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Шаблон:For Шаблон:Infobox sports league The AFL reserve grade competition, commonly known simply as the AFL reserves, was an Australian rules football competition that operated as a second-tier competition to the Australian Football League from 1919 until 1999.

Prior to 1990, it was known as the VFL reserve grade competition, VFL reserves or VFL seconds.[1]

In its final season, the competition was made up of the reserves teams of all Victorian senior AFL clubs, plus that of the Sydney Swans.[2][3]

Since 2000, the Victorian Football League has operated as a hybrid second-tier senior competition and reserves competition for most of the AFL clubs.

History

In 1919, a new football competition known as the Victorian Junior Football League (VJFL) was established – at this time, junior was the term used for open age football of a lower standard than senior football, rather than for under age football.[4] The league was intended to bring a junior club affiliated with each of the Victorian Football League (VFL) senior clubs into a single competition, and to adopt the same district eligibility scheme which the VFL had introduced in 1916.[5] Player permit rules allowed for automatic transfers between the junior and senior clubs until July, allowing the juniors to serve as second eighteens for the seniors. The junior and senior clubs shared a home ground, with the juniors playing home when the seniors played away.[6] For the inaugural season, four existing junior clubs – the Fitzroy Juniors, Collingwood Juniors and Leopold (affiliated with Шаблон:AFL SM) and Caulfield (affiliated with Шаблон:AFL Mel) – initially crossed to the new league from the Metropolitan Amateur Association; West Melbourne was affiliated with Шаблон:AFL Ess; and new junior clubs were formed in Carlton, Richmond and St Kilda.[5] Шаблон:AFL Uni, which had left the VFL senior competition after 1914, also entered a stand-alone junior team in the competition.

Shortly before the season, Caulfield withdrew, and a second University team was quickly arranged to take its place for the 1919 season.[7] The two University teams were known as University A and University B, later becoming the modern day 'University Blues' and 'University Blacks'. University B contested only the 1919 season, with a Melbourne Juniors team established for 1920; University A contested the 1919 and 1920 seasons, reaching the grand final both years before dropping out.

West Melbourne faced multiple heavy losses in 1920, including a 197-point loss against Carlton District and a 229-point loss against St Kilda District.[8]

In 1925, the competition was renamed as the VFL seconds, later known more commonly as the VFL reserves.[9] Following the change, the seconds clubs still operated as distinct stand-alone clubs at this time, rather than coming directly under the influence of their senior clubs. This changed over the following decades, with all of the seconds teams gradually being subsumed by their senior counterparts.[10][11]

Шаблон:AFL Mel won the 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934 and 1935 premierships - the only time in VFL/AFL history (seniors or reserves) that a club has won five grand finals in a row.[12]

Following their Round 1 match in 1989, both Шаблон:AFL Stk and Brisbane were found to have fielded unregistered players. As a result, the VFL fined both clubs and ordered that they receive zero premiership points for the match.[13]

Local players were primarily recruited via the league's metropolitan and country zoning rules, and the clubs had full ability to develop its players through its Under-19s and reserves teams: the same basic structure was also used consistently in the other two elite leagues, the SANFL and the WAFL.

VSFL era

The Victorian State Football League was established at the end of 1991 to take over administration of football in Victoria from the Australian Football League, which was now becoming preoccupied with administration of the game nationally.

The VSFL ran the AFL reserves competition from 1992 until 1999, which was also known as the VSFL in its first few years.[14] At the end of 1994, the VSFL also took over administration of the Victorian Football Association competition (which it renamed the Victorian Football League in 1996).[15]

Amalgamation with the VFL

Following the 1999 season, the AFL reserves was merged into the Victorian Football League. Such a merger had first been proposed as early as 1980, and a formal attempt to enact the merger for the 1995 season was defeated after strong opposition from the clubs.[16][17]

Clubs

After Шаблон:AFL SM was relocated to Sydney at the end of the 1981 VFL season, the club continued to play in the VFL reserves.[2]

The Brisbane Bears competed for four years between 1989 and 1992, winning their only premiership at any grade in 1991. After their merger with Шаблон:AFL Fit at the end of 1996, the Шаблон:AFL BL did not compete in the competition.

