Northern FL

The Northern Football League was a name change for the Diamond Valley Football League to make the name more marketable and also to make a fresh start due to an inquiry by AFL Victoria into league operations.
==History==
When the Heidelberg Football Club applied to join the Eastern FL over the Summer of 2006 and 2007, AFL Victoria declined the transfer. Heidelberg though claimed issues with the Diamond Valley FL. When AFL Victoria committed to an investigation, the President and the Secretary of the DVFL promptly resigned leaving the league in limbo. AFL Victoria took over operations as many unconfirmed rumours concerning what actually happened circulated. The 2007 season began late because of the reset (and because of severe drought conditions that prevailed at the time). The clubs remained more or less intact - Bundoora, Diamond Creek, Eltham, Epping, Greensborough, Heidelberg, Heidelberg West, Hurtbridge, Kinglake, Lalor, Lower Plenty, Macleod, Mernda, Montmorency, North Heidelberg, Northcote Park, Panton Hill, Parkside, South Morang, Thomastown, Wallan, Watsonia, West Preston/Lakeside and Whittlesea. The two exceptions were Reservoir, who went into recess, and Fawkner Park, who had merged woth North Coburg.
In 2008 Fitzroy Stars joined the competition and Reservoir returned from recess while Wallan departed for the Riddell District FL and Kinglake headed for the Yarra Valley Mountain District FL. In 2009 the league created a third division to relieve the cumbersome numbers of Division 2, and this led to the admission to the competition of St Marys in 2010. The competition remained stable until 2015 when Parkside left to return the the Victorian Amateur FA, but the VAFA reciprocated allowing the transfer to the NFL of Banyule. In 2016 Reservoir went into recess again while Kilmore came to the competition from the Riddell District FL, but Reservoir returned again in 2017 while a new club Laurimar joined. In 2019 Eltham College came to the NFL from the Victorian Amateur FA. The 2020 and 2021 seasons were abandoned due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2023 Kinglake returned to the competition.
==Ladders==
Below are the ladders and the abbreviation explanations.
===Division 1===
2007	HEID 	BUND 	NHEI 	NOPK 	WP/L 	MONT 	ELTH 	GREE	DICK	EPPI
2008	HEID 	MONT 	NHEI 	BUND 	GREE 	NOPK 	ELTH 	LALO	WP/L	DICK
2009	HEID 	BUND 	MONT 	NHEI 	NOPK 	LALO 	ELTH 	WP/L	GREE	THOM
2010	WP/L 	HEID 	BUND 	MONT 	ELTH 	NOPK 	NHEI 	GREE	MACL	LALO
2011	BUND 	HEID 	WP/L 	GREE 	MONT 	NOPK 	MACL 	ELTH	WHIT	NHEI
2012	NOPK 	HEID 	MONT 	BUND 	WP/L 	ELTH 	GREE 	MACL	LWRP	WHIT
2013	BUND 	MONT 	NOPK 	HEID 	ELTH 	MACL 	WP/L 	GREE	LWRP	EPPI
2014	GREE 	HEID 	MACL 	MONT 	BUND 	WP/L 	LWRP 	NOPK	ELTH	WHIT
2015	MACL 	GREE 	ELTH 	NOPK 	BUND 	LWRP 	HEID 	WP/L	MONT	NHEI
2016	HEID 	MACL 	GREE 	BUND 	NOPK 	MONT 	WP/L 	ELTH	WHIT	LWRP
2017	BUND 	MACL 	NOPK 	GREE 	WP/L 	HEID 	MONT 	HURS	WHIT	ELTH
2018	WP/L 	MACL 	NHEI 	BUND 	GREE 	HEID 	MONT 	NOPK	HURS	WHIT
2019	WP/L 	GREE 	NHEI 	HEID 	MONT 	MACL 	NOPK 	HURS	BUND	LWRP
2020	Season abandoned - COVID-19 pandemic	Season abandoned - COVID-19 pandemic	Season abandoned - COVID-19 pandemic	Season abandoned - COVID-19 pandemic	Season abandoned - COVID-19 pandemic	Season abandoned - COVID-19 pandemic	Season abandoned - COVID-19 pandemic	 	 	
2021	Season abandoned - COVID-19 pandemic	Season abandoned - COVID-19 pandemic	Season abandoned - COVID-19 pandemic	Season abandoned - COVID-19 pandemic	Season abandoned - COVID-19 pandemic	Season abandoned - COVID-19 pandemic	Season abandoned - COVID-19 pandemic	 	 	
