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Bendigo Football Netball League
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The Bendigo Football Netball League (previously known as the Bendigo and District Football Association, Bendigo Football Association and Bendigo Football League) is an Australian rules football and netball competition based in the Bendigo region of Victoria.

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History

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Football in Bendigo appears to of been first played with a match between the Sandhurst Football Club and the Volunteers Football Club in July 1861.[2]

Formed on 10 June 1881 by the city's three clubs (Bendigo, Coachbuilders and Sandhurst) as the Sandhurst Football Association.[3]

Bendigo FC won both the 1886 and 1887 premiership and not Eaglehawk as previously recorded on this page.[4] Sandhurst FC were undefeated premiers in 1889[5] and not Eaglehawk FC as previously recorded on this page. Eaglehawk FC won the 1900 premiership and not South Bendigo as previously recorded on this page.[6]

It is one of the oldest football leagues in Australia, and among its members are some of the oldest football clubs in Australia, including the Castlemaine Football Club, who joined in 1925 and are acknowledged as the second oldest football club in Australia and one of the oldest in the world.[7]

John Ledwidge was captain-coach of the Bendigo Football League representative team that won the 1962 VCFL Caltex Country Football Championships by defeating the Wimmera Football League at Horsham.[8]

The Bendigo Mid-Week Football Association commenced in 1926 and in 1930 and Railways defeated Banks for the premiership.[9]

  • 1926 - Gasworks: 8.17 - 65 d Golden City: 8.11 - 59[10]
  • 1928 - School of Mines: 1.12 - 18 d Banks, Stock Agents & Press: 1.7 - 13
  • 1930 - Railways: 12.9 81 d Banks: 5.6 - 36
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Clubs Location

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In 2024, the Bendigo Football Netball League was reduced from ten football teams to nine, following the departure of the Kyneton Football Club to the Riddell District Football Netball League. In the same year, Broadford Football Club indicated its intention to enter the BNFL from 2025 onwards.[11]

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Senior Football Premierships

  • 1880 Bendigo
  • 1881 Sandhurst
  • 1882 Eaglehawk
  • 1883 Eaglehawk
  • 1884 Sandhurst
  • 1885 Sandhurst
  • 1886 Bendigo
  • 1887 Bendigo
  • 1888 Bendigo
  • 1889 Sandhurst*[15]
  • 1890 Sandhurst
  • 1891 Sandhurst
  • 1892 Bendigo
  • 1893 Sandhurst
  • 1894 Eaglehawk*
  • 1895 Eaglehawk
  • 1896 Eaglehawk
  • 1897 Eaglehawk
  • 1898 Eaglehawk
  • 1899 South Bendigo
  • 1900 Eaglehawk[16]
  • 1901 Eaglehawk
  • 1902 South Bendigo
  • 1903 Eaglehawk
  • 1904 South Bendigo
  • 1905 South Bendigo
  • 1906 Eaglehawk
  • 1907 Long Gully
  • 1908 Eaglehawk
  • 1909 South Bendigo
  • 1910 South Bendigo
  • 1911 South Bendigo
  • 1912 South Bendigo
  • 1913 Bendigo City
  • 1914 South Bendigo
  • 1915 1st: Rochester.Abandoned>July>WW1
  • 1916 In recess, WWI
  • 1917 In recess, WWI
  • 1918 In recess, WWI
  • 1919 South Bendigo
  • 1920 Sandhurst
  • 1921 South Bendigo
  • 1922 Eaglehawk
  • 1923 Sandhurst
  • 1924 Eaglehawk
  • 1925 South Bendigo[17]
  • 1926 Castlemaine[18]
  • 1927 Sandhurst[19]
  • 1928 Echuca
  • 1929 Sandhurst
  • 1930 Sandhurst
  • 1931 Sandhurst[20]
  • 1932 Sandhurst
  • 1933 Sandhurst
  • 1934 Sandhurst
  • 1935 Eaglehawk
  • 1936 Kyneton
  • 1937 Sandhurst
  • 1938 Golden Square[21]
  • 1939 Golden Square
  • 1940 Sandhurst
  • 1941 Eaglehawk
  • 1942 In recess, WW2
  • 1943 In recess, WW2
  • 1944 In recess, WW2
  • 1945 Golden Square
  • 1946 Eaglehawk
  • 1947 Sandhurst
  • 1948 Sandhurst
  • 1949 Sandhurst[22]
  • 1950 South Bendigo
  • 1951 South Bendigo
  • 1952 Castlemaine[23]
  • 1953 Eaglehawk
  • 1954 South Bendigo
  • 1955 South Bendigo[24]
  • 1956 Sandhurst
  • 1957 Eaglehawk
  • 1958 Rochester
  • 1959 Rochester
  • 1960 Kyneton
  • 1961 Kyneton
  • 1962 Rochester
  • 1963 Rochester
  • 1964 Golden Square
  • 1965 Golden Square
  • 1966 Kyneton
  • 1967 Echuca
  • 1968 Eaglehawk
  • 1969 South Bendigo
  • 1970 Echuca
  • 1971 Eaglehawk
  • 1972 Golden Square
  • 1973 Sandhurst
  • 1974 South Bendigo
  • 1975 Golden Square
  • 1976 Golden Square
  • 1977 Sandhurst
  • 1978 Sandhurst
  • 1979 Golden Square
  • 1980 Golden Square
  • 1981 Sandhurst
  • 1982 Eaglehawk
  • 1983 Sandhurst
  • 1984 Northern United
  • 1985 Northern United
  • 1986 Northern United
  • 1987 Northern United
  • 1988 Golden Square
  • 1989 Golden Square
  • 1990 South Bendigo
  • 1991 South Bendigo
  • 1992 Castlemaine
  • 1993 South Bendigo
  • 1994 South Bendigo
  • 1995 Kyneton
  • 1996 Kangaroo Flat
  • 1997 Kyneton
  • 1998 Maryborough
  • 1999 Maryborough
  • 2000 Castlemaine
  • 2001 Golden Square
  • 2002 Gisborne
  • 2003 Gisborne
  • 2004 Sandhurst
  • 2005 Gisborne
  • 2006 Gisborne
  • 2007 Eaglehawk
  • 2008 Eaglehawk
  • 2009 Golden Square
  • 2010 Golden Square
  • 2011 Golden Square
  • 2012 Golden Square
  • 2013 Golden Square
  • 2014 Strathfieldsaye
  • 2015 Strathfieldsaye
  • 2016 Sandhurst
  • 2017 Strathfieldsaye
  • 2018 Eaglehawk
  • 2019 Strathfieldsaye
  • 2020 BFNL in recess > COVID-19
  • 2021 BFNL abandoned after Rd.17 COVID-19
  • 2022 Gisborne
  • 2023 Golden Square
  • 2024 Sandhurst
  • - *(undefeated)
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Grand Finals

