Hills Football League

Hills Football League
General Information
Founded 1967 in the Adelaide Hills
Current clubs Birdwood
Blackwood
Bridgewater-Callington
Echunga
Gumeracha
Hahndorf
Kangarilla
Kersbrook
Macclesfield
Meadows
Milang
Mount Barker
Mount Lofty
Nairne Bremer United
Onkaparinga Valley
Torrens Valley
Uraidla Districts

The Hills Football League (HFL) is an Australian rules football league, situated in the Adelaide Hills region of South Australia, to the south east of the state capital Adelaide.

The League has over 3000 players belonging to 20 member Clubs.[1] The League's Clubs are divided into two playing Divisions:

  • Division 1 (Formerly Central Division – mostly the larger towns in the Hills region);
  • Division 2 (Formerly Country Division – the remaining clubs in the region).

Both divisions have their own programs for the season. There is a promotion and relegation system that received criticism in 2014 following the ultimately unsuccessful decision to relegate Echunga in the same season that they won the Central Division premiership.[2] It is the second biggest league in South Australia after the South Australian Amateur Football League.

In 2009 the Uraidla Districts Football Club became the first team in HFL history to secure all senior premierships (A,B&C) in a single season a feat that was followed by Hahndorf in 2016.

  1. ^ http://www.sportingpulse.com/assoc_page.cgi?assoc=6621&pID=1 About the League
  2. ^ Turner, Matt (26 September 2014). "Echunga Football Club exploring ways to avoid relegation despite winning Hills Football League flag". News Limited. Messenger Community News. Retrieved 29 September 2014.