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The Ovens and Murray Football Netball League (OMFNL or O&MFNL) is an Australian rules football and netball competition containing ten clubs based in north-eastern Victoria, the southern Riverina region of New South Wales and the Ovens and Murray area. The name comes from the Ovens River, the river in the part of north-eastern Victoria covered by the league, and the Murray River, which separates Victoria and New South Wales.
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| Sport | Football (1893–present) Netball (1993–present) |
| Founded | 1893 in Rutherglen, Victoria |
| No. of teams | 10 |
| Country |  Australia |
| Confederation | AFL Victoria Country (2012–present) Netball Victoria (1993–present) |
| Most recent champion(s) |  Wangaratta Rovers (16) |
| Most titles |  Albury (22) |
| Level on pyramid | 3 |
| Established 2012 |
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| Ovens & Murray |
| Tallangata & District |
| Ovens & King |
| Upper Murray |
| Wangaratta & District Junior |
| Albury Wodonga Junior |
| AFLNEB Youth Girls |
The league features three grades in the Australian rules football competition, with these being Seniors, Reserve-Grade and Under 18s. In the netball competition, there are four grades, with these being A-Grade, B-Grade, C-Grade and Under 16s.
Currently a home and away season consisting of eighteen rounds is played. The best five teams then play off according to the McIntyre system, culminating in the O&MFNL Grand Final, which from 1995 to 2017 was held at the Lavington Sports Ground in the Albury suburb of Hamilton Valley.
Organised competition in the area started as the "Ovens & Murray Football Association" in 1893, with the following foundation clubs – Beechworth Wanderers, Chiltern, Eldorado, Rutherglen, Wangaratta City and Wangaratta West End,[1] with Beechworth Football Club winning premierships in 1893 and 1894 and Rutherglen winning thirteen O&MFA flags between 1895 and 1915.[2]
In 1910, the O&MFA had only three teams – Albury, Excelsior and Rutherglen with Rutherglen winning the premiership.[3]
Then in 1911, both Excelsior and Rutherglen applied to enter the Rutherglen and District Football Association. As a result, the O&MFL folded, with local teams attempting to apply to play in the Rutherglen & DFA. A ballot took place at a Rutherglen & DFA meeting on 29 April at Mackay's Hotel, Rutherglen which resulted in Balldale, North Albury, Rutherglen, South Albury and Wodonga being refused admission to join the association. Corowa, Excelsior and Lake Rovers were club's that were admitted.[4] In 1911, the Albury Football Club was planning to divide the club into South Albury and North Albury teams, but as they were not admitted into the Rutherglen & DFA, the club went into recess in 1911. Rutherglen FC also went into recess in 1911.[5]
Albury FC and Rutherglen FC were admitted into the Rutherglen & DFA in 1912.[6]
In 1913, the Rutherglen & DFA consisting of the following teams – Albury, Balldale, Border United, Howlong, Lake Rovers and Rutherglen,[7] with Albury defeating Rutherglen in the grand final at the Albury Sportground.[8]
The competition reformed under the Ovens & Murray Football Association banner again in 1914, involving the following five teams: Albury, Border United, Howlong, Lake Rovers and Rutherglen. Balldale FC entered the Coreen & District Football League in 1914.[9]
In 1915, Beechworth Football Club and Wangaratta Football Club returned to play in the O&MFA. Howlong Football Club entered the Chiltern & District Football Association and went onto win the premiership, while Rutherglen defeated Lake Rovers in the O&MFA grand final played at Rutherglen.[10]
After a three-year break due to World War I, the O&MFA reformed for the 1919 season with only four clubs, Border United Football Club (Corowa based), Howlong, Lake Rovers and Rutherglen.[11] Albury Football Club was reformed in early 1919 and played in the Albury Senior Football Association with two teams – South Albury and North Albury,[12] with St. Patrick's FC defeating South Albury Football Club in the grand final on the Albury Sportsground.[13]
In 1920 the O&MFA didn't reform; "It seems strange that the O&MFA has apparently been allowed to die a natural death" with only two club's present at the O&MFA – AGM.,[14][15] with some clubs moving to play in the Chiltern & DFA and Coreen & DFA.
The competition reformed in 1921 with Lakes Rovers, Rutherglen, St Patricks, Corowa, Springhurst and Wahgunyah. In 1922, larger town clubs Benalla and Wangaratta joined the OMFA whilst Wahgunyah and Springhurst moved to the Chiltern DFL.
In 1924, Lake Rovers Football Club amalgamated with the Rutherglen Football Club.[16] and Albury FC and the Diggers FC also decided to amalgamate in 1924 and apply for admission into the Ovens and Murray Football League as Albury Football Club.[17]
In 1926, the O&M name was changed from an association to a league, its present form. Around this time the clubs contesting the league included Wangaratta, Hume Weir (which drew many of its players from workers constructing the Hume Dam at the time), Yarrawonga and two clubs from the town of Albury, St Patricks and Albury club). These two clubs were largely divided amongst sectarian lines, St Patricks being Roman Catholic and Albury being Protestant and, after much tension, in 1929 the two clubs agreed to disband and form two new clubs, East Albury Football Club and West Albury Football Club, with the player base to be drawn geographically.
Following the 1930 season, a 19 year old West Albury player, Haydn Bunton, who has sometimes been described as the best ever player of Australian rules,[18] was recruited by VFL club Fitzroy. Bunton won Brownlow Medals in 1931, 1932 and 1935, before transferring to Subiaco in the WANFL, where he won Sandover Medals in 1938, 1939 and 1941. Bunton has remained one of only four triple Brownlow medallists, and the only player to have been awarded three Brownlows and three Sandovers. (Bunton Park, where North Albury Football Club is based, was named after his brother Cleaver Bunton, who was elected president of the O&MFL in 1930 and would serve in that role until 1969. Cleaver Bunton was also mayor of Albury for 30 years.)
In 1930 Hume Weir Football Club and Ebden Rovers Football Club merged to become the Weir United Football Club.
East Albury Football Club and Weir United Football Club merged in 1933 to become the Border United Football Club (Albury based) and wore green and white jumpers.[19] In 1933 West Albury Football Club changed its name to the Albury Football Club and remained in the West Albury colours of maroon and blue.[20]
At the O&MFA's 1936 Annual General Meeting, it was announced that the Border United FC would merge with the Albury Football Club as both clubs were in debt and also due to a lack of players. The newly merged team took on the name of the Albury Football Club.[21] This left the City of Albury with only one football team.
In 1940, the league went into recess after round 10 for the duration of World War II, before full competition resumed in 1946. In 1945, Rutherglen, played in the Chiltern & District Football Association and Wodonga played in the Albury Border Football Association in 1945. In 1947 North Albury was admitted, followed by Wangaratta Rovers and Myrtleford, who were admitted from the Ovens & King Football League in 1950. Wangaratta won four consecutive premierships between 1949 and 1953, under captain coach, Mac Holten.
The Wangaratta Rovers would go on to dominate the O&M for the remainder of the 20th Century, winning fifteen premierships to date, a number only recently overhauled by Albury with their own streak of flags.
Throughout the 1950s and 1960s the league began to gain a reputation within Victoria as being the strongest competition outside the then VFL and VFA. The best players were often recruited from the O&M to play for one of the "city" clubs, but it was not uncommon for a VFL player to retire from the "big" league and play in the O&M or another country league, and perhaps start a coaching career there as well, often at the same time as a playing coach. One notable example of this, as far as the O&M was concerned, was Bob Rose, who left Collingwood as a player in 1955 and became captain coach of the Wangaratta Rovers and lead them to two premierships in 1958 and 1960, after which he returned to Collingwood to continue his coaching career.
In 1968, the VFL introduced country recruitment zones throughout Victoria and Riverina, which limited the areas from which each VFL club could recruit. The O&MFL was allocated to North Melbourne, and thus quite a few of the better players from the O&M came to play for the Kangaroos, contributing in part to that club's rise to success in the 1970s. These included Mick Nolan, Xavier Tanner, Gary Cowton, Peter Chisnall and John Byrne and later John Longmire, who had a good season with Corowa-Rutherglen as a goal kicking forward in O&M seniors in 1987. The zoning system was discontinued in the late 1980s as the VFL/AFL introduced a draft system.
The Wangaratta Rovers dominated the 1970s, playing in ten grand finals between 1970 and 1980, winning seven premierships and finishing third in 1973.
In 1974 the O&MFL was disaffiliated by the Victorian Country Football League (VCFL) when the O&MFL refused to accept an application from the Lavington Football Club to join the league. By this stage the football club was based at the Lavington Sports Club, an established licensed club, and was strong enough to field teams in both the Tallangatta League and Hume Football League the following year.
The makeup of the competition remained stable until 1979, when Corowa and Rutherglen merged into Corowa-Rutherglen, and the Lavington Football Club was finally admitted from the Farrer Football League, so the number of clubs remained at ten.
Lavington's home ground, the Lavington Sports Club Oval, provided an ideal venue for many sports as the sports club gradually developed it after its construction in the 1970s. The league has designated it as the venue for most of the league's grand finals since the 1980s. Recently, added assistance for the staging of the grand final through regional promotion and in-kind sponsorship has been provided by the Albury City Council.
In 1983, after an unsuccessful debut season playing for Hawthorn the previous year, Gary Ablett played for Myrtleford in the O&M for a year, before he was recruited by Geelong where he recommenced his career in the VFL/AFL and established himself as one of the code's best players, being inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame in 2005.
By the late 1980s, the Wodonga Demons of the Tallangatta League had made a number of bids to join the O&M, and in 1989 were accepted into the competition to serve the west of the city of Wodonga, based at Birralee Park. They changed their name to the Wodonga Raiders Football Club so as to not cause confusion with the Benalla Demons and the long established Wodonga Football Club.
Around a minute after the start of the 1990 grand final between Lavington and Wodonga, a brawl began players, which lasted for around three minutes.[22] Fifteen players received a combined total of 68 matches in suspensions following the match − a combined 46 for Lavington players and 22 for Wodonga players.[23]
Footage of the brawls, which was broadcast live Prime Television, was shown across Australia and around the world, and it has been described as the OMFL's "darkest day".[24][25]
Wodonga won the match by 20 points, despite having trailed at the first three breaks, marking the club's fifth senior premiership. This was the second premiership for Jeff Gieschen as Wodonga coach, having coached the club to a victory in 1987, and he later went on to coach West Perth and Richmond.[26]
In 1998, after a string of unsuccessful seasons in the O&M, Benalla moved to the Goulburn Valley Football League. In 2000 the Penrith Panthers Leagues Club, financiers of the Penrith Panthers National Rugby League team, merged with the Lavington Sports Club. As a result, the Lavington Football Club changed their nickname from the Blues to the Panthers, added "Panthers" to their title, and adopted a guernsey in the same colours as the NRL Panthers, but in the Port Adelaide AFL pattern.
Also around this time, the Wagga Tigers Football Club, which had dominated the Riverina Football League, made a bid to join the O&MFL; however, partially due to concerns from the league's southern clubs about travel times, the bid was rejected. The Wagga Tigers then successfully bid to join AFL Canberra.
