Huruskeine Football Association

The Huruskeine Football Association is a Victorian Football tournament based in Huruski.

## History

The HFA started in 1910, as a series of games between Grunting and Stone Valley, Huruski's two biggest cities at the time. It was known as the Huruskeine Football Series. The ten games that were played all got massive crowds, so they decided to expand the tournament to include four teams. In 1911, Rocky and Sproilt, the two biggest teams in Grunting's local competition joined. Five years later, a second Stone Creek team was added alongside a fourth Grunting team. The competition was renamed to the Huruski Football Tournament. In 1924, the HFT decided to merge with the Grunting Football League, and 6 new teams were added. And in 1932, to reduce travelling between cities, two more Stone Creek teams were added. Around this time, the league wanted to expand to other cities. In 1939, two Kranky teams, one team from Bottle Shore and one Haywoode team were added. The Capital Cougars from Haywoode were very unsuccessful and were replaced with the Kyalenna Cats in 1950. In 1953 the HFT renamed to the Huruskeine Football Association. The league didn't expand again until 1976, with the addition of the Forest Park Coasters and Newton City Zebras. In the 1980's, some of the older clubs started experiencing financial trouble. In 1984, the South Kreepy Knights merged with Newton City, creating the Newton City Knights. In 1986, the Rosella Lions had to fold, too. This continued throughout the next few years, with the North Outhouse Buffaloes and Northern Bay Stars being removed from the competition in 1991 and 1994. In 2015, the HFA was ready to expand, with a newly-reformed Rosella to join the competition alongside the Woodside Hawks, a team from Haywoode's local competition, making them the first Haywoode team since the Capital Cougars. The Hawks inclusion in the competition has angered many fans who campaigned to bring back Northern Bay into the competition.

## Grand Finals

Since 1919, each premiership has been decided by a Grand Final. The top teams make their way through a finals series with the best two competing for the premiership.

## Rivalries

### Grunting vs Stone Valley

This is the oldest rivalry in the league. It started off with just these two teams, and both are the namesakes of some of Huruski's major cities. This rivalry has kind of died down in the last few decades, but the HFA is trying to promote it.

### Sproilt vs Rocky

This is a massive one. These two teams entered the competition in the same year, but that isn't why they hate each other. They have contested many important games and grand finals that have gone down to the wire and the two Grunting suburbs have always had it for each other. Violence often breaks out during matches between players, although hardly ever between spectators. Sproilt and Rocky players are known to be very loyal to their clubs.

### Grunting vs Princely

This rivalry became a thing when many of Grunting's best players moved to Princely in the late 1920's. Those players were booed by Grunting fans at games, and in 1933, at a game between Grunting and Princely, a fight broke out between fans, a trend which unfortunately continued throughout the 30's and 40's. The clubs have hated each other since. This fixture has been quite violent in the past, and it is the only game where fans are separated into different sides of the stadium. The HFA has not done anything to promote this rivalry due to fears of more violence at games.

### Aspenson, Insect Hill and Stone Creek vs Stone Valley

Between the four teams based in Stone Creek, instead of 2 rivalries forming, the three have ganged up on the one. Stone Valley are the most successful and popular of the four, so it's natural that they're hated.

### Everyone and Stone Valley

While Stone Valley isn't the clear winner for most hated club, it's become a stereotype that Saints fans and players are quite arrogant. You have the three other Stone Creek teams hating them, and the rest just finding them annoying.

### Everyone and Woodside

The Woodside Hawks aren't a team you enjoy hating. They were created in 2015 and are the second ever Haywoode-based team to enter the HFA. The last team was the Capital Cougars, the most unsuccessful HFA club ever created. Victorian Football has never been able to succeed in the Capital State, who are obsessed with Visten Football. It is quite obvious that the HFA are trying to grow the game, but fans are upset that they were added in 2015 instead of the South Kreepy Knights or North Outhouse Buffaloes, two popular clubs that were forced out of the league in the eighties and nineties. The fans of every club have united to hate this one team, who have average attendances of 2,000 in a stadium of 30,000. Whenever the Hawks kick a goal, run out on to the field or win a match, there will be booing, in particular from people of Grunting City.

## Stadiums

HFA Clubs have 3 stadiums. There is their club stadium, which is where they play games expected to have smaller crowds. Teams often locate their club headquarters and train here too. Their main stadium is where they play most of their games. The city stadium is where they play finals games, or games expected to have bigger crowds. The club stadiums are entirely owned and operated by the club, while the main and city stadiums are owned by the HFA, who designate each stadium to a number of clubs who are based near it. This system has been in place since 1993, so some older clubs may only have one stadium. Some clubs that are the only one based in their city might only have two stadiums.