Barossa Light & Gawler Football Association

Barossa Light & Gawler Football Association

The Barossa Light & Gawler Football Association (BL&GFA) is an Australian rules football competition based chiefly in the Barossa Valley region of South Australia, Australia. Only forty two kilometres north of the state capital of Adelaide, the BL&GFA is one of the most powerful and traditional country football competitions in Australia. It is an affiliated member of the South Australian National Football League. In 2007 Barossa District Football Club again were premiers, defeating Freeling Football Club for the second year in succession. [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) [http://www.gcsc.com.au/ Official website]
* Kapunda Football Club (Colours: Red, Black - Nickname: The Bombers) [http://bombers.com.au Official website]
* [http://www.nrfctigers.org Nuriootpa Rover Football Club] (Colours: Yellow, Black - Nickname: The Tigers)
* South Gawler Football Club (Colours: Blue, White - Nickname: The Lions) [http://www.southgawlerlions.com.au Official website]
* [http://www.tanundafc.com 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 [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. Kapunda later helped form the Barossa and Light Football Association.

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. By 1957 it reached its greatest extent, and the GFA became 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, and following the inception of the Central District Bulldogs 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. The BLFA at its greatest extent in the 1980s also had annexed Robertstown, Eudunda 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. In 1991 Barossa District (which had been a unification of the original Lyndoch and Williamstown clubs back in the old GDFL) finally entered the BLGFA, while in 1992 Eudunda, and later RSMU in 1998, left to the North Eastern Football League.

The current BLGFA comprises nine clubs from the Gawler Town and Barossa Valley region considered to be the heartland of the Central District Bulldogs - and most probably a major factor in their recent dominance of the SANFL.

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
  • Summary Of Premierships:

  • 5 - Nuriootpa
  • 3 - South Gawler, Tanunda
  • 2 - Barossa District, Gawler Central, Kapunda, Willaston
  • 1 - Angaston, Freeling
  • Players

    The Barossa, Light and Gawler Football Association has produced some champion footballers in recent years - mostly progressing through the ranks of the Central District Bulldogs - to include AFL players Shannon Hurn (Angaston FC) (West Coast Eagles), Sam Butler (South Gawler FC) (West Coast Eagles), Brad Symes (Gawler Central FC) (Adelaide Crows), Jay Nash (Nuriootpa Rover FC) (Essendon Football Club), Justin Westhoff (Tanunda FC) (Port Adelaide Power) and Matthew Westhoff (Tanunda FC) (Port Adelaide Power).

    The Barossa Light and Gawler Football Association has provided many players to the Central District Bulldogs FC competing in the SANFL over many years and is currently home to a number of expatriate SANFL players.

    Australian cricket legend Darren Lehmann also played for the Gawler Central Football Club.

    Umpires

    The Barossa, Light and Gawler Umpires Panel formed in 1987 when the Barossa & Light and Gawler Football Associations almagamated, and now provides umpires for all matches within the Barossa, Light and Gawler Football Association. The Barossa, Light and Gawler Umpires Panel is based currently at the Greenock Oval. The Barossa, Light and Gawler Umpires Panel pioneered the nationwide 'Green Shirt' program for umpires new to the game and are one of the last groups of umpires in South Australia to still wear traditional white shirts. The current Coach of the Panel is Peter Dunstan, the current President is Mark Hermann, and the current Secretary is Adam Hennessy.

    External links

    * [http://www.footypedia.com/00001964.htm Footypedia - BLGFA]
    * [http://countryfooty.com.au country footy]
    * [http://www.football-online.com.au Results for the Barossa, Light & Gawler and other leagues]


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