In 2000 the O&MFL, in an association with the AFL North Melbourne Football Club, fielded a team in the Victorian Football League called the Murray Kangaroos, playing home games between Coburg and Lavington. However, due to concerns from O&M clubs about player availability, the Kangaroos about travel time, and poor attendances compared with O&M league games, the venture was discontinued after three seasons and the Kangaroos subsequently set up an affiliation with the established VFL club Port Melbourne.
The league operates with a $125,000 salary cap. The Wangaratta Magpies exceeded this in 2022, and the club was stripped of its 2022 premiership flag, a first in country football, among other penalties.[27]
| Club | Colours | Moniker | Home ground(s) | Former League | Established | Joined O&M | Senior Flags | Most Recent |
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| Albury | |
Tigers | Albury Sportsground. Albury, New South Wales | – | 1876 | 1896 | 22 | 2018 |
| Corowa-Rutherglen |  |
Roos | John Foord Oval [note 1], Corowa, New South Wales | – | 1979 [note 2] | 1979 | 2 | 2003 |
| Lavington |  |
Panthers | Lavington Sports Ground. Hamilton Valley, New South Wales | FFL | 1880s | 1979 | 5 | 2019 |
| Myrtleford |  |
Saints | McNamara Reserve. Myrtleford, Victoria | O&KFL | 1896 | 1950 | 1 | 1970 |
| North Albury |  |
Hoppers | Bunton Park. North Albury, New South Wales | CDFL | 1943 | 1947 | 6 | 2002 |
| Wangaratta |  |
Magpies | Norm Minns Oval. Wangaratta, Victoria | O&KFL | 1877 | 1893 | 15 | 2017 |
| Wangaratta Rovers | |
Hawks | W.J. Findlay Oval. Wangaratta, Victoria | O&KFL | 1922 | 1950 | 16 | 2024 |
| Wodonga |  |
Bulldogs | Martin Park. Wodonga, Victoria | CDFL | 1878 | 1936 | 7 | 2004 |
| Wodonga Raiders |  |
Raiders | Birallee Park. West Wodonga, Victoria | TDFL | 1953 [note 3] | 1989 | 1 | 1998 |
| Yarrawonga |  |
Pigeons | J.C. Lowe Oval. [note 4], Yarrawonga, Victoria | BMFL | 1889 | 1929 | 6 | 2023 |
| Club | Color | Moniker | Home ground(s) | Former League | Estab. | Years in O&M | Flags | Fate |
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| Balldale |  |
Balldale Cricket Ground, Balldale | – | 1906 | 1909, 1912-1913 | 0 | Moved to Coreen & District FA in 1914 | |
| Barnawartha | |
Tigers | Havelock Street Recreation Reserve, Barnawartha | – | 1894[28] | 1911 | 0 | Moved to Chiltern & District FA in 1920 |
| Beechworth |  |
Bombers | Baarmutha Park, Beechworth | O&KFL | 1861 | 1893–98, 1900–02, 1907, 1915, 1924–28 | 3 | Moved to Ovens & King FL in 1929 |
| Benalla |  |
Demons | Benalla Showgrounds, Benalla | EDFL | 1896 | 1922–1928, 1946–1997 | 4 | Moved to Goulburn Valley FL in 1998 |
| Benalla Rovers |  |
Rovers | Benalla Show Grounds, Benalla | – | 1920 | 1929 & 1930 | 0 | Absorbed by Benalla in 1931 |
| Border United FC (Corowa / Wahgunyah) | |
Morris Park, Corowa | – | 1876 | 1895–1905, 1913–15, 1919, 1946–47 | 0 | De-merged into Corowa and Wahgunyah | |
| Border United FC (East Albury / Weir United) |  |
Greens | Albury Sportsground, Albury | – | 1933 | 1933–1935 | 1 | Absorbed by Albury in 1936 |
| Chiltern |  |
Swans | Chiltern Football Ground, Chiltern | – | 1906 | 1893–1903 & 1906–1908 | 0 | Moved to Chiltern & District FA in 1912 |
| Corowa | |
Spiders | John Foord Oval, Corowa | – | 1877 | 1908–12, 1921–40, 1948–78 | 2 | Merged with Rutherglen to form Corowa-Rutherglen in 1979 |
| East Albury FC | |
Rovers | Alexandra Park, East Albury | – | 1929–1932 | 0 | Merged back into Albury in 1933, also merged with Weir United to form Border United | |
| Eldorado |  |
Eldorado Recreation Reserve, Eldorado | – | 1893 | 0 | Moved to Ovens & King FL | ||
| Excelsior | |
Magpies | The Freehold [29] | – | 1908 | 1896–1906, 1908–1912 | 1 | Folded |
| Great Southern | Southern Ground, Rutherglen | – | 1898–1902, 1905–07 | 0 | Moved to Chiltern & District FA in 1912 | |||
| Howlong | |
Spiders | Howlong Oval, Howlong | – | 1898 | 1911–1914 & 1919 | 1 | Moved to Chiltern & District FA in 1920 |
| Hume Weir | |
Magpies | Wodonga Racecourse, Wodonga | ABFA | 1921 | 1924–29 | 0 | Merged with Ebden Rovers to form Weir United in 1930 |
| Lake Moodemere |  |
Rovers | Lake Moodemere Recreation Reserve, Rutherglen | – | 1903–06, 1909–10 | 0 | Folded | |
| Lake Rovers | Maroon and blue | Rovers | Barkly Park, Rutherglen | – | 1911[30]–15, 1919, 1921–23 | 0 | Merged with Rutherglen in 1924 | |
| Lilliput | Lilliput Recreation Reserve, Lilliput | – | 1889 | 1894 | 0 | Folded | ||
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Redlegs | Barkly Park, Rutherglen | – | 1893 | 1893–1910, 1912–15, 1919, 1921–78 | 15 | Merged with Corowa to form Corowa-Rutherglen in 1979 |
| South Albury | Waites Park, South Albury | – | 1898–1907 [citation needed] | 0 | Folded | |||
| Springhurst | Red, white and blue[31] | Springhurst Recreation Reserve, Springhurst | CDFL | 1893 | 1921 | 0 | Moved to Chiltern & District FA in 1922 | |
| St. Patrick's (Albury) | |
Saints | Xavier High School Oval, North Albury | – | 1919 | 1921–29 | 6 | Folded, still compete as a junior club |
| United Miners | Gold Seekers | Prentice Freehold Mine, Rutherglen | – | 1894 | 1894–95, 1911–12 | 0 | Folded | |
| Wahgunyah | Wahgunyah Football Ground, Wahgunyah | CDFL | 1908 | 1908, 1921 | 0 | Moved to Chiltern & District FA in 1922 | ||
| Weir United | Westerners | Hume Dam, Lake Hume Village | – | 1930 | 1930–32 | 2 | Merged with East Albury to form Border United in 1933 | |
| West Albury |  |
Uiver Park, West Albury | – | 1929–32 | 1 | Merged back into Albury in 1933 | ||
| West End (Wangaratta) | Wareena Park, Wangaratta | – | 1892[32] | 1893 | 0 | Folded |
The club monikers listed above for former clubs are the ones they currently use and may not be their monikers used when playing in the Ovens and Murray league.
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(bold: premiership years)
| Year | Premier | Score | Runners-Up | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1893 | Beechworth | 30 | Rutherglen | 28 |
| 1894 | Beechworth | 38 | Rutherglen | 32 |
| 1895 | Rutherglen | 42 | Beechworth | 38 |
| 1896 | Rutherglen | 40 | Beechworth | 38 |
| 1897 Play Off | Beechworth | 3.4-22 | Rutherglen | 1.7-13 |
| 1898 | Rutherglen | 40 | Beechworth, Excelsior | 36 |
| 1899 | Rutherglen | 44 | Albury | 32 |
| 1900 | Excelsior | 36 | Border United | 32 |
| 1901 | Rutherglen | 44 | Albury | 36 |
| 1902 | Albury | 40 | Corowa | 32 |
| 1903 | Rutherglen | 28 | Corowa | 24 |
| 1904 | Rutherglen | 32 | Corowa | 24 |
| 1905 | Lake Rovers | 20 | Excelsior | 12 |
| 1906 | Lake Rovers | 20 | Chiltern | 14 |
| 1907 Play Off | Rutherglen | 7.14-56 | Albury | 4.4-28 |
| 1908 Play Off | Albury | 10.4-64 | Rutherglen | 9.8-62 |
| 1909 Play Off | Rutherglen | 10.10-70 | Albury | 5.7-37 |
| 1910 | Rutherglen | 24 | Albury, Excelsior | 12 |
| 1911 | Howlong | 7.11-53 | Barnawartha | 1.1-7 |
| 1912 | Rutherglen | 7.4-46 | Albury | 6.4-40 |
| 1913 | Albury | 7.6-48 | Rutherglen | 5.10-40 |
| 1914 | Rutherglen | 9.11-65 | Border United | 6.16-52 |
| 1915 | Rutherglen | 8.5-53 | Lake Rovers | 2.6-18 |
| 1916 | Recess during WWI | . | . | . |
| 1917 | Recess during WWI | . | . | . |
| 1918 | Recess during WWI | . | . | . |
| 1919 | Lake Rovers | 6.7-43 | Howlong | 4.4-28 |
| 1920 | League in recess | . | . | . |
| 1921 | St Patricks | 7.19-61 | Corowa | 2.3-15 |
| 1922 | St Patricks | 6.9-45 | Wangaratta | 5.13-43 |
| 1923 | St Patricks | 10.13-73 | Wangaratta | 8.8-56 |
| 1924 | St Patricks | 12 | Wangaratta | 8 |
| 1925 | Wangaratta | 10.11-71 | Hume Weir | 7.8-50 |
| 1926 | St Patricks | 18.20-128 | Wangaratta | 6.9-35 |
| 1927 | St Patricks | 12.29-101 | Albury | 7.11-53 |
| 1928 | Albury | 12.8-80 | St Patricks | 8.16-60 |
| 1929 | West Albury | 17.16-118 | East Albury | 15.14-104 |
| 1930 | Weir United | 11.17-83 | West Albury | 7.9-51 |
| 1931 | Weir United | 9.14-68 | West Albury | 4.7-31 |
| 1932 | Corowa | 11.14-80 | West Albury | 10.16-76 |
| 1933 | Wangaratta | 11.5-71 | Border United | 10.10-70 |
| 1934 | Border United | 11.22-88 | Corowa | 9.9-63 |
| 1935 | Rutherglen | 13.10-88 | Border United | 10.22-82 |
| 1936 | Wangaratta | 11.18-84 | Rutherglen | 9.10-64 |
| 1937 | Albury | 16.13-109 | Yarrawonga | 9.9-63 |
| 1938 | Wangaratta | 12.15-87 | Yarrawonga | 7.16-58 |
| 1939 | Albury | 12.12-84 | Wodonga | 11.15-81 |
