Barossa Light & Gawler Football Association
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| Founded | 1987 in the Barossa Valley Barossa Valley The Barossa Valley is a major wine-producing region and tourist destination of South Australia, located 60 km northeast of Adelaide. It is the valley formed by the North Para River, and the Barossa Valley Way is the main road through the valley, connecting the main towns on the valley floor of... |
| Current clubs | Angaston Barossa District Freeling Freeling Freeling may refer to:* Major-General Sir Arthur Henry Freeling, Surveyor-General of South Australia from 1849-1861**Freeling, South Australia, a small town, named for Arthur Freeling... Gawler Central Kapunda Kapunda Football Club Kapunda Football Club, nicknamed The Bombers is an Australian rules football club based in Kapunda, South Australia that competes in the Barossa Light & Gawler Football Association.... Nuriootpa South Gawler South Gawler Football Club The South Gawler Football Club is a country Australian rules football club, founded by James Fitzgerald in the Gawler South area of the Barossa Valley town of Gawler, South Australia, in 1889. The Lions, who wear royal blue and white hoops, currently compete in the Barossa Light & Gawler Football... Tanunda Willaston Willaston Willaston could be*Willaston, Cheshire East, England*Willaston, Cheshire West, England*Willaston, Flintshire, Wales*Willaston, Isle of Man*Willaston, Oxfordshire*Willaston, South Australia... |
| Grounds | Angaston Recreational Park, Angaston Couthard Reserve, Nuriootpa Dutton Park, Kapunda Eldred Riggs Reserve, Evanston Freeling Oval, Freeling Gawler Showgrounds Oval, Gawler Goodger Reserve, Willaston Lyndoch Oval, Lyndoch Tanunda Oval, Tanunda Williamstown Oval, Williamstown |
| 2009 Season | |
| A Grade Premiers | Tanunda 13.12 (90) defeated Angaston 10.8 (68) |
| Reserves Premiers | Gawler Central 11.3 (69) defeated Nuriootpa 8.10 (58) |
| Senior Colts Premiers (U17 1/2) | South Gawler 13.10 (88) defeated Gawler Central 10.15 (75) |
| Junior Colts Premiers (U15) | Nuriootpa 7.9 (51) defeated Gawler Central 4.4 (28) |
| Schluter Medallist | Shaun Baker (Willaston) |
| Reserves Medallist | Gregg Falkenberg (Nuriootpa) |
| Central Districts Senior Colts Medallist | Max Doherty (Freeling) |
| Des Shanahan Medallist | Jackson Jaensch (Nuriootpa) |
| A Grade Leading Goalkicker | Alex Kennedy, Tanunda (99) |
| Reserves Leading Goalkicker | Shane O'Donoghue, South Gawler (47) |
| Senior Colts Leading Goalkicker | Cooper Pinch, Gawler Central (57) |
| Junior Colts Leading Goalkicker | Connor Schneider, Nuriootpa (93) |
| The Barracker A Grade Rookie Of The Year | Tom Willoughby (Freeling) and Ben Schiller (Tanunda) |
| The Barracker Senior Colts Football Of The Year | Charlie Molyneux (Gawler Central) |
| Football Online A Grade Player of the Year | Bradley Taylor (Kapunda) |
| Football Online Reserves Player of the Year | Gregg Falkenberg (Nuriootpa) |
| Football Online Senior Colts Player of the Year | Justin Zanandrea (Kapunda) |
| Football Online Junior Colts Player of the Year | Jackson Jaensch (Nuriootpa) |
The Barossa Light & Gawler Football Association (BL&GFA) is an Australian rules football
Australian rules football
Australian rules football, officially known as Australian football, also called football, Aussie rules or footy is a sport played between two teams of 22 players on either...
competition based chiefly in the Barossa Valley
Barossa Valley
The Barossa Valley is a major wine-producing region and tourist destination of South Australia, located 60 km northeast of Adelaide. It is the valley formed by the North Para River, and the Barossa Valley Way is the main road through the valley, connecting the main towns on the valley floor of...
region of South Australia
South Australia
South Australia is a state of Australia in the southern central part of the country. It covers some of the most arid parts of the continent; with a total land area of , it is the fourth largest of Australia's six states and two territories.South Australia shares borders with all of the mainland...
, Australia. Only 42 kilometres north of the state capital of Adelaide
Adelaide
Adelaide is the capital city of South Australia and the fifth-largest city in Australia. Adelaide has an estimated population of more than 1.2 million...
