Northern District Football League
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| Most recent season or competition: 1989 | |
| Sport | Australian rules football |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1922 |
| First season | 1922 |
| Ceased | 1989 |
| No. of teams | 8 (1989), 16 (historical) |
| Country | Australia |
| Last champion | Leitchville (1989) |
| Most titles | Union (13) |
| Related competitions | Northern & Echuca FL Echuca FL |
The Northern District Football League was an Australian rules football league based around the towns of Cohuna and Kerang in northern Victoria.
The Northern District Football League began as the Cohuna & District Football Association in 1922 with Cohuna, Union, Wee Wee Rup and Cohuna Fire Brigade as the original clubs.[1] The C&DFA functioned as a junior association for the next few years after Cohuna left for the Elmore-Cohuna Line FA in 1924.[2] The competition was known as the Murray Valley Football League between 1927 and 1930.[1] The league was renamed the Cohuna & District Football Association in 1931 when Cohuna and Leitchville returned from the Kerang & District FA.[3] Koondrook joined for the first time in 1933.[4] The C&DFA went into recess in 1941 due to WWII.[1]
The league was re-formed in 1943 as the Cohuna-Barham Football Association,[5] and by 1945 had returned to its previous name.[6] In 1954, a year after the admission of Pyramid Hill, the league changed its name to the Northern Districts Football League.[7] The line-up of 8 clubs present in 1954 would remain the same until the NDFL's demise at the end of 1989, when it merged with the Echuca Football League to form the Northern & Echuca Football League.
