Troy's Gone Walkabout

2023 Season
League Tables
AFFL Cup Results

First Division – Top

	+1	VIC	Southern Murray
2nd	+2	QLD	Fortitude
3rd	+9	VIC	Sunshine
4th	-3	VIC	Barwon
16th	-13	VIC	Corio

AFFL Cup – Final Four

	D1	QLD	Fortitude
FIN	D1	VIC	Latrobe Valley

SF	D2	WA	Fremantle
SF	D1	TAS	Mersey

2022 Season Headlines

After a couple of seasons knocking on the premiership door, Southern Murray burst through it to clinch a sixth league title.
Fortitude extend their run as the most successful AFFL Cup team of all-time, winning knockout trophy number eight.
Just two years after tasting league premiership success, Corio lurch dangerously toward relegation.
Bathurst & Orange are relegated from the Second Division after more than half a century in the top two league tiers.
Bruce are promoted back to the second league tier after an absence of almost forty years.
Hindmarsh's first season in the third league tier since 1948 is far some encouraging, finishing eleventh.
Warringah are relegated to the Fourth Division for the first time in their history.
After 23 years, Darwin win the right to a place in the Third Division.
Revesby reach the last sixteen of the AFFL Cup for the seventh time as a Third Division side.
Fourth Division Rockingham make the Cup Round of 16 for the first time in their fifty year history.

2022 Season
League Tables
AFFL Cup Results

First Division – Top

	+7	VIC	Barwon
2nd	+1	VIC	Southern Murray
3rd	-2	VIC	Corio
4th	+8	QLD	Fortitude
6th	-4	VIC	Latrobe Valley

AFFL Cup – Final Four

	D1	QLD	Cairns
FIN	D1	WA	South-West Districts

SF	D2	SA	Hindmarsh
SF	D1	VIC	Gippsland

2022 Season Headlines

Folded teams: Wheatbelt.
Re-established teams: Bacchus Marsh.
In another extremely tight race the premiership trophy changes hands from the bay side of Geelong to the ocean side at Barwon.
The AFFL Cup final is a carbon copy result from 2017, Cairns are again victorious and South-West Districts stumble at the last hurdle for the fifth time.
At the bottom end of the First Division ladder, Goulburn's 99th and Maribyrnong's 98th top flight seasons end in relegation for both.
Toowoomba win double promotions in four years, and will return to the First Division after an absence of almost half a century.
Despite an AFFL Cup run to the semi finals, once mighty Hindmarsh tumble through the Second Division in just six years, and will line up in the third league tier next season for the first time in nearly 75 years.
Hobart immediately land in the top six on their rise up to the Third Division South & West region.
Lake Macquarie rebound from last year's poor showing in the Third Division North & East region to be back in the hunt for a promotion place.
Bunbury win a first ever promotion from the Fourth Division West.
Caroline Springs and Shoalhaven are the biggest improvers across all of the Fourth Division regions.
Third Division Dromana dump the eventual league champions Barwon out early in the AFFL Cup.
Fellow Third Division side Blackburn see off top flight Oakleigh enroute to their first AFFL Cup Round of 16 appearance in over thirty years.
Parramatta reach the last sixteen of the Cup in consecutive seasons, the ninth team from the Third Division in history to achieve that feat.
Coot-Tha are another third tier side to make the Round of 16, marking their deepest AFFL Cup appearance since 1973.
Ipswich lose their tenth successive Cup match, the first team in AFFL history to endure that streak in the knockout competition for the third separate time.

2021 Season
League Tables
AFFL Cup Results

First Division – Top

	+3	VIC	Corio
2nd	=	VIC	Latrobe Valley
3rd	+5	VIC	Southern Murray
4th	D2	NSW	Hurstville
6th	-5	VIC	Oakleigh

AFFL Cup – Final Four

	D1	VIC	Latrobe Valley
FIN	D1	VIC	Southern Murray

SF	D2	QLD	Gold Coast
SF	D1	VIC	Mordialloc

2021 Season Headlines

Corio's 56th consecutive top flight season yields a third premiership trophy, to sit in the cabinet alongside their back-to-back silverware collected forty years ago.
Latrobe Valley, runners up in the league for the second season in a row, claim a fourth AFFL Cup instead, eliminating last year's holders in the semi finals.
Hurstville's fourth place finish is the highest by any newly promoted top flight side in the Expansion eras of eighteen or twenty teams, and unmatched in any First Divison season since 1929.
After recent brief interludes in the top division, the fortunes of Sutherland dive sharply, fifteenth place meaning Second Division survival is far from assured in the near future.
Similarly, in the Third Division North & East region, newly relegated Lake Macquarie immediately find themselves in more trouble than they had bargained for, finishing thirteenth.
Browns Plains put aside some middling seasons in the Fourth Division North to finish fifth.
Although topping the Fourth Division South capped a satisfying season for Hobart, it was their exploits in the early rounds of the AFFL Cup that will remain longer in the memory for Tasmanians. After first defeating Mersey for the first time in their last thirteen head-to-head cup games, in the following round they duly knocked over North-West Districts in the biggest upset of the season, and end a streak of eighteen successive head-to-head defeats.
That cup upset loss caused further embarassment for North-West Districts, becoming the first top flight team in AFFL Cup history to lose to Third or Fourth Division in consecutive seasons.
Third Division Parramatta make it to the last sixteen of the cup for the first time in a quarter of a century.
Whittlesea lose their tenth consecutive AFFL Cup match.
Despite consistently strong league seasons recently in the Fourth Division West region, after 109 years in the AFFL – all but nine of those in the lowest league tier – Wheatbelt withdraw from the competition, just the second Western Australian team ever to do so.

2020 Season
League Tables
AFFL Cup Results
Place of Origin

First Division – Top

	+2	VIC	Oakleigh
2nd	+6	VIC	Latrobe Valley
3rd	+9	VIC	Gippsland
6th	-5	VIC	Mordialloc
7th	-5	WA	South-West Districts

AFFL Cup – Final Four

	D1	VIC	Mordialloc
FIN	D1	QLD	Nundah

SF	D1	VIC	Oakleigh
SF	D1	VIC	Camberwell

Place of Origin XXX

	QLD	Queensland
FIN	VIC	Victoria Metro

SF	NSW	New South Wales Metro
SF	TAS	Tasmania

2020 Season Headlines

Oakleigh enter the pantheon of modern greats, with a third league premiership in four years.
Deposed premiers Mordialloc console themselves with the other major trophy, in turn wresting the AFFL Cup from Nundah, the third team in history to reach three successive cup finals.
One of the most fierce local derbies in the competition, between Gippsland and Latrobe Valley, reached new levels as both teams finish in the top three.
Mersey are to drop out of the First Division for the first time in over forty years.
Victoria's Western Districts earn a second promotion in four years, and will return to the top flight for a second time after a solitary season in 1980, and they also enjoy a cup run to the quarter finals.
Perth leap up the Second Division table, raising expectations of a welcome return to the top flight in the very near future.
As expected, Toowoomba's return up to the Second Division is comfortable, finishing seventh.
Duncraig move through the Third Division South & West region to earn a Second Division debut next season and, in addition to breaking their 10 game AFFL Cup losing streak, go on to reach the last sixteen of the Cup for the first time since their famous double giant killing escapades of 1994.
Logan bound immediately into the top six on their return up to the Third Division North & East region.
Berowra endure another Third Division slump which leaves them in the dropzone, a first ever year in the Fourth Division beckons next season.
Rockingham are promoted from the Fourth Division West, and will be out of the bottom league tier for the first time in their nearly 50 year history.
It's a similar story for Ipswich in the Fourth Division North region, the second last of the surviving 1949 Expansion era teams to get an opportunity above the bottom league tier.
Clarence find the Fourth Division easier since being rezoned to the East region, and are Third Division bound for the first time in a generation.
Ringwood's recent battles for Fourth Division South mid-table respectability are lost, picking up an unexpected wooden spoon.
Fourth tier Tuggerah upset Sutherland to reach the Round of 16 for the first time in their history.
In a second upset in the Round of 32, third tier Revesby stun North-West Districts.
Last season's cup finalists Fortitude suffer the worst knockout loss in their history at the hands of fourth tier Coolangatta.
Other long-time absentees from the Round of 16 that made it this year included Caringbah (last time in 1986) and Fremantle (1997).
The longest active cup match losing streak ends, with Gladstone winning a first knockout game in their last thirteen.
The 30th Place of Origin tournament looked to be a cakewalk for Victoria Metro, until Queensland stood up at the death to claim a record equalling seventh representative flag.
An uncharacteristically callow New South Wales Metro Origin squad reach the semi finals for the first time in four tournaments.
New South Wales Country are one of the strongest Origin squads in history to lose all three group matches.

2019 Season
League Tables
AFFL Cup Results

First Division – Top

	+1	VIC	Mordialloc
2nd	+9	WA	South-West Districts
3rd	-2	VIC	Oakleigh
4th	+4	QLD	Fortitude
10th	-7	QLD	Nundah

AFFL Cup – Final Four

	D1	QLD	Nundah
FIN	D1	QLD	Fortitude

SF	D2	NSW	Bondi
SF	D1	VIC	Corio

2019 Season Headlines

Folded teams: Adelaide Ports and Waverley.
New teams: Hoppers Crossing and Pakenham.
The league premiership stays in Melbourne's south-east, but it is Mordialloc, one of the other key challengers in recent years, who become the second former Fourth Division team in history to sit at the First Division summit.
Brisbane's two biggest heavyweights contest the first all Queensland AFFL Cup final in history, where Nundah are rewarded with a third knockout trophy but at the cost of faltering league results.
South-West Districts take a huge leap forward towards the premiership, while Mersey slip dangerously away.
Six time premiers Canberra, the second most successful league team of the current era, slide inexplicably from mid-table to relegation.
Also dropping down to the Second Division are Pascoe Vale, equalling the lowest ever points total in a twenty team top flight season.
In their second season back up in the Second Division Western Districts are already in the reckoning for another promotion.
It's a Jekyll and Hyde season for Bondi, reaching the AFFL Cup Round of 16 for the first time since 1970 enroute to the semi finals on one hand and, on the other, slipping out of the Second Division after an almost twenty year stay.
Toowoomba win the Third Division North & East region by a massive fourteen points to rebound immediately back to the second league tier.
Dandenong fall through the Third Division South & West in five seasons, and face a first ever season in the Fourth Division.
Port Macquarie are top of the Fourth Division East just three seasons since they took the wooden spoon.
Of the two new expansion teams from Melbourne's burgeoning western and eastern fringes, Pakenham are most noticed for winning their first two cup matches.
The Blue Mountains also win two cup games, ending a run of eleven straight losses.
Duncraig's cup losing run extends to ten matches.

2018 Season
League Tables
AFFL Cup Results

First Division – Top

	=	VIC	Oakleigh
2nd	+1	VIC	Mordialloc
3rd	-1	QLD	Nundah
4th	+11	VIC	Corio
11th	-7	WA	South-West Districts

AFFL Cup – Final Four

	D1	ACT	Canberra
FIN	D1	QLD	Nundah

SF	D1	VIC	Maribyrnong
SF	D1	VIC	Oakleigh

2018 Season Headlines

The story continues to get even better for Oakleigh, winning back to back league premierships.
Canberra continue a perfect run of six AFFL Cups from six finals, ending another 'almost but not quite' season for Nundah.
Corio, the current longest continuous top flight team, allay recent concerns with relegation and zoom back into premiership contention.
Capricornia suffer a horrendous season, dropping through the Second Division in nine years to find themselves back in the Third Division for the first time since 1975.
Parramatta head in the opposite direction, returning up to the Second Division for the first time since 1976.
Altona are set for a Second Division return after almost forty years, and also enjoy some long awaited cup progress to boot.
After their immediate relegation from the Second Division last season, Cranbourne's recent hard fought gains are completely wiped out as they immediately land in the bottom half of the Third Division South & West region.
Bendigo end a twenty year stay in the Third Division South & West by returning to the Fourth Division.
Dromana and Caloundra both joined the AFFL in 1996, and both win their respective Fourth Division regions this season for the first time.
Narrabeen are unexpected winners of the Fourth Division East region, with Port Macquarie also rebounding strongly from pretender to contender.
Coolangatta are just mid-table performers in the Fourth Division North after their drop from the third tier last year.
Five First Division teams exit the AFFL Cup in a brutal Victorian Second Round, with Corio falling to Third Division Dandenong, and Altona trouncing Southern Murray enroute to a first Round of 16 place since 1955.
Hindmarsh account for Modbury for the tenth consecutive head to head cup meeting.
Adelaide Ports bid farewell to the competition after 70 years, spending all but one of those in the bottom league tier and never making the Round of 16 in the cup.

2017 Season
League Tables
AFFL Cup Results

First Division – Top

	+3	VIC	Oakleigh
2nd	=	QLD	Nundah
3rd	=	VIC	Mordialloc
4th	-3	WA	South-West Districts
5th	+5	VIC	Ballarat

AFFL Cup – Final Four

	D1	QLD	Cairns
FIN	D1	WA	South-West Districts

SF	D1	NSW	Goulburn
SF	D1	VIC	Mordialloc

2017 Season Headlines

Just twenty years since winning promotion from the Fourth Division, and four years since promotion from the Second, Oakleigh sit at the very top of the league pyramid.
The AFFL Cup also goes to a first time winner, with Cairns also the first former Fourth Division side to win the knockout trophy.
Kew celebrate 100 seasons in the top flight, though it's another year fighting against relegation.
A potential return to the Second Division is suddenly off the cards for Berowra, who find themselves uncomfortably close to the drop zone to the bottom tier.
But the story is worse for Coolangatta, plummeting from top six of the Third Division North & East to dead last.
Belmont are headed back up to the Third Division for the first time in almost thirty years.
Strathfield also earn promotion up from the Fourth Division for the first time in a generation.
Blackburn and Ringwood both endure slumps in the Fourth Division South, while Launceston rebound toward respectability.
Gosford tumble to twelfth place on their return down to the Fourth Division East region.
Four time AFFL Cup winners Perth qualify for the Round of 16 for the first time since 1989.
Third Division South Australian side Lofty are in the last 16 of the Cup for the first time in their history.
Gladstone and the Blue Mountains both lose their tenth consecutive AFFL Cup matches.
Mersey account for Hobart for the tenth successive head-to-head Cup fixture to extend their slender all-time lead, then progress to a 60th AFFL Cup meeting with fierce derby rivals North-West Districts, winning for the fifth consecutive fixture to have the ledger sit at 34 wins to 26.

2016 Season
League Tables
AFFL Cup Results
Place of Origin

First Division – Top

	+6	WA	South-West Districts
2nd	=	QLD	Nundah
3rd	+1	VIC	Mordialloc
4th	+2	VIC	Oakleigh
10th	-9	VIC	Ballarat

AFFL Cup – Final Four

	D1	VIC	Corio
FIN	D1	NSW	Goulburn

SF	D1	VIC	Latrobe Valley
SF	D1	VIC	Sunshine

Place of Origin XXIX

	VIC	Victoria Country
FIN	NSW	New South Wales Country

SF	QLD	Queensland
SF	WA	Western Australia

2016 Season Headlines

Folded teams: Lambton.
New teams: Mandurah.
South-West Districts out muscle more highly regarded sides to win a second league premiership.
Corio are the second team in history to reach three AFFL Cup finals in a row, and claim their fifth knockout trophy.
Ballarat suffer a significant premiersip hangover, falling to mid-table.
On their immediate return to the top flight, Latrobe Valley catapault themselves safely into the top eight.
Hindmarsh, the most successful league team of the Expansion eras, succumb to top flight relegation after 31 years.
Sutherland become the sixth former Fourth Division side to earn a First Division debut next season.
Goldfields are able to put Second Division relegation troubles behind them with a solid top half finish.
Cranbourne are the second of the Second Expansion teams to be promoted up to the Second Division.
Castle Hill move through the Third Division North & East region in nine years to earn a Second Division return.
Spencer Ports impress on their return to the Third Division South & West, finishing in eighth place.
In the same region, Wanneroo find the competition for promotion far too hot, and they tumble well into the bottom half of the ladder.
In the Third Division North & East there are conflicting fortunes on the Glitter Strip: Gold Coast spiral down into the bottom half, while Coolangatta's stocks soar.
Illawarra are relegated down to the Fourth Division for the first time since 1984.
Caroline Springs charge up the Fourth Division West ladder, as Modbury move in the wrong direction.
Broadmeadows rebound strongly after last year's Fourth Division South wooden spoon with a top half finish.
Launceston are the fourth former top flight team to drop to bottom of a Fourth Division region.
Victoria Country squeak through the Origin group stage, but recover their focus through the finals to win a fifth representative flag.
New South Wales Country find themselves Place of Origin runners up for the eighth time.

2015 Season
League Tables
AFFL Cup Results

First Division – Top

	+1	VIC	Ballarat
2nd	-1	QLD	Nundah
3rd	+4	TAS	Mersey
4th	-1	VIC	Mordialloc
8th	-4	ACT	Canberra

AFFL Cup – Final Four

	D1	ACT	Canberra
FIN	D1	VIC	Corio

SF	D1	NSW	Goulburn
SF	D1	NSW	Marrickville

2015 Season Headlines

Both trophy holders from last season surrender their titles by the barest of margins: Ballarat match the defending premiers on points to squeak a second league title, and Canberra maintain a perfect five AFFL Cups from five finals.
There will be no top flight league derby in Geelong next season for the first time since 1989: Barwon, the 1996 premiers, are relegated.
Dandenong won't be challenging for the Second Division again anytime soon, their most recent relegation down to the Third Division South & West region ends in a twelfth place finish.
Wynnum land safely in the top of half of the ladder on their return up to Third Division North & East region.
Despite just missing out on promotion from the Fourth Division East region, rationalisation across the Newcastle area spells the end for Lambton. All 67 years of their participation were spent in the lowest league tier, and their current AFFL Cup match losing run extended to twelve.
In the Fourth Division North, Browns Plains earn a first promotion in their eighteenth season, and Inala propel themselves safely from wooden spoon territory to mid-table respectability.
While Logan struggle for survival in the Third Division, they ride a wave of momentum to reach the last eight of the cup.
In the AFFL Cup, the hunter becomes the hunted. Less than a decade after playing a league match against each other in the Third Division, mewly minted league top six side Oakleigh are bundled out by now Fourth Division Reservoir.
In addition to going perilously close to top flight relegation, Hindmarsh are also on the wrong end of a humiliating cup exit at the hands of geographic neighbours Adelaide Ports of the Fourth Division – the second such loss in their fourteen head to head cup meetings.
Mersey and Hobart contest a 60th cup tie, the former winning for the eighth successive time to square the ledger at thirty wins a piece.

2014 Season
League Tables
AFFL Cup Results

First Division – Top

	+1	QLD	Nundah
2nd	+1	VIC	Ballarat
3rd	+3	VIC	Mordialloc
4th	-3	ACT	Canberra
5th	=	WA	South-West Districts

AFFL Cup – Final Four

	D1	VIC	Corio
FIN	D1	VIC	Ballarat

SF	D1	VIC	Kew
SF	D1	VIC	Mordialloc

2014 Season Headlines

Five years after their most recent stay in the second tier, resurgent Nundah win their fifth First Division premiership.
For the first time in AFFL Cup history, all four semi finalists come from the same state. Corio push aside their Victorian compatriates to hold their fourth knockout trophy.
The season ends on a disappointing note for Ballarat, finishing runners up in the league and also losing the Cup final.
Mordialloc loudly announce themselves as trophy contenders in both competitions.
The good times continue at Oakleigh, finishing eighth in their debut top flight season.
Two time premiers Latrobe Valley, one of three teams to have graced the First Division continuously in the Second Expansion era, are relegated from the top flight.
Caringbah are promoted up to the Second Division for the first time in their history.
The steady decline of Blacktown continues, relegated from the Third Division for the very first time.
Riverstone head in the opposite direction to their geographic neighbours, winning a first promotion from the Fourth Division East region.
Inala's second Fourth Division North wooden spoon on the trot comes their way after equalling the second lowest points tally ever recorded in a nineteen team fourth tier season.
Among the teams from outside the First Division to occupy the majority of the places in the AFFL Cup Round of 16, two Third Division sides were there for the second season running: Revesby and Deception Bay.
Other long absent returnees to the final sixteen included Illawarra (last visit 1971), Bendigo (1978), and Bruce (1987).
First Division stalwarts Mersey's cup exit to Deception Bay was their third major upset AFFL Cup loss in seven years – an unwelcome feat previously achieved by only one other top flight team.
Earlier in the cup, current Fourth Division side Central & Western Districts rekindle long distant memories of success as they bundle out top flight Marrickville.

2013 Season
League Tables
AFFL Cup Results

First Division – Top

	+4	ACT	Canberra
2nd	+5	QLD	Nundah
3rd	=	VIC	Ballarat
4th	-2	TAS	Mersey
8th	-7	SA	Hindmarsh

AFFL Cup – Final Four

	D1	SA	Hindmarsh
FIN	D1	NSW	Crows Nest

SF	D2	VIC	Oakleigh
SF	D1	WA	Nedlands

2013 Season Headlines

Canberra, the other half of the league's recent duopoly, are premiers for the sixth time.
While the bid for a third successive league crown again goes off the boil for Hindmarsh, they at least take some satisfaction with a third trophy in three years in the form of the AFFL Cup.
For Crows Nest it is another season that ends in anguish – relegated from the top flight after a twenty year stay, and on the losing end of the AFFL Cup final for the tenth time.
It's all smiles at Oakleigh, breezing through the Second Division in five years to earn a top flight debut, coupled with a thrilling cup run to the semi finals that included the disposal of two top tier Victorian teams - league top three Ballarat and defending cup holders Kew.
Altona come within one point of completing a rags to riches story in the Third Division South & West.
Watsonia win a first promotion out of the Fourth Division South in their 30th AFFL season.
After a well under par 2012 in the Fourth Division North region, Lambton bounce back strongly to fall just narrowly short of promotion. Their AFFL Cup performance doesn't improve though, extending their knockout match losing streak to ten.
In addition to not being able to keep their heads above relegation in the First Division, Southern Murray are bundled out of the AFFL Cup by Fourth Division strugglers, northern Victorian neighbours and one-time merger partners Goulburn Valley in the upset of the season.
Third Division Deception Bay ride a favourable cup draw all the way to their first ever appearance in the Round of 16.
First Division Goulburn lose to Crows Nest for the tenth successive head-to-head cup fixture since 1964, with their all-time cup match up record, beginning in 1906, standing at 1-12.
The two longest head-to-head winning streaks in AFFL Cup history, both in Tasmania, continue: Mersey beat Launceston to make it nineteen in a row since 1946, and North West Districts account for Hobart for the seventeenth successive knockout fixture since 1973.
Earlier, Launceston met Derwent in the cup for the 60th occasion, now leading with 38 wins to 22.

2012 Season
League Tables
AFFL Cup Results
Place of Origin

First Division – Top

	=	SA	Hindmarsh
2nd	+1	TAS	Mersey
3rd	+2	VIC	Ballarat
4th	=	WA	South-West Districts
5th	-3	ACT	Canberra

AFFL Cup – Final Four

	D1	VIC	Kew
FIN	D1	VIC	Gippsland

SF	D1	VIC	Mordialloc
SF	D1	WA	South-West Districts

Place of Origin XXVIII

	NSW	New South Wales Country
FIN	SA	South Australia

SF	VIC	Victoria Country
SF	VIC	Victoria Metro

2012 Season Headlines

Hindmarsh are unassailable in the league yet again, winning a second set of back-to-back premierships in the last eight years.
Kew win a third AFFL Cup in an all Victorian final showdown.
After a single season last year in the Second Division, Tasmania's North-West Districts immediately bounce back into the top half of the top flight.
In their 100th season, Oakleigh dare to dream of greatness as they surge into the Second Division top three, and reach the AFFL Cup Round of 16 for the first time since 1989.
Coolangatta's debut Third Division season goes far better than expected, finishing ninth in the North & East region.
Emu Plains are to drop to the Fourth Division, cancelling out all gains they had made over the previous twenty years.
Mackay are promoted from the Fourth Division North, leaving the bottom league tier for the first time in their 64 year history.
Doncaster and Clarence put aside Fourth Division wooden spoons last season for healthy gains in the South and North regions respectively.
Third Division Bundaberg are the only team outside the top flight to reach the AFFL Cup quarter finals.
Wollongong, also of the Third Division, not only reach the last sixteen of the cup for the very first time, but are the only New South Wales team this season to do so.
Fourth Division Logan also navigate their way to a first ever Round of 16 appearance.
New South Wales Country field their strongest Place of Origin squad in sixty years, and are rewarded with a fourth representative flag.
Origin middleweights South Australia scrap their way into a third final in the last four tournaments, only to lose out on a first flag yet again.
For the first time ever New South Wales Metro are eliminated from Place of Origin at the group stage for the second successive tournament.