No teams from South Australia or Tasmania or Western Australia ever competed in the VFL/AFL reserves.

Club Colours Moniker First season Last season Total premierships Years of premierships
Brisbane
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Bears 1989 1992 1 1991
Carlton
(Carlton District)
Файл:Carlton 2018 AFL.png
Blues 1919 1999 8 1926, 1927, 1928, 1951,
1953, 1986, 1987, 1990
Шаблон:VFL Cob
Файл:Calivil United Football Club colours.jpg
Lions 1921 1924 0
Collingwood
Шаблон:Nowrap
Файл:Collingwood icon.svg
Magpies 1919 1999 7 1919, 1920, 1922, 1925, 1940, 1965, 1976
Essendon
(Essendon Juniors)
Файл:EssendonDesign.svg
Bombers 1921 1999 8 1921, 1941, 1950, 1952,
1968, 1983, 1992, 1999
Шаблон:AFL Fit
Файл:AFL Fitzroy icon.png
Lions 1919 1996 3 1944, 1974, 1989
Geelong
Файл:AFL Geelong Icon.jpg
Cats 1922 1999 13 1923, 1924, 1930, 1937, 1938, 1948,
1960, 1963, 1964, 1975, 1980, 1981, 1982
Hawthorn
Файл:Hawthorn Football Club colours.jpg
Hawks 1925 1999 4 1958, 1959, 1972, 1985
Leopold
Файл:South Melbourne Districts football club colors.jpg
Redlegs 1919 1924 0
Melbourne
Файл:AFL Melbourne Icon.jpg
Demons 1920 1999 12 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1939,
1949, 1956, 1969, 1970, 1984, 1993
North Melbourne
(Kangaroos)Шаблон:Efn
Файл:NMFC AFL.png
Kangaroos 1925 1999 7 1947, 1957, 1967, 1978, 1979, 1995, 1996
Richmond
Файл:RichmondDesign.svg
Tigers 1919 1999 10 1929, 1946, 1954, 1955, 1966,
1967, 1971, 1973, 1977, 1997
St Kilda
(St Kilda District)
Файл:AFL St Kilda Icon.jpg
Saints 1919 1999 3 1942, 1943, 1961
Sydney
(South Melbourne)Шаблон:Efn
Файл:AFL Sydney Icon.jpg
Swans 1925 1999 0
University A
Файл:Melbourne University football club colors.jpg
Blues 1919 1920 0
University B
Файл:Melbourne University football club colors.jpg
Blacks 1919 1919 0
West Melbourne
Файл:EssendonDesign.svg
1919 1920 0
Western Bulldogs
(Footscray)Шаблон:Efn
Файл:South Croydon Football Club colours.jpg
Bulldogs 1925 1999 6 1936, 1945, 1962, 1988, 1994, 1998

Шаблон:Notelist

Notable players

A number of notable players competed solely in the reserves competition.

Shane Warne, considered to be one of the greatest bowlers in the history of cricket, played a single game for Шаблон:AFL StK in 1988: he was erroneusly listed in the Record as Trevor Warne, and played in the Under-19s for the remainder of the season.[18] Former St Kilda number one ticket holder John Moran also played for the reserves side.[19]

John Bourke, a Шаблон:AFL Col forward, infamously shoved an umpire and then attacked a fan among other incidents during a 1985 game, leading to a suspension of ten years plus 16 games, equivalent to 240 matches.[20]

Premiers

Шаблон:Main Шаблон:AFL Gee won the most reserves premierships, with a total of 13.[21] Шаблон:AFL SM/Шаблон:AFL Syd was the only VFL club's reserves team never to win a premiership.

See also

References

Шаблон:Reflist

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