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Yorke Peninsula Football League

Current season, competition or edition: 2025
Sport	Australian rules football
Founded	1961; 63 years ago (1961)
Official website	ypfl.com

The Yorke Peninsula Football League (YPFL) is an Australian rules football competition based in the Yorke Peninsula region of South Australia, Australia. It is an affiliated member of the South Australian National Football League. The league was known as the Yorke Valley Football League until 1996, having previously absorbed the Yorke Peninsula Football Association in 1961, and the Southern Yorke Peninsula Football League in 1994.

Media

At the moment there are several different services covering the YPFL, the main one being the Yorke Peninsula Country Times (Newspaper)

Brief history

The current Yorke Peninsula Football League developed over a number of years and involved the gradual amalgamation of the Yorke Valley Football Association, Yorke Peninsula Football Association, and Southern Yorke Peninsula Football League.

Current clubs

Club	Colours	Nickname	Home Ground	Former League	Est.	Years in YVFL/YPFL	YVFL/YPFL Senior Premierships
							Total	Years
Ardrossan		Kangaroos	Ardrossan Oval, Ardrossan	–	1904	1961–	9	1965, 1967, 1968, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1974, 1989, 2004
Bute		Roosters	Bute Oval, Bute	WAFA	1892	1962–2019; 2021–	5	1969, 1973, 1978, 1991, 1993
Central Yorke		Cougars	Maitland Oval, Maitland	–	1996	1997–	1	2007
CMS		Crows	Curramulka Oval, Curramulka; Minlaton Oval, Minlaton and Stansbury Oval, Stansbury	–	1994	1994–	6	1999, 2003, 2006, 2012, 2013, 2021
Kadina		Bloods, Bloodhounds	Kadina Oval, Kadina	YPFA	1878	1961–	6	1984, 2002, 2010, 2011, 2017, 2023
Moonta		Demons	Moonta Football Oval, Moonta	YPFA	1937	1961–	6	1963, 2005, 2016, 2018, 2022, 2024
Paskeville		Magpies	Paskeville Oval, Paskeville	YPFA	1910	1961–	7	1962, 1964, 1985, 1987, 2001, 2014, 2015
Southern Eagles		Eagles	Warooka Oval, Warooka; Yorketown Oval, Yorketown and Edithburgh Oval, Edithburgh	–	1994	1994–	4	1995, 2008, 2009, 2019
Wallaroo		Bulldogs	Wallaroo Oval, Wallaroo	YPFA	1888	1961–	8	1976, 1983, 1990, 1992, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000

Former clubs

Club	Colours	Nickname	Home Ground	Former League	Est.	Years in YVFL/YPFL	YVFL/YPFL Senior Premierships		Fate
							Total	Years
Alford			Alford Oval, Alford	WAFA		1962	0	-	Folded in 1962
Arthurton		Tigers	Arthurton Oval, Arthurton	NWFA	1910s	1961–96	3	1982, 1986, 1988	Merged with Maitland in 1996 to form Central Yorke
Maitland		Lions	Maitland Oval, Maitland	–		1961–96	3	1980, 1981, 1994	Merged with Arthurton in 1996 to form Central Yorke
Point Pearce		Tigers	Point Pearce Oval, Point Pearce			1961–62	0	-	Folded in 1962
Port Victoria		Maroons	Port Victoria Oval, Port Victoria	YPFA	1910	1961–85	5	1961, 1966, 1975, 1977, 1979	Folded in 1985
Price		Eagles	Price Oval, Price	NWFA		1961–64, 1968–71	0	-	Folded in 1971

Notes

1. ^ Since 1961
2. Merger of Arthurton and Maitland
3. Merger of Curramulka, Minlaton and Stansbury
4. Merger of Edithburgh, Yorketown and Western United.

Yorke Peninsula Football Association

The Yorke Peninsula Football Association was formed in 1888.

The founding clubs were:

• Cross Roads
• Moonta
• Moonta Mines Turks
• East Moonta
• Wallaroo
• Wallaroo Mines (renamed from Kadina).

