Bendigo Football Netball League

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, 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.



Senior Football Premierships

 * 1880	Bendigo
 * 1881	Sandhurst
 * 1882	Eaglehawk
 * 1883	Eaglehawk
 * 1884	Sandhurst
 * 1885	Sandhurst
 * 1886	Eaglehawk
 * 1887	Eaglehawk
 * 1888	Bendigo
 * 1889	Eaglehawk
 * 1890	Sandhurst
 * 1891	Sandhurst
 * 1892	Bendigo
 * 1893	Sandhurst
 * 1894	Eaglehawk
 * 1895	Eaglehawk
 * 1896	Eaglehawk
 * 1897	Eaglehawk
 * 1898	Eaglehawk
 * 1899	South Bendigo
 * 1900	South Bendigo
 * 1901	Eaglehawk
 * 1902	South Bendigo
 * 1903	Eaglehawk
 * 1904	South Bendigo
 * 1905	South Bendigo
 * 1906	Eaglehawk
 * 1907	Long Gully
 * 1908	Eaglehawk
 * 1909	South Bendigo
 * 1910	South Bendigo
 * 1911	South Bendigo
 * 1912	South Bendigo
 * 1913	Bendigo City
 * 1914	South Bendigo
 * 1915	In recess, WWI
 * 1916	In recess, WWI
 * 1917	In recess, WWI
 * 1918	In recess, WWI
 * 1919	South Bendigo


 * 1920	Sandhurst
 * 1921	South Bendigo
 * 1922	Eaglehawk
 * 1923	Sandhurst
 * 1924	Eaglehawk
 * 1925	South Bendigo
 * 1926	Castlemaine
 * 1927	Sandhurst
 * 1928	Echuca
 * 1929	Sandhurst
 * 1930	Sandhurst
 * 1931	Sandhurst
 * 1932	Sandhurst
 * 1933	Sandhurst
 * 1934	Sandhurst
 * 1935	Eaglehawk
 * 1936	Kyneton
 * 1937	Sandhurst
 * 1938	Golden Square
 * 1939	Golden Square
 * 1940	Sandhurst
 * 1941	Eaglehawk
 * 1942	In recess, WW2
 * 1943	In recess, WW2
 * 1944	In recess, WW2
 * 1945	Golden Square
 * 1946	Eaglehawk
 * 1947	Sandhurst
 * 1948	Sandhurst
 * 1949	Sandhurst
 * 1950	South Bendigo
 * 1951	South Bendigo
 * 1952	Castlemaine
 * 1953	Eaglehawk
 * 1954	South Bendigo
 * 1955	South Bendigo
 * 1956	Sandhurst
 * 1957	Eaglehawk
 * 1958	Rochester
 * 1959	Rochester
 * 1960	Kyneton
 * 1961	Kyneton
 * 1962	Rochester
 * 1963	Rochester
 * 1964	Golden Square
 * 1965	Golden Square
 * 1966	Kyneton
 * 1967	Echuca
 * 1968	Eaglehawk
 * 1969	South Bendigo


 * 1970	Echuca
 * 1971	Eaglehawk
 * 1972	Golden Square
 * 1973	Sandhurst
 * 1974	South Bendigo
 * 1975	Golden Square
 * 1976	Golden Square
 * 1977	Sandhurst
 * 1978	Sandhurst
 * 1979	Golden Square
 * 1980	Golden Square
 * 1981	Sandhurst
 * 1982	Eaglehawk
 * 1983	Sandhurst
 * 1984	Northern United
 * 1985	Northern United
 * 1986	Northern United
 * 1987	Northern United
 * 1988	Golden Square
 * 1989	Golden Square
 * 1990	South Bendigo
 * 1991	South Bendigo
 * 1992	Castlemaine
 * 1993	South Bendigo
 * 1994	South Bendigo
 * 1995	Kyneton
 * 1996	Kangaroo Flat
 * 1997	Kyneton
 * 1998	Maryborough
 * 1999	Maryborough
 * 2000	Castlemaine
 * 2001	Golden Square
 * 2002	Gisborne
 * 2003	Gisborne
 * 2004	Sandhurst
 * 2005	Gisborne
 * 2006	Gisborne
 * 2007	Eaglehawk
 * 2008	Eaglehawk
 * 2009	Golden Square
 * 2010	Golden Square
 * 2011	Golden Square
 * 2012 Golden Square
 * 2013 Golden Square
 * 2014 Strathfieldsaye
 * 2015 Strathfieldsaye
 * 2016 Sandhurst
 * 2017 Strathfieldsaye
 * 2018 Eaglehawk
 * 2019 Strathfieldsaye


 * 2020 Season cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic
 * 2021 Season abandoned after Rd.17, due to COVID-19 pandemic
 * 2022	Gisborne
 * 2023 Golden Square

Football: Best & Fairest Award / Goalkicking
In 1929, the Bendigo Football League (BFL) decided to perpetuate the memory of the late BFL President, Mr. Fred A. Wood, with a gold medal for the best and fairest player from 1930 to 1939.
 * Seniors

In 1946, the BFL best and fairest award was named the Arthur E. Cook Medal, in memory of the late Bendigo MLA, who died suddenly at the Victorian Parliament House in April, 1945,. For many years, Cook was associated with the administration of the BFL.

Between 1947 and 1951 the award was known as the Thomas Rees Davies Medal, after a former Bendigo Councillor, Eaglehawk Mayor and BFL President from 1935 to 1939. Davies was a former Eaglehawk footballer and club Secretary and also Secretary of the BFL too. He was made a life member of the BFL in 1926.

The Jack Michelsen Medal was first awarded in 1952, after a prominent Bendigo Mayor, long-term Councillor and BFL President from 1923 to 1925, John Andrew Michelsen, OBE. Michelsen was a journalist at the Bendigo Advertiser for many years.

Goals in brackets "" includes goals kicked in finals.

2021 Ladder
Home & Away Season was reduced by 6 rounds and Finals series cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic in Victoria