| 1940 | Albury | 13.14-92 | Yarrawonga | 10.16-76 |
| 1941 Recess during World War II | . | |||
| 1942 Recess during World War II | . | |||
| 1943 Recess during World War II | . | |||
| 1944 Recess during World War II | . | |||
| 1945 Recess during World War II | . | |||
| 1946 | Wangaratta | 14.10-94 | Albury | 13.11-89 |
| 1947 | Albury | 11.18-84 | Benalla | 10.9-69 |
| 1948 | North Albury | 9.16-70 | Albury | 8.16-64 |
| 1949 | Wangaratta | 11.16-82 | Wodonga | 6.14-50 |
| 1950 | Wangaratta | 11.20-86 | North Albury | 10.10-70 |
| 1951 | Wangaratta | 16.7-103 | Wodonga | 12.7-79 |
| 1952 | Wangaratta | 13.11-89 | Rutherglen | 10.9-69 |
| 1953 | Benalla | 8.10-58 | Albury | 6.15-51 |
| 1954 | Rutherglen | 15.17-107 | Benalla | 10.10-70 |
| 1955 | North Albury | 13.15-93 | Wangaratta | 13.5-83 |
| 1956 | Albury | 15.15-105 | North Albury | 11.6-72 |
| 1957 | Wangaratta | 10.15-75 | Albury | 10.13-73 |
| 1958 | Wangaratta Rovers | 15.9-99 | Wodonga | 7.8-50 |
| 1959 | Yarrawonga | 17.10-112 | Wangaratta Rovers | 16.8-104 |
| 1960 | Wangaratta Rovers | 11.17-83 | Wodonga | 8.13-61 |
| 1961 | Wangaratta | 17.15-117 | Benalla | 7.12-54 |
| 1962 | Benalla | 7.14-56 | Wangaratta Rovers | 6.10-46 |
| 1963 | Benalla | 17.13-115 | Corowa | 8.3-51 |
| 1964 | Wangaratta Rovers | 12.12-84 | Wangaratta | 9.7-61 |
| 1965 | Wangaratta Rovers | 14.9-93 | Wangaratta | 13.12-90 |
| 1966 | Albury | 14.11-95 | Wangaratta | 5.10-40 |
| 1967 | Wodonga | 11.17-83 | Wangaratta Rovers | 9.11-65 |
| 1968 | Corowa | 14.11-95 | Wodonga | 12.16-88 |
| 1969 | Wodonga | 14.19-103 | Wangaratta | 9.15-69 |
| 1970 | Myrtleford | 18.15-123 | Wangaratta Rovers | 16.10-106 |
| 1971 | Wangaratta Rovers | 16.11-107 | Yarrawonga | 13.10-88 |
| 1972 | Wangaratta Rovers | 12.20-92 | Yarrawonga | 11.9-75 |
| 1973 | Benalla | 12.12-85 | North Albury | 11.11-77 |
| 1974 | Wangaratta Rovers | 23.10-148 | Yarrawonga | 13.9-87 |
| 1975 | Wangaratta Rovers | 8.12-60 | North Albury | 5.11-41 |
| 1976 | Wangaratta | 17.11-113 | Wangaratta Rovers | 11.10-76 |
| 1977 | Wangaratta Rovers | 20.16-136 | Wangaratta | 12.12-84 |
| 1978 | Wangaratta Rovers | 15.18-108 | Benalla | 7.12-54 |
| 1979 | Wangaratta Rovers | 19.12-126 | Wodonga | 14.12-96 |
| 1980 | North Albury | 17.11-113 | Wangaratta Rovers | 14.9-93 |
| 1981 | Wodonga | 19.11-125 | Albury | 14.14-98 |
| 1982 | Albury | 21.15-141 | Lavington | 16.11-107 |
| 1983 | Lavington | 18.18-126 | Albury | 12.16-88 |
| 1984 | North Albury | 14.16-100 | Wodonga | 14.13-97 |
| 1985 | Albury | 16.8-104 | Lavington | 15.11-101 |
| 1986 | Lavington | 19.5-119 | North Albury | 10.10-70 |
| 1987 | Wodonga | 29.22-196 | Lavington | 13.11-89 |
| 1988 | Wangaratta Rovers | 14.17-101 | Lavington | 11.9-75 |
| 1989 | Yarrawonga | 17.11-113 | Wodonga | 14.13-97 |
| 1990 | Wodonga | 10.22-82 | Lavington | 8.14-62 |
| 1991 | Wangaratta Rovers | 17.16-118 | Yarrawonga | 7.7-49 |
| 1992 | Wodonga | 16.16-112 | Corowa-Rutherglen | 14.6-90 |
| 1993 | Wangaratta Rovers | 18.13-121 | Wodonga | 12.9-81 |
| 1994 | Wangaratta Rovers | 14.14-98 | Wodonga | 5.9-39 |
| 1995 | Albury | 5.13-43 | Wodonga | 6.3-39 |
| 1996 | Albury | 13.16-94 | Lavington | 10.11-71 |
| 1997 | Albury | 13.8-86 | Wodonga Raiders | 11.13-79 |
| 1998 | Wodonga Raiders | 19.12-126 | Lavington | 8.14-62 |
| 1999 | North Albury | 17.12-114 | Albury | 14.3-87 |
| 2000 | Corowa-Rutherglen | 27.18-180 | North Albury | 11.6-72 |
| 2001 | Lavington | 21.21-147 | Myrtleford | 13.9-87 |
| 2002 | North Albury | 21.11-137 | Wangaratta Rovers | 13.11-89 |
| 2003 | Corowa-Rutherglen | 16.14-110 | Wodonga | 10.15-75 |
| 2004 | Wodonga | 16.17-113 | North Albury | 11.6-72 |
| 2005 | Lavington | 10.12-72 | Myrtleford | 11.5-71 |
| 2006 | Yarrawonga | 15.11-101 | Myrtleford | 10.8-68 |
| 2007 | Wangaratta | 15.10-100 | North Albury | 6.13-49 |
| 2008 | Wangaratta | 12.14-86 | Lavington | 7.12-54 |
| 2009 | Albury | 22.13-145 | Yarrawonga | 9.14-68 |
| 2010 | Albury | 13.11-89 | Yarrawonga | 11.13-79 |
| 2011 | Albury | 15.13-103 | Yarrawonga | 14.10-94 |
| 2012 | Yarrawonga | 14.9-93 | Albury | 12.9-81 |
| 2013 | Yarrawonga | 13.12-90 | Albury | 8.6-54 |
| 2014 | Albury | 13.13-91 | Yarrawonga | 12.12-84 |
| 2015 | Albury | 17.11.113 | Lavington | 11.18.84 |
| 2016 | Albury | 9.17.71 | Lavington | 4.7.31 |
| 2017 | Wangaratta | 16.9.105 | Albury | 13.6.84 |
| 2018 | Albury | 11.12.78 | Wangaratta | 10.10.70 |
| 2019 | Lavington | 14.14.98 | Wangaratta | 9.10.64 |
| 2020 | Season abandoned due to the COVID pandemic | |||
| 2021 | 14 rounds played.[44] No finals > COVID-19 | |||
| 2022 | Wangaratta* | 12.14.86 | Yarrawonga | 13.5.83 |
| 2023 | Yarrawonga | 11.10.76 | Albury | 10.12.72 |
| 2024 | Wangaratta Rovers | 11.6.72 | Yarrawonga | 9.15.69 |
| *No premiership awarded | ||||
For Grand Final records in all grades click here
Since 1972 the OMFL has used the "McIntyre system". The final series is played over four weekends, with the grand final traditionally being played on the third weekend of September. Also normally there is no home ground advantage is awarded any teams, instead the O&M board deems where the finals will be held, with all finals for both Football & Netball are played at the one venue during each final day. The Grand Final since 1995 has been held at Lavington Sports Ground ("Lavington Panthers Oval") in the Albury suburb of Hamilton Valley.
| Qualifying final | Major Semi-final | Preliminary final | Grand Final | |||||||||||||||
| "C" | 1st on Ladder | Home | "F" | Winner Major Semi-Final | Home | |||||||||||||
| Winner Qualifying Final | Away | Winner Preliminary Final | Away | |||||||||||||||
| "A" | 2nd on Ladder | Home | "E" | Loser Major Semi-Final | Home | |||||||||||||
| 3rd on Ladder | Away | Minor Semi-final | Winner Minor Semi-Final | Away | ||||||||||||||
| "D" | Loser Qualifying Final | Home | ||||||||||||||||
| "B" | 4th on Ladder | Home | Winner Elimination Final | Away | ||||||||||||||
| 5th on Ladder | Away | |||||||||||||||||
| Qualifying and elimination finals | Major Semi-final | Preliminary final | Grand Final | |||||||||||||||
| 1 | Yarrawonga | 17.9 (111) | Yarrawonga | 9.15 (69) | ||||||||||||||
| Wangaratta Rovers | 5.10 (40) | Wangaratta Rovers | 11.6 (72) | |||||||||||||||
| 2 |
Wangaratta Rovers | 12.11 (83) |
Wangaratta Rovers | 16.9 (105) | ||||||||||||||
| 3 |
Wangaratta | 5.9 (39) | Minor Semi-final | North Albury | 11.4 (70) | |||||||||||||
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Wangaratta | 12.8 (80) | |||||||||||||||||
| 4 | North Albury | 11.5 (71) | North Albury | 12.10 (82) | ||||||||||||||
| 5 | Wodonga | 10.8 (68) | ||||||||||||||||
From 1953 to 1972 total points were based on the most ladder points across the seniors and reserves grades of O&MFL football. Unsure what year this award was first given.
From 1973 onwards, this award is based on the most ladder points across all three grades of O&MFL football.
The Morris Medal is given for the best and fairest senior player in the O&MFL during the home and away season at a vote count held in the week preceding the grand final. The award is similar to the AFL's Brownlow Medal, with match day umpires awarding 3, 2 and 1 votes to the best players in each match. The medal has been donated by C H Morris & Sons Wines of Rutherglen since 1933.[45]
| Seniors: Morris Medalists (1933–2023) |
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The list of Morris Medallists follows:[46]
The only two players who have polled the most votes, but were ineligible to win the O&MFL Morris Medal, due to suspension, were:
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The player who has won the most Morris Medals is Robbie Walker, who won five whilst playing for the Wangaratta Rovers, followed by Jim Sandral (Corowa) and John Brunner (Yarrawonga) with three apiece.
In 2000 the O&MFNL awarded retrospective Morris Medals to senior competition footballers (but not to reserves and thirds grade players) who had polled the same number of votes as the winner, but finished second under the count-back system in years gone by and been denied the honour of a medal. The players who received these medals were - Lance Oswald 1957, Bob Rose 1958, Jim Sandral 1964, Alby Dunn 1965, Jack O'Halloran 1975, Mike Andrews 1976, Greg O'Brien 1976 and Ken Boundy 1977.