2011 Season
League Tables
AFFL Cup Results

First Division – Top

	+1	SA	Hindmarsh
2nd	-1	ACT	Canberra
3rd	+1	TAS	Mersey
4th	+9	WA	South-West Districts
5th	-2	VIC	Ballarat

AFFL Cup – Final Four

	D1	ACT	Canberra
FIN	D1	SA	Hindmarsh

SF	D2	NSW	Coffs Harbour
SF	D1	VIC	Gippsland

2011 Season Headlines

Hindmarsh win premiership number eight, taking them to outright second in the list of all-time most successful league teams, though back-to-back defeats in the AFFL Cup final dulls some of the joy.
For just the second time in history the cup final is contested between the teams finishing one and two in the league, with Canberra's fourth cup win making up a little for surrendering the premiership to their great rival.
South-West Districts rebound strongly into the league top four, announcing to the world they aren't a spent force after all.
Dandenong are dropping down to the Third Division for the first time in thirty years.
New England win promotion to the Second Division for the first time in the Second Expansion era.
Lofty are far from overawed in their debut season up in the Third Division South & West region, finishing sixth.
Coolangatta are promoted up from the Fourth Division North for the first time in their 28 year history.
Narrabeen take more points than last year, but not enough to prevent a third consecutive Fourth Division East wooden spoon coming their way.
Clarence are bottom of the Fourth Division North, the third former First Division team in history to collect a fourth tier wooden spoon.
Fourth Division Townsville bundle out top flight Nundah from the AFFL Cup, and then eliminate second tier opposition for good measure.
In the other major cup upset of the season, Derwent defeat Mersey for the second time in four years, with the former just the second ever fourth tier side to claim two First Division scalps so close together.

2010 Season
League Tables
AFFL Cup Results

First Division – Top

	+2	ACT	Canberra
2nd	=	SA	Hindmarsh
3rd	+1	VIC	Ballarat
4th	+10	TAS	Mersey
13th	-12	WA	South-West Districts

AFFL Cup – Final Four

	D1	NSW	Marrickville
FIN	D1	SA	Hindmarsh

SF	D1	NSW	Bathurst & Orange
SF	D1	ACT	Canberra

2010 Season Headlines

Folded teams: Granville.
New teams: Scenic Rim.
Canberra return to the top of the league pyramid for the fifth time in thirteen seasons.
Marrickville are AFFL Cup winners for the fourth time.
The tide turns suddenly for South-West Districts, tumbling down the ladder in the weakest defence of a league premiership in AFFL history.
Mersey's cup success last season parlays into an unexpected premiership challenge.
Nundah spring into seventh place on their return to the top flight.
Cairns move up through the Second Division in five seasons to earn a top flight debut, the fourth former Fourth Division side to climb to the top league rung.
Towards the bottom of the Second Division, Camberwell are lucky to avoid a second successive relegation.
Ferntree Gully rise out of the Fourth Division for the first time in the Second Expansion era.
Lofty and Bundaberg both snatch their first ever opportunities at Third Division league action.
Albury are bottom of the Fourth Division South for the third consecutive year.
Narrabeen muster three points all season, the lowest ever in a nineteen team Fourth Division region.
Second Division Sunshine go to the cup's Round of 16 for the first time in more than fifty years.

2009 Season
League Tables
AFFL Cup Results

First Division – Top

	+2	WA	South-West Districts
2nd	+3	SA	Hindmarsh
3rd	-1	ACT	Canberra
4th	-3	VIC	Ballarat
5th	+1	VIC	Corio

AFFL Cup – Final Four

	D1	TAS	Mersey
FIN	D1	VIC	Barwon

SF	D2	NSW	Bathurst & Orange
SF	D1	VIC	Ballarat

2009 Season Headlines

In their 52nd top flight season, South-West Districts hold off the heavyweights to finally register a maiden premiership.
Mersey rebound from a poor cup showing last season to win the knockout trophy for the second time.
Goldfields mine a rich vein of form to find themselves in the Second Division top five.
Further down to mid-table in the Second Division, newly relegated Far North Districts finish barely above freshly re-promoted Sutherland.
Lake Macquarie make short work of the Third Division North & East region, rising in just six years to a second tier debut.
Gosford fall through the Third Division in eight seasons for a first drop to the Fourth.
Adelaide Ports, Darwin and Thomastown all enjoy surprisingly strong league seasons across the Fourth Division.
Ipswich muster a first win in seventeen AFFL Cup matches, ending the third longest cup losing streak in history, and then defeat Third Division opposition just for kicks.
Granville bow out of the competition after spending all but one of their 104 year history in the bottom league tier.

2008 Season
League Tables
AFFL Cup Results
Place of Origin

First Division – Top

	+2	VIC	Ballarat
2nd	-1	ACT	Canberra
3rd	+4	WA	South-West Districts
4th	+1	VIC	Latrobe Valley
8th	-6	NSW	Crows Nest

AFFL Cup – Final Four

	D1	VIC	Southern Murray
FIN	D1	NSW	Crows Nest

SF	D1	TAS	North-West Districts
SF	D1	SA	Hindmarsh

Place of Origin XXVII

	TAS	Tasmania
FIN	SA	South Australia

SF	VIC	Victoria Country
SF	WA	Western Australia

2008 Season Headlines

After seriously challenging for the First Division in recent seasons, traditionally unfashionable Ballarat break the league duopoly for a second major trophy in three years.
Southern Murray collect their second AFFL Cup, continuing their sequence of a cup triumph every 54 years.
Gippsland appear to put aside their recent pinballing between the top two divisions, landing in seventh on their latest return to the top flight.
2002 premiers Stirling, still in the top six just two seasons ago, are relegated from the First Division.
Nedlands are the third former Fourth Division side to contest the First Division from next season.
Sunshine's mercurial rise up the league pyramid is in turn leading to a slump just as sudden, slipping to ninth place on their immediate return down to the Second Division.
Mount Gravatt are to play down in the Third Division next season for the first time since 1965.
Oakleigh are promoted up to the Second Division for the first time in almost fifty years.
Cranbourne's meagre haul of four points is one of the worst seasons ever in the Third Division.
After 21 years in the Fourth Division West, Spencer Ports have a promotion ticket.
Caboolture are elevated from the Fourth Division North region for the first time in their 25 year history.
Woolloongabba's woes continue, the first former top flight premiers to sit at the bottom of a Fourth Division region.
Crows Nest fall at the final AFFL Cup hurdle for an unparalleled ninth time.
Derwent dump Mersey from the cup in the upset of the season.
The 27th Place of Origin tournament is perhaps the most memorable installment of all. With no shortage of upsets throughout, the only two sides never to have won the representative flag meet each other in the final, with rank outsiders Tasmania coming from absolutely nowhere to be crowned Origin champions.
Victoria Metro lose all three of their Origin group matches for the first time, while the deepest talent pool Victoria Country have ever fielded are but a speed bump to the Island State.

2007 Season
League Tables
AFFL Cup Results

First Division – Top

	+3	ACT	Canberra
2nd	=	NSW	Crows Nest
3rd	=	VIC	Ballarat
4th	+3	VIC	Barwon
6th	-5	SA	Hindmarsh

AFFL Cup – Final Four

	D1	VIC	Latrobe Valley
FIN	D1	TAS	North-West Districts

SF	D1	NSW	Goulburn
SF	D1	VIC	Corio

2007 Season Headlines

Folded teams: Dubbo.
New teams: Gladstone.
While the defending back-to-back premiers falter, the other half of the last decade's league duopoly, Canberra, best capitalise for their fourth premiership.
Latrobe Valley bring home a third AFFL Cup trophy.
Three time premiers Capricornia are relegated from the top flight after an almost thirty year stay.
Gold Coast drop down out of the Second Division for the first time since 1973.
Goldfields are set for a Second Division return after an absence of twenty years.
In the Third Division South & West region, newly promoted Hobart soar into the top six, while freshly relegated Mornington drop immediately into the bottom half.
Hunter's return up to the Third Division North & East region finds them comfortably mid-table.
Melbourne Ports, Ryde and Newcastle are all relegated to the Fourth Division for the first time in their histories.
Dromana are bottom of the Fourth Division South for the third season running, the second team since the creation of the fourth tier to collect three consecutive wooden spoons.
North-West Districts conspire to lose a fifth AFFL Cup final in six attempts.
Third Division Gosford reach the last sixteen of the cup for the second season in a row, the fourth such team in history from that league tier to do so.
In their maiden top flight season, Mordialloc finally find enough form in the cup to reach the Round of 16 for the very first time.
Third Division Bendigo upset Maribyrnong in the knockout competition for the second time in five years.

2006 Season
League Tables
AFFL Cup Results

First Division – Top

	=	SA	Hindmarsh
2nd	=	NSW	Crows Nest
3rd	=	VIC	Ballarat
4th	+3	ACT	Canberra
5th	-1	VIC	Latrobe Valley

AFFL Cup – Final Four

	D1	VIC	Ballarat
FIN	D1	NSW	Crows Nest

SF	D1	VIC	Maribyrnong
SF	D1	NSW	Goulburn

2006 Season Headlines

It's a case of 'as you were' at the top of the league ladder, Hindmarsh the third team in history to win a seventh premiership.
In addition to being a fresh face chasing the premiership, Ballarat win a maiden AFFL Cup.
The cup final hoodoo returns for Crows Nest, losing for the eighth time in their eleven appearances.
Melbourne duo Sunshine and Mordialloc breeze through the Second Division, in just two and three seasons respectively, to become the very first former Fourth Division sides to rise to the top flight.
Cairns' immediate return to the Second Division ends with a very comfortable mid-table finish.
Toowoomba are to drop to the Third Division for the first time in over 75 years.
Sutherland climb up through the Third Division in five seasons to earn a Second Division debut.
Wollongong spring into the top five in their debut season in the Third Division North & East region.
Ryde and Newcastle both find themselves unexpectedly scrambling to avoid relegation to the Fourth Division.
The glory days of 13 time premiers Abbotsford look further and further in the rearview mirror, as they are relegated to the Fourth Division.
It's a positive season for both Hobart teams in the Fourth Division South: Hobart are promoted after twenty years and Derwent soar into the top six.
Newly relegated Third Division side Blacktown dump Marrickville from the AFFL Cup in a major upset.
Capricornia are humbled by much lower cup opposition for the fourth time in eleven seasons, this time at the hands of Gosford.
Nedlands finally navigate Western Australian qualifying and make the last sixteen of the cup for the first time in their 58 year history.

2005 Season
League Tables
AFFL Cup Results

First Division – Top

	+1	SA	Hindmarsh
2nd	-1	NSW	Crows Nest
3rd	+7	VIC	Ballarat
4th	=	VIC	Latrobe Valley
14th	-11	VIC	Southern Murray

AFFL Cup – Final Four

	D1	WA	South-West Districts
FIN	D1	VIC	Kew

SF	D2	QLD	Gold Coast
SF	D1	VIC	Ballarat

2005 Season Headlines

Hindmarsh push back to the top, league premiers for the third time in six years.
2003 AFFL Cup finalists South-West Districts met defending cup holders Kew in the final, finally winning a first major trophy.
Ballarat finish their second season back in the top flight sitting plum in third position.
Regional Victorian neighbours Southern Murray's form dips dramatically, dropping from third place to fourteenth.
Four time premiers Nundah drop out of the First Division after a stay of 36 years.
Sunshine have an enjoyable debut Second Division season, finishing ninth – just one place behind relegated neighbours and newly relegated former top flight outfit Pascoe Vale.
Unley are sent down to the third league tier next season for the first time in a generation.
Mornington are promoted to the Second Division after a 21 year absence.
Castle Hill and Port Macquarie both dive to the Fourth Division for the first time in their respective histories.
Reservoir win their way out of the Fourth Division for the first time since that division began in 1984.
Campbelltown take just four points in the worst league season in a nineteen team Fourth Division region.
Wollongong earn the right to a Third Division debut next season.
Third Division Revesby bound into the cup's last sixteen for the first time in almost 50 years.
North-West Districts defeat Hobart for the fourteenth successive head-to-head cup fixture, the second longest such record in AFFL Cup history.
The longest head-to-head winning streak in the knockout competition, Mersey over Launceston, extends to eighteen matches.

2004 Season
League Tables
AFFL Cup Results
Place of Origin

First Division – Top

	+4	NSW	Crows Nest
2nd	-1	SA	Hindmarsh
3rd	+1	VIC	Southern Murray
4th	-2	VIC	Latrobe Valley
7th	-4	VIC	Barwon

AFFL Cup – Final Four

	D1	VIC	Kew
FIN	D1	TAS	Mersey

SF	D1	VIC	Camberwell
SF	D1	NSW	Marrickville

Place of Origin XXVI

	NSW	New South Wales Metro
FIN	QLD	Queensland

SF	NSW	New South Wales Country
SF	TAS	Tasmania

2004 Season Headlines

Folded teams: Yorke and Bacchus Marsh.
New teams: Caroline Springs and Coomera.
Everything old is new again: Crows Nest are league premiers for the first time since going back-to-back in 1938–1939, and Kew claim a second AFFL Cup a mere 101 years after their first.
Ballarat bound back into the First Division with a solid mid-table finish.
Bathurst & Orange, top three finishers as recently as 1996, fall out of the top flight after a stay of almost thirty years.
Southern Adelaide Second Division side Edwardstown, saved from relegation last season only by the demise of South Australian compatriots Yorke, are able to turn things around with an astonishing surge up the ladder to fifth place.
Warringah are to fall to the third league tier for the first time in half a century.
Both winners of the Third Division regions, Sunshine and Coot-Tha, are promoted to the Second Division for the first time.
Townsville are the latest former top flight side to succumb to relegation to the Fourth Division next season.
Knox leap from bottom three in the Fourth Division South region to top five.
Mersey appear in the AFFL Cup final for the fifth time, and lose for the fourth.
Fortitude are the first team to qualify for the AFFL Cup Round of 16 on fifty occasions.
Bankstown win a first match in their last twelve cup fixtures.
New South Wales Metro and Queensland face off in the Place of Origin final, with both teams vying for a record seventh representative flag.
Despite losing their two other Origin group games, a vital victory for Tasmania over Victoria Metro sees the perennial underdogs qualify for the representative semi-finals for just the third time in history.

2003 Season
League Tables
AFFL Cup Results

First Division – Top

	+2	SA	Hindmarsh
2nd	+4	VIC	Latrobe Valley
3rd	+2	VIC	Barwon
6th	-5	WA	Stirling
9th	-7	NSW	Goulburn

AFFL Cup – Final Four

	D1	VIC	Camberwell
FIN	D1	WA	South-West Districts

SF	D1	QLD	Nundah
SF	D1	NSW	Crows Nest

2003 Season Headlines

Last season's unlikely top two both drop out of the top five, allowing modern era heavyweights Hindmarsh to win a fifth First Division championship.
Camberwell from Melbourne's east become the third Expansion era team to win the AFFL Cup.
1977 league premiers North-West Districts are dropping to the Second Division for the first time since 1969.
Pascoe Vale are one of just six teams in history to earn promotion from the Third and Second Divisions within three seasons.
Despite (or perhaps because of) an impressive last few seasons in the Second Division, the over-achievers from South Australia's Yorke Peninsula are forced into recess.
Mordialloc are the latest former fourth tier team to win promotion to the Second Division.
Deception Bay enjoy a hugely successful debut Third Division season, finishing third in the North & East region.
South-East Districts dig themselves out of the Fourth Division West for the first time since it became the new bottom league tier twenty years ago. Lake Macquarie manage the same feat in the East region.
South-West Districts make the AFFL Cup final for the third time...and lose for the third time.
Canberra qualify for the Round of 16 for the eleventh successive season, the third team in history to do so.
While simultaneously flexing their muscle in the league, Hindmarsh are dumped from the AFFL Cup by much lower opposition for the fourth time in a dozen seasons, this time at the hands of Morphett Vale.
Capricornia suffer a similar fate for the third time in eight years, knocked out by Third Division Coot-Tha.
Bendigo do likewise to Maribyrnong, the latter losing in an upset for the third time in twelve years.
In the fourth cup upset of the season, Bruce accounted for Bathurst & Orange.

2002 Season
League Tables
AFFL Cup Results

First Division – Top

	+10	WA	Stirling
2nd	+7	NSW	Goulburn
3rd	=	SA	Hindmarsh
4th	-3	ACT	Canberra
6th	-4	VIC	Latrobe Valley

AFFL Cup – Final Four

	D1	VIC	Corio
FIN	D1	QLD	Nundah

SF	D1	VIC	Maribyrnong
SF	D1	NSW	Bathurst & Orange

2002 Season Headlines

Stirling unseat all the fancied league challengers by becoming the biggest outsiders to win the First Division since 1912, the first side from Western Australia to hold the league title since 1959, as well as being the fourth Expansion era team in history to win the league.
Corio win their third AFFL Cup, the first trophy they've held aloft since their golden era of the early 1980's.
For the fourth season in a row, both Fortitude and Hurstville are both shuffled between the First and Second Divisions.
Pascoe Vale soar into seventh position on their return up to the Second Division.
After a decade of resurgence in the 1990's for Fremantle, a second relegation in four seasons lands them back in the third league tier.
Port Macquarie allay any fears of relegation from the Third Division North & East, leaping from bottom four last season into the top five.
Gosford slump to thirteenth place in a joyless return down to the Third Division North & East region.
South-West Queensland regional side Maranoa are relegated to the Fourth Division for the first time in their history.
Immediate relegation from the Third Division South & West was a foregone conclusion for newly promoted Waverley after taking just three points all season.
In their tenth season in the competition, Deception Bay are promoted from the Fourth Division North.
Bankstown appear to put aside any hope of quick rebound to the Third Division by finishing tenth on their first season down in the Fourth Division East region, and they also lose a tenth successive knockout cup game.
Adelaide Ports win a first AFFL Cup match in their last twelve games.
Ipswich lose a tenth consecutive cup match, the third team in history to endure such a losing run for the second time.

2001 Season
League Tables
AFFL Cup Results

First Division – Top

	+3	ACT	Canberra
2nd	=	VIC	Latrobe Valley
3rd	-2	SA	Hindmarsh
4th	+4	NSW	Bathurst & Orange
6th	-3	QLD	Capricornia

AFFL Cup – Final Four

	D1	ACT	Canberra
FIN	D1	VIC	Southern Murray

SF	D1	VIC	Latrobe Valley
SF	D1	QLD	Nundah

2001 Season Headlines

New teams: Bunbury and Darwin.
Canberra wrest back not just one but both trophies and, with five pieces of silverware in the last four seasons, solidify themselves as the most successful AFFL team of the Expansion eras.
Two time premiers Marrickville are relegated from the First Division, ending a 39 year top flight stay.
Bondi immediately storm into seventh place on their return up to the Second Division.
Territorians are immediately outshone in the Fourth Division West by their new NT rivals Darwin.
Far North Districts are swiftly relegated again from the First Division, and concurrently suffer an AFFL Cup exit at the hands of Fourth Division Coolangatta.
Corio are bundled out of the cup by bottom tier Mallee & Woomera.
Third Division Castle Hill go through to the Round of 16 for the first time in twenty years, enroute to a very welcome quarter final appearance.
The longest active AFFL Cup losing streak, and third longest in history, is finally over, as Goulburn Valley win a first knockout match in sixteen.

2000 Season
League Tables
AFFL Cup Results
Place of Origin

First Division – Top

	+7	SA	Hindmarsh
2nd	=	VIC	Latrobe Valley
3rd	+8	QLD	Capricornia
4th	-3	ACT	Canberra
7th	-4	VIC	Barwon

AFFL Cup – Final Four

	D1	SA	Hindmarsh
FIN	D1	WA	Stirling

SF	D1	ACT	Canberra
SF	D1	VIC	Barwon

Place of Origin XXV

	NSW	New South Wales Country
FIN	SA	South Australia

SF	VIC	Victoria Country
SF	VIC	Victoria Metro

2000 Season Headlines

The 100th AFFL season belongs to Hindmarsh, the ninth team in history to sweep the league and cup.
Stirling stride into the AFFL Cup semi finals for the third season running enroute to their first final, the sixth Expansion era side to make it into the final two.
Blacktown are relegated to the Third Division next season, their first season there in 25 years.
Kalamunda, of Perth's eastern suburbs, press for a secure future in the Third Division South & West region, landing comfortably mid-table.
Central & Western Districts are relegated from the Third Divsion, the sixth former top flight premiers to drop to the fourth tier.
The Sunshine Coast cannot be held down in the Fourth Division North region, dropping just five points in a triumphant league campaign.
Thomastown tumble from Fourth Division South promotion contenders back to also-rans.
Queanbeyan endure the second worst ever Fourth Division season since its inception, taking just four points.
Fourth Division Redland dump top flight challengers Capricornia from the AFFL Cup.
Third Division Parramatta managed likewise against relegation threatened First Division outfit Marrickville.
Adelaide Ports lose a tenth cup match in a row, but the tide turns for Waverley with a first cup match win in their last twelve.
New South Wales Country defeat all in front of them to win back-to-back Place of Origin flags.
Victoria Country coast through the Origin group stage, but are eliminated by South Australia in one of the biggest ever representative tournament semi final upsets.

1999 Season
League Tables
AFFL Cup Results

First Division – Top

	=	ACT	Canberra
2nd	+1	VIC	Latrobe Valley
3rd	-1	VIC	Barwon
4th	+5	TAS	North-West Districts
5th	-1	QLD	Nundah

AFFL Cup – Final Four

	D1	VIC	Latrobe Valley
FIN	D1	QLD	Nundah

SF	D1	WA	Stirling
SF	D1	QLD	Far North Districts

1999 Season Headlines

Canberra hold on to the league, but their bid to be the second team in history to win a double-double comes unglued in the AFFL Cup quarter finals.
While Latrobe Valley fall two points short of the league premiers, they are the side to oust the capital from the knockout competition before winning that trophy themselves for the second time.
Camberwell's return to the top flight sees them comfortably into mid-table.
A few seasons after finally attaining league challenger status, Western Australia's South-West Districts lurch dangerously towards relegation from the First Division.
Launceston appear to dash any hopes of a quick return up to the Third Division, falling to eleventh place in the Fouth Division South region.
Queensland's Far North Districts are relegated from the top flight, but do reach the AFFL Cup semi finals for the very first time.
Fourth Division Hobart finally have something to cheer about, putting long-time top flight side Mersey to the sword in the AFFL Cup.
In the other major cup upset, South-East Districts go to the Round of 16 for the first time since 1978 courtesy of a giant killing victory over Hindmarsh.
Clarence end their cup match losing streak, winning a first game in twelve.

1998 Season
League Tables
AFFL Cup Results

First Division – Top

	+5	ACT	Canberra
2nd	+2	VIC	Barwon
3rd	+4	VIC	Latrobe Valley
5th	-3	SA	Hindmarsh
6th	-5	QLD	Capricornia

AFFL Cup – Final Four

	D1	ACT	Canberra
FIN	D1	NSW	Crows Nest

SF	D1	VIC	Corio
SF	D1	WA	Stirling

1998 Season Headlines

New teams: Browns Plains.
The national capital's original side, Canberra, are the first team in forty years to win the coveted league and cup double.
Crows Nest appear in the AFFL Cup semi finals for a record nineteenth time, but their cup final hoodoo extends to a seventh loss in ten deciders.
Fremantle can look forward to top flight league football next season for the first time since 1953.
By winning the Third Division North & East convincingly, Coffs Harbour are the very first of the 1984 Second Expansion era teams to climb up to the second league tier.
After a solitary season in the Fourth Division last year, Oakleigh sit comfortably mid-table on their prompt return to the Third Division South & West.
The 1990's has been a crippling decade for Blackburn – their third relegation in just seven seasons means they have suffered the fastest slide from top to bottom league divisions in AFFL history by far.
After finishing thirteenth in the Fourth Division East region last year, Sutherland's surprise push for promotion falls just a point short.
Richmond-Tweed become the first former top flight side in history to sit bottom of a Fourth Division region.
Belmont and Derwent are the latest former Second Division sides to collect Fourth Division wooden spoons.
Via an admittedly kind draw, the probing AFFL Cup runs by South-West Queensland's Maranoa continue, becoming the first Third Division team in history to qualify for the last sixteen three times in four seasons.
Waverley lose their tenth consecutive AFFL Cup match.