, the BL&GFA is an affiliated member of the South Australian National Football League
South Australian National Football League
The South Australian National Football League is an Australian rules football league based in the Australian state of South Australia. It is also the governing body for the sport of Australian rules football in South Australia....
. In 2010 the Tanunda Magpies were premiers
AFL Grand Final
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again for the third consecutive year, defeating Barossa District.http://countryfooty.com.au/64.html The president of the League currently is Robin 'Nobby' Symes and the major sponsor of the league is the Grant Burge Winery.
Current Clubs
- Angaston Football Club (Colours: Blue, White - Nickname: The Panthers)
- Barossa District Football Club (Colours: Red, White and Blue - Nickname: Bulldogs)
- Freeling Football Club (Colours: Red, Navy Blue - Nickname: The Redlegs)
- Gawler Central Football Club (Colours: Yellow, Black - Nickname: The Tigers) Official website
- Kapunda Football ClubKapunda Football ClubKapunda Football Club, nicknamed The Bombers is an Australian rules football club based in Kapunda, South Australia that competes in the Barossa Light & Gawler Football Association....
(Colours: Red, Black - Nickname: The Bombers) Official website - Nuriootpa Rover Football Club (Colours: Yellow, Black - Nickname: The Tigers)
- South Gawler Football ClubSouth Gawler Football ClubThe South Gawler Football Club is a country Australian rules football club, founded by James Fitzgerald in the Gawler South area of the Barossa Valley town of Gawler, South Australia, in 1889. The Lions, who wear royal blue and white hoops, currently compete in the Barossa Light & Gawler Football...
(Colours: Blue, White - Nickname: The Lions) Official website - Tanunda Football Club (Colours: Black, White - Nickname: The Magpies)
- Willaston Football Club (Colours: Red, Navy Blue - Nickname: The Donnybrooks)
Brief history
The Kapunda Football Club is one of the oldest football clubs in the world to enjoy an uninterrupted identity. It was first originated by copper miners in 1866, while nearby the Gawler Football Club soon formed in 1868.In 1880, Gawler separated into two distinct clubs, Athenian and Havelock, followed by the Albion Football Club in 1881. Seven years later the clubs recombined to form another club bearing the name of Gawler. Along with Kapunda, this club was admitted with full senior status to the South Australian Football Association
South Australian National Football League
The South Australian National Football League is an Australian rules football league based in the Australian state of South Australia. It is also the governing body for the sport of Australian rules football in South Australia....
http://www.footypedia.com/00000338.htm state league in 1887. In 1890 Gawler left what is now the SANFL and folded, but a junior competition organised in the Gawler area to feed the main club remained to become the Gawler Football Association. In 1894, Kapunda formed an informal association with Angaston, Kapunda North, Greenock and Truro, most likely a precursor to the Barossa and Light Football Association which Kapunda later helped establish.
The Gawler Junior Football Association was formed in 1889 by founding clubs Gawler Central, South Gawler and Willaston. In 1890 the Gawler Junior Football Association changed its name to Gawler Football Association in which later early member clubs would include Roseworthy College, Salisbury and Hamley Bridge. Throughout the twentieth century a number of transient clubs from within the town - such as Shamrocks, Rivals, Imperials, North Gawler, Rovers and Gawler Colts, along with others outside of Gawler - including Greenock, Sandy Creek, Wasleys, Roseworthy, Rurals (a unification of Roseworthy and Wasleys), One Tree Hill, Kangaroo Flat and Angle Vale, would also spasmodically compete in the GFA first and second grades.
By 1957 the GFA reached its greatest extent, becoming the giant Gawler and Districts Football League, with clubs competing in three senior divisions - Elizabeth, Elizabeth North, Gawler Central, Hamley Bridge, Lyndoch, Roseworthy, Roseworthy College, Salisbury, Salisbury North, Smithfield, South Gawler, Two Wells, Virginia, Willaston and Williamstown. Although over the next few decades, several of the more rural clubs departed for the neighbouring Adelaide Plains Football League
Adelaide Plains Football League
The Adelaide Plains Football League is an Australian rules football competition based in the Adelaide Plains region immediately north of Adelaide, South Australia. It is an affiliated member of the South Australian National Football League. In 2006 Hummocks/Watchman Football Club were premiers,...
