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The '''Omeo
Region of [[East Gippsland]], [[Victoria (Australia)|Victoria]], Australia. The
Clubs involved in the
==History==
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===Omeo District Football League
In 1923 the ''Omeo District Football League (ODFL)'' was formed to replace the ODFA, and has continued with a variation of that name ever since.<ref name=odfl-hb /><ref name="fpf-odfl"/> Following the termination of the TVFA after the 1925 season, the ODFL competition ran for more than fifty years with a stable four club structure involving the four main Tambo Valley/Omeo District towns, Benambra, Ensay, Omeo, and Swifts Creek.<ref name="fp-odfl" />
In 1978 the league first expanded beyond its traditional range, with [[Bruthen, Victoria|Bruthen]] and [[Buchan, Victoria|Buchan]] being admitted.<ref name="fp-odfl" /> Following on from this the competition later became more often referred to as the ''Omeo and District Football League'' (still abbreviated to ODFL), with the "and" recognising that it now incorporated teams from beyond the original Omeo District. In 1995 one of the four traditional clubs, Ensay, folded due a lack of players. In 1997 the league admitted two more new clubs from beyond its original range, [[Swan Reach, Victoria|Swan Reach]] and Lake Tyers. Lake Tyers would only play for two seasons, but in 2004 another outside team, [[Lindenow, Victoria|Lindenow South]] was also admitted.<ref name="fp-odfl" />
===Omeo District Football Netball League (ODFNL) (2000s–present)===
By the 2000s many clubs were struggling to find sufficient players every week, and the two historic 'above the gap' teams, Benambra and Omeo, would make the difficult decision to merge and form Omeo-Benambra from the 2007 season onwards. By this era most of the football teams in the competition had also already fully affiliated with their associated netball teams, and the competition eventually officially adopted the title of ''Omeo District Football Netball League (ODFNL)''.<ref name="stg-odfnl">{{cite web|title=Omeo District Football Netball League|url=http://websites.sportstg.com/assoc_page.cgi?c=1-6188-80818-0-0|website=SportsTG|publisher=[[Newscorp]]|access-date=11 September 2016}}</ref>
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==Key events in competition history==
Note: unless otherwise stated, all items refer to senior football teams. Netball and junior teams often, but not always, follow the senior football teams. There are also insufficient available data sources relating to netball and juniors, including when the competitions originated.
* 1893: The first recorded football competition in the Omeo District was formed, called the ''Boyle and Mac's Challenge Cup''
* 1895: Benambra joined the competition.<ref name="fp-odfl" />
* 1897: The ''Noble Explosives Cup'' replaced the ''Boyle and Mac's Challenge Cup'', which had been disbanded after the 1896 season.<ref name=fpf-nec />
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* 1900: Ensay is thought to have joined the competition.<ref name="fp-odfl" />
* 1907: The competition split into the ODFA and the ''Tambo Valley Football Association (TVFA)''.<ref name="fp-odfl" /><ref name="fp-tvfa" /><ref name=ba-atc93 />
* 1908–13: The TVFA was the only active competition after the
* 1914: The ODFA reformed, again resulting in a split competition.<ref name="fp-odfl" /><ref name="fp-tvfa" />
* 1915–18: Both the ODFA and TVFA were in recess due to the large number of young men from the district involved in World War I.<ref name="fp-odfl" /><ref name="fp-tvfa" />
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* 1941–44: The league was in recess due to the large number of young men from the district involved in World War II.<ref name="odfl-hb">{{cite news|title=ODFL Honour Board|location=Albion Hotel, Swifts Creek}}</ref>
* 1978: [[Bruthen, Victoria|Bruthen]] (from the [[East Gippsland Football League]]) and [[Buchan, Victoria|Buchan]] (after an eight-year recess from the Snow Valley Football League) were admitted,<ref name=bu-fpf>{{cite web|last=Devaney|first=John|title=Buchan|url=http://www.fullpointsfooty.net/buchan.htm|work=Full Points Footy|access-date=29 August 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100612203108/http://fullpointsfooty.net/buchan.htm|archive-date=12 June 2010}}</ref> extending the league beyond the traditional 'Omeo District' of the upper Tambo Valley for the first time, and taking the number of teams to six.
