page_title: Mallee Football League (South Australia)
section_title: Season format
hierarchical_section_title: Mallee Football League (South Australia) / Season format
caption_attribution_description: English: Pinnaroo showgrounds
context_page_description: The Mallee Football League is an Australian rules football competition in South Australia. The league comprises teams located in south eastern South Australia and one team located in western Victoria.
  The football season usually starts after Easter and ends in early September. The local newspaper The Border Times has extensive coverage of each week's results of the MFL. Coverage is also provided on WIN SA and Flow FM during the season. During the Queens Holiday Weekend, the MFL selects a team to represent the Mallee against the Riverland. It has become a recent tradition and draws a fair crowd every year. The league's Best & Fairest award is called the Mail Medal. Prominent players to play at a higher level include Nathan D. Brown, Trent Sporn, Martin Mattner and Rodney Maynard. The league is within the West Adelaide Football Club's regional recruiting zone.
context_section_description: The Mallee Football League's season usually starts shortly after Easter. The season usually consists of 15 Rounds of three games, always on Saturdays (each team plays every other team three times) and two breaks during the season for the Queens Birthday weekend and the other for the SA Country Carnival. Recently the MFL introduced one night game a year, usually at Murrayville. The finals series is based on a top four system: The top two play each other and the winner goes through to the Grand Final, the loser plays the winner of the match between the 3rd and 4th placed team. then the winner of that game goes through to the grand final. the winner of the Grand Final is declared the premiers.
caption: Pinnaroo Showgrounds, home of the Pinnaroo Supa Roos
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