1997 Season
League Tables
AFFL Cup Results

First Division – Top

	+1	QLD	Capricornia
2nd	+2	SA	Hindmarsh
3rd	+7	TAS	North-West Districts
4th	-3	VIC	Barwon
12th	-9	NSW	Bathurst & Orange

AFFL Cup – Final Four

	D1	NSW	Marrickville
FIN	D1	VIC	Corio

SF	D1	QLD	Nundah
SF	D1	QLD	Capricornia

1997 Season Headlines

Rockhampton celebrate as Capricornia bring home league premiership number three.
Marrickville return to the winner's circle with AFFL Cup number three.
Ballarat are all set for a second bite at the top flight – their first was a solitary season way back in 1905.
Alexandria are relegated to the Third Division for the first time since 1909.
Pascoe Vale head up to the second league tier for the first time in over twenty years.
Emu Plains are the fourth former Fourth Division side to rise to the Second Division.
Berowra slump to tenth place on their return down to the Third Division North & East region.
The Sunshine Coast's fiftieth season in the AFFL next year will be their very first down in the Fourth Division.
Narrabeen stun the Fourth Division East to go from also-rans last season to promotion winners.
Richmond-Tweed look destined to stay in the Fourth Division North for some time to come, as last season's runners up finish in the bottom three.
Fourth Division Maroubra claim the AFFL Cup upset of the season by knocking out Crows Nest.
Clarence's AFFL Cup match losing streak extends to ten games.

1996 Season
League Tables
AFFL Cup Results
Place of Origin

First Division – Top

	+5	VIC	Barwon
2nd	=	QLD	Capricornia
3rd	+4	NSW	Bathurst & Orange
4th	-1	SA	Hindmarsh
11th	-10	VIC	Latrobe Valley

AFFL Cup – Final Four

	D1	QLD	Fortitude
FIN	D1	TAS	Mersey

SF	D1	ACT	Canberra
SF	D1	NSW	Bathurst & Orange

Place of Origin XXIV

	NSW	New South Wales Country
FIN	QLD	Queensland

SF	NSW	New South Wales Metro
SF	SA	South Australia

1996 Season Headlines

Folded teams: South Yarra, Moorabbin and Archerfield.
New teams: Dromana, Tuggeranong, Redland and Caloundra.
Both Geelong sides have now held a premiership trophy as Barwon are somewhat surprise league winners.
After a cup final replay in the semi finals, this season Fortitude cannot be denied from a record seventh AFFL Cup.
Latrobe Valley's trophy run is over, at least for now, after suffering the worst premiership hangover in AFFL history.
Mordialloc leap into the top four of the Third Division South & West region.
Blackburn's alarming slide down the league hierachy in recent seasons continues apace, finishing eleventh in their first season back down in the third tier.
Oakleigh are relegated to the Fourth Division for the very first time.
In the Fourth Division East, Riverstone surge from bottom four to top three.
Caloundra are the best performing of the four new sides joining the Fourth Division regions.
The AFFL Cup brought a welcome distraction for both Blackburn and Oakleigh, who toppled top flight Corio and Maribyrnong in the Victorian rounds respectively.
There were also two upsets in Queensland qualifying, with First Division high flyers Capricornia losing to Petrie, and Nundah humbled by Maranoa.
Maranoa's knockout progress saw them into the Round of 16 for the second successive season, the third team ever from the Third Divison to do so.
Defending Origin flag holders and pre-tournament favourites Victoria Country wilt against lesser opposition, allowing New South Wales Country the opportunity to end an eighty year wait for a second Origin flag.
New South Wales Metro equal their own Origin record of eight successive Group Stage qualifications.

1995 Season
League Tables
AFFL Cup Results

First Division – Top

	+1	VIC	Latrobe Valley
2nd	+3	QLD	Capricornia
3rd	-2	SA	Hindmarsh
4th	-1	WA	South-West Districts
7th	-3	NSW	Bathurst & Orange

AFFL Cup – Final Four

	D1	ACT	Canberra
FIN	D1	QLD	Fortitude

SF	D1	VIC	Corio
SF	D1	NSW	Crows Nest

1995 Season Headlines

Latrobe Valley wrestle the premiership back again – their third major trophy in three seasons.
Hot on the heels of the first Expansion era team winning the AFFL Cup last year, Canberra are the second such side to do so after thwarting Fortitude's tilt at a record seventh cup triumph.
Kew's 50th consecutive top flight season is one to forget, taking just five points in the worst First Division season for any team in the Second Expansion era.
Queensland's Far North Districts are promoted from the Second Division just five seasons after their last promotion from the third tier.
Gosford enjoy a bullish first ever Second Division season, finishing in eighth place.
After last season's promise in the Second Division Dandenong are brought back to earth, dropping into the bottom five.
The situation is more grim for near neighbours Blackburn though, falling through the Second Division in just three seasons to return to the third tier for the first time since 1966.
Yorke are headed for the Second Division next season for the first time in nearly forty years.
Cairns are the third former Fourth Division team to win promotion to the Second Division.
Five seasons after relegation from the Second Division, Perth are the fifth former top flight premiers to fall to the Fourth Division next year. To add insult to injury, they lose to Nedlands in the AFFL Cup for the very first time in their fourteen head-to-head knockout meetings dating back to 1957.
Modbury immediately fall into the bottom three on a lamentable return down to the Fourth Division West region.
Caboolture remain rooted to the foot of the Fourth Division North region, taking just three points all season.
Third Division sides Maranoa and Parramatta qualify for the Round of 16 for the first time since 1949 and 1961 respectively.
In the upset of the season, Launceston topple North-West Districts in Tasmanian AFFL Cup qualifying.
Goulburn Valley lose their tenth consecutive AFFL Cup match.

1994 Season
League Tables
AFFL Cup Results

First Division – Top

	+5	SA	Hindmarsh
2nd	-1	VIC	Latrobe Valley
3rd	+6	WA	South-West Districts
5th	-3	QLD	Capricornia
7th	-4	VIC	Barwon

AFFL Cup – Final Four

	D1	VIC	Latrobe Valley
FIN	D1	WA	South-West Districts

SF	D3	WA	Duncraig
SF	D1	VIC	Corio

1994 Season Headlines

Latrobe Valley follow up last season's league title as the first Expansion era side to win the AFFL Cup, though Hindmarsh's better league performances dash their dreams of a fairytale double winning season.
Western Australia's South-West Districts enjoy their best ever year, though not quite good enough for a first trophy in either competition.
Dandenong shake off the tag of likely Second Division relegation candidates, storming into the top six.
Nedlands win promotion from the Third Division for the first time in a generation, Gosford for the first time in their history.
Coffs Harbour sit safely in mid-table in their first season up in the Third Division North & East region.
The pendulum swings back again at Petrie, where another erratic league season takes them from top four of the Third Division North & East to bottom four.
The crisis at Central & Western Districts deepens, in their first season down in the third league tier in 88 years they finish fourteenth.
Newly relegated Maroubra and Strathfield land with a thud immediately into the bottom half of the Fourth Division East region.
While struggling in the Third Division South & West, Duncraig enjoyed an AFFL Cup run for the ages, defeating two top flight teams (Canberra and then eventual league premiers Hindmarsh) at the pointy end of the competition to become just the third team ever from the third tier to reach the semi finals.
Fourth Division Moorabbin also enjoy a cup upset win, eliminating Melbourne silvertails Kew.
Those humbling cup exits for Hindmarsh and Kew are the second losses to Third or Fourth Division opposition in three seasons for both teams.
In Tasmania, Mersey beat Launceston for the fourteenth consecutive head-to-head cup fixture, a new competition record.

1993 Season
League Tables
AFFL Cup Results

First Division – Top

	+1	VIC	Latrobe Valley
2nd	-1	QLD	Capricornia
3rd	+3	VIC	Barwon
4th	+1	VIC	Corio
5th	-2	TAS	Mersey

AFFL Cup – Final Four

	D1	NSW	Bathurst & Orange
FIN	D1	NSW	Marrickville

SF	D2	VIC	Southern Murray
SF	D1	ACT	Canberra

1993 Season Headlines

Folded teams: Prospect, Rockdale, Woollahra and Dundas.
Merged teams: Greater Riverina.
Re-established teams: Queanbeyan (formerly Eden-Monaro) and Belmore.
Renamed teams: Goulburn (formerly Goulburn & Monaro).
New teams: Port Stephens and Deception Bay.
Without a Gippsland derby to play in this season, Latrobe Valley go on to win the league, the second Expansion era team to climb to the very top of the AFFL pyramid.
Bathurst & Orange halt Marrickville from retaining the AFFL Cup at the last hurdle, collecting a second knockout trophy for their cabinet to sit alongside their 1928 triumph.
The first Expansion era team to win the league in 1981, Mount Gravatt, are relegated from the top flight.
Things are more bleak still for Central & Western Districts, with the four time premiers and six time cup winners from regional New South Wales falling to the Third Division for the first time since 1906.
Coming off a disappointing season last year, Petrie are the main beneficiaries of a packed Third Division North & East middle order, rising from fourteenth place to fourth.
Coffs Harbour win the Fourth Division North region, the third of the Second Expansion era teams to be promoted up to the third league tier.
Deception Bay are easily the standouts of the new or returning teams in the Fourth Division, finishing eleventh in the North region.
Third Division South Yarra invite memories of glories past as they reach the cup quarter finals for the first time since 1948.
Hobart win their first AFFL Cup match in eleven, then lose to North-West Districts for the tenth successive head-to-head cup fixture.

1992 Season
League Tables
AFFL Cup Results
Place of Origin

First Division – Top

	+4	QLD	Capricornia
2nd	=	VIC	Latrobe Valley
3rd	-2	TAS	Mersey
4th	+9	TAS	North-West Districts
8th	-5	QLD	Nundah

AFFL Cup – Final Four

	D1	NSW	Marrickville
FIN	D2	VIC	Ballarat

SF	D1	QLD	Capricornia
SF	D1	VIC	Barwon

Place of Origin XXIII

	VIC	Victoria Country
FIN	VIC	Victoria Metro

SF	NSW	New South Wales Metro
SF	NSW	New South Wales Country

1992 Season Headlines

Capricornia are premiers for the second time (and win a third piece of silverware) in five years.
Marrickville survive the most unpredictable AFFL Cup competition of all time to win a second knockout trophy.
Gippsland's 50th First Division seasons ends in relegation, with this most recent 22 year top flight stay bringing in four premierships.
Ballarat are the first Second Division side to reach the cup final in fourteen years, but it came at great cost to their league form, as they slide down the ladder and give up all hopes of promotion to the top flight.
Blacktown are headed for a First Division debut, while fellow perimeter Sydney side Berowra drop to the Third Division for the first time since 1967.
Also in the Second Division, newly promoted Western Districts of Victoria land immediately in the top half of the ladder.
Four seasons after their last relegation from the First Division and now in danger of dropping again to the Third, heavy competition among inner city Adelaide rivals sees three time AFFL Cup winners Prospect go into recess.
Contrastingly, fellow Adelaide outfit Edwardstown are the first former Fourth Division team to rise to the Second Division, moving up through the Third Division South & West region in six seasons.
After a solitary third tier season the previous year, Cranbourne return down to the Fourth Division South with a thud, finishing in tenth place.
Perth side Canning are the first Fourth Division team to upset two top flight teams, South-West Districts and Kew, in a single AFFL Cup campaign. That loss for South-West Districts means they are now the fourth top flight side in history to suffer major cup upsets twice in four seasons.
Fellow Fourth Division side Woolloongabba, in the last sixteen for the first time since 1966, put the halt on Canning's unlikely run, and in the process become the second Fourth Division side ever to reach the cup quarter finals.
Amongst the other upsets in the AFFL Cup, in South Australia Fourth Division Lofty knock out Hindmarsh, while in Melbourne Doncaster take defending winners Maribyrnong down a peg or two.
Hobart lose their tenth consecutive cup match.
Origin favourites Queensland are far too complacent, the strongest representative squad ever to go winless at the Group Stage.
The fight for the Origin flag becomes an all Victorian arm wrestle, with Victoria Country accounting for their city cousins twice for a deserved fourth representative title.

1991 Season
League Tables
AFFL Cup Results

First Division – Top

	+5	TAS	Mersey
2nd	+3	VIC	Latrobe Valley
3rd	-2	QLD	Nundah
7th	-4	SA	Hindmarsh
10th	-8	VIC	Corio

AFFL Cup – Final Four

	D1	VIC	Maribyrnong
FIN	D1	VIC	Corio

SF	D1	VIC	Kew
SF	D1	SA	Hindmarsh

1991 Season Headlines

In their 43rd top flight season, the most required so far for a first premiership, Mersey of Devonport are finally league champions.
Maribyrnong's sixth AFFL Cup triumph sees them join three other sides as the most successful cup team of all time.
Stirling completely blitz the Second Division, dropping just seven points to earn a full deserved top flight debut.
Modbury and Strathfield both sink out of the third league tier for the first time.
Bendigo spiral from top six down into the bottom three of the Fourth Division West region.
Third Division Cairns make it through to the last sixteen of the AFFL Cup for the first time since 1965.

1990 Season
League Tables
AFFL Cup Results

First Division – Top

	+9	QLD	Nundah
2nd	+6	VIC	Corio
3rd	-2	SA	Hindmarsh
6th	-3	TAS	Mersey
18th	-14	VIC	Kew

AFFL Cup – Final Four

	D1	QLD	Capricornia
FIN	D1	WA	South-West Districts

SF	D1	NSW	Bathurst & Orange
SF	D1	VIC	Blackburn

1990 Season Headlines

Folded teams: Healesville.
New teams: Armadale.
Nundah's topsy-turvy league performances continue with a third premiership in ten years, and they are first team since 1973 to claim three trophies in as many seasons.
In another Queensland double, Capricornia collect a second knockout trophy in a decade, and a second trophy in three years.
Kew's 80th top flight season is a disaster, tumbling from top four to bottom three and just avoiding relegation.
Ballarat's second season back up in the Second Division sees them rise into the top six.
Townsville's first season down in the third league tier in over fifty years does not bode well for the future, finishing in eleventh place.
Caringbah fall out of the Third Division for the first time in their history.
Elizabeth and Cranbourne are the first of the Second Expansion era teams to win promotion to the Third Division next season.
Logan rebound from a first Fourth Division North wooden spoon last season to climb up to seventh.
Albury and Dubbo are the latest former Second Division sides to sit at the foot of a Fourth Division region.
Fourth Division Morphett Vale qualify for the AFFL Cup Round of 16 for the very first time.

1989 Season
League Tables
AFFL Cup Results

First Division – Top

	+2	SA	Hindmarsh
2nd	-1	QLD	Capricornia
3rd	-1	TAS	Mersey
4th	=	VIC	Kew
5th	=	VIC	Gippsland

AFFL Cup – Final Four

	D1	QLD	Nundah
FIN	D1	VIC	Southern Murray

SF	D1	QLD	Mount Gravatt
SF	D1	VIC	Maribyrnong

1989 Season Headlines

At the head of a stable top five, Hindmarsh are premiers for the second time in three years.
Nundah successfully defend the AFFL Cup, just the third team in history to do so.
Townsville nosedive through the Second Division in eight seasons, and will return down to the Third Division for the first time since 1938.
Moving in the opposite direction are Maranoa who are set to appear up in the Second Division after an absence of more than sixty years.
After a single season in the Fourth Division West last season, Nedlands immediately land back safely into the top half of the Third Division South & West region.
All four sides relegated from the Third Division to the Fourth – Bruce, Belmont, Emu Plains and Hunter – do so after falling through the third tier in between four and nine seasons.
Wide Bay enjoy a bullish season in the Fourth Division North region, rising from thirteenth to second.
Lofty's chances of promotion from the Fourth Division West region look shot, as they fall from third place to thirteenth.
Territorians and Moorabbin are the second former Second Division sides to collect Fourth Division wooden spoons.
Healesville place fourth in the Fourth Division South, but that is not enough to stave off exctintion after only five years.
In their 77th season in the competition, Oakleigh finally qualify for the AFFL Cup Round of 16 for the first time.
Wagga Wagga also reach the last sixteen of the AFFL Cup for the first time in their 46 seasons as a stand alone team.
Third Division Goldfields see off two higher division teams in the early rounds of the cup, including the upset of the season over South-West Districts.
Woolloongabba snap an eleven cup match losing streak by winning twice over fellow Fourth Division opposition.

1988 Season
League Tables
AFFL Cup Results
Place of Origin

First Division – Top

	+7	QLD	Capricornia
2nd	+1	TAS	Mersey
3rd	-2	SA	Hindmarsh
4th	+2	VIC	Kew
6th	-4	QLD	Nundah

AFFL Cup – Final Four

	D1	QLD	Nundah
FIN	D1	SA	Hindmarsh

SF	D1	NSW	Alexandria
SF	D1	TAS	Mersey

Place of Origin XXII

	VIC	Victoria Metro
FIN	NSW	New South Wales Country

SF	QLD	Queensland
SF	NSW	New South Wales Metro

1988 Season Headlines

Previous league form goes out the window again this season as Capricornia muscle in to bring a first premiership to Rockhampton.
Nundah win a first AFFL Cup to cement their place as one of the teams of the decade.
Things aren't all rosy in Queensland though, as Fortitude's 35 year stay in the First Division, including two premierships, comes to an end.
Hurstville scoop an incredible top flight debut by keeping a nose in front of a crowded Second Division top half.
After a single top flight season in 1980, Victoria's Western Districts are to return to the Third Division for the first time since 1954.
Magill stutter to the foot of the Fourth Division West region, the first former Second Division side to collect a wooden spoon from the new bottom tier.
Fourth Division Wagga Wagga account for top flight Warringah in the AFFL Cup upset of the season.
Queensland go into Place of Origin as tournament favourites yet again, but their tilt at a third consecutive representative flag comes unstuck by a resurgent Victoria Metro squad.
New South Wales Country blitz through their Origin group and then their city cousins in the semis, but cannot engineer an additional upset to prevent yet another losing final.

1987 Season
League Tables
AFFL Cup Results

First Division – Top

	+7	SA	Hindmarsh
2nd	+10	QLD	Nundah
3rd	+8	TAS	Mersey
5th	-3	QLD	Mount Gravatt
6th	-5	VIC	Kew

AFFL Cup – Final Four

	D1	VIC	Gippsland
FIN	D1	QLD	Mount Gravatt

SF	D1	TAS	North-West Districts
SF	D1	NSW	Alexandria

1987 Season Headlines

Among a highly unexpected top three vying for the league title, the premiership finally comes to Adelaide as Hindmarsh are just the second team in history to win the top flight within two seasons of promotion.
Gippsland win a second AFFL Cup, claiming both major trophies over three seasons.
After relegation from the Second Division two seasons ago, Bruce find themselves in the bottom half of the Third Division South & West region.
Spencer Ports fall through the Third Division South & West in just three seasons to face life in the fourth tier next year.
Granville savour a first ever promotion from the lowest league tier in their eighty two year history.
In the Fourth Division West, Wanneroo leap from bottom three last year to runners up this season.
Dundas and Lake Macquarie are the latest of the old Third Division sides to be wooden spooners in the new Fourth Division.
Latrobe Valley are the third First Division team in history to be eliminated in major upsets from the AFFL Cup twice in four years, and in this season the first to be humbled by a Fourth Division outfit, their near neighbours Waverley.
Ringwood successfully navigate a kind draw as the only team from outside the First Division to make the AFFL Cup quarter finals this season, and in the process become the first ever Fourth Division side to reach the last eight.
Port Macquarie make it to the cup's Round of 16 for the first time in their history.
Woolloongabba lose their tenth successive AFFL Cup fixture, in this case a wholly expected loss to First Division neighbours Fortitude.

1986 Season
League Tables
AFFL Cup Results

First Division – Top

	+4	VIC	Kew
2nd	+6	QLD	Mount Gravatt
3rd	-2	VIC	Gippsland
4th	=	TAS	North-West Districts
9th	-7	VIC	Corio

AFFL Cup – Final Four

	D1	VIC	Blackburn
FIN	D1	NSW	Warringah

SF	D1	QLD	Capricornia
SF	D1	QLD	Nundah

1986 Season Headlines

Kew win their first premiership in almost twenty years, and are just the third team to win at least six league titles.
In the first AFFL Cup final to be contested by two post-Federation teams, Blackburn are the fifth such side to claim the knockout trophy.
Hindmarsh bound into the top eight of the First Division on their return to the top flight.
Maribyrnong are relegated from any division for the first time in their history, ending a record run of sixty seven consecutive top flight seasons which included five premierships.
Prospect are heading back to the top flight for the first time since 1924, the third of the original Federation era sides from Adelaide to be promoted from the Second Division in as many seasons.
Castle Hill fall through the Second Division in just six seasons.
Goldfields leap unexpectedly from mid-table to win the Third Division South & West region.
Elsewhere in the Third Division South & West, Modbury lurch from top four last season to bottom five.
New England tumble all the way down the Third Division North & East region in four seasons.
Healesville and Liverpool are the big movers up in their respective Fourth Division regions.
Chatswood and newly relegated Waverley are the big Fourth Division disappointments.
Rockingham are the first side from the old Third Division to fall bottom of the new Fourth Division.
After three seasons, Campbelltown are still yet to get off the bottom of the Fourth Division East.
Giant killers Ballarat are at it again in the AFFL Cup, knocking over Mersey to become the first ever Third Divison team to eliminate three top flight teams in three seasons.
Before Mersey's embarrassing exit, they dispose of Launceston in the cup for the thirteenth successive fixture.
Goulburn Valley and Narrabeen both notch a first AFFL Cup win in their last ten matches.
Petrie get to the last sixteen of the cup for the first time in their history.

1985 Season
League Tables
AFFL Cup Results

First Division – Top

	+2	VIC	Gippsland
2nd	+5	VIC	Corio
3rd	+2	NSW	Bathurst & Orange
4th	-2	TAS	North-West Districts
9th	-8	QLD	Nundah

AFFL Cup – Final Four

	D1	QLD	Fortitude
FIN	D1	VIC	Kew

SF	D1	WA	South-West Districts
SF	D1	NSW	Marrickville

1985 Season Headlines

Gippsland win a fourth league premiership as Nundah's ninth place is the worst league title defence since 1959.
Fortitude are the seventh team to win the AFFL Cup twice in three years, becoming just one of three sides to win the knockout trophy on six occasions.
Bathurst & Orange are in the top three of the First Division for the first time since 1930, when the former did so as a standalone team.
Townsville tumble from third to fourteenth place in the Second Division.
Bendigo are simultaneously promoted from the Fourth Division and notch the scalp of the AFFL Cup season, top flight Maribyrnong.

1984 Season
League Tables
AFFL Cup Results
Place of Origin

First Division – Top

	+1	QLD	Nundah
2nd	+2	TAS	North-West Districts
3rd	+2	VIC	Gippsland
4th	-3	NSW	Marrickville
6th	-3	QLD	Mount Gravatt

AFFL Cup – Final Four

	D1	VIC	Corio
FIN	D1	QLD	Mount Gravatt

SF	D1	VIC	Gippsland
SF	D1	QLD	Capricornia

Place of Origin XXI

	QLD	Queensland
FIN	NSW	New South Wales Metro

SF	SA	South Australia
SF	WA	Western Australia

1984 Season Headlines

Folded teams: Northcote.
Re-established teams: Dubbo.
Renamed teams: Clarence (formerly Clarence-Nambucca), Toowoomba (formerly Darling Downs) and Sunshine Coast (formerly Gympie-Nambour).
New teams: 24 new sides, as the Second Division contracts to one region, the Third Division reverts to two regions and a Fourth Division of four regions is created.
The two trophy winners from 1982 return to sweep the same competitions in the first season of the Second Expansion era: Nundah clinch their third league title, and Corio's second AFFL Cup is their fourth trophy in six years.
Canberra are the sixth Expansion era side to earn a First Division debut courtesy of a second promotion in just four seasons.
Altona slide down through the Third Division in four seasons, bound for the fourth tier next season.
Dubbo, restarting life for a third time, and Coffs Harbour are the best of the new faces in the Fourth Division, both finishing seventh in their respective regions.
Third Division Ballarat create history by defeating not one but two top flight sides, Latrobe Valley and Crows Nest, in the AFFL Cup.
Fourth Division Granville dump First Division Warringah from the cup, as Wynnum similarly did over the league champions Nundah.
Emu Plains are in the last sixteen of the cup for the first time since 1950.
Mount Gravatt do likewise for the first time since 1958, enroute to becoming the third Expansion era team in history to make it to the final.
Queensland's Place of Origin dominance extends to an unsurprising fifth final and fourth flag in the last six tournaments.
Fortunate group results favour both underdogs Western Australia and South Australia for second place in each group, the former losing two matches, resulting in the most lopsided set of Origin semi final matchups in sixty years.