* 1995: Ensay's last season. In Round 4 Benambra scored 52.24.342 against them. Ensay folded after Round 5 due to being unable to field a team, and the league dropped to five teams. Ensay's record for the season was expunged.
* 1996: Lake Tyers reformed after many years in recess, affiliating with the ODFL for the first time, and competing in 1996–97, returning the league to six teams.<ref name="tyers-vid">{{cite web|last=McKinnon|first=Malcolm|title=Looking for a Game at Lake Tyers|url=http://www.cv.vic.gov.au/stories/football-stories-from-country-victoria/1593/looking-for-a-game-at-lake-tyers/|work=Football Stories from Country Victoria|publisher=Culture Victoria |access-date=7 September 2010|year=2007}}</ref>
* 1997: [[Swan Reach, Victoria|Swan Reach]] were admitted from the [[Riviera Football League]] after spending a year in recess, making a seven team competition.
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* 2007: Benambra and Omeo merged to form Omeo-Benambra, returning the league to six teams.
* 2010: Competition rules were modified to allow girls up to 13 to play junior boys' football, and boys up to 13 to play junior girls' netball.
* 2010s: A second netball competition, "B" grade
* 2020: The season was cancelled for the first time in 75 years due to the [[COVID-19 pandemic]], which was particularly [[COVID-19 pandemic in Australia|bad in Victoria]] during the second half of the year.
* 2021: After several interruptions throughout the year, the season was officially abandoned after the first week of finals due to the [[COVID-19 pandemic]]. The remaining three teams in Senior Football were Lindenow South, Swifts Creek, and Omeo-Benambra.
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! scope="col" width="90" |Nickname
! scope="col" width="160" |Home ground
!Former League
!Est.
! scope="col" width="160" |Years in Competition
! scope="col" width="50" |Total Flags
! scope="col" width="240" |Senior Premierships <small>(known)</small>
|-
! style="text-align:left" | [[Bruthen, Victoria|Bruthen]]
| [[File:Bruthen Football Club colours.jpg|center|40x40px]]|| ''Bulldogs''|| Bruthen Rec. Reserve, [[Bruthen, Victoria|Bruthen]]
| align="center" |[[East Gippsland Football League|EGFL]]
|1920|| 1978 – present || align="center" | 9|| 1979, 1984, 1985, 1988, 1989, 2003, 2017, 2018, 2019
|-
! style="text-align:left" | [[Buchan, Victoria|Buchan]]
| [[File:North-melbourne.svg|center|40px]] || ''Cavemen''|| Buchan Rec. Reserve, [[Buchan, Victoria|Buchan]]
| align="center" |{{Tooltip|GFL|Gippsland Football League}}
|1920s|| 1978 – present || align="center" | 5|| 1983, 1987, 1998, 2004, 2005
|-
! style="text-align:left" | [[Lindenow, Victoria|Lindenow South]]
| [[File:Lindenow South Football Club colours.jpg|center|40x40px]]|| ''Swampies<br /><small>(Swamp Hawks)</small>''|| Lindenow South Rec. Reserve, Lindenow South
| align="center" |[[Riviera Football League|RFL]]
| || 2004 – present || align="center" | 5|| 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2022
|-
! style="text-align:left" | [[Omeo]]–[[Benambra, Victoria|Benambra]]
| [[File:OmeoBenambraDesignNew.png|center|40px]] || ''Ranges<br /><small>(Alpine Ranges)</small> | | |-
! style="text-align:left" | [[Swan Reach, Victoria|Swan Reach]]
| [[File:SwanReachDesign.png|center|40px]] || ''Swans''|| Swan Reach Rec. Reserve, [[Swan Reach, Victoria|Swan Reach]]
| align="center" |[[Riviera Football League|RFL]]
| || 1997 – present || align="center" | 3|| 1999, 2009, 2014
|-
! style="text-align:left" | [[Swifts Creek, Victoria|Swifts Creek]]
| [[File:Melbourne Football Club colours.jpg|center|40x40px]]|| ''Demons''|| Swifts Creek Rec. Reserve, [[Swifts Creek]]
| align="center" |{{Tooltip|TVFA|Tambo Valley Football Association}}
|1890s|| 1893 – present || align="center" | 29|| 1893, 1908, 1909, 1910, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1919, 1920, 1925, 1926, 1931, 1935, 1938, 1945, 1959, 1978, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1993, 1997, 2001, 2002, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2023
|}
<nowiki>*</nowiki> <small>Note that the jumper design shown is a representation of the club's most recent jumper design. Most designs have been changed over the years, some quite significantly.</small>
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! scope="col" width="90" |Nickname
! scope="col" width="160" |Home ground
!Former League
!Est.
