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2014 NEAFL season

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Teams
  
14

Matches played
  
131

Premiers
  
Aspley (1st premiership)

Minor premiers
  
UWS Giants (1st minor premiership)

Leading goalkicker
  
Cleve Hughes Redland (79 goals)

NEAFL MVP
  
Matthew Payne Aspley (102 votes)

The 2014 NEAFL season was the fourth season of the North East Australian Football League (NEAFL). The season began on Saturday, 29 March and concluded on Saturday, 13 September with the NEAFL Grand Final.

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Aspley were the premiers for the season after they defeated the Sydney Swans reserves by two points in the Grand Final due to a goal kicked after the final siren.

League structure

For the first time since the NEAFL's inception in November 2010, a major restructure of the league occurred ahead of the 2014 season. The total amount of clubs in the competition was reduced from 19 to 14, with Tuggeranong (ACT), Broadbeach (QLD), Labrador (QLD), Morningside (QLD) and Mt Gravatt (QLD) all having their licenses revoked.

The conference system which resulted in clubs being geographically split into either an Eastern (NSW/ACT) or Northern (QLD/NT) conference was abolished and was replaced by a single competition ladder structure, ensuring the top 6 teams at the end of the home and away season would progress to a finals series.

Although North Queensland is considered to be a strategic area for future AFL expansion, NEAFL executives elected not to base a team in the region for the 2014 season.

Premiership season

Source: NEAFL season 2014 results and fixtures

Foxtel Cup

Two NEAFL clubs, Aspley and Belconnen, were invited to compete in the Foxtel Cup knockout competition for season 2014. Both teams were knocked out in the Qualifying/First Round stage of the competition. Their results are shown below:

State games

The top-level players from the NEAFL partook in two state games in season 2014, one against the West Australian Football League representative team on 24 May and another against the Tasmanian State League representative team on 21 June.

Awards

  • The League MVP Award was awarded to Matthew Payne of Aspley, who polled 102 votes.
  • The NEAFL Rising Star was awarded to Paul Hunter of Redland.
  • The NEAFL leading goalkicker award was awarded to Cleve Hughes of Redland.
  • The NEAFL coach of the year was awarded to Xavier Clarke of NT Thunder.
  • The NEAFL goal of the year was awarded to Jordan Harper of Belconnen, for his goal during round 1.
  • The NEAFL mark of the year was awarded to Kelvin Barnes of Sydney University, for his mark during round 7.

    • AFL draftees

    N – national draft
    R – rookie draft

    References

    2014 NEAFL season Wikipedia
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