1983 Season
League Tables
AFFL Cup Results

First Division – Top

	+2	NSW	Marrickville
2nd	-1	QLD	Nundah
3rd	+4	QLD	Mount Gravatt
4th	+2	TAS	North-West Districts
5th	-3	VIC	Gippsland

AFFL Cup – Final Four

	D1	QLD	Fortitude
FIN	D1	NSW	Goulburn & Monaro

SF	D2	NSW	Hurstville
SF	D1	VIC	Blackburn

1983 Season Headlines

Marrickville are league premiers for the second time, while Fortitude win AFFL Cup number five.
Two Victorian teams, Camberwell and Latrobe Valley, win their Second Division regions to gain top flight debuts next season - the equal fourth Expansion era teams to do so.
However, with the biggest league structure shuffle since it all began in 1901 taking effect next year, there was much focus on who could clamber to safety in the streamlined second and third tiers.
Abbotsford cannot survive the consolidation of the Second Division into one division from next year, becoming the fourth last team active since Federation to drop to the third tier.
Amidst the scramble of Third Division teams avoiding the drop to the new Fourth Division from next season, Bendigo, Reservoir and Petrie suffer consecutive relegations.
Also falling to the Fourth Division for its inaugural season are no less than four former top flight premiers: South Yarra, Hobart, Wolloongabba and Wide Bay.
Granville's competition record of 78 straight seasons in the Third Division ends – the bad news is their unbroken run in the bottom league tier continues next season in the Fourth Division.
Not joining the new fourth tier next season are Northcote from Melbourne's inner north, the 1910 and 1919 AFFL Cup winners fold after many decades of anonymity.
New England go into the last sixteen of the AFFL Cup for the first time in 45 years, enroute to a very first quarter finals appearance.
Two more teams, Yorke and Dandenong, also reach the Round of 16 after an absence of at least twenty years.
In Adelaide, Hindmarsh defeat neighbours Prospect for the first time in their eleven head-to-head cup matches.

1982 Season
League Tables
AFFL Cup Results

First Division – Top

	+1	QLD	Nundah
2nd	+5	VIC	Gippsland
3rd	=	NSW	Marrickville
4th	=	VIC	Corio
7th	-6	QLD	Mount Gravatt

AFFL Cup – Final Four

	D1	VIC	Corio
FIN	D1	QLD	Townsville

SF	D1	VIC	Maribyrnong
SF	D1	SA	Unley

1982 Season Headlines

The league title crosses to the northern side of the Brisbane River as Nundah are premiers for the second time.
Corio win a first AFFL Cup, their third major trophy in four years.
Townsville reach the cup final for the third time in eight seasons, and lose for the third time.
Blackburn from Melbourne's east are headed for a First Division debut next season.
Canberra finish fourth on their return back up to the Second Division North & East region.
Maroubra qualify for the Round of 16 in the AFFL Cup after an absence of twenty years.

1981 Season
League Tables
AFFL Cup Results

First Division – Top

	+1	QLD	Mount Gravatt
2nd	+3	QLD	Nundah
3rd	+9	NSW	Marrickville
4th	-3	VIC	Corio
6th	-3	QLD	Fortitude

AFFL Cup – Final Four

	D1	QLD	Capricornia
FIN	D1	VIC	Kew

SF	D1	QLD	Nundah
SF	D1	QLD	Townsville

1981 Season Headlines

Mount Gravatt create history as the first Expansion era side to win the First Division title, in just their fourth top flight season.
Capricornia win the AFFL Cup as one of three Queensland teams in the semi finals, adding yet more domination to that state's one-two finish in the league.
1965 premiers Alexandria are relegated from any division for the first time in their history, ending an almost forty year run in the First Division.
Unley win consecutive promotions, just the third team in history to do so, to take a debut slot in the First Division next season.
In comparison, Ryde's seventh place in their debut season in the Second Division North & East region seems a little less extraordinary.
Balaclava fall through the Second Division yet again, facing their first season in the third tier since 1957.
Once mighty Wide Bay face a similar fate in the Third Division for the first time in seventy years.
Two Third Division winners, Dandenong and New England, are promoted for the first time since the 1950's.
Canning dive from top four to bottom three in the Third Division West region. Yorke, however, are bottom for third season in a row.
Goulburn Valley are in further strife though, anchored to the bottom of the Third Division South for the fourth season running.
Edwardstown are in the last sixteen of the AFFL Cup for the first time in 21 years.
Sutherland are the oldest of three sides to get through NSW-ACT qualifying and into the AFFL Cup Round of 16 for the first time.
The two longest active losing AFFL Cup streaks are over: Granville win a first cup match in thirteen, and Ipswich end their run of fourteen consecutive losses.

1980 Season
League Tables
AFFL Cup Results
Place of Origin

First Division – Top

	=	VIC	Corio
2nd	+3	QLD	Mount Gravatt
3rd	=	QLD	Fortitude
4th	+9	QLD	Capricornia
8th	-6	VIC	Gippsland

AFFL Cup – Final Four

	D1	TAS	Mersey
FIN	D1	VIC	Gippsland

SF	D2	VIC	Blackburn
SF	D1	QLD	Fortitude

Place of Origin XX

	QLD	Queensland
FIN	NSW	New South Wales Country

SF	NSW	New South Wales Metro
SF	VIC	Victoria Country

1980 Season Headlines

New teams: Duncraig.
Corio hold off an assault from no less than four Queensland teams to retain the league premiership.
Mersey eliminate defending AFFL Cup holders and local rivals North-West Districts in Tasmanian qualifying, then go all the way to claim the cup for themselves.
Two time premiers Goulburn & Monaro, the second longest serving First Division team, will play in the Second Division next season for the first time since 1932, and there was another embarassing exit from the AFFL Cup.
Castle Hill shock the Second Division North & East to earn promotion to the top flight after just twelve years of existence.
Balaclava stagger from top four to bottom four in the Second Division South & West region.
It was a great season for Unley, the Adelaide side climbs up out of the Third Division West region for the first time in over forty years, and concurrently make the last sixteen of the AFFL Cup for the first time since 1947.
Ryde are promoted from the Third Division North for the first time in their history.
Liverpool leap unexpectedly into the top three of the Third Division East region.
Goulburn Valley are bottom of the Third Division South region for the third season in a row.
Dundas heap more misery on Goulburn & Monaro's season, the second Third Division side in five years to bundle the latter out of the AFFL Cup.
There was a second major cup upset, this time in Melbourne, with former powerhouse South Yarra knocking out Maribyrnong.
Newly promoted Ballarat couldn't stay up in the Second Division this time, but they did make the AFFL Cup Round of 16 for the first time since 1944.
Moorabbin are the second Third Division team in history to qualify for the AFFL Cup Round of 16 two seasons in a row.
Richmond-Tweed win a cup match to end their streak of eleven consecutive losses in the knockout competition.
Oakleigh set a new AFFL Cup record of 68 seasons without ever qualifying for the Round of 16.
Queensland continues to assemble ever stronger Place of Origin squads, and this talent depth corresponds to a fifth representative flag.
New South Wales Country had the wood on the eventual Origin winners at the group stage, but could not stage a repeat in the final and must settle for a sixth loss in the tournament decider.

1979 Season
League Tables
AFFL Cup Results

First Division – Top

	+8	VIC	Corio
2nd	-1	VIC	Gippsland
3rd	=	QLD	Fortitude
4th	+1	NSW	Warringah
9th	-7	TAS	North-West Districts

AFFL Cup – Final Four

	D1	TAS	North-West Districts
FIN	D1	NSW	Central & Western Districts

SF	D1	QLD	Capricornia
SF	D1	WA	South-West Districts

1979 Season Headlines

The league title goes to Geelong for the first time as Corio are the most unfancied premiers since 1912.
The AFFL Cup finalists from 1977 play off in the cup decider again, though this time North-West Districts reverse the result for a first knockout trophy.
Losing cup finalist Central & Western Districts are simultaneously relegated from the First Division just six years after the latest of their two most recent league titles.
Victoria's Western Districts earn a first ever promotion out of the Second Division South & West region.
Bondi are the latest side to complete a boom and bust cycle, returning down to the Third Division after less than twenty years which included two top flight seasons a decade ago.
Ballarat will play up in the Second Division next season for the first time since 1952.
Bruce leapfrog their more established ACT rival to win promotion from the Third Division East in just their sixth season.
Oakleigh have not been a team blessed with much success in their history so far, so claiming the upset of the season over Gippsland in the AFFL Cup was something to savour.
Camberwell get to the AFFL Cup Round of 16 for the first time in twenty years, though they are far from the only long missing faces towards the pointy end of the cup draw: It's Capricornia's first appearence in the last sixteen since 1940 on their way to the semi finals, and Rockdale do likewise for the first time since 1932.

1978 Season
League Tables
AFFL Cup Results

First Division – Top

	+1	VIC	Gippsland
2nd	-1	TAS	North-West Districts
3rd	+3	QLD	Fortitude
4th	=	QLD	Nundah
6th	-3	NSW	Marrickville

AFFL Cup – Final Four

	D1	QLD	Fortitude
FIN	D2	NSW	Blacktown

SF	D1	VIC	Gippsland
SF	D1	NSW	Bathurst & Orange

1978 Season Headlines

Gippsland run away with the league title, their third in five years.
Fortitude win a fourth AFFL Cup, and second in five years.
Capricornia are promoted from both the Third and Second divisions in four years to book a spot back in the top flight for the first time since 1935.
Rockdale have reason to hope for a long life in the Second Division, finishing seventh on their return up to the North & East region.
Hobart are relegated to the Third Division, the fifth former top flight champions to drop to the bottom tier, leaving just four teams active since Federation never to have fallen to the Third Division.
There are first-time promotions for the winners of three Third Division regions: Belmont, Ringwood and Revesby.
The other Third Division winner, Richmond-Tweed, is returning up to the Second Division after an absence of more than twenty years.
Reservoir are twelfth on their return down to the Third Division South region.
Lambton slump from top four to bottom four in the Third Division North region.
Second Division Blacktown reach the AFFL Cup semi finals for the second time in four years, then eliminate the First Division's top team to become the second Expansion era side to appear in the final.
Bendigo's first season in the Second Division since 1910 coincides with making the last sixteen of the AFFL Cup for the first time since that same year.
Townsville endure the double ignomy of First Division relegation and AFFL Cup elimination at the hands of Third Division Woolloongabba.
Liverpool end their run of thirteen straight AFFL Cup match losses with two morale boosting wins.
Granville and Richmond-Tweed each lose a tenth successive AFFL Cup fixture. For the former, they are the second team in history to endure such a slump for the second time.

1977 Season
League Tables
AFFL Cup Results

First Division – Top

	+2	TAS	North-West Districts
2nd	+5	VIC	Gippsland
3rd	-1	NSW	Marrickville
4th	-3	QLD	Nundah
6th	-2	QLD	Fortitude

AFFL Cup – Final Four

	D1	NSW	Central & Western Districts
FIN	D1	TAS	North-West Districts

SF	D2	WA	Goldfields
SF	D1	NSW	Crows Nest

1977 Season Headlines

Folded teams: Riverland, Barrier, Belmore and Ashfield.
Merged teams: Mallee & Wimmera.
Renamed teams: Barwon (formerly Corangamite).
New teams: Dundas and Logan.
It's been almost sixty years since a side from Tasmania won the league, and North-West Districts fall just one game short of being the first league and cup double winners in a generation.
There is a record equalling sixth AFFL Cup for Central & Western Districts, their fourth major trophy of the decade.
Kew's sixty seventh season in the top flight also sets a new record.
Blacktown's brief spell in the Third Division last season has done no harm as they immediately land in the top five of the Second Division North & East region.
Bendigo are headed back up to the Second Division for the first time since 1910, thus ending the second longest stay in the Third Division in league history.
Port Macquarie are promoted from the Third Division North region for the first time.
Narrabeen finish in the top six of the Third Division North region, rebounding magnificently after collecting a wooden spoon the year before.
Any hope harboured by Modbury of a return up to the Second Division appears dashed as they tumble down the Third Division West ladder.
Second tier Goldfields reach the AFFL Cup semi finals for the second time in five years.
Belmont reach the last sixteen of the cup for the first time.
Derwent defeat Mersey to end a record equalling thirteen match run of consecutive head-to-head cup losses.

1976 Season
League Tables
AFFL Cup Results
Place of Origin

First Division – Top

	+1	QLD	Nundah
2nd	+5	NSW	Marrickville
3rd	=	TAS	North-West Districts
4th	+1	QLD	Fortitude
7th	-6	VIC	Gippsland

AFFL Cup – Final Four

	D1	NSW	Warringah
FIN	D1	QLD	Townsville

SF	D1	NSW	Crows Nest
SF	D1	VIC	Maribyrnong

Place of Origin XIX

	NSW	New South Wales Metro
FIN	QLD	Queensland

SF	VIC	Victoria Metro
SF	VIC	Victoria Country

1976 Season Headlines

For the first time both club trophies are won in a single season by teams who joined the competition after 1901: Nundah, the fourth such team to sit atop the league, and Warringah, the fourth to win the knockout trophy. The league premiers finally go one better after finishing runners-up for the last three seasons, and it comes 39 years after the most recent of their five Third Division wooden spoons.
Bathurst & Orange will reappear in the top flight next season for the first time in over forty years.
Barrier and Belmore bid farewell to the competition, despite both finishing comfortably in the top half of the Second Division North & East region.
Yorke rocket up the Third Division West region into the top five.
The second most successful team of all-time, Ashfield, exit from the competition with a whimper with thirteenth place in the Third Division East.
Townsville are the third team in history to lose back-to-back AFFL Cup finals.
The AFFL Cup upset of the year goes to Rockdale over First Division Goulburn & Monaro.
Hunter reach the last sixteen of the cup for the first time since 1943.
Perth met Nedlands for the tenth time in the AFFL Cup, and continue their perfect winning streak.
Ipswich lose a tenth successive cup match.
There were two clear favourites going into Place of Origin, both make the final, and New South Wales Metro come out on top for a sixth representative flag.
South Australia field one of the weakest Origin sides ever assembled, but nonetheless manage to make a nuisance of themselves in the group stage amongst far stronger opposition.

1975 Season
League Tables
AFFL Cup Results

First Division – Top

	=	VIC	Gippsland
2nd	=	QLD	Nundah
3rd	+1	TAS	North-West Districts
4th	+5	QLD	Townsville
7th	-4	NSW	Marrickville

AFFL Cup – Final Four

	D1	NSW	Crows Nest
FIN	D1	QLD	Townsville

SF	D2	NSW	Blacktown
SF	D1	NSW	Alexandria

1975 Season Headlines

Gippsland hold onto the First Division title in an unchanged top two.
Crows Nest's AFFL Cup final hoodoo is definitely over, the sixth team in history to collect a second cup trophy in three seasons.
Townsville's second top flight is even better than their first, with a top four finish and an AFFL Cup final appearance.
Reservoir tumble from top five in the Second Division South & West to the bottom four.
It's a season of highs and lows for Blacktown, a AFFL Cup semi final berth is tempered by relegation from the Second Division North & East.
Woolloongabba are also relegated, returning to the Third Division for the first time in over forty years.
There is good news for the first time in a long time for South Yarra, winning promotion from the Third Division South after a quarter of a century.
Canning's recent strong form in the Third Division West region comes to an abrupt end.
Dandenong claim the AFFL Cup scalp of the season, humbling the league champions Gippsland.

1974 Season
League Tables
AFFL Cup Results

First Division – Top

	+3	VIC	Gippsland
2nd	=	QLD	Nundah
3rd	+7	NSW	Marrickville
4th	+2	TAS	North-West Districts
8th	-7	NSW	Central & Western Districts

AFFL Cup – Final Four

	D1	QLD	Fortitude
FIN	D1	TAS	North-West Districts

SF	D1	NSW	Central & Western Districts
SF	D1	VIC	Maribyrnong

1974 Season Headlines

New teams: Rockingham and Bruce.
Gippsland's impressive form since bursting back into the First Division four seasons ago pays the ultimate dividend: A first league title.
Fortitude win a second trophy in three seasons with their third AFFL Cup.
Townsville's debut in the top flight is a good one, finishing in the top half of the ladder.
The season ends on a sour note in Northern Tasmania as Mersey are relegated from the First Division after almost thirty years, and North-West Districts lose in the AFFL Cup final for the third time.
Queensland's Far North Districts earn a first crack at the First Division next season.
Gold Coast rise to seventh place on their return up to the Second Division North & East region.
Illawarra, one of six teams active since Federation never to have played in the Third Division, will do so next season.
Perth are also relegated from the Second Division, returning to the bottom league tier for the first time in almost forty years.
Three of the Third Division winners, Stirling, Emu Plains and Cairns, are promoted for the first time.
After a couple of seasons struggling to avoid a wooden spoon, Strathfield bounce up into the top six in the Third Division East region.
Reservoir of the Second Division dispatch the defending cup holders and the season's eventual league premiers in successive AFFL Cup rounds.
It's a promising inaugural season for the ACT's second side Bruce, safely avoiding a league wooden spoon and winning two AFFL Cup games.
Liverpool lose their tenth consecutive AFFL Cup match.

1973 Season
League Tables
AFFL Cup Results

First Division – Top

	+1	NSW	Central & Western Districts
2nd	+4	QLD	Nundah
3rd	+1	VIC	Kew
4th	-1	VIC	Gippsland
5th	-4	QLD	Fortitude

AFFL Cup – Final Four

	D1	NSW	Crows Nest
FIN	D1	QLD	Darling Downs

SF	D2	WA	Goldfields
SF	D1	VIC	Kew

1973 Season Headlines

Central & Western Districts are the first team in twenty years to win three major trophies in three seasons.
Crows Nest are the AFFL Cup finalists for the second time in three seasons and, in their eighth final, win for just the second time.
In contrast, four time cup winners Darling Downs' perfect record in the final comes to end, and the 1966 league premiers' thirty year stay in the First Division is also over.
Hobart immediately dive from mid-table security in the top flight last season to relegation.
Townsville are headed to the First Division for the first time.
After a generation in the Second Division, Riverina slip down the trapdoor to the third tier.
Not suprisingly given last season, Territorians' fall to the Third Division West ends in a bottom half finish.
Second Division Goldfields reach the semi finals of the AFFL Cup for the first time since 1904, after they were drawn to play the only other surviving non-top flight side, bottom tier Newcastle, in the quarter finals.

1972 Season
League Tables
AFFL Cup Results
Place of Origin

First Division – Top

	+1	QLD	Fortitude
2nd	-1	NSW	Central & Western Districts
3rd	+7	VIC	Gippsland
4th	-1	VIC	Kew
5th	-1	VIC	Corio

AFFL Cup – Final Four

	D1	NSW	Central & Western Districts
FIN	D1	VIC	Maribyrnong

SF	D1	QLD	Nundah
SF	D1	QLD	Fortitude

Place of Origin XVIII

	VIC	Victoria Metro
FIN	VIC	Victoria Country

SF	NSW	New South Wales Metro
SF	NSW	New South Wales Country

1972 Season Headlines

Fortitude win a second First Division premiership in four years.
Central & Western Districts drop to runners up in the league but win a fifth AFFL Cup.
Just two years after returning to the top flight, Gippsland sit pretty in the top three.
Nundah rocket into the league's top six and again make the final four of the AFFL Cup, joining the new league premiers for the first ever occasion where two Brisbane sides have made the cup semi finals.
Marrickville look less and less like a premiership force, falling further to fourteenth place just two seasons after winning the First Division.
Southern Murray's first season down in the Second Division since 1938 turns heads for the wrong reasons, finishing eleventh in the South & East region.
Launceston are dropping down to the Third Division for the first time in almost forty years.
The three point tally of Territorians is the second lowest of any Second Division team since the 1949 expansion to eighteen teams.
Pascoe Vale are headed up out of the Third Division South region for the first time.
Lambton take another dramatic fall down the Third Division North ladder to the bottom four.
Alexandria are bundled out of the first round of the AFFL Cup by middling Third Division outfit Woollahra.
Prospect account for Hindmarsh for their tenth successive head-to-head cup fixture.
On paper Victoria Metro's eighteenth State of Origin squad appeared thinner than previous decades, but on the field they cruise through the tournament in a way their star-studded predecessors of the last forty years so often did not, beating their intrastate rivals twice and netting a fourth flag.

1971 Season
League Tables
AFFL Cup Results

First Division – Top

	+4	NSW	Central & Western Districts
2nd	+1	QLD	Fortitude
3rd	+5	VIC	Kew
4th	-2	VIC	Corio
7th	-6	NSW	Marrickville

AFFL Cup – Final Four

	D1	NSW	Marrickville
FIN	D1	NSW	Crows Nest

SF	D1	QLD	Nundah
SF	D1	VIC	Gippsland

1971 Season Headlines

The resurgence of Central & Western Districts is complete, adding a third league title to their trophy cabinet after a long wait of almost thirty years.
The defending First Division premiers Marrickville slip back out of the top six but as a trade-off win their first AFFL Cup.
Five time premiers Southern Murray tumble out of the First Division after a run of 33 seasons.
Mount Gravatt are the second Expansion era side to top the Second Division and head to the top flight.
South Australia's South-East Districts are surprise winners of the Third Division West.
Ballarat finally enjoy a season out of the doldrums, storming up the Third Division West ladder to fifth.
Ipswich and Cairns both move in positive directions in the Third Division North.
Latrobe Valley win a first promotion from the Third Division South region.
Crows Nest win through to the first all-Sydney AFFL Cup final since 1925, but lose the season ending decider for a sixth time.
Nundah are first time cup semi finalists.
Third Division Wynnum claim the upset of the season, eliminating 1968 cup winners Darling Downs from the knockout trophy.
Ryde make the most of a soft cup draw, beating three fellow Third Division teams to reach the last sixteen for the first time.

1970 Season
League Tables
AFFL Cup Results

First Division – Top

	+7	NSW	Marrickville
2nd	+1	VIC	Corio
3rd	-2	QLD	Fortitude
4th	+2	NSW	Crows Nest
8th	-6	VIC	Kew

AFFL Cup – Final Four

	D1	SA	Hindmarsh
FIN	D1	TAS	North-West Districts

SF	D2	NSW	Bondi
SF	D1	NSW	Central & Western Districts

1970 Season Headlines

Marrickville are the biggest surprise winners of the First Division title in almost forty years and they do so in style, while at the same time, are also the third post-Federation team (and fourth former Third Division wooden spooners) to win the league.
In the midst of rapidly deteriorating league performances, Hindmarsh collect a first AFFL Cup, the second metropolitan Adelaide team ever to collect the knockout silverware.
Tasmania's North-West Districts enjoy a top half finish on their return to the First Division, and reach their second AFFL Cup final.
Newly renamed Berowra revel in their new identity, moving up through the Second Division North & East in four seasons (and just seven seasons after sitting bottom of the Third Division) to earn a top flight return.
Reservoir's first ever Second Division season lands a top half finish in the South & East region.
Wide Bay's fall to the Second Division after forty years is one to forget, finishing thirteenth in the North & East region.
Albury will march back up to the Second Division next season after an absence of three decades.
Castle Hill are promoted from the Third Division East in just their second season of existence, while nearby Chatswood win a first ever ticket out of the North region.
Unley take a massive tumble down the Third Division West ladder, finding themselves on the bottom yet again.
Things are also incredibly bleak at Ashfield, where the long-time AFFL heavyweights are just the second former top flight champions to fall to rock bottom of a Third Division region.
Richmond-Tweed's opportunities for promotion out of the Third Division North are extinguished, slumping from second place last season to fourteenth.
In the Western Australian rounds of the AFFL Cup, Stirling inflict the upset of the season over First Division South-West Districts.
Mornington win through to the last sixteen of the AFFL Cup for the first time.

1969 Season
League Tables
AFFL Cup Results

First Division – Top

	+3	QLD	Fortitude
2nd	-1	VIC	Kew
3rd	=	VIC	Corio
4th	+2	NSW	Central & Western Districts
7th	-5	TAS	Mersey

AFFL Cup – Final Four

	D1	VIC	Maribyrnong
FIN	D1	VIC	Southern Murray

SF	D1	TAS	Hobart
SF	D1	QLD	Fortitude

1969 Season Headlines

Folded teams: Nine sides including Jolimont, Surry Hills and Dulwich Hill.
Merged teams: Bathurst & Orange.
Renamed teams: Berowra (formerly Hawkesbury) and Gold Coast (formerly Southern Districts).
New teams: Eleven sides including Morphett Vale, Broadmeadows, Castle Hill and Shoalhaven.
25 years after sitting at the foot of the Third Division, Fortitude are at the very top of the heap, the first league champions from metropolitan Brisbane since 1903.
Maribyrnong win their fifth AFFL Cup, their previous knockout win co-incidentally coming in the very same season that the new league champions were collecting their Third Division wooden spoon.
The changing of the guard in Queensland continues as three time premiers Wide Bay are relegated from the First Division after almost forty consecutive seasons in the top flight.
Fremantle are relegated from the Second Division for the first time in their history.
Hunter's mercurial rise from the Third Division to the top flight in the late 1950's is a distant memory, as they fall back down to the Third Division next season.
Castle Hill, fifth in the East region, and Shoalhaven are the most impressive performers of the new entrants joining the Third Division.
Revesby rebound from last season's unexpectedly poor season in the Third Division East to finish in seventh.
The new joint venture between Bathurst & Orange sees the former appear in the AFFL Cup Round of 16 for the first time since 1932.
Granville also reach the last sixteen to end a drought of fifty three seasons, the third longest in AFFL Cup history.
Bendigo's fifty ninth consecutive AFFL Cup season elimination before the Round of 16 sets a new competition record.
Of the new teams, Mordialloc venture furthest in the AFFL Cup, losing in the Round of 32 to the eventual winners.