! scope="col" width="160" |Years in Competition
! scope="col" width="50" |Total Flags
! scope="col" width="240" |Senior Premierships <small>(known)</small>
|-
! style="text-align:left" | [[Benambra, Victoria|Benambra]]
| [[File:SouthMelbourneDesign.png|center|40px]] || ''Bloods''|| Benambra Memorial Recreation Reserve, [[Benambra, Victoria|Benambra]]<br />
| align="center" |{{Tooltip|TVFA|Tambo Valley Football Association}}
|1895|| 1895 – 2006;<br />merged with Omeo || align="center" | 20|| 1900, 1927, 1928, 1930, 1932, 1939, 1953, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1961, 1968, 1969, 1973, 1974, 1990, 1994, 2000, 2006
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Bindi
| || ||
| align="center" |–
| || 1907, 1908, 1914;<br />folded || align="center" | 0|| –
|-
! style="text-align:left" | [[Cassilis, Victoria|Cassilis]]<br />(aka Long Gully)
| || || Long Gully Oval<ref name=ot-bamcc2>{{cite news|title=Football: Boyle and Mac's Challenge Cup|newspaper=The Omeo Telegraph|date=21 July 1893}}</ref>
| align="center" |–
| || 1893 – 1919;<br />folded || align="center" | 8|| 1894, 1895, 1896, 1898, 1905, 1906, 1907, 1914
|-
! style="text-align:left" | [[Ensay, Victoria|Ensay]]
| [[File:Cranbourne Eagles Colours.png|center|40x40px]]|| ''Eagles''|| Ensay Recreation Reserve, [[Ensay, Victoria|Ensay]]
| align="center" |{{Tooltip|TVFA|Tambo Valley Football Association}}
|1900s|| 1900 – 1995;<br />folded || align="center" | 10|| 1907, 1919, 1920, 1934, 1936, 1940, 1946, 1947, 1950, 1960
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Glen Wills
| || ||
| align="center" |–
| || 1894 – 1895;<br />folded || align="center" | 0|| –
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Lake Tyers
| [[File:Lake Tyers Football Club colours.jpg|center|40x40px]]|| ''Sea Eagles''|| Lake Tyers Oval, Toorloo Arm
| align="center" |[[East Gippsland Football League|EGFL]]
|1930|| 1996 – 1997;<br />voted out of league || align="center" | 0|| –
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Little River
| || ||
| align="center" |–
| || 1919 – 1921;<br />folded/merged with Ensay || align="center" | 1|| 1921
|-
! style="text-align:left" | [[Omeo, Victoria|Omeo]]
| [[File:OmeoDesign jjron2010.png|center|40px]] || ''Maroons''|| Omeo Recreation Reserve, [[Omeo]]
| align="center" |{{Tooltip|TVFA|Tambo Valley Football Association}}
|1888|| 1893 – 2006;<br />merged with Benambra || align="center" | 34|| 1897, 1899, 1901, 1903, 1904, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1929, 1933, 1937, 1948, 1949, 1951, 1952, 1954, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1986, 1991, 1992, 1995, 1996
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Reedy Creek
| || ||
| align="center" |–
| || 1919 – 1921, 1925;<br />folded/merged with Ensay || align="center" | 0|| –
|-
! style="text-align:left" | [[Tambo Crossing, Victoria|Tambo Crossing]]
| || ||
| align="center" |–
| || 1925;<br />folded || align="center" | 0|| –
|}
<nowiki>*</nowiki> <small>Note that the jumper design shown is a representation of the club's final known jumper design. Where the design is unknown, a representation of the club colours, if known, is displayed instead.</small>
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! scope="col" width="180" |Score
! scope="col" width="60" |Margin
|-
| 2024 || '''Omeo-Benambra''' || Swifts Creek || 16.9 ('''105''') – 4.5 ('''29''') ||style="text-align:center;"| 76
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| 2023 || '''Swifts Creek''' || Omeo-Benambra || 11.6 ('''72''') – 7.8 ('''50''') ||style="text-align:center;"| 22
|-
| 2022 || '''Lindenow South''' || Swifts Creek || 15.12 ('''102''') – 10.7 ('''67''') ||style="text-align:center;"| 35
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! scope="col" width="180" |Score
! scope="col" width="60" |Margin
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| 2024 || '''Lindenow South''' || Omeo-Benambra|| 6.11 ('''47''') – 4.6 ('''30''') ||style="text-align:center;"| 17
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| 2023 || '''Buchan''' || Lindenow South|| 15.3 ('''93''') – 7.6 ('''48''') ||style="text-align:center;"| 45
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| 2022 || '''Lindenow South''' || Buchan || 14.11 ('''95''') – 6.5 ('''41''') ||style="text-align:center;"| 54
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===Senior netball===
The senior [[netball]] competition is for women and older teenage girls. Records for the netball competitions are harder to obtain and less complete than for football, so it is unclear exactly when the netball competitions commenced. Some photographic records from the early 1950s show women's "[[basketball]]" teams, so it may have begun post-World War II.