The Reserves Leo Burke Medal is awarded for the best and fairest seconds football player in the O&MFL during the home and away season. This award was originally called the Ralph Marks Award from 1953 to 1963. Marks was a former president of North Albury and an O&MFL official. Marks was the O&MFL Secretary from 1970 to 1975. This award was then called the Les Cuddon Award from 1964 to 1975, who was an O&MFL official from Rutherglen. Leo Burke from Burke's Hotel, Yarrawonga then took over as the award donor in 1975.[53]
| Reserves: | Leo Burke Medal | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Winner | Club | Votes | Second | Club | Votes | Third | Club | Votes |
| Ralph Marks Medal | |||||||||
| 1953 | Max Pescud | Myrtleford | 21 | Neil Hoffman | North Albury | 17 | Harold Purss | Albury | 15[54] |
| 1954 | Ron Teakle* | Myrtleford | 9 | R Symes | Benalla | 8 | Barry Connolly | Benalla | 7[55][56] |
| Ernie Aitken | Corowa | (9) | R Horsborough | Benalla | 7 | ||||
| Harold Purss | Albury | (9) | |||||||
| 1955 | Jack Rippingdale | Corowa | 23 | Col Sturgeon | Wangaratta | 18 | Ken Adamson | Wodonga | 17 |
| 1956 | Ken Adamson | Wodonga | |||||||
| 1957 | Norm Hawking | Rutherglen | Ron Teakle | Myrtleford | Ken Adamson | Wodonga | 13 | ||
| Gayfer | Rutherglen | 13 | |||||||
| P Maher | Benalla | 13 | |||||||
| 1958 | Brian McKoy | Wodonga | 19 | Ivan Smith | North Albury | 18 | Col Sturgeon | Wangaratta | 17 |
| 1959 | D McQuade | Rutherglen | 17 | M Fruend | Benalla | 16 | Rusty McDonald | Wang Rovers | 13 |
| 1960 | Roy Symes | Benalla | 14 | Brian Kealy | Wodonga | 13 | Alan Jones | Wodonga | |
| 1961 | John Dormer | Corowa | 17 | Dom Glassenbury | Wodonga | 14 | Rusty McDonald | Wang Rovers | 12 |
| 1962 | Mick Seymour | Corowa | 14 | John Dwyer | Wodonga | 13 | Jim Hayes | Wangaratta | 10 |
| Jeff Hemphill | Wangaratta | 10 | |||||||
| 1963 | Ron Wales | Wangaratta | 21 | Rusty McDonald | Wang Rovers | 16 | Dick Nottingham | Benalla | 13 |
| Les Cuddon Medal | |||||||||
| 1964 | Kerry Seymour | Corowa | 15 | Keith Murphy & | Benalla | 13 | Tom Tobin | Wang Rovers | 11 |
| Noel Richens | Wang Rovers | 13 | |||||||
| 1965 | Kelvin Roberts | Albury | 18 | Vic Garoni | Myrtleford | 16 | Alan Benton & | Wangaratta | 12 |
| R Saunders | Yarrawonga | 12 | |||||||
| 1966 | Mick Seymour | Corowa | 13 | Peter Seymour | Corowa | 12 | N Ross & | North Albury | 11 |
| J Weissel | North Albury | 11 | |||||||
| 1967 | Alan Benton | Wangaratta | |||||||
| 1968 | Norm Hogan* | Benalla | 17 | R Anderson | North Albury | 16 | Terry Hogan & | Wang Rovers | 13 |
| Alan Benton | Wangaratta | (17) | Kerry Seymour | Corowa | 13 | ||||
| 1969 | Alan Daniel* | Wang Rovers | 17 | John West | Wang Rovers | 16 | D Richmond | Yarrawonga | 11&1/2 |
| Keith Flower | Wodonga | (17) | |||||||
| 1970 | John "Pop" Lonergan | Yarrawonga | 13 | David Tighe | Wang Rovers | 11 | |||
| 1971 | Terry Burgess | Myrtleford | 16 | R Wheildon | Yarrawonga | 13 | |||
| 1972 | Gerald Stakelum | North Albury | 16 | Paul Hooper | Benalla | 13 | |||
| 1973 | Graham Sherwill | Benalla | 16 | G Jones | Corowa | 15 | W McIntyre | Benalla | 13 |
| 1974 | W. Bill Tighe | Albury | 16 | Kevin Hogan | Wang Rovers | 15 | Neville Forge | Corowa | 13 |
| Leo Burke Medal | |||||||||
| 1975 | Barry Clarke | Wang Rovers | 22 | Tom Cooper | Myrtleford | 13 | Bill White | Yarrawonga | 11 |
| Stewart Woods | Wodonga | 11 | |||||||
| 1976 | Kevin Keating | Wodonga | 17 | Simon Plunkett | Albury | 13 | Bill White | Yarrawonga | 12 |
| 1977 | Bruce Calder | Wodonga | 12 | Tom Ashton | Wang Rovers | 10 | Neville Allan | Wang Rovers | 9 |
| G Cleveland | Yarrawonga | 10 | K Chandler | Rutherglen | 9 | ||||
| Greg Elliott | Wang Rovers | 10 | N Grimmer | Benalla | 9 | ||||
| L Keat | Myrtleford | 10 | |||||||
| Simon Plunkett | Albury | 10 | |||||||
| D Sheather | Albury | 10 | |||||||
| 1978 | Bruce Calder | Wodonga | 14 | Simon Plunkett | Albury | 11 | Neville Allan | Wang Rovers | 9 |
| Francis Noonan | Benalla | 9 | |||||||
| Greg Saunders | Wang Rovers | 9 | |||||||
| 1979 | Malcom Dalton | Wang Rovers | 13 | Terry Flynn | Wang Rovers | 12 | Rod Lavis | Corowa Rutherglen | 11 |
| 1980 | Trevor Essex | Yarrawonga | 15 | Steven Succetelli | Myrtleford | 14 | J Brown | Corowa Rutherglen | 13 |
| 1981 | Maurice Eames | Albury | 11 | Peter Macklan | Wodonga | 10 | Peter Brouwer | Albury | 9 |
| 1982 | Ian Gambold | Wang Rovers | 10 | Ray Irvine | Yarrawonga | 9 | Jim Britton | Wodonga | 8 |
| Sambo Johnson | Wangaratta | 9 | Neil Brown | Wodonga | 8 | ||||
| A Stephens | Yarrawonga | 9 | B Hearn | Benalla | 8 | ||||
| R Mellington | Benalla | 8 | |||||||
| W Bill Mulraney | North Albury | 8 | |||||||
| 1983 | Stephen Brown | Wodonga | 13 | D Holmes | Myrtleford | 12 | C Barton | Lavington | 11 |
| P Macklan | North Albury | 11 | |||||||
| 1984 | Colin Reynolds | Wodonga | 14 | Craig Barton | Lavington | 11 | Greg Elliott | Wang Rovers | 8 |
| Laurie Parolin | Myrtleford | 11 | G Mulraney | North Albury | 8 | ||||
| Ross Spriggs | Wangaratta | 11 | |||||||
| 1985 | Paul Livingston | Corowa Rutherglen | 10 | Eddie Flynn & | Wang Rovers | 9 | G Harmer | Albury | 8 |
| Gary Essex | Yarrawonga | 9 | Peter Wolk | Albury | 8 | ||||
| Jeff Ramsdale | Yarrawonga | 9 | Mark Waite | Wodonga | 8 | ||||
| 1986 | Rod Lavis | Corowa Rutherglen | 23 | Ross Worley | Wangaratta | 14 | Tony Heather | Albury | 11 |
| 1987 | Paul Potocnik | Albury | 18 | Karl Bounader | Wodonga | 14 | Sambo Johnson | Wangaratta | 11 |
| 1988 | W. Bill Mulraney | North Albury | 14 | Gary O'Keefe | Wang Rovers | 11 | Steven Bowdren | Albury | 10 |
| Paul Potocnik | Albury | 10 | |||||||
| 1989 | Andrew Robinson | Wanga Rovers | 20 | Mark Stephens | Wodonga | 13 | Richard Braid | North Albury | 12 |
| 1990 | James Houston | Albury | 17 | Jason Reid | Wodonga | 15 | Peter Copley & | Lavington | 13 |
| Ken Mansell | Lavington | 13 | |||||||
| 1991 | Mick Thornycroft | North Albury | 16 | Darren Flashman | Lavington | 13 | Phil Godde | Corowa Rutherglen | 11 |
| R McIntosh | Wodonga Raiders | 13 | Robbie Johnson | Benalla | 11 | ||||
| 1992 | Anthony Gleeson & | Wangaratta | 17 | Ian Bock | Corowa Rutherglen | 16 | Jim Sandral | Corowa Rutherglen | 14 |
| Robert Lampre & | Wodonga Raiders | 17 | |||||||
| Brendan Smith | Wodonga | 17 | |||||||
| 1993 | Chris Barker | Wodonga | 13 | Richie Baker | Corowa Rutherglen | 11 | Tony Gleeson | Wangaratta | 10 |
| Gerard Knobel | Myrtleford | 10 | |||||||
| Steven Masin | Myrtleford | 10 | |||||||
| Paul Mooney | Paul Mooney | 10 | |||||||
| 1994 | W. Bill Mulraney | North Albury | 17 | Brad Marshall | Wodonga Raiders | 13 | Trevor Vyner | Wodonga | 11 |
| 1995 | Dale Gleeson | Wodonga Raiders | 17 | Shane Roche | Myrtleford | 15 | Mick Brunner | Albury | 13 |
| 1996 | Scott Burgess & | Myrtleford | 24 | Shane Keegan | Lavington | 18 | Cameron Bakes | Albury | 15 |
| Matthew Garoni | Myrtleford | 24 | |||||||
| 1997 | Craig McMillan & | Lavington | 17 | Jason Reid | Wodonga | 11 | Danny Cohen | Wodonga | 10 |
| Graham McMillan | Yarrawonga | 17 | S Davey | North Albury | 10 | ||||
| Shane Roche | Wang Rovers | 10 | |||||||
| Kurt Schubert | Wodonga Raiders | 10 | |||||||
| 1998 | Ralph Albers | Lavington | 19 | J Baker & | Wodonga Raiders | 12 | J Reid | Wodonga | 11 |
| B Braybrook | Wodonga | 12 | |||||||
| 1999 | Ben Kerr | North Albury | 21 | Matt Prendergast | Wodonga Raiders | 20 | Shannon Gilson | North Albury | 16 |
| 2000 | Shane Wardrop | North Albury | 14 | Graeme Fruean | Albury | 13 | Tony Geddes | North Albury | 11 |
| Nathan Haywood | Lavington | 13 | Ian Maiden | Lavington | 11 | ||||
| 2001 | Paul Wood | Albury | 17 | A Loughman | 15 | A Gilbert | 14 | ||
| 2002 | Paul Wood | Albury | 18 | Ryan Storey | Wodonga | 17 | Shane Forge | Yarrawonga | 12 |
| Peter Fraser | Wodonga | 12 | |||||||
| 2003 | Col McClounan | Wangaratta | 24 | Troy Walker | Wang Rovers | 14 | |||
| 2004 | C Miller | Albury | |||||||
| 2005 | Graham Mathey | Wodonga | 15 | Scott Oliver | Wang Rovers | 14 | Travis Hubble | Wang Rovers | 13 |
| 2006 | Carl Norton | Wangaratta | 22 | Ben McIntyre | Myrtleford | 16 | Scott Oliver | Wang Rovers | 15 |
| Joshua Pierpoint | Albury | 15 | |||||||
| 2007 | Carl Norton | Wangaratta | 25 | John Poala | Wodonga Raiders | 19 | Tim Scheuermann | Wang Rovers | 18 |
| 2008 | Carl Norton | Wangaratta | 20 | Sam Duck | Albury | 15 | Paul Scullie | Wang Rovers | |
| 2009 | Luke Daly | Albury | 27 | Trent Lappin | Wang Rovers | 23 | Steven Pulla | Wodonga Raiders | 18 |
| 2010 | Carl Norton & | Wangaratta | 19 | David Avery | Wodonga | 17 | |||
| Brandon Symes | Yarrawonga | 19 | |||||||
| 2011 | Carl Norton | Wangaratta | 25 | Dan McCormack & | Wangaratta | 15 | |||
| 2012 | Nathan Lafoe | Wodonga Raiders | 20 | Nick Howell | Myrtleford | 18 | Dylan Beattie | Wodonga | 17 |
| 2013 | Ross Mulquiney & | Yarrawonga | 14 | Jack Stefani | Wodonga | 13 | Will Blomeley | Albury | 12 |
| Ashleigh Sibraa | North Albury | 14 | Beau Seymour | Yarrawonga | 12 | ||||
| Ben Dower* | Albury | (14) | |||||||
| 2014 | Bobby Griffiths | Albury | 21 | Will Haberecht | Albury | 16 | Damon Symes | Yarrawonga | 14[57] |
| 2015 | Craig Mabon | Lavington | 18 | Bryce Garvey | Wodonga | 15 | James McClounan | Wangaratta | 11 |
| Guy Prendergast | Lavington | 15 | |||||||
| 2016 | Clint Gilson & | North Albury | 23 | Jack Haugen | Wodonga Raiders | 17 | Ben Dower | Albury | 15 |
| Ross Mulquiney | Yarrawonga | 23 | |||||||
| 2017 | Clint Gilson | North Albury | 17 | Nick English | Wodonga | 13 | Jeremy Schifferle | Myrtleford | 12[58] |
| 2018 | Oliver McEwan | Albury | 22 | Aiden Bihun & | Wangaratta | 15 | |||
| Reece Corcoron | Wodonga Raiders | ||||||||
| 2019 | Ross Mulquiney | Yarrawonga | 27 | Oliver McEwan | Albury | 24 | Jeremy Schifferle | Myrtleford | 18[59] |
| 2020 | In recess COVID-19 | ||||||||
| 2021 | Mitchell Booth | Wang Rovers | 16 | Angus Geddes | Albury | 9[60] | |||
| Chris Knowles | Wangaratta | 9 | |||||||
| Max Hemphill | Yarrawonga | 9 | |||||||
| 2022 | Xavier Leslie | Yarrawonga | 26 | Mitch Booth | Wang Rovers | 24 | Kade Brown | Wodonga | 13 |
| 2023 | Jacob Brunner | Albury | 27 | Will Bradshaw | Wodonga | 13 | Will Robinson | Yarrawonga | 11 |
| 2024 | Noah Amery | Wang Rovers | 24 | Braeden Marjanovic | Wangaratta | 21 | Will Haberecht | Albury | 17 |
| 2025 | |||||||||
| Year | Winner | Club | Votes | Second | Club | Votes | Third | Club | Votes |
The Thirds / Under 18 competition commenced in 1973 and the Leo Dean Medal is awarded for the best and fairest thirds football player in the O&MFL during the home and away season. This award was originally called the 3NE Award for the Thirds competition inaugural year in 1973 to 1984.