1968 Season
League Tables
AFFL Cup Results
Place of Origin

First Division – Top

	=	VIC	Kew
2nd	=	TAS	Mersey
3rd	+1	VIC	Corio
4th	+4	QLD	Fortitude
14th	-11	QLD	Darling Downs

AFFL Cup – Final Four

	D1	QLD	Darling Downs
FIN	D1	TAS	Hobart

SF	D1	VIC	Corio
SF	D1	VIC	Southern Murray

Place of Origin XVII

	QLD	Queensland
FIN	NSW	New South Wales Country

SF	NSW	New South Wales Metro
SF	VIC	Victoria Metro

1968 Season Headlines

Kew are the second team in the decade to win back-to-back premierships.
Darling Downs win their fourth AFFL Cup in as many finals, but fall well off the pace in the league.
Dulwich Hill are top of the Second Division North & East in just their second season there but, amidst fierce competition in inner western Sydney, they are just one of a number of teams from the area not viable from next season.
Both sides newly promoted to the Second Division North & East, Bathurst and Hawkesbury, belie all expectations to immediately finish in the top three.
Amongst the consolidation across Melbourne and Sydney the competition also bids farewell to two Federation teams who have won both First Division and AFFL Cup honours: Inaugural 1901 premiers Jolimont, and 1958 winners of the league and cup double Surry Hills.
Rockdale are promoted to the Second Division for the first time in a generation.
Wagga Wagga surge up the Third Division South ladder, while in the East Revesby are in freefall from top three to bottom three.
Orange sign-off their last season as a stand alone team as just one of two sides to have spent more than sixty consecutive seasons in the Third Division.
Port Macquarie win a first AFFL Cup match in their last eleven.
In another Place of Origin tournament with five genuine contenders, Queensland are the second team in tournament history to successfully defend the representative flag.

1967 Season
League Tables
AFFL Cup Results

First Division – Top

	+1	VIC	Kew
2nd	+4	TAS	Mersey
3rd	-2	QLD	Darling Downs
9th	-6	QLD	Wide Bay
12th	-8	NSW	Crows Nest

AFFL Cup – Final Four

	D1	QLD	Wide Bay
FIN	D1	NSW	Alexandria

SF	D2	VIC	Gippsland
SF	D1	NSW	Marrickville

1967 Season Headlines

Kew are resurgent, winning a fourth league title after a wait of almost forty years.
Wide Bay win the AFFL Cup for the fourth time, Alexandria lose their second final in five seasons.
Bondi will be the very first of the 1949 expansion teams to play in the First Division next season.
Western Australia's South-West Districts are set to return to the top flight after twenty years in the second tier.
Second Division debutants Dulwich Hill finish fourth in the North & East region.
Capricornia are relegated from the Second Division for the first time in their history.
Moorabbin's recent dalliances with the Second Division look well and truly finished, returning to the Third Division South region in fifteenth place.
Reservoir make great strides up the Third Division South ladder, while in the East region Ryde stagger in the opposite direction.
Port Macquarie lose their tenth AFFL Cup match in a row.

1966 Season
League Tables
AFFL Cup Results

First Division – Top

	+1	QLD	Darling Downs
2nd	+3	VIC	Kew
3rd	+1	QLD	Wide Bay
9th	-8	NSW	Alexandria
13th	-10	VIC	Abbotsford

AFFL Cup – Final Four

	D1	NSW	Barrier
FIN	D1	NSW	Central & Western Districts

SF	D1	QLD	Wide Bay
SF	D1	VIC	Corio

1966 Season Headlines

The league baton passes to another first-time winner, this time Darling Downs (the second ever former Third Division cellar dwellers to climb to the very top), as the defending premiers falter to mid-table.
The AFFL Cup final was one for the ages, Central & Western Districts went into the decider for a record tenth time, but the trophy heads to Broken Hill as the victors are western New South Wales rivals Barrier.
Amongst the many changes in the top half of the First Division, newly promoted Corio are immediately fifth, and they also reach the semi finals of the AFFL Cup for the first time.
Maribyrnong set a new record of forty seven consecutive seasons in the top flight, though they do so while flirting with relegation.
Rozelle are bound for a return to the First Division, just four seasons after leaving the Third Division.
The promotion window looks to be slammed shut on two of last season's Third Division runners-up, Derwent and Lambton.
Canberra stay in the news as they can muster just twelfth position on their return down to the Third Division East region.
Orange are in the last sixteen of the cup for the first time in a quarter of a century.
Mackay win their first ever AFFL Cup match at the eighteenth attempt.

1965 Season
League Tables
AFFL Cup Results

First Division – Top

	+1	NSW	Alexandria
2nd	+1	QLD	Darling Downs
3rd	+3	VIC	Abbotsford
4th	-3	QLD	Wide Bay
9th	-5	NSW	Crows Nest

AFFL Cup – Final Four

	D1	WA	Perth
FIN	D1	NSW	Goulburn & Monaro

SF	D1	NSW	Barrier
SF	D1	VIC	Maribyrnong

1965 Season Headlines

Alexandria are first-time premiers, the second post-Federation side to climb to the very top.
The four premierships in the 1950's is a long time ago for Perth, who endure a dreadful league season that ends in relegation, but this is tempered by capturing a fourth AFFL Cup in as many final appearances.
Capricornia roar up the ladder of the Second Division North & East region, enjoying one of their best seasons in thirty years.
South-East Districts tumble through the Second Division in just three seasons, a fall from grace just as swift as their rise from the Third Division to the top flight in the late 1940's.
Canberra are AFFL Cup quarter finalists, but their attempts to stay afloat in the Second Division seemed doomed from the outset.
There is another underwhelming season for Oakleigh, bottom of the Third Division East region again with just three points on the board.
Third Division Lambton are the second such team in the AFFL Cup ever to oust two top flight sides in three seasons, reaching the last sixteen for the first time via a win over Abbotsford.
Victoria's Western Districts are in the last sixteen of the cup for the first time in fifty two years.
Mersey beat Launceston in the AFFL Cup for the tenth consecutive match-up.
Since entering the AFFL as a 1949 expansion team, Mackay's win-loss record in the AFFL Cup stands at 0-17, equalling the all-time record for consecutive losses.

1964 Season
League Tables
AFFL Cup Results
Place of Origin

First Division – Top

	+6	QLD	Wide Bay
2nd	+1	NSW	Alexandria
3rd	+6	QLD	Darling Downs
6th	-4	VIC	Abbotsford
8th	-7	VIC	Southern Murray

AFFL Cup – Final Four

	D1	QLD	Fortitude
FIN	D2	SA	Prospect

SF	D2	TAS	Launceston
SF	D1	VIC	Balaclava

Place of Origin XVI

	QLD	Queensland
FIN	VIC	Victoria Country

SF	VIC	Victoria Metro
SF	TAS	Tasmania

1964 Season Headlines

Both of the season's club trophies reside in Queensland concurrently for the first time as Wide Bay are the somewhat unexpected league premiers (their third title), and Fortitude take a second AFFL Cup after a 57 year wait.
In more good news for Queensland sides, Darling Downs finish in the top three for the very first time.
Prospect are in their second cup final in four seasons, the best Second Division performance in the knockout trophy in over thirty years.
Warringah are the latest post-Federation side to earn an entrance into the First Division.
On their second crack at the Second Division, Hurstville are far from overawed with a fifth placed finish in the North & East region.
Spencer Ports are returning down to the Third Division after twenty years, a period which included a few short-lived attempts in the top flight.
Parramatta are stuck at the foot of the Third Division East region for the third year in a row.
There is a replay of last season's AFFL Cup final in the second round, Alexandria atone for last season's defeat but eventually bow out in the quarter finals.
Coot-Tha win a first cup match in ten knock-out fixtures.
Queensland field their strongest Place of Origin squad to date and, while fortunate to squeak through the group stage, gel when it matters to win a third representative flag.
Traditional Origin minnows Tasmania also assembled their best ever side for the tournament, then win all three group games in dazzling fashion to earn a first semi final berth since the inaugural 1904 tournament.
Victoria Country upstage their stronger city cousins yet again in a memorable Origin semi final clash.
Both Origin squads from New South Wales bomb out of the tournament, with defending flag holders New South Wales Metro failing to register a single win.

1963 Season
League Tables
AFFL Cup Results

First Division – Top

	=	VIC	Southern Murray
2nd	=	VIC	Abbotsford
3rd	+3	NSW	Alexandria
11th	-7	WA	Perth
12th	-9	VIC	Kew

AFFL Cup – Final Four

	D1	NSW	Newcastle
FIN	D1	NSW	Alexandria

SF	D1	QLD	Fortitude
SF	D1	VIC	Southern Murray

1963 Season Headlines

Southern Murray's exceptional league winning run continues, extending to five premierships in eight years.
Newcastle win a second AFFL Cup but, as on the previous occasion in 1918, it comes at the cost of staying in the top flight.
Both Second Division winners will return to the First Division after many years away: For Balaclava it's been a generation, for Woolloongabba more than two generations have passed.
South Australia's South-East Districts are humbled after their fall to the Second Division, finishing twelfth in the South & West region.
Once mighty Ashfield are sucked down into the Third Division from next season, the fourth former premiers to fall to the bottom tier.
Hawkesbury are rock bottom of the Third Division, just a dozen years after their single season in the First Division.
Marrickville's pitch for league stability in their first top flight season gave Third Division Lambton the opportunity to bundle them out of the AFFL Cup in the second round.
Blacktown win a first cup match in twelve fixtures, and then win two more to qualify for the last sixteen for the first time.

1962 Season
League Tables
AFFL Cup Results

First Division – Top

	+1	VIC	Southern Murray
2nd	+1	VIC	Abbotsford
3rd	+3	VIC	Kew
4th	=	WA	Perth
7th	-6	VIC	Maribyrnong

AFFL Cup – Final Four

	D1	QLD	Darling Downs
FIN	D1	NSW	Central & Western Districts

SF	D1	NSW	Alexandria
SF	D1	NSW	Goulburn & Monaro

1962 Season Headlines

Southern Murray are victorious in the league for the fourth time in seven years.
It's three wins from three AFFL Cup finals in a dozen years for Darling Downs.
Mersey go from relegation battlers back to top five contenders.
There are contrasting fortunes in the Second Division North & East region as Marrickville knock on the door of the top flight for the first time, and Clarence-Nambucca are returning to the Third Division after more than forty years.
In just their second season since their brief stay in the Second Division, Oakleigh are rock bottom of the Third Division South region.

1961 Season
League Tables
AFFL Cup Results

First Division – Top

	+3	VIC	Maribyrnong
2nd	-1	VIC	Southern Murray
3rd	+6	VIC	Abbotsford
4th	-1	WA	Perth
7th	-5	NSW	Alexandria

AFFL Cup – Final Four

	D1	TAS	Hobart
FIN	D2	SA	Prospect

SF	D1	NSW	Alexandria
SF	D1	QLD	Fortitude

1961 Season Headlines

After finishing outside the top four just once since their last league title in 1954, Maribyrnong their consistency pays off with premiership number five.
There is a "Back to the Future" end to the AFFL Cup, with winners Hobart and semi finalists Fortitude both appearing in the sharp end of the competition for the first since 1918.
In addition to their first AFFL Cup final appearance since 1924, former top Adelaide side Prospect are in revival mode in the league, leaping to mid-table security in the Second Division South & West region.
There are contrasting fortunes in Melbourne's western suburbs as Sunshine as tumble down the Third Division West ladder, while Altona are in the top three.
Orange are anchored to the bottom of the Third Division North region for the third consecutive year, and sixth time in eight seasons.
Third Division strugglers Hawkesbury make the quarter finals of the cup.
There were two major upsets in the AFFL Cup: Adelaide Ports heap more misery on relegated First Division neighbours Hindmarsh, while Barrier are humbled by Parramatta.
Blacktown lose a tenth straight cup match.

1960 Season
League Tables
AFFL Cup Results
Place of Origin

First Division – Top

	+1	VIC	Southern Murray
2nd	+2	NSW	Alexandria
3rd	-2	WA	Perth
4th	-1	VIC	Maribyrnong
16th	-11	TAS	North-West Districts

AFFL Cup – Final Four

	D1	WA	Perth
FIN	D1	TAS	North-West Districts

SF	D1	NSW	Surry Hills
SF	D1	NSW	Barrier

Place of Origin XV

	NSW	New South Wales Metro
FIN	SA	South Australia

SF	WA	Western Australia
SF	QLD	Queensland

1960 Season Headlines

Southern Murray put aside the disappointment of finishing runners up in the league twice in a row by winning their third title in five years.
Perth make it First Division and AFFL Cup trophies over two seasons by winning their third cup final.
The rollercoaster ride at North-West Districts continues, venturing all the way to the AFFL Cup final but falling precariously close to First Division relegation.
Surry Hills freefall from celebrating the double to becoming mired in the top flight drop zone in just two painful seasons.
Sixteen years after collecting a Third Division wooden spoon, Fortitude re-enter the league's top six for the first time in forty four years.
Newcastle win promotion to the First Division after an absence of more than forty years, while Illawarra must be content with tenth place on their return down to the Second Division.
In their third season back down in the Third Division, Hawkesbury collapse to second last in the North region.
Struggling Adelaide expansion team Edwardstown send Maribyrnong packing in the upset of the season, enroute to their debut AFFL Cup Round of 16 appearance.
In Western Australia, Goldfields bundle South-West Districts out of the AFFL Cup for the first time in their last twelve head-to-head meetings.
New South Wales Metro, slight favourites going into Place of Origin, win every match to qualify from the group stage for a record eighth consecutive tournament and continue on to win a fifth representative flag.
South Australia not only end a run of seven straight Origin group stage exits, but over deliver with a surprise first appearance in the final decider.
Of the Origin disappointments, Victoria Metro fall at the group stage for the third successive tournament, and New South Wales Country lose all three group matches.

1959 Season
League Tables
AFFL Cup Results

First Division – Top

	+4	WA	Perth
2nd	=	VIC	Southern Murray
3rd	+1	VIC	Maribyrnong
4th	-1	NSW	Alexandria
10th	-9	NSW	Surry Hills

AFFL Cup – Final Four

	D1	NSW	Illawarra
FIN	D1	NSW	Crows Nest

SF	D1	WA	Perth
SF	D1	SA	Hindmarsh

1959 Season Headlines

Perth help themselves to a fourth premiership in the decade as Surry Hills' worst premiership hangover in history means they were never in with a shot of holding on to the league title.
Crows Nest lose their second AFFL Cup final in four seasons, and fifth overall, allowing relegated Illawarra to collect a second knockout cup.
North-West Districts are into the top five in their second season in the First Division and, finally, reach the last sixteen of the AFFL Cup for the first time – the very last of the Federation teams ever to do so.
Yorke are relegated from the Second Division South & West region for the first time in thirty years.
Wimmera's brief hope of Third Division promotion is over, tumbling from top four to bottom four of the West region.
Glebe are the latest former top flight team to collect a Third Division wooden spoon.
Parramatta venture into the AFFL Cup Round of 16 for the first time in just over twenty years.

1958 Season
League Tables
AFFL Cup Results

First Division – Top

	+3	NSW	Surry Hills
2nd	-1	VIC	Southern Murray
3rd	+3	NSW	Alexandria
4th	-2	VIC	Maribyrnong
15th	-10	TAS	Hobart

AFFL Cup – Final Four

	D1	NSW	Surry Hills
FIN	D1	VIC	Abbotsford

SF	D1	NSW	Barrier
SF	D1	VIC	Kew

1958 Season Headlines

After a fifty year wait, Surry Hills triple the contents of their trophy cabinet by winning the league and cup double.
Abbotsford fall one win away from retaining the AFFL Cup, and are also relegated from the First Division.
Hobart's top flight status is suddenly in doubt as they crash from top five last season to bottom four this season.
Hindmarsh finish top of the Second Division South & West region to get a first ever crack at the elite league tier.
Woollahra are bottom of the Second Division North & East region, and will face life in the Third Division for the first time in almost half a century.
Malvern are given a rude shock on their return to the Third Division after a single season one rung higher, finishing the season in fourteenth in the South region.
Pascoe Vale defy their lowly Third Division league form to venture as far as the last eight of the AFFL Cup, after knocking out two Second Division sides.
Goldfields qualify for the last sixteen of the cup for the first time in 27 years.
Third Division Richmond-Tweed heap misery on top of Hunter's unsuccessful debut top flight season by knocking them out in the first round of the AFFL Cup.
In their tenth year of existence, Mackay are still yet to win once in the cup. Hampton also lose their tenth cup match in a row.

1957 Season
League Tables
AFFL Cup Results

First Division – Top

	=	VIC	Southern Murray
2nd	+2	VIC	Maribyrnong
3rd	=	QLD	Wide Bay
4th	-2	NSW	Surry Hills
5th	+2	TAS	Hobart

AFFL Cup – Final Four

	D1	VIC	Abbotsford
FIN	D1	QLD	Wide Bay

SF	D2	NSW	Newcastle
SF	D1	SA	Spencer Ports

1957 Season Headlines

Southern Murray win a second league premiership in as many years.
While continuing to keep their heads just above the relegation zone, Abbotsford win the AFFL Cup for the sixth time.
Hunter are the fourth team in history to be promoted twice in three seasons, heading up to the First Division for the first time.
Also appearing in the top flight for the first time next season are North-West Districts, who have put aside fifty years of obscurity. They will be one of three top tier teams from Tasmania, and ominously they defeat both existing top flight rivals in the AFFL Cup.
After a dozen years and a single season in the top flight, Hawkesbury are returning back down to the Third Division.
In their third season, Sutherland are still rooted to the foot of the Third Division East ladder.
First time AFFL Cup semi finalists Newcastle are in the last sixteen for the first time in 25 years.
Bathurst's record of consecutive cup losses finally ends at seventeen, with a first victory since the Second Round of 1940.

1956 Season
League Tables
AFFL Cup Results
Place of Origin

First Division – Top

	+4	VIC	Southern Murray
2nd	=	NSW	Surry Hills
3rd	-2	QLD	Wide Bay
4th	+3	VIC	Maribyrnong
5th	-2	WA	Perth

AFFL Cup – Final Four

	D1	QLD	Darling Downs
FIN	D1	NSW	Crows Nest

SF	D2	SA	Spencer Ports
SF	D1	SA	South-East Districts

Place of Origin XIV

	VIC	Victoria Country
FIN	WA	Western Australia

SF	NSW	New South Wales Metro
SF	QLD	Queensland

1956 Season Headlines

Southern Murray emerge from a near deadlock at the top as first-time league premiers, the sixth former Third Division side (and first to have had a wooden spoon) to reach the league pinnacle.
Darling Downs win their second AFFL Cup trophy in six years.
New Second Division entrants Hunter make an audacious bid for double promotion in the North & East region, but finish second.
Richmond-Tweed are returning to the Third Division for the first time in over thirty years following a catastrophic fall from the top five of the Second Division North & East.
Malvern are massive outsiders to claim top spot in the Third Division South region and a first promotion.
Wynnum, wooden spooners just three seasons ago, are surprise holders of the promotion ticket in the Third Division North region.
Orange's terrible league run extends to a third straight wooden spoon in the Third Division North region.
Two South Australian teams make the last four of the cup for the first time since 1924, Spencer Ports the best performing of all teams from outside the top flight.
Capricornia defeat last season's cup finalists Wide Bay for the first time in their last fourteen head-to-head AFFL Cup match-ups.
Mersey extend their cup winning streak against Derwent to ten games.
In the fourteenth Place of Origin tournament the talent spread across all squads was more even than ever. Victoria Country win a third flag in the last five representative competitions, as the results for the traditional powerhouses continue to wane.

1955 Season
League Tables
AFFL Cup Results

First Division – Top

	+1	QLD	Wide Bay
2nd	+6	NSW	Surry Hills
3rd	=	WA	Perth
4th	=	TAS	Mersey
7th	-6	VIC	Maribyrnong

AFFL Cup – Final Four

	D1	NSW	Alexandria
FIN	D1	QLD	Wide Bay

SF	D3	VIC	Altona
SF	D2	VIC	Corangamite

1955 Season Headlines

Folded teams: Royal Park, Botany and Five Dock.
New teams: Stirling, Modbury, Waverley and Sutherland.
Finally, after a twenty year wait, there is a second league crown for Wide Bay, a just reward for a consistently strong side who have finished inside the top four for the last decade. Surry Hills burst into the top three for the first time.
Alexandria, the second post-Federation team to win the knockout trophy, deny the league premiers from running away with the double.
Crows Nest are unlikely promotion winners in the Second Division North & East region, on their way back to the top tier after nine seasons.
Last season's AFFL Cup finalists Bankstown tumble into relegation zone after three seasons in the Second Division.
Celebrations abound in the Top End as Territorians earn a first promotion out of the Third Division.
Camberwell are the latest of the Expansion era teams to win a ticket out of the bottom league tier. Dubbo are also going up to the Second Division for the first time.
Hunter win promotion from the Third Division North region by a very healthy margin of ten points to leave the bottom tier after sixteen seasons.
Second Division Corangamite defeat the AFFL Cup holders Southern Murray in the quarter finals, but their feat is eclipsed in the same round by Altona who spring a second major upset in three seasons, this time over Kew, to become just the second Third Division team ever to reach the last four.
South-West Districts knock out Goldfields for the tenth consecutive time in their AFFL Cup match-ups.
Bendigo lose their tenth cup game in a row, while Bathurst's losing cup run extends to a competition record fifteen consecutive matches.

1954 Season
League Tables
AFFL Cup Results

First Division – Top

	+2	VIC	Maribyrnong
2nd	=	QLD	Wide Bay
3rd	-2	WA	Perth
4th	+1	TAS	Mersey
5th	+7	VIC	Southern Murray

AFFL Cup – Final Four

	D1	VIC	Southern Murray
FIN	D2	NSW	Bankstown

SF	D2	NSW	Woollahra
SF	D1	NSW	Surry Hills

1954 Season Headlines

The premiership race goes down to the wire, but Maribyrnong keep their necks in front to be champions for the fourth time.
Southern Murray win a first major trophy in their third AFFL Cup final appearance, ending the fairytale run of Expansion era joiners Bankstown.
In a reflection of the new pressures brought on Federation era metropolitan teams by the new Expansion joiners from the suburbs, Royal Park, one of the most successful sides in the first fifteen years of the competition, are forced into closure. Botany, AFFL Cup winners just two season ago, choose to fold rather than drop to the Third Division for the first time.
Western Districts of Victoria are set to return up to the Second Division after 22 years away. Their neighbours Wimmera drop one spot to rock bottom of the West region, the fifth team to have previously played in the First Division to fall so far.
Mount Gravatt stun the Third Division North region by rising from eleventh place last season to win promotion.
It was a good year in the AFFL Cup for Second Division sides as Woollahra also made the semi finals, going one round better than last season, and Hawkesbury got to the quarter finals for the second time in three years.

1953 Season
League Tables
AFFL Cup Results

First Division – Top

	=	WA	Perth
2nd	+2	QLD	Wide Bay
3rd	-1	VIC	Maribyrnong
4th	+2	NSW	Barrier
11th	-8	VIC	Abbotsford

AFFL Cup – Final Four

	D1	WA	Perth
FIN	D1	TAS	Launceston

SF	D1	VIC	Abbotsford
SF	D1	NSW	Barrier

1953 Season Headlines

Perth retain the premiership at a canter, and in doing so enter rare company with both a third successive league title as well as the season's trophy double.
Five time premiers Jolimont are going back to the top flight after seventeen years, as are Fortitude after an absence of 33 years.
In the Second Division South & West region Blackburn fall dramatically from mid-table to relegation after five seasons.
Rozelle freefall through the Second Division in just four seasons to face life in the bottom tier for the first time.
Magill are the fourth of the Expansion era sides to move up to the second tier.
Wimmera continue to sink like a stone in the Third Division West region, finishing second last in their second season since relegation. Oakleigh are wooden spooners in the South region, four years since their relegation from the Second Division.
In a horror season Hurstville plummet from top three to bottom three in the Third Division East region.
North-West Districts defeat last season's finalists Mersey for the first time in their nine AFFL Cup meetings.
In Victoria, Corio are cup qualifyers for the first time in over twenty years, and the upset of the season goes to Altona as they knock out top flight Corangamite.

