Bendigo Football Netball League

Bendigo Football
Netball League
Current season, competition or edition:
Current sports event 2022
SportAustralian rules football
Netball
Founded10 June 1881; 143 years ago (10 June 1881)
No. of teams9
Country Australia
ConfederationAFL Victoria
Most recent
champion(s)
Sandhurst (28)
(2024)
Most titles Eaglehawk (28)
Sandhurst (28)
Sponsor(s)Bendigo Bank
Level on pyramid1
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competitions
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Official websitebendigofnl.com.au

The Bendigo Football Netball League (previously known as the Sandhurst Football Association, Bendigo and District Football Association, Bendigo Football Association and Bendigo Football League) is an Australian rules football and netball competition based in the Bendigo region of Victoria.

Formed on 10 June 1881 by the city's three clubs as the Sandhurst Football Association,[1] it is one of the oldest football leagues in Australia, and among its members are some of the oldest football clubs in Australia, including the Castlemaine Football Club, acknowledged as the second oldest football club in Australia and one of the oldest in the world.

A full grandstand at the Queen Elizabeth Oval for the 2007 Grand Final of the Bendigo Football League
  1. ^ "FOOTBALL". Bendigo Advertiser. Vol. XXVIII, no. 8, 093. Victoria, Australia. 11 June 1881. p. 1 (Supplement to The Bendigo Advertiser). Retrieved 8 May 2022 – via National Library of Australia.