2016 Ladder

Books

* ''Encyclopedia of South Australian country football clubs'' compiled by Peter Lines. * ''South Australian country football digest'' by Peter Lines

References

External links

* {{Aussie Rules in South Australia Australian rules football competitions in South Australia Yorke Peninsula