1952 Season
League Tables
AFFL Cup Results
Place of Origin

First Division – Top

	=	WA	Perth
2nd	+1	VIC	Maribyrnong
3rd	+5	VIC	Abbotsford
4th	-2	QLD	Wide Bay
8th	-4	TAS	Mersey

AFFL Cup – Final Four

	D1	NSW	Botany
FIN	D1	TAS	Mersey

SF	D1	NSW	Alexandria
SF	D1	QLD	Wide Bay

Place of Origin XIII

	NSW	New South Wales Metro
FIN	WA	Western Australia

SF	NSW	New South Wales Country
SF	QLD	Queensland

1952 Season Headlines

Perth don't need to wait any longer than the minimum period necessary to claim their third premiership. Barrier are in the top six for the very first time.
Botany last reached the AFFL Cup semi finals in 1927, and they were also relegated from the First Division that year, but their cup performances are sufficient this season to win a first major trophy, including a high pressure semi final win over local rivals Alexandria.
Corangamite's sudden surge continues, conjuring recent Second Division relegation fears (and a lucky escape in 1948) into elevation back to the top flight after eight seasons.
Nundah are the fourth team established after Federation to reach the First Division, leap-frogging fellow post-Federation contenders Marrickville.
Wheatbelt's debut Second Division season belies all expectations, immediately landing in the top six of the South & West region.
New England endure a horror winless Second Division season to continue pinballing between the second and third league tiers.
North-West Districts are eight points clear on their return down to the Third Division South region, ensuring that Tasmania are the first state with all teams competing in the top two divisions next season.
Albury, bottom of the Third Division most recently in 1948, are there again within four years of the league expanding.
By winning a fourth Place of Origin flag, New South Wales Metro become the most successful side over the representative tournament's history.
Western Australia boast their strongest Origin squad in at least forty years, and duly make a second ever final.
Conversely, Victoria Metro field their weakest representative team to date, and lose two group matches at an Origin tournament for the first time ever.
South Australia's Origin campaign ends at the group stage for the sixth consecutive tournament and, despite a promising lift in talent this cycle, minnows Tasmania exit at that same point again for the twelfth successive competition.

1951 Season
League Tables
AFFL Cup Results

First Division – Top

	+2	WA	Perth
2nd	+2	QLD	Wide Bay
3rd	+2	VIC	Maribyrnong
4th	-2	TAS	Mersey
5th	-4	NSW	Goulburn & Monaro

AFFL Cup – Final Four

	D1	QLD	Darling Downs
FIN	D2	NSW	Richmond-Tweed

SF	D1	NSW	Central & Western Districts
SF	D1	WA	Perth

1951 Season Headlines

Perth win their second premiership, a mere forty nine years after their first.
Darling Downs claim their first major honours, and they do so in gruelling fashion as they complete victories over both of last season's finalists and also enjoy a first cup win in ten matches against Wide Bay.
1942 and 1943 premiers Central & Western Districts, runners up as recently as four seasons ago, are relegated.
Richmond-Tweed are the first second tier team to reach the AFFL Cup final since 1939, courtesy of consecutive wins over First Division sides in both the quarter finals and semi finals.
Botany are heading back up to the top flight after 24 years. Fortitude storm up the North & East ladder to fifth after a few years flirting dangerously with relegation back down to the Third Division.
Wheatbelt are promoted from the Third Division for the first time in their 39 year history. Strathfield are the third expansion team in a row to be promoted from the Third Division East region.
Belmore are one of two expansion teams to qualify for the AFFL Cup last sixteen for the first time via a stirring giant killing over Maribyrnong.
There were two more major cup upsets in New South Wales as struggling Third Division sides Albury and Rockdale picked off Illawarra and Goulburn & Monaro respectively.

1950 Season
League Tables
AFFL Cup Results

First Division – Top

	=	NSW	Goulburn & Monaro
2nd	+1	TAS	Mersey
3rd	+3	WA	Perth
4th	=	QLD	Wide Bay
6th	-4	NSW	Illawarra

AFFL Cup – Final Four

	D1	NSW	Central & Western Districts
FIN	D1	QLD	Wide Bay

SF	D1	VIC	Kew
SF	D1	SA	Spencer Ports

1950 Season Headlines

Goulburn & Monaro retain the league title, as teams from five different states fill the top five for the first time since 1905 (and all six states are represented in the top seven for the first time ever).
Central & Western Districts win their fourth AFFL Cup title, and first since 1933.
Wide Bay reach their second AFFL Cup final in three years, ending Goulburn & Monaro's tilt at the double-double, and also equalling the cup record of thirteen consecutive head-to-head wins over Capricornia along the way.
Perth are in the top three for the first time since 1911, and the surging performances of South-East Districts continue as they finish seventh on their return to the top flight.
Amongst much upheaval at the top of the Second Division North & East ladder, Hawkesbury charge to the top to become the third post-Federation team to reach the First Division. There are also stirring performances from Townsville to finish third.
Once mighty South Yarra are in crisis as they face life in the Third Division, just the third former top flight premiers to fall so far.
It's taken fifty years, but the last team active in the Third Division since Federation, Tasmania's North-West Districts, are finally moving up.
Hurstville are the second of the new expansion teams to head to the Second Division, and Newcastle will leave the Third Division for the first time in almost thirty years.
Spencer Ports venture as far as the cup semi finals for the first time, beating Unley for just the third time in sixteen cup ties.
Expansion side Emu Plains are the latest Third Division side to reach the AFFL Cup last eight. Pascoe Vale make the Round of 16 courtesy of a giant killing win over Mersey, the latter failing to reach the semi finals for the first time in three years.

1949 Season
League Tables
AFFL Cup Results

First Division – Top

	+4	NSW	Goulburn & Monaro
2nd	+1	NSW	Illawarra
3rd	+6	TAS	Mersey
4th	-2	QLD	Wide Bay
5th	-4	VIC	Maribyrnong

AFFL Cup – Final Four

	D1	NSW	Goulburn & Monaro
FIN	D1	NSW	Rozelle

SF	D1	TAS	Mersey
SF	D1	VIC	Southern Murray

1949 Season Headlines

Folded teams: Moreton.
Re-established teams: Goulburn Valley (formerly Echuca), Dubbo and Wagga Wagga.
Renamed teams: Albury (formerly Albury & Wagga Wagga) and Clarence-Nambucca (formerly Hastings-Clarence).
New teams: Forty six new sides, as the Third Division expands to four regions.
Southern New South Wales gets its first real taste of league intrigue as Goulburn & Monaro beats next door neighbours Illawarra for their first league crown. The premiers are then the fourth team in this decade to sweep the double after winning an all New South Wales AFFL Cup final.
Mersey are the first Tasmanian team to reach the top three in just over thirty years.
South-East Districts are the third team in history to win promotions out of the Third and Second Divisions within three seasons, returning to the top flight for the first time in a quarter of a century. Their regional South Australian counterparts Yorke are surprise runners up.
Ashfield dig deep to find a rich vein of form and return to the First Division at the third attempt. Their immediate neighbours Five Dock appear to finally settle in the second tier as their fifth place is a new high point.
Of the ten new teams starting life in the Third Division West region stretching all the way from Western Australia to the western suburbs of Melbourne, Adelaide's Magill are the most successful in fourth.
Riverina go from wooden spooners to promotion winners in the space of just three years. Thirteen new teams join the Third Division South region that stretches from Tasmania, most of metropolitan Melbourne and up to southern New South Wales, Pascoe Vale the most successful in fourth place.
Bankstown celebrate their debut season with a ticket to the Second Division, one of fourteen new teams in the almost exclusively Sydney metropolitan Third Division East region.
New England comfortably take the Third Division North region to end a twenty year stay in the bottom tier. Twelve new sides from northern New South Wales and Queensland join, Southern Districts are the best in fifth.
The inaugural AFFL Cup national Round of 32 sees a Cup Final replay from last season, Maranoa reaching the last sixteen for the first time in nineteen years, and struggling league debutants Hampton do the same at the first go.
Not all the top tier sides from New South Wales found the new AFFL Cup setup to their liking, as First Division Alexandria and Barrier fell to Granville and Liverpool respectively. Also in New South Wales, Bathurst endure a tenth successive cup loss.

1948 Season
League Tables
AFFL Cup Results
Place of Origin

First Division – Top

	+3	VIC	Maribyrnong
2nd	+1	QLD	Wide Bay
3rd	+2	NSW	Illawarra
4th	-3	VIC	Abbotsford
7th	-5	NSW	Central & Western Districts

AFFL Cup – Final Four

	D1	QLD	Wide Bay
FIN	D1	NSW	Illawarra

SF	D1	TAS	Mersey
SF	D1	VIC	Kew

Place of Origin XII

	QLD	Queensland
FIN	VIC	Victoria Metro

SF	NSW	New South Wales Country
SF	NSW	New South Wales Metro

1948 Season Headlines

Abbotsford are finally dethroned as Maribyrnong win their third premiership in the last ten years. Wide Bay earn their third piece of AFFL Cup silverware in the last decade.
After just five seasons in the Second Division South & West region (and spending the early 1930's rooted to the foot of the Third Division), Spencer Ports are heading to the big league for the very first time.
Corio slot in as the lucky eighteenth team in an expanding First Division next season, returning to the top flight for the first time in over twenty years.
In more good news for South Australia, South-East Districts are fourth on their return up to the Second Division.
South Yarra's future in the Second Division looks uncertain as they slump from top four to bottom two in the South & West region. Corangamite, in their fourth season out of the First Division, avoid relegation to the bottom tier only due to the expanding competition from next season
Despite finishing second in the Third Division North & East region, their best result in twenty years, Moreton will fold in anticipation of seven new sides from Brisbane and south east Queensland joining the Third Division next year. Their last AFFL Cup campaign ended with a tenth straight loss to Fortitude.
Albury & Wagga Wagga are bottom of the Third Division North & East region for the second successive year ahead of their impending demerger, the very same position Wagga Wagga occupied in their last season as a stand alone team in 1905.
Losing AFFL Cup finalists Illawarra were the only First Division team from New South Wales to survive a torrid second round, where the other five all lost out to lower division opposition – the biggest upsets being Newcastle over Surry Hills, and Warringah over Rozelle.
Five Dock were one of the beneficiaries of the easier cup draw in New South Wales, as they became the first Third Division side in sixteen years to reach the quarter finals.
Queensland win a second Origin flag, defeating Victoria Metro in the final for the first time in their eighth head-to-head encounter.

1947 Season
League Tables
AFFL Cup Results

First Division – Top

	=	VIC	Abbotsford
2nd	=	NSW	Central & Western Districts
3rd	+1	QLD	Wide Bay
4th	-1	VIC	Maribyrnong
5th	=	NSW	Illawarra

AFFL Cup – Final Four

	D1	VIC	Abbotsford
FIN	D1	NSW	Central & Western Districts

SF	D1	NSW	Goulburn & Monaro
SF	D1	WA	Fremantle

1947 Season Headlines

The current Abbotsford generation prove themselves without any doubt as the best team in AFFL history: The first ever fourth consecutive premiership and, with yet another AFFL Cup triumph, an unprecedented double-double.
For the first time in history, both teams squaring off in the cup final finished one and two in the league.
Perth are set to return to the First Division for the first time in almost thirty years.
Fortitude can look forward to life back up in the Second Division as they put aside some tumultuous performances in the last nine years in the bottom league tier.
Second Division Hawkesbury make it through the early rounds of the AFFL Cup for the first time on their way to the last eight.
Spencer Ports reach the Round of 16 in the cup for the first time in almost forty years.
Far North Districts overcome Wide Bay for the first time in nine AFFL Cup meetings.

1946 Season
League Tables
AFFL Cup Results

First Division – Top

	=	VIC	Abbotsford
2nd	+3	NSW	Central & Western Districts
3rd	+1	VIC	Maribyrnong
5th	-2	NSW	Illawarra
8th	-6	VIC	Southern Murray

AFFL Cup – Final Four

	D1	VIC	Abbotsford
FIN	D1	VIC	Maribyrnong

SF	D1	NSW	Crows Nest
SF	D1	QLD	Darling Downs

1946 Season Headlines

Abbotsford match their own record-setting team of 1919–1921 as they win both a third successive premiership and the season's trophy double.
Maribyrnong and Crows Nest duel in the AFFL Cup for the third successive season, this time in the semi finals, as the former reach their second final in three years.
The biggest shocks in the First Division occur at the very bottom of the ladder: 1938 and 1939 premiers Crows Nest are relegated, as are seven time premiers Ashfield, the very last team to play in the top flight continuously since the league began.
Surry Hills are most unlikely promotion winners in the Second Division North & East region, improving fast after an underwhelming previous six seasons since their last relegation from the First Division.
Riverina's swift fall from the Second Division continues with their first Third Division wooden spoon since 1920.

1945 Season
League Tables
AFFL Cup Results

First Division – Top

	=	VIC	Abbotsford
2nd	+1	VIC	Southern Murray
3rd	+4	NSW	Illawarra
4th	+1	VIC	Maribyrnong
5th	-3	NSW	Central & Western Districts

AFFL Cup – Final Four

	D1	NSW	Crows Nest
FIN	D1	VIC	Southern Murray

SF	D2	VIC	Jolimont
SF	D1	QLD	Darling Downs

1945 Season Headlines

Abbotsford are back-to-back premiers for the third time in their history, and Illawarra are in the top three for the very first time.
Crows Nest avenge last season's AFFL Cup final loss in a rematch Maribyrnong in the Round of 16 before going on to win their first knockout trophy.
Southern Murray finish a bittersweet season as runners up in both competitions.
It's a one-two finish for Kew and Dandenong, the two Victorian sides awkwardly rezoned into the Second Division North & East region.
After two seasons in a row as runners-up of the Second Division South & West region, Mersey go one better to earn a First Division debut.
After four years battling furiously against a first ever drop to the Third Division, Royal Park take just three points in a dismal campaign that sends them down.
Derwent's continuing good form allows them another chance at life in the Second Division after nine seasons and three wooden spoons. Hawkesbury are promoted from the Third Division North & East region in their twelfth season in the competition.
Fortitude rebound from last year in spectacular fashion, shooting back up the ladder to third.
Riverina's second season back down in the Third Division already sees them eyeing a wooden spoon.
Newcastle collect a first ever wooden spoon, the second former top flight team in two years to do so.
Although Rockdale struggled terribly in the Third Division, they eliminate Hastings-Clarence in the AFFL Cup upset of the season.
In South Australia, Prospect lose to Spencer Ports for the first time in their fourteen cup fixtures, ending the longest head-to-head winning run in AFFL Cup history.

1944 Season
League Tables
AFFL Cup Results
Place of Origin

First Division – Top

	+2	VIC	Abbotsford
2nd	-1	NSW	Central & Western Districts
3rd	+2	VIC	Southern Murray
4th	+2	NSW	Goulburn & Monaro
5th	-3	VIC	Maribyrnong

AFFL Cup – Final Four

	D1	VIC	Maribyrnong
FIN	D1	NSW	Crows Nest

SF	D1	VIC	South Yarra
SF	D1	NSW	Goulburn & Monaro

Place of Origin XI

	VIC	Victoria Country
FIN	NSW	New South Wales Country

SF	VIC	Victoria Metro
SF	NSW	New South Wales Metro

1944 Season Headlines

Abbotsford's rapid redemption is complete as they are handed a tenth premiership trophy, while Southern Murray continue to hit new heights with third.
Maribyrnong collect a fourth AFFL Cup, and second in four years. Crows Nest lose their third cup final after disposing of both the previous season's cup finalists in the quarters and semi finals.
Five time premiers South Yarra face life in the Second Division for the first time in forty years.
Fremantle are unlikely Second Division promotion winners, heading back to the top flight for the first time since 1917.
Bathurst's drift to the bottom of the Second Division concludes with a first ever drop to the bottom tier.
Derwent are third in the Third Division South & West region, just two seasons after their last wooden spoon.
Fortitude freefall from second to last in their region, the worst slump ever by any team in the Third Division, and they become the third former top flight team to collect a bottom tier wooden spoon. Their AFFL Cup run, however, stands in stark contrast to their league season, as they defeat two second tier sides and First Division Darling Downs in an unlikely march to the last sixteen.
Third tier Ballarat defeat three Second Division sides to reach the national rounds for the first time since 1917.
Victoria Country are the first team in Place of Origin history to successfully defend the representative flag.
New South Wales Country rebound from a poor Origin tournament four years ago, only to lose a fourth final from the last five competitions.

1943 Season
League Tables
AFFL Cup Results

First Division – Top

	=	NSW	Central & Western Districts
2nd	=	VIC	Maribyrnong
3rd	+5	VIC	Abbotsford
7th	-3	NSW	Ashfield
11th	-8	VIC	South Yarra

AFFL Cup – Final Four

	D1	QLD	Wide Bay
FIN	D1	VIC	South Yarra

SF	D1	NSW	Illawarra
SF	D1	VIC	Gippsland

1943 Season Headlines

In an unchanged top two, Central & Western Districts retain the league title by a point.
Queensland's number one team Wide Bay win a second AFFL Cup trophy in four seasons, South Yarra lose for just the second time in their sixth final.
Abbotsford are back in familiar territory in the top three, and elsewhere in Victoria Southern Murray are in the top six for the first time.
Three time premiers Kew are out of the top flight for the first time in over thirty years.
Alexandria, the first post-Federation side to climb to the Second Division in 1909, are the second such team to break into the First Division.
Barrier are ten points clear at the top of the Third Division North & East region.
Prospect are the first to thirty appearances in the national rounds of the AFFL Cup.
Perth are the Western Australian national round qualifier for the first time since 1926, courtesy of a first win in eleven cup games against South-West Districts.

1942 Season
League Tables
AFFL Cup Results

First Division – Top

	+4	NSW	Central & Western Districts
2nd	-1	VIC	Maribyrnong
3rd	=	VIC	South Yarra
4th	-2	NSW	Ashfield
7th	-3	NSW	Crows Nest

AFFL Cup – Final Four

	D1	NSW	Goulburn & Monaro
FIN	D1	VIC	Kew

SF	D1	WA	South-West Districts
SF	D1	NSW	Hastings-Clarence

1942 Season Headlines

Central & Western Districts are the first regional New South Wales team to sit atop the league pyramid, and fourth former Third Division side to do so, as they snuff out Maribyrnong's march to what would have been three successive titles.
Goulburn & Monaro ensure that both trophies for this season reside in country New South Wales as they win their first AFFL Cup final.
Darling Downs, rock bottom of the Third Division in 1914, are the toast of the Second Division as they earn a top flight debut.
Balaclava are in full crisis mode as they fall through the Second Division in just two seasons, and face life in the third tier for the very first time. Barrier also succumb to relegation after recent seasons of struggle, returning to the Third Division for the first time in 25 years.
Derwent make it three Third Division wooden spoons in a row, bringing back painful memories of their poor performances in the very first years of the competition.
Albury & Wagga Wagga are the sole third tier side in the last sixteen of the AFFL Cup, the first time they've come so far in nearly forty years, and Glebe nail the upset of the season over Crows Nest.
South-West Districts see off Perth in an AFFL Cup fixture for the tenth consecutive time, and in Queensland Wide Bay also make it ten in a row against Capricornia.

1941 Season
League Tables
AFFL Cup Results

First Division – Top

	=	VIC	Maribyrnong
2nd	+2	NSW	Ashfield
3rd	=	VIC	South Yarra
4th	-2	NSW	Crows Nest
5th	+7	NSW	Central & Western Districts

AFFL Cup – Final Four

	D1	VIC	Maribyrnong
FIN	D1	VIC	Corangamite

SF	D2	NSW	Rozelle
SF	D1	NSW	Central & Western Districts

1941 Season Headlines

Maribyrnong are nine points clear at the top of the ladder as they win a second successive premiership in style. They also win the AFFL Cup, just the second team in history to claim the trophy double.
Abbotsford win promotion from the Second Division South & West region by twelve points to storm back into the top flight at the second attempt.
Second Division Rozelle account for two top tier sides including Ashfield on their way to the AFFL Cup semi finals.
Both sides who dropped down to the Second Division, Balaclava and Surry Hills, struggle badly in their regions.
Goldfields rebound in the Third Division South & West region from fourteenth last season to third. Derwent are abysmal, drawing just two league games in their worst season since 1901.
Nundah are breaking out of the Third Division North & East region for the very first time.
Orange register their second massive cup upset in ten years over First Division opposition, this time Illawarra, to reach the last sixteen for just the second time in their history.
In South Australia, Prospect keep the wood over Spencer Ports in head-to-head AFFL Cup contests with a new record of eleven wins on the trot.

1940 Season
League Tables
AFFL Cup Results
Place of Origin

First Division – Top

	+2	VIC	Maribyrnong
2nd	-1	NSW	Crows Nest
3rd	+5	VIC	South Yarra
4th	-2	NSW	Ashfield
10th	-6	VIC	Kew

AFFL Cup – Final Four

	D1	QLD	Wide Bay
FIN	D1	VIC	Southern Murray

SF	D2	SA	Hindmarsh
SF	D1	WA	South-West Districts

Place of Origin X

	VIC	Victoria Country
FIN	QLD	Queensland

SF	VIC	Victoria Metro
SF	NSW	New South Wales Metro

1940 Season Headlines

Crows Nest's bid for a league three-peat falls just short as they finish runners up behind Maribyrnong, who after 21 years are still the only post-Federation team to rise to the First Division.
After years of good progress in the knockout competition, Wide Bay are the first Queensland side to claim the AFFL Cup silverware since 1907, and the only side from that state so far to have won both major trophies.
Spencer Ports, one of the last two active teams in the Third Division continuously since Federation, win promotion.
Derwent tumble from the top six of the Third Division South & West region to finish bottom for the first time in almost thirty years.
Marrickville are the first team from the Third Division to ever reach the last sixteen of the AFFL Cup two years in a row.
Among the assembling squads for the tenth edition of Place of Origin there were as many as five serious contenders, with Victoria Country standing tall for a first representative flag.

1939 Season
League Tables
AFFL Cup Results

First Division – Top

	=	NSW	Crows Nest
2nd	+2	NSW	Ashfield
3rd	+4	VIC	Maribyrnong
5th	-3	QLD	Wide Bay
6th	-3	VIC	Corangamite

AFFL Cup – Final Four

	D1	VIC	Gippsland
FIN	D2	TAS	Mersey

SF	D1	NSW	Crows Nest
SF	D1	NSW	Illawarra

1939 Season Headlines

Crows Nest retain the premiership, with Ashfield in second to complete a first ever Sydney one-two.
Gippsland win a first major trophy, knocking out the favourites Crows Nest in the AFFL Cup semi finals and then easing past Second Division outsiders Mersey in the decider, the first Tasmanian finalists in 21 years.
None other than the most successful league team in the land, Abbotsford, are swiftly relegated just three years after their last premiership.
Dandenong's drop to the Second Division is nothing short of disasterous, avoiding consecutive relegations only due to an even worse season by Unley.
Just four years after leaving the bottom league tier, Surry Hills stun the Second Division North & East region to rise back to the First Division for the first time in over thirty years.
Goldfields, a top flight team just seven years ago, plunge to second last in the Third Division South & West region.
Third Division sides Wheatbelt and Marrickville both made the last sixteen of the AFFL Cup for the very first time (the latter ending their ten cup match losing streak). Far North Districts made their first national round appearance in the cup since 1912.
In South Australia, Spencer Ports end their eleven cup game losing sequence, winning for just the second time in 24 matches.

1938 Season
League Tables
AFFL Cup Results

First Division – Top

	+3	NSW	Crows Nest
2nd	+1	QLD	Wide Bay
3rd	+5	VIC	Corangamite
4th	-3	NSW	Ashfield
6th	-4	VIC	Kew

AFFL Cup – Final Four

	D1	VIC	Abbotsford
FIN	D1	NSW	Crows Nest

SF	D1	QLD	Wide Bay
SF	D1	VIC	Corangamite

1938 Season Headlines

Crows Nest sit at the league summit, only the second New South Wales team ever to do so, and also the second former Third Division team to reach the very top.
The top three First Division teams all simultaneously reach the AFFL Cup semi finals, but it is Abbotsford who again win the trophy to rob the league premiers, this time Crows Nest, from winning the double.
In only their fourth season in the second tier, and second as a merged entity, the future is very bright indeed for Southern Murray as they earn a debut in the First Division.
Botany fall just one point short of a dramatic return to the First Division.
The same cannot be said for any of the Adelaide metropolitan teams, who all occupy the bottom three of the Second Division South & West region, with Prospect's recent decline continuing all the way to Third Division ignominy.
The Third Division South & West region is given a big shake-up. Albury & Wagga Wagga will slot back up into the Second Division for the first time in more than thirty years, and they were chased by the even more unfancied Western Districts and Territorians.
In a show of strength for expansion teams, Townsville win promotion and Hawkesbury are second in just their fifth seasons in the Third Division North & East region.
Also in the Third Division North & East region, Nundah pick themselves up off the canvas to scrap their way into the top six, Granville take their place as cellar dwellers for the third time in five years.
The going in the Third Division is much tougher than expected for both newly relegated teams, Wimmera and Glebe, who find themselves in eighth and eleventh in their respective regions.
Second Division Woolloongabba chance a soft draw to progress beyond the qualifying rounds of the AFFL Cup for the first time since 1916.
Marrickville's poor cup run extends to ten successive losses.

