Adelaide Metropolitan Football League

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The Adelaide Metropolitan Football League (AMFL) was an Australian rules football competition based mainly in the eastern and south-eastern suburbs of Adelaide, South Australia. Originally known as the Sturt District Football Association (SDFA), [1] the competition reformed after World War II, became the Adelaide Metropolitan Football League in 1963 and folded at the end of the 1967 season. [2]

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Member Clubs

ClubKnown Years ParticipatingNotes
Adelaide Colts1951-52Underage grades only
Albert Druids 1962-67
Blackwood 1949-52 [3]
Brompton 1962-63, 1965-66
Burnside1961-67
Colonel Light Gardens 1946-53
Cudmore Park1953-54
Eastwood1946-53, 1964-67Eastwood Rechabites (1946–48)
Goodwood 1947also Goodwood C (1946-50)
Hindmarsh CYMS 1967 [2]
Kelvinator1951, 1962-67
Kenilworth B1948-52
Lockleys Youth Club1951Underage grades only
Mitcham District 1947-1967 [2] [4]
Mitcham Youth Movement1946
Myer1948-52Myer Emporium (1948)
North Adelaide Junior1951Underage grades only
Parkside Youth Movement1946-52
Parkview1947-51
Postal Institute1953-65
Royal Park1967 [2]
St Raphael's 1946-67
South Adelaide Ramblers1949, 1958-67
Sturt C1946-52
Sturt Park1953-54
University 1953-54

Premierships

Sturt District Football Association

YearA DivisionB Division
1946Eastwood Rechabites [5]
1947Eastwood Rechabites [6]
1948Eastwood Rechabites [7] Mitcham District B [7]
1949Sturt C [8] South Adelaide Ramblers [8]
1950 Blackwood [9] Kenilworth B [9]
1951Eastwood [10] St Raphael's
1952 Blackwood [11] Kenilworth [11]
1953Sturt C
1954 Mitcham District [4]
1955
1956 Mitcham District [4]
1957
1958
1959 Mitcham District [4]
1960 Mitcham District [4]
1961
1962

Adelaide Metropolitan Football League

YearA DivisionB Division
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967 Hindmarsh C.Y.M.S [2]

Medallists

H. S. Dunks Medal

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