The Gippsland League (formerly known as the West Gippsland Latrobe Football League) is an Australian rules football and netball league in the Gippsland region of Victoria, Australia. It is considered the only AFL Victoria major league in Gippsland.[1]
The original Gippsland Football Association was formed in 1889, after a meeting of club delegates from the towns of Hazelwood, Morwell, Rosedale, Thorpdale, Traralgon, and Yarram.[2] The Association was open to any clubs from the Gippsland area and would be responsible for arranging matches between clubs and dealing with club disputes.[3]
The Gippsland Football Netball League (GFNL) has roots dating back to the Central Gippsland Football League (CGFL) which was founded in 1909[4][5] with many former CGFL clubs now part of the GFNL.
The CGFL morphed into the Latrobe Valley Football League in 1954. The promoters of the LVFL wanted to have a league that consisted of towns along the Orbost railway line, from Warragul to Sale. "The background of the move, as reported on several occasions in this journal, is (1) to remove unbalances in the present population strengths of the towns at present fielding teams in the Central Gippsland Football League; (2) to link up with towns with the same community of interest; (3) to uplift the standard of football, by bringing the strongest clubs into competition; (4) to strengthen clubs financially through expected enhanced gates."[6]
Three clubs from south Gippsland towns, Leongatha, Korumburra and Mirboo North, were therefore barred from joining the new league and went on to form the South Gippsland FL. The Central Gippsland Football League actually folded, when seven clubs joined the new La Trobe Valley Football League[7] and due to their geographical location these three remaining clubs chose not to join the La Trobe Valley Football League.[8] These three clubs then joined the South Gippsland Football League in 1954, with Leongatha entering two senior teams – Green & Gold.
The LVFL changed its name, in 1995, to the Gippsland Latrobe FL.
At the end of 2001, the West Gippsland FL and the Gippsland Latrobe FL had an administrative merger. This created a two-division competition and a name change to the West Gippsland Latrobe FL.
From 2002 until 2004, the league comprised a premier division, consisting mainly of the former Gippsland-Latrobe clubs, and a western division, comprising most of the former WGFL clubs.
In 2009, Garfield left the GFL for the Ellinbank & District Football League, whilst Wonthaggi[9] and Bairnsdale[10] joined the GFL in 2010 and 2011 respectively.
The Latrobe Valley area does not have a team participating in the Victorian Football League. Traralgon competed in the VFL during 1996–97, winning just four matches across those two years, before returning to the regional competition.[11] The region does have a representative team in the TAC Cup Under-18 competition, Gippsland Power.
13.4 (82)Maffra vs. Newborough Warragul vs. Newborough Maffra vs. Churchill
2nd quarter
14.3 (87)Leongatha vs. Heyfield
3rd quarter
15.5 (95)Traralgon vs. Newborough
4th quarter
16.7 (103)Leongatha vs. Moe
2023 Ladder
Gippsland
Wins
Losses
Draws
For
Against
%
Pts
Wonthaggi
16
2
0
1818
802
226.68%
64
Moe
16
2
0
1606
892
180.04%
64
Leongatha
15
3
0
1911
832
229.69%
60
Traralgon
11
7
0
1511
1285
117.59%
44
Sale
10
8
0
1338
1202
111.31%
40
Morwell
7
11
0
1154
1334
86.51%
28
Bairnsdale
5
12
1
1142
1731
65.87%
22
Maffra
4
13
1
997
1634
61.02%
18
Warragul
3
15
0
816
1935
42.17%
12
Drouin
2
16
0
1232
1878
65.6%
8
Finals
Qualifying Finalat Wonthaggi
Second Semi-Finalat Morwell
Preliminary Finalat Sale
Grand Finalat Morwell
1
Wonthaggi
9.10 (64)
Wonthaggi
7.7 (49)
Leongatha
6.6 (42)
Leongatha
14.5 (89)
2
Moe
11.7 (73)
Leongatha
10.13 (73)
3
Leongatha
16.5 (101)
First Semi-Finalat Maffra
Moe
5.10 (40)
Moe
12.7 (79)
4
Traralgon
9.11 (65)
Traralgon
8.8 (56)
5
Sale
5.6 (36)
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