1937 Season
League Tables
AFFL Cup Results

First Division – Top

	+2	NSW	Ashfield
2nd	+2	VIC	Kew
3rd	+2	QLD	Wide Bay
4th	-2	NSW	Crows Nest
9th	-8	VIC	Abbotsford

AFFL Cup – Final Four

	D1	VIC	South Yarra
FIN	D1	QLD	Wide Bay

SF	D2	NSW	Woollahra
SF	D1	VIC	Gippsland

1937 Season Headlines

Merged teams: Southern Murray.
New teams: Blackburn.
Ashfield win a third premiership in five years, and number seven overall. South Yarra win their fourth AFFL Cup, their first since 1915.
Abbotsford suffer a major premiership hangover as they succumb to ninth place, their worst finish in thirty years.
Second Division Woollahra enjoy another good cup run to the semi finals, helped in part by only one of six New South Wales First Division teams making the last sixteen.
Wimmera complete the quickest boom and bust cycle in history as in the space of just eight years they have left the Third Division, spent a single season in the First Division and will return to the bottom tier next season.
It's a baptism of fire for Blackburn, the new expansion side from Melbourne's growing eastern suburbs, picking up just one point in their debut season in the Third Division.
Warringah notch the biggest upset of the season over struggling First Division debutants Richmond-Tweed to get beyond the Third Round of the AFFL Cup for the first time.
Riverina, one of the last two teams active since Federation never to pass beyond state qualifying in the cup, do so for the first time.
Corangamite, Victoria's least successful team in the AFFL Cup, go through to the national rounds for the first time since the inaugural 1901 season.
In Western Australia, Wheatbelt topples Goldfields for the first time in their nine cup meetings. In South Australia, Spencer Ports lose a tenth consecutive cup match.

1936 Season
League Tables
AFFL Cup Results
Place of Origin

First Division – Top

	+1	VIC	Abbotsford
2nd	+2	NSW	Crows Nest
3rd	+2	NSW	Ashfield
4th	-1	VIC	Kew
5th	-4	QLD	Wide Bay

AFFL Cup – Final Four

	D1	NSW	Illawarra
FIN	D1	VIC	Maribyrnong

SF	D1	NSW	Hastings-Clarence
SF	D1	VIC	Jolimont

Place of Origin IX

	NSW	New South Wales Metro
FIN	NSW	New South Wales Country

SF	VIC	Victoria Metro
SF	WA	Western Australia

1936 Season Headlines

The normal order at the top of the league is restored as Abbotsford win premiership number nine.
Illawarra put aside their losing AFFL Cup final last season to win the competition this time around, against 1932 winners Maribyrnong.
Five time premiers Jolimont, one of the last two teams remaining in the First Division continuously since Federation, suddenly lose their mojo to face next season in the Second Division.
Launceston become the second team ever to win consecutive promotions on their way to a first season in the top flight.
Richmond-Tweed are also going to the First Division, a far cry from the very first years of the competition when they collected four consecutive Third Division wooden spoons.
Parramatta shake off their first Third Division North & East wooden spoon last season by making huge gains to fifth place.
There is much focus in Sydney in the AFFL Cup as Third Division Five Dock emerge as victors in their first ever meeting with neighbouring giants Ashfield.
Woolloongabba beat Brisbane neighbours Fortitude for the first time in nine head-to-head AFFL Cup contests.
After a stalemate against each other in the group stage, New South Wales Metro arm wrestle their way to both a third Origin flag for themselves and a third consecutive final loss for New South Wales Country.
For the second time in the last three Origin tournaments, Western Australia's unheralded Origin squad yet again qualify undefeated from the group stage.

1935 Season
League Tables
AFFL Cup Results

First Division – Top

	+1	QLD	Wide Bay
2nd	+2	VIC	Abbotsford
3rd	=	VIC	Kew
4th	+5	NSW	Crows Nest
5th	-4	NSW	Ashfield

AFFL Cup – Final Four

	D1	VIC	Dandenong
FIN	D1	NSW	Illawarra

SF	D2	NSW	Hastings-Clarence
SF	D1	NSW	Ashfield

1935 Season Headlines

Wide Bay create history as the first former Third Division team to scale the league summit. Though in a real blow to national representation, the premiers will be the only top flight side outside New South Wales and Victoria next season.
AFFL Cup finalists Dandenong and Illawarra both go beyond the semi finals for the first time.
Wimmera, freshly relegated from the First Division, find themselves far closer to the third league tier than the first.
Hastings-Clarence hold their nerve to earn a top flight debut, and enjoy a successful run in the AFFL Cup to boot.
The opposite holds true for Glebe, who fall to the Third Division for the very first time, and the fortunes of Goldfields rapidly vanish as they make the same drop just three years after falling from the top flight.
Launceston win every Third Division South & West game of the season in an effort to prove that they may indeed belong in the Second Division.
Orange and Rockdale are both surprise top four finishers in the Third Division North & East, while New England, in the top three every year since their relegation from the Second Division in 1929, plunge into the bottom four.

1934 Season
League Tables
AFFL Cup Results

First Division – Top

	=	NSW	Ashfield
2nd	+3	QLD	Wide Bay
3rd	=	VIC	Kew
4th	-2	VIC	Abbotsford
5th	-1	VIC	Jolimont

AFFL Cup – Final Four

	D1	VIC	Abbotsford
FIN	D1	NSW	Ashfield

SF	D1	NSW	Crows Nest
SF	D1	VIC	Balaclava

1934 Season Headlines

Folded teams: Angas and Upper Hunter.
Merged teams: Far North Districts.
New teams: Hawkesbury and Townsville.
Ashfield comfortably go back-to-back in the league for the second time in their history, though their latest attempt at a league and cup double is scuppered in the AFFL Cup final by Abbotsford, the only team who have so far achieved that feat.
Twenty years after their most recent Third Division wooden spoon, and after the last few seasons hovering at the top of the Second Division South & West, Corangamite are the latest side to earn a top flight debut.
Hindmarsh are far from overawed on their return up to the Second Division with a fourth placed finish in the South & West region. Royal Park are less than impressive after their First Division relegation last season, managing only ninth place.
Wangaratta & Benalla, one of three teams sitting in the Third Division continuously since Federation, earn a Second Division debut.
Spencer Ports are bottom of the Third Division South & West region for the third time in four years.
No less than nine Second Division teams fill the last sixteen of the AFFL Cup, though only Corio can progress into the quarter finals.

1933 Season
League Tables
AFFL Cup Results

First Division – Top

	+3	NSW	Ashfield
2nd	-1	VIC	Abbotsford
3rd	+5	VIC	Kew
4th	-2	VIC	Jolimont
5th	-2	QLD	Wide Bay

AFFL Cup – Final Four

	D1	NSW	Central & Western Districts
FIN	D1	NSW	Goulburn & Monaro

SF	D1	QLD	Capricornia
SF	D1	NSW	Crows Nest

1933 Season Headlines

The premiership drought is over for Sydney's most successful team, Ashfield, who have finished second in the league four times since their last triumph in 1915, and they become the first side outside Melbourne to win the title since 1918.
Central & Western Districts, in an unprecedented fourth AFFL Cup final in five years, win their third cup trophy in four seasons as New South Wales teams rediscover their form in the knock-out competition.
With the reduction of the First Division back to fifteen teams from next season, the relegation zone was adjusted exceptionally to include the bottom three. In the scramble for survival, 1929 and 1930 runners up Bathurst are relegated after steadily deteriorating results in recent seasons.
In just their third season since they were promoted to the Second Division, rank outsiders Wimmera stun their opposition in the South & West region to barge their way to a First Division debut.
The boom and bust cycle is complete for South Australians South-East Districts, relegated from the top flight in 1925 and returning to the Third Division for the first time since 1906.
The biggest drama in the Second Division is at Maranoa, who dropped from the First Division last season and finish fourteenth in the North & East region, who find themselves relegated immediately to the Third Division due to the league's structural changes for next season.
Nundah collect a fourth Third Division North & East wooden spoon in five years.
Prospect post a record equalling tenth consecutive win in their head-to-head AFFL Cup matches against Spencer Ports.
With a merger in place for next season, Carpentaria ensure they bow out of the AFFL with a sting in the tail, upsetting First Division high fliers Wide Bay in the cup.

1932 Season
League Tables
AFFL Cup Results
Place of Origin

First Division – Top

	+7	VIC	Abbotsford
2nd	-1	VIC	Jolimont
3rd	+10	QLD	Wide Bay
7th	-5	VIC	Balaclava
8th	-5	VIC	Kew

AFFL Cup – Final Four

	D1	VIC	Maribyrnong
FIN	D1	VIC	Gippsland

SF	D1	WA	South-West Districts
SF	D1	QLD	Wide Bay

Place of Origin VIII

	QLD	Queensland
FIN	NSW	New South Wales Country

SF	NSW	New South Wales Metro
SF	VIC	Victoria Country

1932 Season Headlines

Jolimont fall agonisingly short of a First Division three-peat due to a smash and grab campaign by local rivals Abbotsford, but perhaps the biggest surprise of the season is third placed Wide Bay.
Maribyrnong win a second AFFL Cup, Gippsland lose a second final.
Parramatta now lay claim to two of the three worst Second Division seasons ever, taking just three points all season.
Marrickville are the third post-Federation team to climb up to the Second Division.
In South Australia, Angas drop from top five in the Third Division South & West to second from bottom.
Orange net the upset of the season over Crows Nest, as only one of the four First Division sides from New South Wales emerged unscathed from unexpectedly bruising early round match-ups in the AFFL Cup.
Newcastle are the first team from the Third Division to qualify for the last sixteen of the cup twice in three seasons. Fellow New South Wales bottom tier side Rockdale progress to the national rounds for the first time since 1911, reaching the last eight.
Queensland are surprise Place of Origin winners for the first time.
With just a tiny fraction of difference in quality between them, New South Wales Country edged past their city cousins in a memorable Origin semi final.
A first upset victory for Victoria Country over Victoria Metro proves extremely costly for the city slickers, as they are eliminated at the Origin group stage for the first time ever.

1931 Season
League Tables
AFFL Cup Results

First Division – Top

	=	VIC	Jolimont
2nd	+4	VIC	Balaclava
3rd	=	VIC	Kew
4th	=	NSW	Crows Nest
7th	-5	NSW	Bathurst

AFFL Cup – Final Four

	D1	NSW	Central & Western Districts
FIN	D2	NSW	Woollahra

SF	D1	VIC	Kew
SF	D1	NSW	Ashfield

1931 Season Headlines

Jolimont retain the premiership by one point from Balaclava in a season where four Melbourne teams again fill the top five.
Incredibly, the AFFL Cup final is a replay of last season, with the match netting the same result and a series of firsts: To Central & Western Districts for retaining the AFFL Cup and for reaching three consecutive finals, and to Woollahra as the first team outside the First Division to appear in consecutive finals.
It's a good year for regional South-West Queensland teams in the Second Division at the expense of the capital, highlighted by Maranoa earning a First Division debut.
Goldfields is the Western Australian representative in the national rounds for the first time since 1904, courtesy of a first win in nine head-to-head cup matches against South-West Districts.
Granville also win a AFFL Cup game, their first since the Second Round of 1917, ending their competition record losing streak at fourteen.

1930 Season
League Tables
AFFL Cup Results

First Division – Top

	+2	VIC	Jolimont
2nd	=	NSW	Bathurst
3rd	-2	VIC	Kew
4th	+2	NSW	Crows Nest
5th	-1	NSW	Central & Western Districts

AFFL Cup – Final Four

	D1	NSW	Central & Western Districts
FIN	D2	NSW	Woollahra

SF	D2	NSW	Hastings-Clarence
SF	D1	VIC	Kew

1930 Season Headlines

League challengers from New South Wales continue to circle but yet another Melbourne side claims the First Division prize, this time Jolimont, their fourth league title and first since 1916.
Central & Western Districts overcome the previous season's AFFL Cup disappointment to qualify for back-to-back finals for the second time in their history, and win their first major trophy.
Five of the AFFL Cup quarter finalists come from the second tier, with Woollahra the fourth Second Divsion team to reach in the final.
After two seasons as Second Division South & West runners up, Dandenong push forward to claim their first ticket to the First Division.
Perth are the second former First Division premiers to face life in the Third Division next season.
Wheatbelt take the unwanted baton of Third Division South & West wooden spooners for the third time in the last five seasons. Nundah can muster only one league draw all season as they remain anchored to the bottom of the North & East ladder.

1929 Season
League Tables
AFFL Cup Results

First Division – Top

	+2	VIC	Kew
2nd	+4	NSW	Bathurst
3rd	-1	VIC	Jolimont
4th	D2	NSW	Central & Western Districts
8th	-7	VIC	South Yarra

AFFL Cup – Final Four

	D1	NSW	Ashfield
FIN	D1	NSW	Central & Western Districts

SF	D1	VIC	Gippsland
SF	D1	NSW	Crows Nest

1929 Season Headlines

Kew win their second premiership of the decade, and third overall, as South Yarra's premiership hangover takes hold.
Ashfield's run as the most successful AFFL Cup team continues, eliminating the holders Bathurst early enroute to a fifth final in eight seasons and a third cup trophy in five years.
Newly promoted Central & Western Districts win many admirers for their fourth place, but lose a third AFFL Cup final.
Northcote, a fixture of the top flight since 1907, fall well short of safety.
Goldfields will make their First Division debut as one of two Western Australian sides in the top flight next season for the first time in fifteen years.
New England, the last team continuously in the Second Division since Federation, are relegated to the Third Division.
South Australians Yorke, one of four teams in the Third Division since Federation, continue their recent upwards trajectory all the way out of the division.
Granville's long AFFL Cup losing streak extends to a record thirteen matches.

1928 Season
League Tables
AFFL Cup Results
Place of Origin

First Division – Top

	=	VIC	South Yarra
2nd	+5	VIC	Jolimont
3rd	+5	VIC	Kew
4th	-2	VIC	Abbotsford
8th	-5	NSW	Ashfield

AFFL Cup – Final Four

	D1	NSW	Bathurst
FIN	D1	VIC	South Yarra

SF	D1	VIC	Maribyrnong
SF	D1	QLD	Wide Bay

Place of Origin VII

	VIC	Victoria Metro
FIN	NSW	New South Wales Country

SF	WA	Western Australia
SF	SA	South Australia

1928 Season Headlines

Within an all-Melbourne top five, South Yarra stake their claim as the best ever league team, dropping just four points on their way to a third successive premiership and fifth in seven seasons.
The league premiers went into the AFFL Cup final confident of matching the feats of Abbotsford's all-conquering 1921 side, but Bathurst had different ideas, venturing beyond the quarter finals for the first time to collect their first major trophy.
Barrier of far western New South Wales, rezoned to the South & West region of the Second Division this season, easily beat out their competition to earn a First Division debut.
Dandenong enjoy a greatly encouraging Second Division campaign, rising from thirteenth place to second.
Spencer Ports end a sequence of eleven straight AFFL Cup losses, and Nundah do likewise after a run of ten straight cup defeats.
Appearing in a record third consecutive Place of Origin final, Victoria Metro's superior talent base shines through to claim a third representative flag.
Western Australia overachieve in Origin yet again, the biggest underdogs in tournament history to win all three of their group matches.
Tasmania fail to qualify from the Origin group stage for a record sixth successive tournament.

1927 Season
League Tables
AFFL Cup Results

First Division – Top

	=	VIC	South Yarra
2nd	+2	VIC	Abbotsford
3rd	-1	NSW	Ashfield
4th	+3	NSW	Bathurst
8th	-5	VIC	Kew

AFFL Cup – Final Four

	D1	NSW	Ashfield
FIN	D1	VIC	Maribyrnong

SF	D1	VIC	Northcote
SF	D1	NSW	Botany

1927 Season Headlines

South Yarra make it four premierships in six years, and they do so convincingly with a seven point buffer.
AFFL Cup holders Maribyrnong reach all the way to the final, but are stopped in their tracks by 1925 winners Ashfield, appearing in their fourth cup final in six years.
The embarassment is complete for Woolloongabba, the first ever former First Division premiers to collect a Third Division wooden spoon.
Perth's record AFFL Cup run against Goldfields ends with a first loss in their last eleven meetings.

1926 Season
League Tables
AFFL Cup Results

First Division – Top

	+1	VIC	South Yarra
2nd	+2	NSW	Ashfield
3rd	=	VIC	Kew
4th	-3	VIC	Abbotsford
5th	+7	VIC	Jolimont

AFFL Cup – Final Four

	D1	VIC	Maribyrnong
FIN	D1	VIC	Balaclava

SF	D2	NSW	Rozelle
SF	D1	NSW	Crows Nest

1926 Season Headlines

In a nail biting end to the league season, South Yarra remain a single point above the next three challengers to claim a third premiership in five years.
In the second ever all Victorian AFFL Cup final, Maribyrnong claim a first major trophy.
Losing cup finalists Balaclava endure the worst ever First Division season since the top flight expanded to sixteen teams.
Queensland's Maranoa, threatened by relegation from the Second Division in recent seasons, surge back up the ladder to fourth.
The biggest upset of the AFFL Cup season goes to Third Division Upper Hunter over Botany.

1925 Season
League Tables
AFFL Cup Results

First Division – Top

	+1	VIC	Abbotsford
2nd	-1	VIC	South Yarra
3rd	+1	VIC	Kew
4th	-1	NSW	Ashfield
11th	-6	NSW	Goulburn & Monaro

AFFL Cup – Final Four

	D1	NSW	Ashfield
FIN	D1	NSW	Crows Nest

SF	D2	NSW	Illawarra
SF	D1	VIC	Kew

1925 Season Headlines

After three straight seasons as runners up, Abbotsford are back at the very top of the league pyramid for the seventh time.
In the first all New South Wales cup final since 1912 it is Ashfield who put aside recent disappointments in the final decider to hold the trophy aloft for the third time.
Royal Park, one of the last three teams to remain continuously in the elite league since inception, are headed down to the second tier.
Capricornia, one of only two teams continuously in the Second Division since Federation, are shock winners of the North & East region after finishing in the bottom half of the table for much of their history.
Queensland's Carpentaria combine their Third Division league winning form with a first ever quarter finals appearance in the AFFL Cup.
Territorians finish bottom of the Third Division South & West region for the third time in four seasons.
Perth extend their AFFL Cup record over Goldfields to ten successive head-to-head wins.
Corio snap a losing streak of eleven AFFL Cup games dating back to the Second Round of 1914.

1924 Season
League Tables
AFFL Cup Results
Place of Origin

First Division – Top

	+3	VIC	South Yarra
2nd	=	VIC	Abbotsford
3rd	=	NSW	Ashfield
4th	-3	VIC	Kew
5th	+4	NSW	Goulburn & Monaro

AFFL Cup – Final Four

	D1	SA	Prospect
FIN	D1	NSW	Ashfield

SF	D2	WA	Fremantle
SF	D1	SA	South-East Districts

Place of Origin VI

	NSW	New South Wales Metro
FIN	VIC	Victoria Metro

SF	VIC	Victoria Country
SF	WA	Western Australia

1924 Season Headlines

South Yarra win the league title for the second time in three years, but with four New South Wales teams in the top eight for the very first time, perhaps the Victorian teams' grip on the premiership thus far may be beginning to recede.
In a replay of the 1922 AFFL Cup final, Prospect's cup glory over Ashfield comes at the cost of First Division survival.
Crows Nest are the second former First Division side to fall to the Third Division and return, re-entering the top flight next season for the first time since 1906.
There are cup upsets galore in Victoria as no less than five top flight teams are ousted by lower division opposition, the pick being Third Division Ballarat's humiliation of Gippsland.
New England, one of three teams active since Federation yet to progress beyond the early rounds of the AFFL Cup, eliminate Botany in order to do so for the first time.
New South Wales Metro pick the pocket of heavily favoured Victoria Metro in the Place of Origin final to win a second representative flag.
South Australia field their deepest Origin squad to date, but are undone from group stage qualification by a plucky Western Australian side.
Victoria Country, the only Origin squad who were yet to qualify from the group stages, break their duck at the sixth attempt.

1923 Season
League Tables
AFFL Cup Results

First Division – Top

	+2	VIC	Kew
2nd	=	VIC	Abbotsford
3rd	+2	NSW	Ashfield
4th	-3	VIC	South Yarra
6th	-2	VIC	Maribyrnong

AFFL Cup – Final Four

	D1	NSW	Woollahra
FIN	D1	SA	South-East Districts

SF	D1	NSW	Ashfield
SF	D1	QLD	Wide Bay

1923 Season Headlines

Kew win a second premiership after an eleven year wait.
Woollahra win the AFFL Cup, the sixth team in history to do so while simultaneously falling out of the First Division.
South-East Districts account for defending cup holders Prospect in the first round before going on to reach their first final.
1918 premiers Hobart are to drop to the Second Division for the second time, the first team to have won the league and later been relegated in two different top flight forays.
Hunter's latest promotion to the Second Division North & East region results in an immediate entrance into the top three.
Melbourne Ports face the drop down to the Third Division, 21 years after falling out of the First Division. Surry Hills also suffer a similar fate.
Hindmarsh win their first AFFL Cup match since the First Round in 1911, and then another to make the Round of 16 for the first time since 1909.

1922 Season
League Tables
AFFL Cup Results

First Division – Top

	+1	VIC	South Yarra
2nd	-1	VIC	Abbotsford
3rd	=	VIC	Kew
4th	+10	VIC	Maribyrnong
7th	-3	VIC	Northcote

AFFL Cup – Final Four

	D1	SA	Prospect
FIN	D1	NSW	Ashfield

SF	D1	VIC	Maribyrnong
SF	D1	VIC	Jolimont

1922 Season Headlines

Folded teams: Grampians.
Merged teams: Goulburn & Monaro and Central & Western Districts.
New teams: Territorians, Warringah, Five Dock and Marrickville.
Abbotsford must finally be content for second place as South Yarra take their league mantle.
Prospect's brief spell back in the First Division at least comes with a second AFFL Cup win, eliminating Abbotsford in the quarter finals and Sydney stalwarts Ashfield in the final.
Maribyrnong make their reprieve from relegation last season count, and announce themselves as yet another premiership contender in a long line of Melbourne sides.
Goldfields are runners up in the Second Division South & West region for the fourth year in a row.
Unley's second chance to stay in the second tier goes begging, one of the last three teams continuously in the Second Division since Federation to move for the very first time.
While the relegation trapdoor from the Second Division was stuck shut for Newcastle last season, they fall through it this season, the latest former First Division side to drop to the bottom tier.
Warringah, in seventh, are far and away the most impressive of three new Sydney entrants to the Third Division. Fellow debutants Marrickville can take heart in winning two AFFL Cup matches.
Upper Hunter are the third team from the Third Division in as many years to venture to the last eight of the cup.
Derwent, one of four surviving Federation teams never to have qualified for the last sixteen of the AFFL Cup, break that duck.
Hindmarsh's AFFL Cup slump extends to a competition record twelve successive losses.

1921 Season
League Tables
AFFL Cup Results

First Division – Top

	=	VIC	Abbotsford
2nd	+6	VIC	South Yarra
3rd	+1	VIC	Kew
5th	-2	VIC	Jolimont
6th	-4	NSW	Goulburn

AFFL Cup – Final Four

	D1	VIC	Abbotsford
FIN	D1	VIC	Northcote

SF	D2	SA	Unley
SF	D2	NSW	Surry Hills

1921 Season Headlines

Abbotsford are the undisputed best team of all-time as the first to win three consecutive First Division premierships and this season's league and cup double.
Northcote can't quite make it two AFFL Cups in three seasons, though they take out defending winners Jolimont along the way.
Corio make their own history as the first team ever to win back-to-back promotions to the Second and First Divisions.
Woollahra's twenty year relegation-promotion cycle is complete, as they are all set to return to the top flight next year for the first time since the inaugural 1901 season.
Off-field issues force Grampians, who finish runners-up in the Third Division South & West region for the fourth successive season, into extinction.
Eden-Monaro finish top of the Third Division North & East region, but eschew their prize of a Second Division debut in favour of forming a consolidated joint venture with bigger neighbours Goulburn.
Third Division Moreton make the most of a soft draw, reaching the AFFL Cup quarter finals for the first time since 1901.