The final year of the Yorke Peninsula Football Association was in 1960 when the competing clubs were:

• Kadina,
• Moonta,
• Paskeville
• Wallaroo

These clubs then joined the Yorke Valley Football Association in 1961.

Southern Yorke Peninsula Football League

The Southern Yorke Peninsula Football League was formed in 1908 with 5 founding clubs, and after World War 2 the league remained largely structurally unchanged until it was absorber in 1993. The following 7 clubs remained for much of the competition's duration:

Club	Jumper	Nickname	Home Ground	Former League	Est.	Years in SYPFA	Senior Premierships
							Total	Years
Brentwood			Brentwood Oval, Brentwood	CSYPFA		1908–1956	4	1915, 1924, 1927, 1931
Curramulka		Magpies	Curramulka Oval, Curramulka	CSYPFA		1938–1993	17	1950, 1952, 1954, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1980, 1982, 1983, 1987
Edithburgh		Peckers	Edithburgh Oval, Edithburgh	CSYPFA		1908–1993	16	1908, 1910, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1945, 1955, 1956, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1989, 1991, 1993
Minlaton		Bulldogs	Minlaton Oval, Minlaton	YVFA		1908–1993	12	1922, 1933, 1939, 1947, 1948, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1979
Stansbury		Kangaroos	Stansbury Oval, Stansbury	CSYPFA		1908–1910, 1922–1962, 1968–1993	8	1936, 1937, 1938, 1940, 1951 1953, 1984, 1988
Western United		Roosters	Warooka Oval, Warooka	CSYPFA		1926–1993	7	1929, 1930, 1935, 1946, 1961, 1981, 1990
Yorketown		Redlegs	Yorketown Oval, Yorketown	CSYPFA		1908–1993	11	1909, 1921, 1923, 1925, 1926, 1932, 1934, 1949, 1985, 1986, 1992

In 1919 the Southern Yorke Peninsula Football Association and the Central Yorke Peninsula Football Association merged to form the Central And Southern Yorke Peninsula Association. This League went into recess during World War II and in 1945 the Southern Yorke Peninsula Football Association was reformed. The Southern Yorke Peninsula Football Association was renamed as the Southern Yorke Peninsula Football League in 1957.

At the end of the 1993 season, after years of diminishing player numbers, the six remaining clubs were amalgamated into two new clubs – Curramulka, Minlaton and Stansbury as the CMS Crows, and Yorketown, Edithburgh and Western United as the Southern Eagles – and the two resulting clubs joined the YVFL for the 1994 season.

Yorke Valley FA

The Yorke Valley Football Association was formed in 1930.

The Yorke Valley Football Association disbanded in 1936, but was reformed in 1945. In 1961 the Association absorbed the clubs from the Yorke Peninsula Football Association (see above). The Association changed its name to Yorke Valley Football League in 1963. In 1994 the Yorke Valley Football League absorbed the Southern Yorke Peninsula (see above). At that time the participating clubs were:

• Ardrossan
• Arthurton
• Bute
• CMS (a new club, resulting from the merger of Curramulka, Minlaton and Stansbury)
• Kadina
• Maitland
• Moonta
• Paskeville
• Southern Eagles (a new club, resulting from the merger of Edithburgh, Western United and Yorketown)
• Wallaroo

In 1996, the YVFL changed its name to the current title.

At the end of the 1996 season the Central Yorke Football Club was formed from a merger between Arthurton and Maitland.

Premierships

Yorke Valley FL

Yorke Peninsula FL

Southern Yorke Peninsula Football League

2009 Ladder

2010 Ladder

2011 Ladder

2012 Ladder

2013 Ladder

2014 Ladder

2015 Ladder

2017 Ladder

2016 Ladder

Books

• Encyclopedia of South Australian country football clubs compiled by Peter Lines. ISBN 9780980447293
• South Australian country football digest by Peter Lines ISBN 9780987159199

References

1. ^ Country Footy 2010 Archived August 14, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
2. Dillon, Nick (24 July 2020). "You 'Butey': first win for Roosters in Adelaide Plains FL". SANFL. Retrieved 7 June 2024.
3. Yorke Peninsula Country Times

External links

• Official website

• Australian rules football competitions in South Australia
• Yorke Peninsula