Highest Score281 – Warrnambool 41.25.281 V Mortlake 3.4.22 - 1946 Most goals in a game21 - Cecil Bateman - Camperdown v Cobden - 1938 Most goals in a season142 - Matthew Chilcott - Port Fairy - 1997 Most wins in a row29 Camperdown 1999-2000
The Hampden Football Netball League is based in South-Western Victoria, with clubs located in towns located along or near the Princes Highway from Camperdown to Portland. The league is a major country league. It comprises an amalgamation of the Hampden Football League with the women's netball league with the same teams and playing draw.
The Hampden Football League was formed in 1930, when the four founding clubs broke away from the Western District FL. Terang and Camperdown did not want to continue to travel to Hamilton because their players were farmers who could not spend all day away from the farm to play football, as they had cows to milk. Mortlake agreed with Camperdown and Terang and resigned from the WDFL. Cobden was left with a predicament, and requested admittance to the new league.
In 1933, South Warrnambool and Warrnambool joined the league, as takings at the gate had been greater when playing Camperdown or Terang that against any team in the WDFL.
Colac and Port Fairy were admitted in 1949. Memories for the politics that caused the rift in 1930 meant that the founding clubs were reluctant to allow the shift in power westward. So they allow one club to the west and one to the east. This was repeated in 1961, when they again admitted one western club (Koroit) and one from the east (Coragulac).
Colac and Coragulac merged to form Colac-Coragulac in 1980. In 1986 they dropped Coragulac from the club's name, then in 2001 Colac left the Hampden league to join the Geelong FL.
North Warrnambool were admitted to the league in the 1997 season.
In 1999, Mortlake and Derrinallum merged to form the Western Lions, however the club was not successful and folded during the 2000 season. Mortlake then attempted a new merger with Terang, which has proven successful and continues to the current day, with matches played in both towns.
In 2013 teams from regional centres Hamilton and Portland will compete.
Founding Clubs
Camperdown
Cobden
Terang
Mortlake
1930 Ladder
1st Semi Final Terang 15.11.101 Defeated Mortlake 9.11.65
2nd Semi Final Cobden 15.9.99 Defeated Camperdown 8.19.67
Grand Final Cobden 13.9.87 Defeated Terang 6.30.66
1931 Ladder
1st Semi Final Camperdown 8.17.65 Defeated Terang 5.7.37
2nd Semi Final Mortlake 11.15.81 Defeated Cobden 8.17.65
Preliminary Final Mortlake11.17.83 Defeated Camperdown 7.8.50
Grand Final Mortlake 15.12.102 Defeated Cobden 9.10.64
1932 Ladder
1st Semi Final Mortlake 10.9.69 Defeated Camperdown 8.11.59
2nd Semi Final Terang 13.12.90 Defeated Cobden 11.11.77
Preliminary Final Cobden 7.23 65 Drew with Mortlake 9.11.65
Preliminary Final Replay Cobden 12.17.89 Defeated Mortlake 10.11.71
Grand Final Terang 15.18.108 Defeated Cobden 13.9.87
1933 Ladder
1st Semi Final South Warrnambool 9.19.73 Defeated Warrnambool 10.5.65
2nd Semi Final Cobden 19.13.127 Defeated Mortlake 2.14.26
Preliminary Final South Warrnambool 13.7.85 Defeated Mortlake 10.11.71
