Southern Football League (Victoria)
The Southern Football League is an Australian rules football league, based in the south and south eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria, for both seniors and juniors.
The league in its current form was created in 1993, through the absorption of the Eastern Suburbs Churches Football Association by the Southern Football League which had renamed from the South East Suburban Football League one year earlier.
The South East Suburban League was formed in 1963 as a merger of the East Suburban FL and the Caulfield Oakleigh District FL, after a number of clubs moved to the Croydon Ferntree Gully FL (now Eastern Football League).
The newly-merged league began in 1993 with around 50 clubs playing 5 divisions, though this had dropped to 28 clubs in 3 divisions by 2002 due to clubs folding, merging, or moving to other competitions. Since that time the league has remained fairly stable with the additions of Endeavour Hills in 2011, Hallam in 2012 and Carrum Patterson Lakes in 2013 bringing the league up to 31 clubs in three divisions, with a system of promotion and relegation.
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