The Victorian Amateur Football Association is an Australian rules football league in Victoria, Australia consisting purely of amateur players. Unlike the Victorian Football League and the VFL/AFL, the VAFA has always been strictly a purely amateur league and has affiliations with both AFL Victoria and the Australian Amateur Football Council.
The league is the largest amateur league in Australia and consists of seven senior divisions (with each club fielding a firsts and reserves team) and multiple Under 19 divisions.
The league's administration base is at Elsternwick Park, a former Victorian Football Association stadium in suburban Elsternwick, Victoria, that was home to the now defunct Brighton Football Club. It has a small grandstand and capacity for around 15,000 spectators.
In addition there are also three Club XVIII divisions, primarily made up of either clubs only able to field one team, or clubs from higher divisions that can field a third team after their seniors and reserves. The league operates a promotion and relegation system between divisions with various rules dictating which division clubs can play in.
Many of the clubs are private school based where school old boys play.
The reigning premiers for the A Section are Collegians.
As of 2010, the Victorian Amateur Football Association to live telecasts will covering games on C31 Melbourne.
Read more about Victorian Amateur Football Association: History, Movement in And Out of Senior Competition Since Inception, Inter-league and Inter-state Games, Growth, Premiers, Former Clubs
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