Grand Final Cobden 6.13.49 Defeated South Warrnambool 6.6.42
1934 Ladder
1st Semi Final Terang 16.13.109 Defeated Cobden 9.17.71
2nd Semi Final Mortlake 12.13.85 Defeated South Warrnambool 12.12.84
Preliminary Final South Warrnambool 7.21.63 Drew with Terang 8.15.63
Preliminary Final Replay Terang 14.13.97 Defeated South Warrnambool 9.14.68
Grand Final Terang 11.15.81 Defeated Mortlake 10.19.79
1935 Ladder
1st Semi Final Terang 15.6.96 Defeated South Warrnambool 11.15.81
2nd Semi Final Mortlake 9.10.64 Defeated Warrnambool 4.12.36
Preliminary Final Warrnambool 10.15.75 Defeated Terang 9.14.68
Grand Final Warrnambool 14.16.100 Defeated Mortlake 10.19.79
1936 Ladder
Elimination Final South Warrnambool 13.11.89 Defeated Cobden 7.7.49
1st Semi Final Terang 24.21.165 Defeated South Warrnambool 11.14.80
2nd Semi Final Mortlake 15.17.107 Defeated Warrnambool 14.5.89
Preliminary Final Warrnambool 10.19.79 Defeated Terang 10.9.69
Grand Final Mortlake 12.15.87 Defeated Warrnambool 11.16.82
1937 Ladder
Elimination Final Terang 12.18.90 Defeated South Warrnambool 11.10.76
1st Semi Final Terang 11.13.79 Defeated Mortlake 8.13.61
2nd Semi Final Warrnambool 13.13.91 Defeated Camperdown 11.12.78
Preliminary Final Camperdown 11.9.75 Defeated Terang 7.14.56
Grand Final Warrnambool 12.14.86 Defeated Camperdown 9.17.71
1938 Ladder
1st Semi Final Warrnambool 17.16.118 Defeated Terang 16.15.111
2nd Semi Final Camperdown 7.14.56 Defeated South Warrnambool 8.5.53
Preliminary Final Warrnambool 16.16.112 Defeated South Warrnambool 7.11.53
Grand Final Camperdown 11.19.85 Defeated Warrnambool 9.14.68
1939 Ladder
1st Semi Final Cobden 16.19.115 Defeated Terang 7.12.54
2nd Semi Final South Warrnambool 8.10.58 Defeated Warrnambool 8.7.55
Preliminary Final Warrnambool 14.14.98 Defeated Cobden 13.14.92
Grand Final Warrnambool 14.19.103 Defeated South Warrnambool 14.11.95
1940 Ladder
1st Semi Final Camperdown 14.14.98 Defeated Terang 12.9.81
2nd Semi Final South Warrnambool 14.9.93 Defeated Warrnambool 11.15.81
Preliminary Final Warrnambool 17.18.120 Defeated Camperdown 7.6.48
Grand Final South Warrnambool 11.21.87 Defeated Warrnambool 10.7.67
1946 Ladder
1st Semi Final Terang 10.10.70 Defeated South Warrnambool 9.10.64
2nd Semi Final Warrnambool 23.18.156 Defeated Camperdown 11.11.77
Preliminary Final Camperdown 15.10.100 Defeated Terang 15.7.97
Grand Final Warrnambool 14.14.98 Defeated Camperdown 9.9.63
1947 Ladder
1st Semi Final Cobden 11.24.90 Defeated Terang 7.10.52
2nd Semi Final Camperdown 7.8.50 Defeated Warrnambool 6.12.48
Preliminary Final Warrnambool 10.12.72 Defeated Cobden 9.9.63
Grand Final Warrnambool 18.17.125 Defeated Camperdown 9.11.65
1948 Ladder
1st Semi Final Camperdown 22.17.149 Defeated Terang 9.19.73
2nd Semi Final Cobden 18.18.126 Defeated South Warrnambool 12.8.80
Preliminary Final South Warrnambool 3.20.38 Defeated Camperdown 3.13.31
Grand Final Cobden 11.13.79 Defeated South Warrnambool 10.6.66
1949 Ladder
1st Semi Final Warrnambool 10.6.66 Defeated South Warrnambool 4.6.30
2nd Semi Final Cobden 10.19.79 Defeated Colac 9.12.66
Preliminary Final Colac 6.17.53 Defeated Warrnambool 5.13.43
Grand Final Cobden 11.13.79 Defeated Colac 7.11.53