Sentence:  The professional Victorian Football League (<WSD>VFL</WSD>) matches attracted more than 100000 spectators weekly from 1939 until 1941. In 1942, however, the <WSD>VFL</WSD> lost half of its football fields to ancillary and military services. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  (nodot=1) an Australian rules football league formed in Victoria, Australia, in 1896; renamed the Australian Football League (AFL) in 1990 after expansion to other states starting in the 1980s. (Formed 1896.)