2022	HEID 	BUND 	MONT 	WP/L 	GREE 	NHEI 	MACL 	HURS	WHIT	NOPK
2023	HEID 	BUND 	NHEI 	MONT 	HURS 	GREE 	MACL 	BANY	WP/L	WHIT
===Division 2===
2007	LALO 	MACL 	WHIT 	LWRP 	THOM 	SMOR 	WATS 	PARK	MERN	HURS	PANH	HEIW	WALL	KING
2008	THOM 	MACL 	WHIT 	WATS 	EPPI 	MERN 	FITS 	LWRP	SMOR	PARK	HURS	PANH	RESR	HEIW
2009	MACL 	WHIT 	DICK 	EPPI 	MERN 	LWRP 	FITS 	WATS	 	 	 	 	 	
2010	WHIT 	LWRP 	DICK 	EPPI 	MERN 	FITS 	THOM 	WATS	 	 	 	 	 	
2011	LWRP 	EPPI 	DICK 	LALO 	FITS 	HURS 	THOM 	MERN	 	 	 	 	 	
2012	EPPI 	NHEI 	FITS 	DICK 	LALO 	SMOR 	HURS 	THOM	 	 	 	 	 	
2013	WHIT 	FITS 	NHEI 	DICK 	MERN 	HURS 	LALO 	SMOR	 	 	 	 	 	
2014	NHEI 	FITS 	MERN 	LALO 	HURS 	PANH 	DICK 	EPPI	 	 	 	 	 	
2015	WHIT 	LALO 	HURS 	FITS 	THOM 	DICK 	PANH 	MERN	 	 	 	 	 	
2016	HURS 	NHEI 	DICK 	FITS 	THOM 	PANH 	LALO 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
2017	NHEI 	DICK 	LWRP 	FITS 	THOM 	WATS 	LALO 	PANH	 	 	 	 	 	
2018	LWRP 	ELTH 	BANY 	THOM 	DICK 	EPPI 	FITS 	WATS	 	 	 	 	 	
2019	WHIT 	BANY 	ELTH 	THOM 	DICK 	FITS 	STMA 	WATS	EPPI	 	 	 	 	
2020	Season abandoned - COVID-19 pandemic	Season abandoned - COVID-19 pandemic	Season abandoned - COVID-19 pandemic	Season abandoned - COVID-19 pandemic	Season abandoned - COVID-19 pandemic	Season abandoned - COVID-19 pandemic	Season abandoned - COVID-19 pandemic	 	 	 	 	 	 	
2021	Season abandoned - COVID-19 pandemic	Season abandoned - COVID-19 pandemic	Season abandoned - COVID-19 pandemic	Season abandoned - COVID-19 pandemic	Season abandoned - COVID-19 pandemic	Season abandoned - COVID-19 pandemic	Season abandoned - COVID-19 pandemic	 	 	 	 	 	 	
2022	BANY 	ELTH 	DICK 	LWRP 	THOM 	STMA 	WATS 	PANH	EPPI	FITS	 	 	 	
2023	ELTH 	DICK 	STMA 	SMOR 	WATS 	THOM 	NOPK 	PANH	LWRP	EPPI	 	 	 	
===Division 3===
2009	PARK 	HURS 	RESR 	SMOR 	PANH 	HEIW 	 	 	
2010	HURS 	PARK 	RESR 	PANH 	HEIW 	SMOR 	STMA 	 	
2011	SMOR 	PARK 	PANH 	STMA 	RESR 	WATS 	HEIW 	 	
2012	MERN 	PANH 	RESR 	STMA 	PARK 	HEIW 	WATS 	 	
2013	PANH 	WATS 	THOM 	RESR 	STMA 	PARK 	HEIW 	 	
2014	THOM 	RESR 	SMOR 	WATS 	STMA 	HEIW 	PARK 	 	
2015	RESR 	EPPI 	SMOR 	WATS 	BANY 	STMA 	HEIW 	 	
2016	WATS 	EPPI 	SMOR 	STMA 	MERN 	BANY 	KILM 	HEIW	
2017	BANY 	SMOR 	EPPI 	STMA 	KILM 	HEIW 	MERN 	LAUR	RESR
2018	STMA 	PANH 	SMOR 	LAUR 	MERN 	HEIW 	KILM 	LALO	RESR
2019	PANH 	SMOR 	LAUR 	KILM 	MERN 	HEIW 	ELTC 	LALO	RESR
2020	Season abandoned - COVID-19 pandemic	Season abandoned - COVID-19 pandemic	Season abandoned - COVID-19 pandemic	Season abandoned - COVID-19 pandemic	Season abandoned - COVID-19 pandemic	Season abandoned - COVID-19 pandemic	Season abandoned - COVID-19 pandemic	 	
2021	Season abandoned - COVID-19 pandemic	Season abandoned - COVID-19 pandemic	Season abandoned - COVID-19 pandemic	Season abandoned - COVID-19 pandemic	Season abandoned - COVID-19 pandemic	Season abandoned - COVID-19 pandemic	Season abandoned - COVID-19 pandemic	 	
2022	SMOR 	LAUR 	ELTC 	KILM 	HEIW 	MERN 	RESR 	LALO	
2023	LAUR 	MERN 	ELTC 	KING 	HEIW 	KILM 	FITS 	RESR	LALO
===Abbreviations===
BANY - Banyule; BUND - Bundoora; DICK - Diamond Creek; ELTH - Eltham; ELTC - Eltham College; EPPI - Epping; FITS - Fitzroy Stars; GREE - Greensborough; HEID - Heidelberg; HEIW - Heidelberg West; HURS - Hurtbridge; KILM - Kilmore; KING - Kinglake; LALO - Lalor; LAUR - Laurimar; LWRP - Lower Plenty; MACL - Macleod; MERN - Mernda; MONT - Montmorency; NHEI - North Heidelberg; NOPK - Northcote Park; PANH - Panton Hill; PARK - Parkside; RESR - Reservoir; SMOR - South Morang; THOM - Thomastown; WALL - Wallan; WATS - Watsonia; WP/L - West Preston/Lakeside; WHIT - Whittlesea
==Colour Coding==
GREY SHADING - Teams that made the finals
Category:Metropolitan Melbourne Leagues