Leo Andrew Dean was a talented young former Wangaratta player who tragically died on Monday, 3 September 1984, at 20 years of age[61] and this award is in memory of him.[62]
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| 1973 | Peter Nolan | Benalla | 26 | Paddy McCarthy | Wang Rovers | 17 | R Brizzi | Myrtleford | 16 |
| L Chalmers | Myrtleford | 16 | |||||||
| John Dent | Wangaratta | 16 | |||||||
| A Monshing | 16 | ||||||||
| 1974 | Mick Ketchup | Wangaratta | 32 | Peter Nolan | Benalla | 24 | Peter Duncan | Yarrawonga | 20 |
| 1975 | Steven Hedley | Wodonga | 21 | Phil Murray | Wangaratta | 20 | V Ryan | Yarrawonga | 19 |
| 1976 | John Martiniello | Benalla | 24 | Anthony Carroll | Corowa | 17 | P Cody | Rutherglen | 16 |
| 1977 | A McIntosh | North Albury | 28 | N Johntson | Myrtleford | 18 | G Long | Yarrawonga | 17 |
| 1978 | John Clohessey | Corowa | 20 | Greg Pritchard | Wangaratta | 19 | A Mapleson | Corowa | 14 |
| 1979 | John Pennington | Wodonga | 17 | David Johnston | North Albury | 16 | Wayne Edwards | North Albury | 15 |
| 1980 | Anthony McTavish | North Albury | 34 | Daryl Everett | Wangaratta | 20 | Fred Pane & | Wang Rovers | 19 |
| Gary Essex | Yarrawonga | 19 | |||||||
| 1981 | Brian Judd | Yarrawonga | 19 | Steven Bowdren | Albury | 18 | Paul Livingston | Corowa Rutherglen | 17 |
| Laurie Cook | Benalla | 18 | |||||||
| Fred Pane | Wang Rovers | 18 | |||||||
| 1982 | Ian McGregor | Wodonga | 24 | Mick Reidy | Wang Rovers | 23 | Steven Hickey | Benalla | 22 |
| 1983 | Rod Brewster* | Benalla | 19 | Anthony Pasquali | Wang Rovers | 17 | Brad Boundy | Corowa Rutherglen | 16 |
| Michael Moore | Myrtleford | (19) | |||||||
| 1984 | Chris O'Connor | Wang Rovers | 17 | Paul Bryce | Wang Rovers | 16 | John Aliozas | Myrtleford | 15 |
| Leo Dean Award | |||||||||
| 1985 | John Pulling* | Corowa Rutherglen | 15 | Martin Cross & | North Albury | 14 | C Knobel | Myrtleford | 13 |
| Paul Greaves | Benalla | (15) | Chris Hoysted & | Wang Rovers | 14 | Tom Runnalls Jnr | Yarrawonga | 13 | |
| Paul Minall | Albury | 14 | |||||||
| 1986 | Tom Runnalls Jnr | Yarrawonga | 20 | P Linea | Wodonga | 16 | D Fraser | Corowa Rutherglen | 12 |
| John Galie | Wang Rovers | 12 | |||||||
| 1987 | Greg Knobel | Myrtleford | 20 | C Bergin | Lavington | 19 | J Batson | Lavington | 16 |
| 1988 | Paul Weir | Corowa Rutherglen | 19 | Michael Killeen | Lavington | 16 | Andrew Robinson | Wang Rovers | 15 |
| 1989 | Phillip Partington | Wodonga Raiders | 12 | Stephen Bice | Albury | 11 | Cameron Bakes | Albury | 10 |
| Daine Hochfeld* | Wang Rovers | (13) | Matthew Garoni | Myrtleford | 11 | Jason Dowling | Wang Rovers | 10 | |
| Chris Gleason | Albury | 11 | Robert Lampre | Wodonga Raiders | 10 | ||||
| S Maloney | North Albury | 11 | Mark Nolan | Wang Rovers | 10 | ||||
| Luke Norman | Wangaratta | 11 | S Pfahlert | Lavington | 10 | ||||
| John Sammutt | Benalla | 11 | Joel Styles | Wodonga | 10 | ||||
| 1990 | David King | Albury | 21 | Adam Azzi | Wodonga | 17 | M Seymour | Yarrawonga | 16 |
| 1991 | Craig McBrien | Lavington | 40 | Mark Dawson | Wodonga Raiders | 21 | Paul Hodgkin | Wodonga | 18 |
| 1992 | Mark Knobel | Myrtleford | 23 | Hayden Sharp | Wang Rovers | 22 | Robbie Murray | North Albury | 20 |
| 1993 | Phil Jones | North Albury | 28 | Aaron McGibbon | Lavington | 20 | Brett Kirk | North Albury | 19 |
| Robert Reeve | Wodonga Raiders | 20 | Matthew Lewis | Benalla | 19 | ||||
| 1994 | Dean Taylor | North Albury | 18 | Nathan Powell | Lavington | 16 | Brad Doolan | Wodonga | 15 |
| 1995 | Matthew Collins | Albury | 27 | Bill Neely | Yarrawonga | 19 | Kane Arendarckas | Albury | 17 |
| 1996 | Daniel McLaughlin | Wang Rovers | 22 | Daniel Harders | Albury | 19 | M Wright | Benalla | 19 |
| Troy McCormack | Wangaratta | 19 | |||||||
| 1997 | Aaron Henneman | Corowa Rutherglen | 18 | B Collins | Benalla | 14 | Justin Knobel | Myrtleford | 13 |
| B Eames | Albury | 14 | S Pierce | Woodonga Raiders | 13 | ||||
| P Hicks | Corowa Rutherglen | 14 | Rohan Rosser | Wang Rovers | 13 | ||||
| 1998 | Justin Knobel | Myrtleford | 27 | Troy Walker | Wang Rovers | 24 | N Reynoldson | Corowa Rutherglen | 20 |
| 1999 | Dean Bigger & | Yarrawonga | 21 | Larn Dougangphosay | Wang Rovers | 20 | B Sutcliffe | Albury | 18 |
| Ian Maiden | Lavington | 21 | |||||||
| 2000 | Ryan McKenzie | Corowa-Rutherglen | 26 | Daine Runnells | Yarrawonga | 25 | Hayden Heta | Wodonga | 22 |
| Steve Johnson | Wangaratta | 22 | |||||||
| 2001 | Ryan McEvoy | Wodonga | 23 | Paul Glanville | 17 | R Hynes | 15 | ||
| 2002 | Jamie Allan & | Wang Rovers | 25 | C Miller | Albury | 24 | K Buis | Myrtleford | 16 |
| Trent Ball | Lavington | 25 | |||||||
| 2003 | Ben Sanday | Wodonga Raiders | 24 | Carl Groth | Wang Rovers | 21 | |||
| 2004 | James Weavers | North Albury | 36 | Carl Groth | Wang Rovers | 23 | Matthew Seiter | Wodonga | 22 |
| 2005 | Todd Birch & | North Albury | 21 | T Gleeson | Albury | 18 | T Gorupic | Wodonga | 13 |
| Ben Reid | Wang Rovers | 21 | M McEvoy | Wodonga Raiders | 13 | ||||
| Brent Newton | Wang Rovers | 13 | |||||||
| 2006 | Peter Cook | Wodonga Raiders | 24 | Matthew Flynn & | Wang Rovers | 18 | Luke Griffin | Wangaratta | 14[63] |
| Shane Gaston | Wang Rovers | 18 | |||||||
| 2007 | Zac O'Brien & | Wang Rovers | 18 | Jarrod Hodgkin | Wodonga | 15 | Matthew Flynn | Wang Rovers | 14 |
| Brenton Olsen | Wodonga | 18 | Heath Ohlin | Wodonga Raiders | 15 | Josh Hammond | Yarrawonga | 14 | |
| Josh Owen | Wangaratta | 14 | |||||||
| 2008 | Jack Stean | Albury | 21 | Danny Allan | Wang Rovers | 20 | |||
| 2009 | Angus McDiarmid | Lavington | 23 | Josh McCudden | Wodonga Raiders | 19 | Brandon Symes | Yarrawonga | 14 |
| 2010 | Matt Dussin | Alpine Eagles | 21 | James Backway | Wodonga | 20 | Brody Ricardi | Alpine Eagles | 18 |
| 2011 | Will Blomeley & | Albury | |||||||
| Connor Hargreaves | Yarrawonga | ||||||||
| 2012 | B Murphy | Wodonga Raiders | Dylan Wilson | Wang Rovers | 17 | ||||
| 2013 | Damon Symes & | Yarrawonga | 15 | ||||||
| Louis Vescio | Wangaratta | 15 | |||||||
| 2014 | Hugh Amery | Wangaratta | 23 | Aaron Jory | Lavington | 22 | Dominic Brew | Albury | 21[64] |
| 2015 | Hugh Amery | Wangaratta | 29 | Ben Lloyd | North Albury | 20 | Brad Coyne | Corowa Rutherglen | 17[65] |
| 2016 | Paul Sanderson | Wang Rovers | |||||||
| 2017 | Paul Sanderson | Wang Rovers | 26 | Adam Martin | Lavington | 18 | Riley Bice | Albury | 17 |
| 2018 | Ed Dayman | Wang Rovers | 20 | Ben Bray | Wangaratta | 17 | Jack Sexton | Yarrawonga | 15 |
| 2019 | Alessandro Belci & | Wang Rovers | 26 | Isaac Folini | Wangaratta | 18 | |||
| Oscar Hayes | Albury | 26 | |||||||
| 2020 | In recess. COVID-19 | ||||||||
| 2021 | Ben Woodburn | Yarrawonga | 25 | Thomas Cappellari | Myrtleford | 15 | Alex McCarthy | Wang Rovers | 14[66] |
| 2022 | Charlie Lappin | Albury | 20 | Nelson Bowey | Wodonga Raiders | 16 | Charlie McGrath | Albury | 13 |
| 2023 | Riley Allan | Wang Rovers | 22 | Will Ashton & | Wang Rovers | 18 | Corby Robertson & | Lavington | 17 |
| Rueben Bourke | Wodonga | 18 | Archer Scammell | Wodonga Raiders | 17 | ||||
| 2024 | James Grohmann | Wodonga | 22 | Cooper Hall | Lavington | 19 | Oscar Roberts | Wangaratta | 18 |
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The O&MFNL Rookie of the Year was first awarded in 1987.
