Founded 1937 | ||
Highest Score 304 - Ararat 46.28.304 (v Jeparit 2.2.14) - 1989 Most goals in a game 22 - Jayce Broadbent – Horsham United (v Nhill) – 2010 Most goals in a season 156 - Jayce Broadbent Jeparit 2006 Most flags in a row 10 – Horsham – 2003-2012 Most wins in a row 41 – Horsham – 2004-2007 | ||
The Wimmera Football League is a major country league based in Western Victoria, with clubs located in towns in the Wimmera region. The regional centres along the Western Highway from Ararat to Nhill as well as Minyip-Murtoa and Warracknabeal.
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History
A Wimmera Football Association was first formed in 1902. Teams from Ararat, Horsham and Stawell were the founding clubs. In 1921 the Wimmera District Football League was formed. The seven clubs were Ararat, Horsham, Minyip, Murtoa, Rupanyup, Stawell and Warracknabael. Dimboola joined in 1923 and Nhill in 1925. Ararat spent six years in the Ballarat Football League from 1924 to 1929.
In 1932 during the height of the Great Depression the small town clubs suffering from financial pressures tried to get the league to change the way the gate taking were distributed to the clubs. The larger town clubs, knowing that they would be disadvantaged, blocked the motion. Nhill and Dimboola both went into recess while Minyip and Murtoa replaced their junior sides in the Dunmunkle FL.
The WDFL approached the Ballarat Football League to merge hoping that greater interest and better football would cause larger gate takings, so in 1934 the Wimmera FL and the Ballarat FL merged to form the Ballarat Wimmera FL. After three years in which the Wimmera clubs faced with greater costs and constantly losing on the footy field, feelers were put out to the smaller clubs, now playing in the Mid Wimmera FL. A peace deal was settled in September 1936 and the Wimmera Football League was reformed in 1937 making it a nine team competition.
Horsham Diggers folded at the start of 2014 after four poor seasons. Merging with Natimuk FNC under the Banner Natimuk United FNC home games at Natimuk and City Oval.
Recent Premierships
2008 Ladder
FINALS
2009 Ladder
FINALS
2010 Ladder
FINALS
2011 Ladder
FINALS
2012 Ladder
FINALS
2013 Ladder
FINALS
2014 Ladder
FINALS
Publication
Wheatbelt Warriors. A Tribute To Wimmera Football League.