, and following the inception of the Central District Bulldogs
Central District Bulldogs
Central District Football Club is an Australian rules football club based in the city of Elizabeth about 25 km to the north of Adelaide, South Australia.-Origins and Background:...
into the SANFL, the formation of the (now defunct) Central Districts Football Association saw the metropolitan clubs also eventually leave the GDFL.
The Barossa & Light Football Association was inaugurated in 1908 with founding clubs comprising Angaston, Freeling, Kapunda, Nuriootpa and Tanunda, followed by Eudunda in 1910. Clubs such as Hamley Bridge, Greenock, Truro and Eden Valley would also later field sides intermittently at various times over the years in the first and second competitions. During the 1950s Eudunda returned, and by the 1980s the BLFA at its greatest extent also had annexed Robertstown and Riverton-Saddleworth Marrabel United (RSMU).
In 1987 the Barossa And Light Football Association merged with the Gawler & District Football League, to form a new "super-league", the Barossa Light And Gawler Football Association - the formation clubs being Angaston, Eudunda, Freeling, Gawler Central, Kapunda, Nuriootpa, RSMU, South Gawler, Tanunda and Willaston. After participating in the Hills Football League as an interim since the demise of the GDFL, Barossa District (a merger of the original Lyndoch and Williamstown clubs of the GDFL in 1980) finally entered the BLGFA in 1991, while in 1992 Eudunda, and later RSMU in 1998, left to the North Eastern Football League
North Eastern Football League
The North Eastern Football League is an Australian rules football competition based in the Mid North region of South Australia, Australia. It is an affiliated member of the South Australian National Football League....
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The current BLGFA comprises nine clubs from the Gawler Town, Light Plains and Barossa Valley
Barossa Valley
The Barossa Valley is a major wine-producing region and tourist destination of South Australia, located 60 km northeast of Adelaide. It is the valley formed by the North Para River, and the Barossa Valley Way is the main road through the valley, connecting the main towns on the valley floor of...
region considered to be the heartland of the Central District Bulldogs.
Premierships
- 1987 - Tanunda
- 1988 - Willaston
- 1989 - Tanunda
- 1990 - South Gawler
- 1991 - Gawler Central
- 1992 - South Gawler
- 1993 - South Gawler
- 1994 - Freeling
- 1995 - Nuriootpa
- 1996 - Nuriootpa
- 1997 - Nuriootpa
- 1998 - Nuriootpa
- 1999 - Willaston
- 2000 - Nuriootpa
- 2001 - Gawler Central
- 2002 - Tanunda
- 2003 - Angaston
- 2004 - Kapunda
- 2005 - Kapunda
- 2006 - Barossa District
- 2007 - Barossa District
- 2008 - Tanunda
- 2009 - Tanunda
- 2010 - Tanunda
Summary Of Premierships:
- 6 - Tanunda
- 5 - Nuriootpa
- 3 - South Gawler
- 2 - Barossa District, Gawler Central, Kapunda, Willaston
- 1 - Angaston, Freeling
Players
The Barossa, Light and Gawler Football Association has produced a number of notable footballers in recent years - mostly progressing through the ranks of the Central District Bulldogs - to include AFLAustralian Football League
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players Shannon Hurn
Shannon Hurn
Shannon William Hurn is an Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League.Hurn was selected in the 2005 AFL Draft and was listed by the West Coast Eagles...
(Angaston FC) of the West Coast Eagles
West Coast Eagles
The West Coast Eagles are an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League. The club is based in Perth, Western Australia. The club was founded in 1986 and played its first games in the 1987 season. Its current home ground is Subiaco Oval...
, Brad Symes
Brad Symes
Bradley Thomas "Brad" Symes is an Australian rules football midfielder who was selected by the Port Adelaide at Pick 30 of the 2003 AFL Draft.-Port Adelaide career :...
(Gawler Central) of the Adelaide Crows
Adelaide Crows
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, Sam Butler
Sam Butler
Sam Butler is an Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League. He is a member of the West Coast Eagles team who won the 2006 AFL Premiership....
(South Gawler FC) of the West Coast Eagles
West Coast Eagles
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, and Matthew Westhoff
Matthew Westhoff
Matthew Westhoff is an Australian rules footballer who played for Port Adelaide in the Australian Football League . He is the brother of fellow Port Adelaide player, Justin Westhoff....
(Tanunda FC) of the Port Adelaide Power.