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Senior Football[25]

Between 1880 and 1903, the team on top of the ladder at the end of the home and away series of matches were crowned Premiers, therefore no official Bendigo Football Association Grand Finals were played prior to 1904.

  • *1915 - The season was abandoned in late July, 1915 due to World War One. No official premiership was awarded, but Rochester were on top of the ladder.[26]
    *Undefeated premiers


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Football: Best & Fairest Award / Goalkicking

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In 1929, the Bendigo Football League (BFL) decided to perpetuate the memory of the late BFL President, Mr. Fred A. Wood, with a gold medal for the best and fairest player from 1930 to 1939.[102][103]

In 1946, the BFL best and fairest award was named the Arthur E. Cook Medal, in memory of the late Bendigo MLA, who died suddenly at the Victorian Parliament House in April, 1945,.[104] For many years, Cook was associated with the administration of the BFL.[105]

Between 1947 and 1951 the award was known as the Thomas Rees Davies Medal, who passed away in May 1946[106] and was a former Bendigo Councillor, Eaglehawk Mayor and BFL President from 1935 to 1939.[107] Davies was a former Eaglehawk footballer and club secretary[108] and also Secretary of the BFL too.[109] He was made a life member of the BFL in 1926.[110]

The Jack Michelsen Medal was first awarded in 1952, after a prominent Bendigo Mayor, long-term Councillor and BFL President from 1923 to 1925,[111] John Andrew Michelsen, OBE.[112] Michelsen was a journalist at the Bendigo Advertiser for many years.[113]

Only two players in the history of the Bendigo Football League have won a premiership, won the league best and fairest award and kicked one hundred goals, all in the one season. This achievement was performed by Mickey Crisp in 1930 and Greg Kennedy in 1971. Both players went onto play VFL senior football at Carlton the following year in round one.

Goals in brackets "()" includes goals kicked in finals.

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Season Ladders

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2000 Ladder

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2001 Ladder

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2002 Ladder

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2003 Ladder

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2004 Ladder

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2005 Ladder

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2006 Ladder

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2007 Ladder

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2008 Ladder

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2009 Ladder

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2010 Ladder

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2011 Ladder

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2012 Ladder

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2013 Ladder

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2014 Ladder

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2015 Ladder

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2016 Ladder

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2017 Ladder

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2018 Ladder

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2019 Ladder

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2020 Ladder

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2021 Ladder

Home & Away Season was reduced by 6 rounds and Finals series cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic in Victoria

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2022 Ladder

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2023 Ladder

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