1920 Season
League Tables
AFFL Cup Results
Place of Origin

First Division – Top

	=	VIC	Abbotsford
2nd	+6	NSW	Goulburn
3rd	+3	VIC	Jolimont
6th	-4	VIC	Northcote
8th	-5	VIC	South Yarra

AFFL Cup – Final Four

	D1	VIC	Jolimont
FIN	D1	QLD	Wide Bay

SF	D2	WA	Perth
SF	D1	VIC	Maribyrnong

Place of Origin V

	VIC	Victoria Metro
FIN	QLD	Queensland

SF	NSW	New South Wales Metro
SF	SA	South Australia

1920 Season Headlines

Abbotsford go back-to-back in the league for the second time, and are the first team to win three premierships in four seasons.
Jolimont win their second AFFL Cup, ending an eighteen year wait.
The league champion's only challenger is Goulburn, who finally look like they belong at the elite level – only the second team from New South Wales ever to finish inside the First Division top four.
In the Third Division South & West region, Oakleigh go from wooden spooners to top four in two seasons, and Ballarat are the first former top flight team to win a Third Division wooden spoon.
All four New South Wales First Division sides fall in the early rounds of the AFFL Cup, including titans Ashfield who are embarrased by Third Division, and eventual quarter finalists, Eden-Monaro.
Victoria Metro's unmatched wealth of Origin talent gels together more successfully than four years ago, dominating to win a second representative flag.
Not for the first time South Australia's Origin squad defy expectations, doing just enough to qualify from the group stage at the expense of flag holders New South Wales Country.
There are also some small celebrations for Victoria Country after notching their first ever Origin group match victory.

1919 Season
League Tables
AFFL Cup Results

First Division – Top

	+2	VIC	Abbotsford
2nd	+5	VIC	Northcote
3rd	+3	VIC	South Yarra
5th	-3	NSW	Ashfield
7th	-6	TAS	Hobart

AFFL Cup – Final Four

	D1	VIC	Northcote
FIN	D2	NSW	Parramatta

SF	D1	NSW	Glebe
SF	D1	QLD	Wide Bay

1919 Season Headlines

Abbotsford are back at the top of the league pyramid for the fourth time as five Melbourne sides dominate the top six teams.
Northcote win their second cup, but the headlines are stolen by freshly promoted second tier Parramatta, who topple three First Division sides including big names Hobart and Ashfield, on their way to becoming the third Second Divison side to reach the final.
A barnstorming run from Maribyrnong leaves them four wins clear at the top of the Second Division South & West region, the first post-Federation team to knock on the door of the top division.
Bathurst finally make good in the Second Division North & East region after years of almost making the top flight.
Derwent's recent reinvention from perennial Third Division wooden spooners to potential promotion contenders continues at pace, and they are bound for a Second Division debut.
Capricornia topple Fortitude to end the cup competition's record of seven straight head-to-head losses.
Melbourne Ports win their first AFFL Cup game since the Second Round of 1908.

1918 Season
League Tables
AFFL Cup Results

First Division – Top

	+4	TAS	Hobart
2nd	=	NSW	Ashfield
3rd	-2	VIC	Abbotsford
4th	=	VIC	Jolimont
6th	-3	VIC	South Yarra

AFFL Cup – Final Four

	D1	NSW	Newcastle
FIN	D1	TAS	Hobart

SF	D2	QLD	Capricornia
SF	D1	QLD	Fortitude

1918 Season Headlines

In their fourth season back up in the First Division Hobart's league renaissance is complete, muscling out last season's top three for a third premiership. Their bid for the first ever league and cup double, and a second AFFL Cup trophy in three years, is foiled at the very last step.
Although concurrently relegated from the First Division, Newcastle win their first major trophy with a stirring AFFL Cup final victory over the league premiers.
Following their triumph in the Second Division North & East region, Wide Bay will be the fourth former third tier outfit to join the First Division.
Barrier immediately land in the top six of the Second Division South & West region, equal on points with relegated top flight side Fremantle.
Oakleigh collect an unwelcome hat-trick of wooden spoons in the Third Division South & West region.
Melbourne Ports set a new AFFL Cup record of eleven losses in a row.

1917 Season
League Tables
AFFL Cup Results

First Division – Top

	+4	VIC	Abbotsford
2nd	=	NSW	Ashfield
3rd	+4	VIC	South Yarra
4th	-3	VIC	Jolimont
6th	-3	VIC	Kew

AFFL Cup – Final Four

	D1	NSW	Ashfield
FIN	D1	VIC	Gippsland

SF	D1	WA	Fremantle
SF	D1	SA	South-East Districts

1917 Season Headlines

A third First Division title in five years heads to Abbotsford.
Ashfield are league runners up for the second year running, though go one better in the knockout competition to claim a second AFFL Cup trophy.
Fremantle are relegated from the First Division after sixteen seasons and two league premierships, while derby rivals Perth will be promoted in their place.
Woolloongabba are the first former First Division champions to be playing their league football in the Third Division next season.

1916 Season
League Tables
AFFL Cup Results
Place of Origin

First Division – Top

	+6	VIC	Jolimont
2nd	-1	NSW	Ashfield
3rd	+6	VIC	Kew
5th	-2	VIC	Abbotsford
7th	-5	VIC	South Yarra

AFFL Cup – Final Four

	D1	TAS	Hobart
FIN	D1	VIC	Kew

SF	D1	VIC	South Yarra
SF	D1	WA	Fremantle

Place of Origin IV

	NSW	New South Wales Country
FIN	NSW	New South Wales Metro

SF	VIC	Victoria Metro
SF	WA	Western Australia

1916 Season Headlines

Jolimont are surprise First Division premiers, their third league title.
There is a replay of last season's AFFL Cup decider in the quarter finals which nets the same result, only for defending holders South Yarra to bow out in the last four to eventual first-time winners Hobart, meaning the cup has now been won by teams from every state.
Gravity takes hold for country side Central-North Districts, relegated from the First Division after four seasons and two AFFL Cup finals.
After a decade of second tier stability, South-East Districts are the third former Third Division side to clinch a berth in the First Division.
In Place of Origin, New South Wales Metro win their intrastate battle at the group stage, but in the final New South Wales Country win the war.
Victoria Metro field the strongest Origin squad on paper ever seen, but are overrun in the semis by the eventual flag winners.

1915 Season
League Tables
AFFL Cup Results

First Division – Top

	+4	NSW	Ashfield
2nd	+2	VIC	South Yarra
3rd	-2	VIC	Abbotsford
4th	-1	VIC	Royal Park
9th	-7	VIC	Kew

AFFL Cup – Final Four

	D1	VIC	South Yarra
FIN	D1	NSW	Central-North Districts

SF	D3	VIC	Dandenong
SF	D1	VIC	Northcote

1915 Season Headlines

Sydney's Ashfield snag a fourth league premiership to beat all Melbourne challengers.
South Yarra win their second AFFL Cup in three seasons, and third overall.
Central-North Districts are the third team to reach back-to-back cup finals, but the first to lose both.
After recent seasons flirting with relegation, Perth are well short of safety, the third former premiers to fall out of the top flight.
Dandenong put aside their previous sorry AFFL Cup history to be the first ever Third Division side in the semi finals, knocking off three Second Division sides enroute. They are also successful in the league, winning promotion back up to the Second Division after thirteen seasons.

1914 Season
League Tables
AFFL Cup Results

First Division – Top

	=	VIC	Abbotsford
2nd	+2	VIC	Kew
3rd	+2	VIC	Royal Park
4th	-1	VIC	South Yarra
6th	-4	WA	Fremantle

AFFL Cup – Final Four

	D1	WA	Fremantle
FIN	D1	NSW	Central-North Districts

SF	D2	TAS	Hobart
SF	D1	VIC	Royal Park

1914 Season Headlines

Abbotsford demolish all league opponents as they defend their premiership in the best possible way with a perfect winning season.
Fremantle win the AFFL Cup, although they are almost overshadowed by the rise and rise of Central-North Districts as the first serious contender to come from outside the major cities.
Prospect take only three points in a miserable and short-lived return to the First Division.
South-West Districts aren't at all overawed in their first second tier season, finishing fifth in the South & West region.
Rockdale's downward trajectory goes on, the fourth former First Division side to fall to the third league tier.
In their second season since merging, Western Australia's joint venture Goldfields find success in the Third Division South & West region, echoing major partner Kalgoorlie's rise a decade before.
Grampians rise from Third Division wooden spooners last season to the top six, close neighbours Corangamite tumble in the opposite direction.
Dandenong win an AFFL Cup match, finally, ending their competition record losing streak of ten games.

1913 Season
League Tables
AFFL Cup Results

First Division – Top

	+2	VIC	Abbotsford
2nd	+6	WA	Fremantle
3rd	-1	VIC	South Yarra
4th	-3	VIC	Kew
5th	-1	VIC	Royal Park

AFFL Cup – Final Four

	D1	VIC	South Yarra
FIN	D2	QLD	Maranoa

SF	D2	NSW	Illawarra
SF	D1	VIC	Northcote

1913 Season Headlines

Folded teams: Maryborough & Castlemaine, Yarra Valley and Darling.
Merged teams: Goldfields.
New teams: Wheatbelt, Oakleigh, Upper Hunter and Nundah.
Abbotsford are the third former Second Division side to win the top flight premiership.
The first ever AFFL Cup winners in 1901, South Yarra, win the knockout competition for the second time.
Second Division strugglers Maranoa enjoy a second consecutive fairytale cup run that goes all the way to the final.
Hobart aren't able to make their second chance at First Division survival count for anything, becoming the second former premiers to fall out of the top flight.
New Second Division entrants Wide Bay surge to fifth place in the North & East region.
New Melbourne team Oakleigh unexpectedly reach the third round of the AFFL Cup, only losing to the eventual winners.

1912 Season
League Tables
AFFL Cup Results
Place of Origin

First Division – Top

	D2	VIC	Kew
2nd	+7	VIC	South Yarra
3rd	+2	VIC	Abbotsford
5th	-4	VIC	Jolimont
7th	-5	WA	Perth

AFFL Cup – Final Four

	D1	NSW	Ashfield
FIN	D1	NSW	Glebe

SF	D2	QLD	Maranoa
SF	D1	TAS	Hobart

Place of Origin III

	WA	Western Australia
FIN	VIC	Victoria Metro

SF	NSW	New South Wales Country
SF	SA	South Australia

1912 Season Headlines

Kew return to the First Division for the first time since 1905, and stun the league to immediately take the title in a tight season where two wins is all that is between the premiers and ninth place – and Melbourne sides have a total monopoly on the top five.
There is a second all-New South Wales AFFL Cup final in four years – and a particularly spicy Western Sydney derby at that – as Ashfield build on recent campaigns to win the cup trophy for the first time.
Maryborough & Castlemaine succeed in the Second Division South & West region, but off-field issues mean that instead of an instant return to the First Division, this regional Victorian team will be no more. Their demise allows Hobart to stay exceptionally in the top flight, after falling from the top six last season to the relegation zone.
The steady progress made at Central-North Districts means they are the second former Third Division side to knock on the door of the First Division.
Maranoa, bottom of the Second Division North & East, avoid relegation due to new teams entering the Third Division next season. They had success in the AFFL Cup however, knocking out holders Perth to make the semi finals.
South Australians Angas will make their Second Division debut after a perfect winning league season in the Third Division South & West region.
In a log-jammed contest for the Third Division North & East region where the top eight places are separated by a single win, Wide Bay receive the keys to the Second Division.
Derwent's abject on-field performances continue with a bottom of the ladder finish in the Third Division South & West region for the eighth time, however they did enjoy a first win in six AFFL Cup outings against Launceston.
Place of Origin appeared to be a cakewalk for Victoria Metro up until the final, where they are upstaged by underdogs Western Australia.
South Australia surprise their group by qualifying undefeated, in the process dumping the defending flag holders New South Wales Metro out of the competition.

1911 Season
League Tables
AFFL Cup Results

First Division – Top

	+3	VIC	Jolimont
2nd	+1	WA	Perth
3rd	-2	NSW	Ashfield
4th	-2	VIC	Royal Park
5th	=	VIC	Abbotsford

AFFL Cup – Final Four

	D1	WA	Perth
FIN	D1	VIC	Northcote

SF	D1	NSW	Ashfield
SF	D1	NSW	Illawarra

1911 Season Headlines

Jolimont grab a second league title, and their first since the inaugural 1901 season.
Perth take a first a AFFL Cup trophy to Western Australia, bundling out last year's finalists Ashfield in the semis and then defending holders Northcote in the final.
Ballarat, after a single First Division season in 1905, are the third former top flight team to be relegated to the Third Division.
Maribyrnong are the second post-Federation team to make the jump out of the Third Division.

1910 Season
League Tables
AFFL Cup Results

First Division – Top

	=	NSW	Ashfield
2nd	+6	VIC	Royal Park
3rd	+4	WA	Perth
6th	-3	TAS	Hobart
7th	-5	WA	Fremantle

AFFL Cup – Final Four

	D1	VIC	Northcote
FIN	D1	NSW	Ashfield

SF	D1	QLD	Fortitude
SF	D1	NSW	Rozelle

1910 Season Headlines

Ashfield win back-to-back league titles and at the same time become the first team to win three premierships in four seasons.
There is a first trophy for Northcote as only they can stop Ashfield from a league and cup double.
Rozelle endure a torrid First Division league season with only one draw, tempered only a little by reaching the semi finals of the AFFL Cup.
After only four second tier seasons, Crows Nest are the second former First Division side to fall to the Third Division.
Woollahra get a kind draw to become the second Third Division side ever to make the last eight of the AFFL Cup.
Dandenong set a new cup record of seven straight losses.

1909 Season
League Tables
AFFL Cup Results

First Division – Top

	+6	NSW	Ashfield
2nd	-1	WA	Fremantle
3rd	+1	TAS	Hobart
9th	-6	VIC	Northcote
10th	-8	VIC	Balaclava

AFFL Cup – Final Four

	D1	NSW	Glebe
FIN	D1	NSW	Goulburn

SF	D1	VIC	Abbotsford
SF	D1	SA	Prospect

1909 Season Headlines

Ashfield manage to put aside a disappointing 1908 to wrestle the league crown back from Fremantle.
In the AFFL Cup there is a first all-New South Wales final as Glebe become the first side to win the knockout trophy for a second time, though it's 1904 all over again as they are concurrently relegated from the First Division.
1903 premiers Woolloongabba become the first former league winners to drop out of the First Division.
Maryborough & Castlemaine are the first former Third Division side to bag a promotion ticket for the First Division, and concurrently reach the quarter finals in the cup.
Bathurst rise from relegation strugglers in the Second Division North & East region last season to the top five.
Sydney side Alexandria are the first of the post-Federation teams to jump out of the Third Division in their fourth season.
Hobart are stunned by intrastate Third Division opposition in the AFFL Cup for the second time in four years as they fall to Mersey.

1908 Season
League Tables
AFFL Cup Results
Place of Origin

First Division – Top

	+4	WA	Fremantle
2nd	D2	VIC	Balaclava
3rd	+1	VIC	Northcote
7th	-6	NSW	Ashfield
10th	-8	VIC	Royal Park

AFFL Cup – Final Four

	D1	NSW	Surry Hills
FIN	D1	VIC	Abbotsford

SF	D1	NSW	Ashfield
SF	D1	VIC	South Yarra

Place of Origin II

	NSW	New South Wales Metro
FIN	QLD	Queensland

SF	VIC	Victoria Metro
SF	NSW	New South Wales Country

1908 Season Headlines

It's two premierships in three years for Fremantle, as for the first time the league top three is comprised of teams who all started life in the Second Division.
Balaclava of South-East Melbourne stun the league by finishing second in their debut top flight season.
Surry Hills find something to cheer about in the midst of First Division relegation by claiming the AFFL Cup.
1901 AFFL Cup winners South Yarra dispatch last year's cup holders and losing finalists in successive knockout rounds, only to bow out to the eventual winners in the semi finals.
North-West Queensland's Carpentaria shock everyone, not least themselves, to climb eleven places in the Third Division North & East region and gain admittance to the second league tier.
Launceston eliminate Hobart from the AFFL Cup for the first time in their seven early round Tasmanian matchups.
New South Wales Metro get revenge over Victoria Metro in the Place of Origin semi finals, and the representative flag cannot be denied from them.

1907 Season
League Tables
AFFL Cup Results

First Division – Top

	+2	NSW	Ashfield
2nd	=	VIC	Royal Park
3rd	+1	TAS	Hobart
4th	D2	VIC	Northcote
5th	-4	WA	Fremantle

AFFL Cup – Final Four

	D1	QLD	Fortitude
FIN	D1	VIC	Royal Park

SF	D2	VIC	Melbourne Ports
SF	D1	VIC	Abbotsford

1907 Season Headlines

A near deadlock at the summit sees Ashfield bring a first league premiership to New South Wales.
Fortitude become the first team to reach back-to-back AFFL Cup finals, going one better this time around.
Royal Park are left to lick their wounds as both league and cup runners up, while their immediate neighbours Northcote dazzle in their first top flight season, finishing fourth.
South Australians South-East Districts finally, at the fourth attempt, find their feet in the Second Division.
After their relegation from the First Division last season, Crows Nest immediately fall into the bottom half of the Second Division North & East region.
The weeping and gnashing of teeth is over for now at Derwent, with a tenth place finish lifting them off the bottom of the Third Division South & West region for the very first time.
Dubbo win a first ever AFFL Cup match, the last original Federation side to break the duck in the knockout competition.
Queensland's Northern Districts beat Wolloongabba for the first time in their six head-to-head cup fixtures.

1906 Season
League Tables
AFFL Cup Results

First Division – Top

	+2	WA	Fremantle
2nd	+4	VIC	Royal Park
3rd	+2	NSW	Ashfield
4th	-3	TAS	Hobart
7th	-5	QLD	Woolloongabba

AFFL Cup – Final Four

	D1	SA	Prospect
FIN	D1	QLD	Fortitude

SF	D2	NSW	Glebe
SF	D1	WA	Fremantle

1906 Season Headlines

Merged teams: Maryborough & Castlemaine, Wangaratta & Benalla and Albury & Wagga Wagga.
New teams: Maribyrnong, Alexandria and Granville.
Fremantle are the first former Second Division team to win the league, just holding off all comers as only three points separate the top half of the First Division ladder.
The AFFL Cup comes to Adelaide as long-time consistent performers Prospect break past the final four for the first time.
Freshly merged Maryborough & Castlemaine finish seventh in their first season in the Second Division, two spots above newly relegated former top flight team Ballarat.
Defending two-time league premiers Hobart are ousted in the second round of the AFFL Cup by Third Division rank outsiders North-West Districts.

1905 Season
League Tables
AFFL Cup Results

First Division – Top

	=	TAS	Hobart
2nd	+1	QLD	Woolloongabba
3rd	+7	WA	Fremantle
6th	-4	VIC	Royal Park
8th	-4	SA	Prospect

AFFL Cup – Final Four

	D1	VIC	Royal Park
FIN	D1	NSW	Surry Hills

SF	D2	VIC	Northcote
SF	D2	NSW	Newcastle

1905 Season Headlines

Bragging rights for Tasmania as Hobart become the first team to win back-to-back premierships.
After making the AFFL Cup semi finals in the previous two seasons, Sydney's Surry Hills go one better and make the final, only for Royal Park to reassert Melbourne's early dominance over the cup trophy.
Last season's AFFL Cup runners-up Kalgoorlie, now of the Third Division, cause the upset of the season when they dispose of First Division Perth, the second time in three years that the latter has been knocked out by third tier opposition.
Geelong based Second Division side Corio make the last eight of the cup for the third season in a row.
Fast rising Maryborough are surprise candidates to clinch promotion from the Third Division South & West region, and there is hope their impending merger with neighbours Castlemaine will lead to Second Division stability.
There is joy for far northern New South Wales side Richmond-Tweed, whose thirteenth place finish in the Third Division North & East region means they avoid the wooden spoon for the first time. Their place at the bottom was taken by Wagga Wagga, who appeared to be going through the motions in their last season as a stand-alone team after finishing in the bottom three every year.
Things are still bleak for Derwent, with their fifth successive bottom finish in the Third Division South & West region.

1904 Season
League Tables
AFFL Cup Results
Place of Origin

First Division – Top

	+2	TAS	Hobart
2nd	+2	VIC	Royal Park
3rd	-2	QLD	Woolloongabba
4th	+5	SA	Prospect
8th	-6	WA	Perth

AFFL Cup – Final Four

	D1	NSW	Glebe
FIN	D2	WA	Kalgoorlie

SF	D1	NSW	Surry Hills
SF	D1	QLD	Woolloongabba

Place of Origin I

	VIC	Victoria Metro
FIN	NSW	New South Wales Metro

SF	SA	South Australia
SF	TAS	Tasmania

1904 Season Headlines

Hobart are the new league champions, while Melbourne's Abbotsford immediately land in the top six on their top flight return.
Glebe of Sydney take the cup silverware as some solace for their relegation back down to the Second Division after two ordinary top tier seasons.
Kalgoorlie are the first team outside the top flight to reach the AFFL Cup final, flying in the face of their poor first season in the league's Second Division which ended in immediate relegation.
Sydney silvertails Woollahra are again in the headlines for all the wrong reasons, as the first former First Division side to play in the Third Division next season.
In the inaugural Place of Origin tournament, expected heavyweights Victoria Metro and New South Wales Metro both top their groups, then cruise through the semis and face off in a keenly anticipated final.

1903 Season
League Tables
AFFL Cup Results

First Division – Top

	+1	QLD	Woolloongabba
2nd	-1	WA	Perth
3rd	+3	TAS	Hobart
4th	=	VIC	Royal Park
8th	-5	VIC	Jolimont

AFFL Cup – Final Four

	D1	VIC	Kew
FIN	D1	WA	Fremantle

SF	D2	SA	Unley
SF	D1	NSW	Surry Hills

1903 Season Headlines

Mixed emotions in Brisbane as south of the river Woolloongabba win the First Division premiership and north of the river Fortitude are relegated.
Kew make it three out of three AFFL Cup wins for Melbourne teams, while Adelaide's Unley are surprise cup performers, becoming the first Second Division team to win through to the semi finals.
Victoria's Western Districts and Capricornia of Queensland both go from probable relegation candidates to potential promotion chasers in their respective Second Division league regions.
Perth appear distracted by maintaining their league success as they are felled in the AFFL Cup second round by struggling Third Division side South-West Districts.

1902 Season
League Tables
AFFL Cup Results

First Division – Top

	+1	WA	Perth
2nd	+3	QLD	Woolloongabba
3rd	-2	VIC	Jolimont
4th	+3	VIC	Royal Park
12th	-9	SA	Prospect

AFFL Cup – Final Four

	D1	VIC	Jolimont
FIN	D1	QLD	Woolloongabba

SF	D1	VIC	South Yarra
SF	D1	SA	Prospect

1902 Season Headlines

Perth win the league, though Jolimont now hold both a league and AFFL Cup trophy over two years.
Prospect drop perilously close to relegation from the First Division, but their cup form stays more reliable than their league performances, reaching the final four for the second season running.
Newly promoted Second Division side Barrier only just fail in their surprise bid for double promotion, finishing second in the North & East region.
Woollahra get a reality check on life in the second tier, finishing in tenth on the North & East ladder.
Southern Tasmanians Derwent manage just a single league draw in a dreadful Third Division South & West season, collecting a second successive wooden spoon.

1901 Season
League Tables
AFFL Cup Results

First Division – Top

	--	VIC	Jolimont
2nd	--	WA	Perth
3rd	--	SA	Prospect
4th	--	NSW	Ashfield
5th	--	QLD	Woolloongabba

AFFL Cup – Final Four

	D1	VIC	South Yarra
FIN	D1	NSW	Woollahra

SF	D1	TAS	Hobart
SF	D1	SA	Prospect

1901 Season Headlines

Teams from five different states fill the top five as Jolimont win the inaugural First Division season.
Woollahra endure a winless league season and then, to add insult to injury, lose in the first ever AFFL Cup final to fellow First Division strugglers South Yarra.
Victorian regional side Western Districts drop only two points on their way to promotion out of the Third Division South & West region.
Maryborough, one of two country Victorian sides from the Third Division in the mix for the last sixteen of the AFFL Cup, shock First Division Rockdale to make the quarter finals.

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