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The Doug Strang Medal is given for the leading goal kicker senior player in the O&MFL during the home and away season at a vote count held in the week preceding the grand final. The award is similar to the AFL's Coleman Medal. The award was known as the Jeffrey Trophy in 1957.[67] From 1966 to 1969, the goalkicking award was known as the Ivan Hanrahan Trophy. In 1970 the goalkicking award was the Garrison Hotel Trophy. The medal was later named in honour of former, Albury and Richmond player, Doug Strang The list of Doug Strang Medallists follows:[68] () – Brackets means goals kicked in finals series.
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Senior Football
The first known representative match was in 1914 when a team from the Albury, Corowa and Howlong clubs (O&M – NSW) played against a team made of Lake Rovers, Mount Ophir and Rutherglen (O&M – Vic), with the Victorian side defeating NSW by two points on the Albury Sportsground, in the State of Origin match.
In 1958, the O&MFL picked two separate teams, with one team playing the Farrer Football League and the other team playing the Riverina Football League, with both games played on the weekend of the 4 and 5 July 1958.
Caltex had the naming rights of the Victorian Country Championships matches in the 1960s. The 16 league series would run over a two-year period, with knock out matches in the first season, followed by semi finals and a grand final in the following season.[91]
In 1974, the O&MFL were disaffiliated with the VCFL, when the O&MFL refused to accept an application from the Lavington Football Club to join the league and were not allowed to compete in the Victorian Country Championships in 1974. The VCFL Country Championships was put on hold from 1975 to 1977. The O&MFL were re-affiliated with VCFL in 1976.
In 1998, the VAFA defeated the O&MFL at Waverley Park to win the Smokefree Victorian Challenge match, as a curtain raiser to the AFL Ansett Cup Pre season grand final, then the O&MFL turned the tables on the VAFA the following year in the same challenge match at the same venue.[92]
From 2004 to 2006 the championships were decided at a carnival round-robin competition at one venue over a single weekend, with each of the four sides playing the others in matches of two twenty-minute halves. The team on top of the ladder, after these three matches, were declared the winner. Leagues not represented in the top four pools of four participated in other inter-league matches organised by the VCFL.
In 2007, there was no statewide VCFL Championships, just a rivalry round was played between close by leagues, (with the O&MFL playing the GVFL), with the round robin format returning in 2008.
The O&M have gone onto win the first division of the Victorian Country Football League interleague championship fourteen times, the most recent victory being in 2009.
The O&MFL representative teams wears a gold guernsey, emblazoned with a monogram-style black "O&M" initials, with black shorts and black socks.[93]\
VCFL League Rankings
In 2009 the VCFL decided to rank each country football league, with the O&MFL initially ranked number one.
The Metropolitan and Country Football Championships merged in 2016 to create a statewide competition, with the rankings reorganised to include metropolitan leagues in 2017.
The O&MFL were ranked number five in Victoria in the 2019 VCFL Country Championships.[94]
As of 2020, AFL Victoria decided to scrap its traditional interleague competition, but leagues could decide amongst themselves, if they wish to play or not.[95]
The Ash Wilson Trophy
The Ovens & Murray Football League and the Goulburn Valley Football League have played for this trophy since 2001, to honour two long serving players - GVFL's Stephen Ash and OMFL's Mick Wilson, but the league's have been competing against each other in inter league football matches since 1930, when they first met at the Wangaratta Showgrounds, with the OMFL winning 17 and the GVFL winning 10 matches.[105]
VCFL Championships
| Year | Captain | Coach | Venue | O&M Score | Match Result | O&M Opposition | Match Score | Comments |
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| 1914 | Albury Sportsground | 12.9 – 81 (Vic) | defeated | O&MFA – NSW | 10.16 – 76 | O&M Vic v O&M NSW[109] | ||
| 1922 | R Williams | Wangaratta | 8.6 – 54 | lost to | Carlton | 14.14 – 98 | Gate: £114[110][111][112] | |
| 1926 | Percy Rowe | Albury Showground | 13.13 – 91 | lost to | Victorian FL | 16.11 – 107 | Gate: £185 [113][114][115] | |
| 1928 | Harry Hunter | Wang Showgrounds | 15.14 – 104 | lost to | Victorian FL | 16.15 – 111 | Gate: £86[116][117] | |
| 1930 | Ernie Loveless | Wang Showgrounds | 15.13 – 103 | lost to | Goulburn Valley FL | 16.14 – 110 | [118] | |
| 1933 | Albury Showgrounds | 8.18 - 66 | defeated | Albury & DFL | 8.15 - 63 | 12/8/33[119] | ||
| 1933 | Albury Showground | 21.16 – 142 | lost to | Richmond FC | 24.16 – 160 | [120] | ||
| 1934 | Frank Cleary | Tatura | 11.10 – 76 | defeated | Goulburn Valley FL | 7.14 – 56 | Gate: £16[121][122] | |
| 1946 | Albury Sportsground | 4.7 – 35 | lost to | Footscray FC | 25.22 – 172 | June'46[123][124] | ||
| 1946 | Albury Sportsground | 10.7 – 67 | lost to | Richmond FC | 29.18 – 192 | [125] | ||
| 1949 | Mac Holten | 13.13 - 91 | lost to | Footscray FC | 15.9 - 99 | 4/9/49 | ||
| 1949 | Bill King | Bill King | Corowa | 18.10 – 118 | lost to | Essendon FC | 8.5 – 53 | [126][127] |
| 1952 | Mac Holten | Leeton Showgrounds | 24.16 – 160 | defeated | SWDFL | 7.10 – 52 | 10/6/52[128] | |
| 1952 | Mac Holten | Trumper Park, Sydney | 17.24 – 126 | defeated | Sydney FL | 7.15 – 57 | 14/6/52[129] | |
| 1952 | Corowa | 11.12 - 78 | lost to | Richmond | 13.11 - 89 | [130] | ||
| 1953 | Mac Holten | Park Oval, Echuca | 11.13 – 79 | defeated | Bendigo FL | 11.11 – 77 | [131] | |
| 1954 | Marty McDonnell | Marty McDonnell | Ballarat | 9.18 – 73 | defeated | Goulburn Valley FL | 5.7 – 37 | [132] |
| 1954 | Greg Tate[133] | Marty McDonnell | Eastern Oval, Ballarat | 11.11 – 77 | defeated | Bendigo FL | 8.21 – 69 | VCFL Champions[134] |
| 1954 | Marty McDonnell | Marty McDonnell | Albury Sportsground | 8.9 – 57 | lost to | East Perth FC | 13.13 – 91 | 18/7/1954[135][136] |
| 1954 | Mac Holten ? | Wangaratta Showgrounds | 7.10 – 52 | lost to | Melbourne FC | 20.19 – 139 | [137] 2/10/1954 | |
| 1955 | Tim Robb | Tim Robb | Wangaratta Cricket Ground | 15.20 – 110 | defeated | Murray FL | 10.8 – 68 | |
| 1955 | Tim Robb | Tim Robb | Albury Sportsground | 29.20 – 194 | defeated | Benalla Tungamah FL | 13.12 – 90 | Semi-final |
| 1955 | Tim Robb | Tim Robb | Albury Sportsground | 14.18.102 | defeated | Ballarat FL | 10.13.73 | G Final. VCFL Champions[138] |
| 1956 | Doug Palmer | Doug Palmer | Bendigo | 29.18 – 192 | defeated | Sunraysia FL | 14.12 – 96 | |
| 1956 | Doug Palmer | Doug Palmer | QEO, Bendigo | 8.6 – 54 | lost to | Ballarat FL | 9.13 – 67 | Grand Final[139] |
| 1957 | Bob Rose | Bob Rose | Albury | 17.24 – 126 | defeated | Sunraysia FL | 15.14 – 104 | |
| 1957 | Bob Rose | Bob Rose | Albury | 14.21 – 105 | defeated | Ballarat FL | 10.16 – 76 | VCFL Champions[140] |
| 1958 | Bob Rose | Bob Rose | Leeton, NSW | 21.11 – 137 | defeated | Riverina FL | 14.15 – 99 | 5/7/58[141] |
| 1958 | Des Healey | Des Healey | Albury, NSW | 23.25 – 163 | defeated | Farrer FL | 10.13 – 73 | 4/7/58 |
| 1959 | No rep football | |||||||
| 1960 | No rep football ? | |||||||
| 1961 | Bob Rose | Bob Rose | Narrandera | 13.21 – 99 | defeated | Southern Riverina FL | 10.13 – 73 | Rd.1 10/6/61 |
| 1961 | Bob Rose | Bob Rose | Wang Showgrounds | 13.11 – 89 | defeated | Goulburn Valley FL | 8.8 – 56 | Rd.2 12/6/61 |
| 1961 | Corowa, NSW | 10.15 – 75 | lost to | Essendon | 18.11 – 119 | 17/9/1961 | ||
| 1962 | Bob Rose | Bendigo | 9.12 – 66 | lost to | Bendigo FL | 12.8 – 80 | Semi-final | |
| 1962 | Corowa, NSW | 13.13 – 91 | lost to | Collingwood | 19.21 – 136 | |||
| 1963 | Lionel Ryan | Bill Stephen | Albury, NSW | 13.12.90 | lost to | SWDFL | 15.18.108 | Rd.1. 8/6/63[142] |
| 1964 | No games in 1964 | |||||||
| 1965 | John Hoiles | John Hoiles | Shepparton | 9.16 – 70 | defeated | Goulburn Valley FL | 8.5 – 53 | Rd.1. 13/6/65 |
| 1965 | John Hoiles | John Hoiles | Albury, NSW | 13.11.89 | defeated | SWDFL | 9.11.65 | Rd.2. 24/7/65 |
| 1966 | Murray Weideman | Ken Boyd | Albury Sportsground | 17.20 – 122 | defeated | Bendigo FL | 8.10 – 58 | S Final. 11/6/66 |
| 1966 | John Hoiles | Ken Boyd | Wang Showgrounds | 12.16 – 88 | lost to | Hampden FL | 14.7 – 91 | Grand Final. 7/7/66 |
| 1967 | Murray Weideman | Murray Weideman | Wang Showgrounds | 15.18 – 108 | defeated | Warranga North East FL | 7.6 – 48 | Rd.1 |
