Sport Australian Football No. of teams 5 Most recent
champion(s) Quebec Saints | Founded 2009 Country Canada | |
The Ontario Australian Football League Division 2 was established in 2009 and is a second tier competition to Canada's oldest Australian football league the OAFL. It currently consists of four teams from Ontario and one from Quebec.
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In 2009 Ontario Australian Football League launched a second division originally consisting of six founding teams. London (Ontario) AFC withdrew before the official start to the season and the team's players were absorbed into the Quebec Saints. Along with the Saints, the Toronto Central Blues, Broadview Hawks, Etobicoke 'Old Boys' Roos and Toronto Eagles made up the founding five teams of the new OAFL Division 2 competition. In honour of the first Canadian to ever play in the AFL the competition's premiership cup was named the Mike Pyke Cup (named after Mike Pyke). The division 1 competition, simply referred to as the 'OAFL' was founded 21 years earlier and competes for Conacher Cup (named after Lionel Conacher).
The OAFL Division 2 season is traditionally shorter than that of the OAFL. In 2009 due to teams playing different amounts of matches the ladder was determined by 'Match Ratio' rather than premiership points. In 2010 all teams competed in 8 rounds and thus the ladder reverted to determining positions by premiership points.
2010 also saw the introduction of hybrid teams. New team the Toronto Rebel Dogs (a partnership between the Toronto Downtown Dingos and the Toronto Rebels) and the 'DevilRoos' (a partnership between the Etobicoke Roos and High Park Demons). The Toronto Eagles withdrew their team from the 2010 season.