A single competition ran until the 2010s, when a second "B" grade was added due to demand for more women to participate. The original single team was then renamed as "A" grade. Clubs have gradually added a second side so that as of 2022 all clubs fielded both A and B grade teams, however, often some players will be required to play in both teams to fill numbers, or junior players will be used to make up sides.
'''"A" Grade'''
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| 2023 || '''Bruthen''' || Swan Reach ||style="text-align:center;"| 44 – 43 ||style="text-align:center;"| 1
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| 2022 || '''Lindenow South''' || Bruthen ||style="text-align:center;"| 34 – 33 ||style="text-align:center;"| 1
|-
| 2021 || Abandoned ([[COVID-19 pandemic in Australia|COVID-19]]) || || ||
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| 2020 || No competition ([[COVID-19 pandemic in Australia|COVID-19]]) || || ||
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| 2019 || '''Lindenow South''' || Buchan ||style="text-align:center;"| 55
|-
| 2018 || '''Bruthen''' || Lindenow South ||style="text-align:center;"| 35
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| 2017 || '''Bruthen''' || Buchan ||style="text-align:center;"| 47 – 27 ||style="text-align:center;"| 20
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| 2002 || '''Swifts Creek''' || Omeo || ||style="text-align:center;"| 3
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| 2001 || '''Swifts Creek''' || || ||
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| 2000 || '''Swifts Creek''' || Bruthen || ||
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! scope="col" width="60" |Margin
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| 2023 || '''Bruthen''' || Omeo-Benambra ||style="text-align:center;"| 25 – 22 ||style="text-align:center;"| 3
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| 2022 || '''Lindenow South''' || Buchan ||style="text-align:center;"| 30 – 18 ||style="text-align:center;"| 12
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| 2021 || Abandoned ([[COVID-19 pandemic in Australia|COVID-19]]) || || ||
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| 2020 || No competition ([[COVID-19 pandemic in Australia|COVID-19]]) || || ||
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| 2019 || '''Lindenow South''' || Buchan ||style="text-align:center;"| 26
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| 2018 || '''Lindenow South''' || Bruthen ||style="text-align:center;"| 27
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| 2023 || '''Buchan''' || Bruthen ||style="text-align:center;"| 36 – 20 ||style="text-align:center;"| 16
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| 2022 || '''Buchan''' || Bruthen ||style="text-align:center;"| 38 – 35 ||style="text-align:center;"| 3
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| 2021 || Abandoned ([[COVID-19 pandemic in Australia|COVID-19]]) || || ||
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| 2011 || '''Swifts Creek''' || Bruthen ||style="text-align:center;"| 23 – 21 ||style="text-align:center;"| 2
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| 2010 || '''Swifts Creek''' || || ||
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| 2009 || '''Swifts Creek''' || Omeo ||style="text-align:center;"| 23 – 20 ||style="text-align:center;"| 3
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<small>* Although the 2021 season finals were abandoned for all other groups due to
== Senior football final ladders ==
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