| 1967 | Murray Weideman | Murray Weideman | City Oval, Wangaratta | 16.15 – 111 | defeated | Goulburn Valley FL | 10.12 – 72 | Rd.2 |
| 1968 | Mick Bone | Mick Bone | Yallourn | 15.13 – 103 | defeated | La Trobe FL | 9.15 – 69 | S Final.[143] |
| 1968 | Mick Bone | Mick Bone | Horsham City Oval | 15.13 – 103 | defeated | Wimmera FL | 10.8 – 68 | VCFL Champions |
| 1969 | Mick Bone | Mick Bone | Albury Sportsground | 19.22. – 136 | defeated | SWDFL | 10.14 – 74 | 13/7/69. Rd.1[144] |
| 1970 | Mick Bone | Mick Bone | City Oval, Wangaratta | 15.14 – 104 | defeated | Bendigo FL | 13.10 – 88 | Semi-final |
| 1970 | Mick Bone | Mick Bone | Reid Oval, Warrnambool | 3.12 – 30 | lost to | Hampden FL | 9.19 – 73 | Grand Final |
| 1971 | Martin Cross | Martin Cross | Yerong Creek, NSW | 30.15 – 195 | defeated | Farrer FL | 12.7 – 79 | Rd.1 |
| 1971 | Martin Cross | Martin Cross | Yerong Creek, NSW | 18.14 – 122 | defeated | Farrer FL No.2 team | 12.8 – 80 | No.2 teams |
| 1971 | Martin Cross | Martin Cross | Wangaratta Showgrounds | 22.4 – 136 | defeated | Goulburn Valley FL | 8.10 – 58 | Rd.2 |
| 1972 | Neville Hogan | Neville Hogan | QE Oval, Bendigo | 7.15 – 57 | lost to | Bendigo FL | 16.13 – 109 | S Final. 10/6/72 |
| 1973 | Neville Hogan | Neville Hogan | Yarrawonga | 25.18.168 | defeated | Murray FL | 14.10.94 | Rd.1 |
| 1973 | Neville Hogan | Neville Hogan | Corowa, NSW | 15.2.92 | defeated | SWDFL | 11.15.81 | Rd.2. 22/7/73[145] |
| 1974 | Were due to play in S Final | O&M barred from VCFL in '74 | ||||||
| 1975 | City Oval, Wangaratta | 24.23 – 167 | defeated | Victorian FA | 17.9 – 111 | |||
| 1976 | Martin Park, Wodonga | 7.9 – 51 | lost to | North Melbourne | 22.10 – 142 | 7/3/76 | ||
| 1976 | Bill Sammon | Bunton Park, Nth Albury | 17.14.116 | lost to | Victorian FA | 19.11 – 125 | 25/4/76 | |
| 1977 | Phil Nolan | Gaimain, NSW | 15.19 – 109 | defeated | SWDFL | 13.14 – 92 | 15/5/77 | |
| 1978 | Neville Hogan | Martin Park, Wodonga | 18.26 – 124 | defeated | SWDFL | 11.10 – 76 | [146] | |
| 1978 | Neville Hogan | Benalla Showgrounds | 15.8 – 98 | lost to | Goulburn Valley FL | 17.12 – 114 | ||
| 1979 | Peter Chisnall | Wang Showgrounds | 12.19 – 91 | defeated | Tungamah FL | 6.9 – 45 | Rd.1 | |
| 1979 | Peter Chisnall | Shepparton | 12.14 – 86 | defeated | Goulburn Valley FL | 11.10 – 76 | Zone Final | |
| 1979 | Peter Chisnell | North Albury | 11.17 – 83 | lost to | LaTrobe Valley FL | 16.14 – 110 | Semi-final | |
| 1980 | Daryl Smith | Daryl Smith | 19.11 – 125 | defeated | Goulburn Valley FL | 14.9 – 93 | ||
| 1980 | Daryl Smith | Daryl Smith | Sale | 15.13 – 103 | lost to | LaTrobe Valley FL | 19.17 – 131 | Grand Final |
| 1981 | Col Travaskis | Col Travaskis | 19.11 – 125 | defeated | SWDFL | 14.19.103 | 10/5/81 [147] | |
| 1981 | Col Travaskis | Col Travaskis | Shepparton | 14.19 – 103 | defeated | Goulburn Valley FL | 12.11 – 83 | Zone Final |
| 1981 | Col Travaskis | Col Travaskis | Wang Showgrounds | 12.23.95 | lost to | Western Border FL | 15.11 – 101 | Semi final |
| 1982 | Noel Long | 14.29 – 113 | defeated | Bendigo FL | 12.19 – 91 | |||
| 1982 | Noel Long | 23.20 – 158 | defeated | North Central FL | 21.16 – 142 | |||
| 1982 | Noel Long | 8.20 – 68 | lost to | Ballarat FL | 13.18 – 96 | Grand Final | ||
| 1983 | Deakin Reserve, Shepparton | 10.12 – 72 | lost to | Goulburn Valley FL | 13.18 – 96 | Rd.1 | ||
| 1983 | Lavington, NSW | 15.15 – 105 | defeated | Bendigo FL | 14.11 – 95 | Rd.2 | ||
| 1984 | O&M did not compete | |||||||
| 1985 | Rod Coelli | John Byrne | Narrandera, NSW | 24.21 – 165 | defeated | Riverina FL | 8.6 – 54 | Rd.1 19.5.85[148] |
| 1985 | Rod Coelli | John Byrne | Donald, Vic | 21.16 – 142 | defeated | North Central FL | 13.8 – 86 | S Final 8/6/85 |
| 1985 | Rod Coelli | John Byrne | Wangaratta | 20.21 – 141 | defeated | Ballarat FL | 13.7 – 85 | G Final VCFL Champions |
| 1986 | Denis Sandral | John Byrne | Albury | 19.16 – 130 | defeated | Diamond Valley | 12.17 – 87 | 25/4/86 |
| 1986 | Denis Sandral | John Byrne | Bendigo | 14.17 – 101 | lost to | Bendigo FL | 20.15 – 135 | Rd.1, 11/5/86 |
| 1987 | John Byrne | Albury Sportsground | 21.16 – 142 | defeated | Goulburn Valley FL | 12.15 – 87 | Rd.1 10/5/87 | |
| 1987 | John Byrne | Traralgon | 25.23 – 173 | defeated | LaTrobe Valley FL | 14.8 – 92 | S Final 5/6/87 | |
| 1987 | John Byrne | Mildura | 22.13 – 145 | defeated | Sunraysia FL | 11.15 – 81 | G Final VCFL Champions | |
| 1988 | Rod Coelli | John Byrne | Wang Showgrounds | 14.7.91 | lost to | Geelong FL | 16.17 – 113 | 7/5/88 |
| 1989 | Denis Sandral | John Byrne | Morwell | 14.14 – 98 | defeated | LaTrobe Valley FL | 14.11 – 95 | Rd.1. 7/5/89 |
| 1989 | Denis Sandral | John Byrne | Lavington | 7.12 – 54 | lost to | Bendigo FL | 10.10 – 70 | S Final. 10/6/89 |
| 1990 | Denis Sandral | Kevin Neale | Wang Showgrounds | 19.13 – 127 | defeated | Goulburn Valley FL | 15.11 – 101 | Rd.1. 6/5/90 |
| 1990 | Denis Sandral | Kevin Neale | Lavington, NSW | 14.14 – 90 | lost to | Bendigo FL | 17.6 – 108 | S Final. 9/6/90 |
| 1991 | Albury | 16.22.118 | defeated | LaTrobe Valley FL | 16.10 – 106 | |||
| 1992 | Peter Tossol | 13.7.85 | defeated | Bendigo FL | 10.11.71 | |||
| 1992 | Peter Tossol | Geelong | 11.15 – 81 | lost to | Geelong FL | 17.17 – 119 | ||
| 1993 | Rob Walker | Ray Card | 9.12 – 66 | lost to | Goulburn Valley FL | 21.12 – 138 | ||
| 1994 | Peter Tossol | 17.9.111 | defeated | Riddell FL | 6.13.49 | Relegated to Div 2 in '94 | ||
| 1994 | Peter Tossol | 15.14.104 | defeated | Mornington Peninsula | 10.9.69 | |||
| 1994 | Peter Tossol | 12.8.80 | defeated | North Central FL | 9.15.69 | Div 2: VCFL Champions | ||
| 1995 | Peter Tossol | 11.10.76 | defeated | Bendigo FL | 9.14.68 | |||
| 1995 | Peter Tossol | 5.6.36 | lost to | Gippsland LaTrobe | 9.9.63 | |||
| 1996 | Rob Walker | Peter Tossol | 18.16.124 | defeated | Hampden FL | 10.12.72 | ||
| 1996 | Rob Walker | Peter Tossol | 18.14.122 | defeated | Mid Murray FL | 15.18.108 | ||
| 1996 | Rob Walker | Peter Tossol | Martin Park, Wodonga | 15.12 – 102 | defeated | Geelong FL | 14.10 – 94 | VCFL Champions |
| 1997 | Craig Fruend | Bob Craig | 17.20.122 | defeated | Footscray & DFL | 7.8 – 50 | ||
| 1997 | Craig Fruend | Bob Craig | 19.16.130 | defeated | Bendigo FL | 19.7.121 | ||
| 1997 | Craig Fruend | Bob Craig | Geelong | 8.18 – 66 | defeated | Geelong FL | 6.4 – 40 | VCFL Champions |
| 1998 | Bob Craig | AFL Park, Waverley | 11.12 – 78 | lost to | Victorian Amateurs FL | 12.9 – 81 | ||
| 1998 | Bob Craig | 21.20 – 146 | defeated | Central Murray FL | 14.11 – 95 | |||
| 1998 | Bob Craig | 12.13.85 | defeated | Murray FL | 7.12.54 | June'98 | ||
| 1998 | Bob Craig | Wodonga | 14.13 – 97 | defeated | Geelong FL | 12.17 – 89 | VCFL Champions | |
| 1999 | Bob Craig | AFL Park, Waverley | 9.9 – 63 | defeated | Victorian Amateurs FL | 8.7 – 55 | [149] | |
| 1999 | Mick Wilson | Bob Craig | J C Lowe Oval, Yarrawonga | 12.16 – 88 | defeated | Murray FL | 8.15 – 63 | [150] |
| 1999 | Mick Wilson | Bob Craig | Moe | 10.16 – 76 | defeated | Gippsland LaTrobe FL | 11.9 – 75 | VCFL Champions |
| 2000 | Bob Craig | 9.10 – 64 | defeated | Eastern FL | 5.12.42 | |||
| 2000 | Mick Wilson | Bob Craig | 15.9 – 99 | lost to | Goulburn Valley FL | 14.27 – 111 | ||
| 2001 | Paul Spargo | 16.12.108 | defeated | Murray FL | 9.6.60 | Rd.1 | ||
| 2001 | Paul Spargo | 22.16 – 148 | defeated | Hampden FL | 13.12 – 90 | S Final | ||
| 2001 | Paul Spargo | Lavington Sportsground | 22.18 – 150 | defeated | Goulburn Valley FL | 14.9 – 93 | G Final. VCFL Champions | |
| 2002 | Brad Thompson | Peter Seymour | Yarrawonga | 17.18 – 120 | defeated | West Gippsland LaTrobe FL | 9.13.67 | Rd.1 |
| 2002 | Brad Thompson | Peter Seymour | Warrnambool | 13.14.92 | lost to | Hampden FL | 14.12.96 | Semi-final |
| 2003 | Tim Hargreaves | Mick Wilson | W J Findlay Oval, Wang | 4.14 – 38 | lost to | Goulburn Valley FL | 8.5 – 53 | wet day/low scores |
| 2004 | Mick Wilson | Shepparton | 6.9 – 45 | lost to | Goulburn Valley FL | 9.4 – 58 | 2 x 20 min halves | |
| 2004 | Mick Wilson | Shepparton | defeated | Mornington Peninsula FL | 2 x 20 min halves | |||
| 2004 | Mick Wilson | Shepparton | 2.5 – 17 | lost to | Geelong FL | 9.2 – 56 | 2 x 20 min halves | |
| 2005 | Mick Wilson | Geelong | 3.4 – 22 | lost to | Goulburn Valley FL | 11.8 – 74 | 2 x 20 min halves | |
| 2005 | Mick Wilson | Geelong | 7.2 – 44 | lost to | Geelong FL | 7.8 – 50 | 2 x 20 min halves | |
| 2005 | Mick Wilson | Geelong | ? | defeated | Ballarat FL | ? | 2 x 20 min halves | |
| 2006 | Dale Carmody | Richard Bence | Lavington, NSW | ? | defeated | West Gippsland FL | by 28 points | 2 x 20 min halves |
| 2006 | Dale Carmody | Richard Bence | Lavington, NSW | 11.5 – 71 | defeated | Goulburn Valley FL | 2.4 – 16 | 2 x 20 min halves |
| 2006 | Dale Carmody | Richard Bence | Lavington, NSW | 8.11 – 59 | defeated | Ballarat FL | 7.8 – 50 | VCFL Champions |
| 2007 | Tim Hargreaves | Richard Bence | Wang Showgrounds | 12.10 – 82 | defeated | Goulburn Valley FL | 12.7 – 79 | No VCFL Championships in '07 |
| 2008 | Corey Lambert | Deakin Reserve, Shepparton | 10.2 – 62 | defeated | Hampden FL | 3.4 – 22 | 30/05/08 | |
| 2008 | Corey Lambert | Deakin Reserve, Shepparton | 6.5 – 41 | lost to | Goulburn Valley FL | 6.6 – 42 | 31/05/08 | |
| 2008 | Corey Lambert | Deakin Reserve, Shepparton | 6.10 – 46 | defeated | Ballarat FL | 6.4 – 40 | 1/6/08. VCFL Champions | |
| 2009 | Robbie Jackson | Deakin Reserve, Shepparton | 20.7 – 127 | defeated | Goulburn Valley FL | 12.8 – 80 | VCFL Champions [151] | |
| 2010 | Robbie Jackson | Lavington Sportsground | 9.10 – 64 | lost to | Goulburn Valley FL | 12.16 – 88 | [152] | |
| 2011 | Matt Pendergast | Frankston Park | 13.13 – 91 | lost to | Mornington Peninsula FL | 13.15 – 93 | [153] | |
| 2012 | Matt Pendergast | Princes Park, Carlton | 18.6 – 114 | defeated | Hampden FL | 10.6 – 66 | [154] | |
| 2013 | Craig Ednie | Matt Pendergast | Princes Park, Carlton | 7.13 – 55 | lost to | Peninsula FL | 15.10 – 100 | [155] |
| 2014 | Craig Ednie | Brendan Fevola | Wang Showgrounds | 29.16 – 190 | defeated | Hampden FL | 10.5 – 65 | [156][157] |
| 2015 | Craig Ednie | Brendan Fevola | Albury Sportsground | 10.10 – 70 | lost to | Peninsula FL | 11.14 – 80 | [158][159] |
| 2016 | Jon Henry & | Reid Oval, Warrnambool | 20.14 – 134 | defeated | Hampden FL | 9.14 – 68 | [160] | |
| Darren Spencer | ||||||||
| 2017 | Jon Henry & | Martin Park, Wodonga | 12.14 – 86 | defeated | Goulburn Valley FL | 11.13 – 79 | [161][162] | |
| Darren Spencer | ||||||||
| 2018 | Jon Henry & | J C Lowe Oval, Yarrawonga | 21.14 – 140 | defeated | Western Region F L | 9.10 – 64 | [163][164] | |
| Brad Murray | ||||||||
| 2019 | Jon Henry & | Olympic Park, Rosebud | 10.11 – 71 | lost to | Mornington Peninsula Nepean FL | 16.16 - 112 | [165][166] | |
| Brad Murray | ||||||||
| 2020 | O&M in recess | Damian Sexton | Albury | O&M were to play Hampden FL | No rep football>COVID-19 | |||
| 2021 | Damian Sexton | O&M were to play GVFNL | No rep football>COVID-19[167] | |||||
| 2022 | Damian Sexton | Mooroopna Main Oval | 18.11 – 119 | defeated | Goulburn Valley FL | 9.10 - 64 | ||
| 2023 | Leigh Williams | Damian Sexton | Albury Sports Ground | 13.14 – 92 | defeated | Goulburn Valley FL | 13.7 - 85 | |
| 2024 | Damian Sexton | Deakin Reserve | 7.6 - 48 | lost | Goulburn Valley FL | 8.15 - 63 | 25/5/24 | |
| Year | Captain | Coach | Venue | O&M Score | Match Result | O&M Opposition | Match Score | Comments |
The Norm Minns Medal
Norm Minns (08/01/1925-29/12/1987) was a former Wangaratta and O&MFL player and captain / coach of Benalla and Corowa. He was also a long time O&MFL selector and life member.
The Norm Minns Medal is awarded to the O&MFL best player in senior representative football and was first awarded in 1997.
The Peter Johnston Medal
Peter Johnston was a former North Albury FC and O&MFNL official and life member of both organisations.
This medal is awarded to the best Under 18 O&MFNL footballer in representative matches.
The Ovens & Murray Hall of Fame was established in 2005, to recognise and promote the outstanding achievements of some of the league's greatest players, dedicated administrators and club support staff and long serving media representatives.
As of the 2022 ceremony there have been 87 inductees, including three netballers.
Only six people have received the additional honour of being promoted to "Legend" status.
History
The netball competition's were added to the Ovens & Murray Football League from the 1993 season, with A and B. Grade. The C. Grade competition was established in 1996, with the 17 and under competition commencing in 2012.
The Toni Wilson Medal is awarded for the best and fairest A-Grade netball player in the OMFNL during the home and away season.[169] Wilson (the older sister of Mick Nolan) was the first President of the O&M Netball Association and instrumental in getting the netball competition formed in 1993.[170]
More successful has been the Murray Bushrangers TAC Cup Under 18s side, who play their home games in Wangaratta; prior to the AFL national draft and the inception of the TAC Cup, young players in the area would usually play through the grades with their local club, with less likelihood of being scouted by the recruitment staff from AFL clubs. Although there has been some concern from clubs about these players being removed from the local competition, the ones that do not get drafted usually return to their home clubs to play locally once they come of age.
Even in that case, there is some chance that a late-maturing "older" player in their early 20s will be drafted by an AFL club. Several notable examples to be drafted directly from the O&MFL include, Guy Rigoni (Myrtleford/Melbourne), Brett Kirk (North Albury/Sydney Swans) and Karl Norman.
All clubs field sides in the under 18s competition, aside from Myrtleford, which fields a joint team with the "Bright Football Club" wearing navy blue and gold colours & the club will be known as the "Alpine Eagles", and they would also field an under 18s joint team in the "Ovens & King Football League" also wearing navy blue and gold colours & the club will be known as the Alpine Eagles. However the Alpine Eagles alliance between Myrtleford and Bright had strained over the last few seasons before finally after the 2013 season The Myrtleford under-18s announced that they will stop wearing navy blue and gold colours of the "Alpine Eagles" and will be returning to the red, white and black colours & the club will be known as the "Myrtleford Saints", ending their almost 10-year partnership with Bright, in place since the early 2000s.
| Albury Wodonga Junior Football League League Website | ||||||
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| Club | Moniker | Home ground(s) | Under 16 | Under 14 Cup / Shield |
Under 12 | |
| Albury Juniors Club Website |
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Tigers | Albury Sports Ground (Albury) |  |
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| Corowa-Rutherglen Juniors Club Website |
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Roos | John Foord Oval (Corowa) | |
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| Lavington Juniors Club Website |
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Panthers | Lavington Sports Ground (Lavington) | |
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| North Albury Juniors Club Website |
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Hoppers | Bunton Park (North Albury) | |
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| Scots School Juniors FC Club Website |
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Scots | Scots School Oval (Albury) | |
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| St Patricks Juniors FC Club Website |
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Saints | Xavier High School Oval (Albury) | |
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| Wodonga Juniors Club Website |
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Bulldogs | John Flower Oval (Wodonga) | |
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| Wodonga Raiders Juniors Club Website |
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Raiders | Birallee Park (Wodonga) | |
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| Yarrawonga Juniors Club Website |
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Pigeons | J.C. Lowe Oval (Yarrawonga) | |
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Notes: Team field by club for that age group; "=Yes" & "=No".
The W&DJFL was established in 1938 and currently has three divisions of football in the Under 12's, Under 14's and Under 17's. All the Wangaratta-based club's in the Wangaratta & District Junior Football League club's are independent incorporated local community sports club's and are not affiliated with any O&MFNL or O&KFNL clubs.
Some of the former W&DJFL players that went onto play VFL / AFL senior football were - John Brady, Lance Oswald, Ian Rowland, Sam Kekovich, Mick Nolan, Mark Browning, Dennis Carroll, Darren Steele, Chris Naish, Steve Johnson, Alipate Carlile, Ben Reid, Sam Reid, Jack Crisp, Dominic Bedendo, Joe Richards and Darcy Wilson
The following O&MFNL footballers / netballers have won the prestigious Stawell Gift. The year below indicates what year each O&MFNL player won their Stawell Gift.
Stawell Gift – Hall of Fame Inductees
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