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Wingfield Royals Football Club
The Wingfield Royals Football Club was an Australian rules football club that competed in the South Australian Amateur Football League.

The club was founded in 1954 following the merger of the former Woodville West and Wingfield football clubs and competed in the North Adelaide District Football Association. The club went into recess after the 2014 season due to insufficient player numbers to field two senior teams for the 2015 season. There was a proposed move to the Southern Football League's C grade competition but the proposal fell through when the league and its clubs rejected the idea.

Paralowie Football Club
The Paralowie Football Club was an Australian rules football club that competed in the South Australian Amateur Football League.

Paralowie was founded in 1979 and competed in the Central District Football Association until 1994 when the Roos moved to the South Australian Amateur Football League. The club's first premiership was won in 2008 in the Division 7 competition. Paralowie dropped down to the SAAFL's C5 competition after a loss of players saw the club reduced to just one senior team, where they won the 2009 premiership. After the 2010 season the club went into recess due to financial issues.

Goolwa Port Elliot Football Club
The Goolwa Port Elliot Football Club is an Australian rules football club that competes in the Great Southern Football League. Although the club is based in the Fleurieu Peninsula town of Goolwa, South Australia, the club also represents the towns of Middleton and Port Elliot.

Goolwa FC
The Goolwa Football Club was founded in 1878

Port Elliot FC
The Port Elliot Football Club was established in 1881

Goolwa Port Elliot FC
Upon merging at the end of the 2000 season, the club was originally known as the Goolwa Port Elliot Saints wearing red, black and white to combine the colours of both clubs, Goolwa with black and white and Port Elliot previously having red and black. The Saints first game in 2001 was at Goolwa Oval against Yankalilla, winning 17.17.119 to 7.5.47. However in 2008 the members of the club decided to revert to the black and white colours that Goolwa previously wore. The name was changed from Saints to Magpies as a result.

Despite having yet to make their first Grand Final, the Magpies contested the Finals series every year from 2014 to 2017. However, 2018 saw the Magpies winless with the wooden spoon. 2019 saw another torrid year for the club, finishing second-last with just two wins. == Premierships == The Goolwa Football Club had won 6 premierships since joining the Great Southern Football League in 1923: in 1925, 1932, 1953, 1975, 1976 and 1977.

Port Elliot had won a total of 11 flags, in 1927, 1929, 1931, 1933, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1962 and 1973.

However, since Goolwa and Port Elliot merged to form Goolwa Port Elliot in 2000, the Goolwa Port Elliot Football Club is still yet to win a GSFL premiership.

Kenilworth Football Club
The Kenilworth Football Club, also known as the Kookaburras, is an Australian rules football club that is currently affiliated with the Adelaide Footy League in Division 5.

Club History
The Kenilworth Football Club was officially founded in 1907 by members of the Presbyterian Church in Parkside, although there is an earlier record of a Kenilworth Football Club dating back to June 22nd 1906 playing against Purveyors of Soft Goods. Kenilworth is currently the second oldest club in the Adelaide Footy League, Adelaide University being the oldest club in the league. The club is named Kenilworth after characters in the Sir Walter Scott novel Kenilworth. Kenilworth played in Adelaide's Southern Parklands in its early years, in which they competed in the Uniting Church Football Association and won the 1911, 1912 and 1913 premierships before shifting to the South Australian Amateur Football League in 1914. Kenilworth shifted leagues a number of times afterwards, to the Adelaide Football Association during the First World War from 1916 to 1919, the Metropolitan Football Association in 1917 where they won a premiership, the Patriotic League in 1918 and tried to re-enter the SAAFL in 1920 which turned to be unsuccessful due to past debts. The club competed in the Adelaide Suburban Football Association for the 1920 season and competed in the YMCA Football Association from 1921 to 1923 until they were accepted into the SAAFL A1 competition after paying off the previous debts. Upon re-entry into the SAAFL, Kenilworth had established themselves as a powerhouse club in the league, making Grand Final appearances in 1925, 1927, 1928 and 1930 with 1927 and 1930 remaining victorious and competing in 11 A1 Finals series out of 12 seasons.

However, Kenilworth declined in terms of on field success during the 1930s which saw the club eventually relegate down to the A2 competition in 1938. Kenilworth didn't last long in the A2 competition, winning the 1939 premiership to go back to the A1 competition. World War II would see the suspension of many football leagues across Australia, including the South Australian Amateur Football League. After the war, Kenilworth remained in A1 until the 1960s when they were relegated to A3 due to a lack of on field success. Despite a 1981 A3 premiership, Kenilworth's off field performance saw a short merger with neighbouring club Colonel Light Gardens in 1986, donning the name Kenilworth-Colonel Light. The new club gradually fell through the ranks, being relegated to A4 competition. Kenilworth-Colonel Light won the A4 flag in 1989, the only premiership won as a merged club, before splitting back to Kenilworth and Colonel Light Gardens in 1991. Kenilworth took over as the new tenants of St Mary's Park, formerly Panther Park, in the Adelaide suburb of the same name after the South Adelaide Football Club of the South Australian National Football League moved to their new and current venue of Hickinbotham Oval in Noarlunga Downs in 1995. The 2000s saw Kenilworth struggle, with the Kookaburras dropping down to Division 6 in 2009 after a horror 2008 season. More recently, the club has managed some more on field success winning a Division 6 flag in 2011 and a Division 5 flag in 2013.

Kenilworth competed in Division 4 until 2016 when they finished with the wooden spoon with only 1 win, which saw them relegated to Division 5, where they have remained since.

Premierships

 * 1911 Uniting Church Football Association
 * 1912 Uniting Church Football Association
 * 1913 Uniting Church Football Association
 * 1917 Metropolitan Football Association
 * 1927 South Australian Amateur Football League A1
 * 1930 South Australian Amateur Football League A1
 * 1939 South Australian Amateur Football League A2
 * 1981 South Australian Amateur Football League A3
 * 1989 South Australian Amateur Football League A4
 * 2011 South Australian Amateur Football League Division 6
 * 2013 South Australian Amateur Football League Division 5

Northern Districts Australian Football Club
The Northern Districts Tigers are an Australian rules football club that competes in the South Coast Australian Football League. The Tigers are based in Woonona in Wollongong's northern suburbs.

Brief History
The club was formed in 1971 as Bulli-Woonona and competed in the junior competition in the Illawarra at the time, which consisted of Kully Bay, Shellharbour, Dapto, Berkeley-Unanderra and Wollongong. The Illawarra senior competition did not commence until four years later, in 1975. Bulli-Woonona originally played its games at Slacky Flat, which is the inside part of Bulli Showground, before moving to their current home ground of Hollymount Park in 1975. The Tigers were rather competitive early on in the senior competition, but were yet to win a Grand Final as Wollongong, Dapto and Port Kembla had established themselves as more stronger clubs within the competition. Despite this, the club's junior sides were continuing to perform quite strongly.

By 1979 the name of the club was changed from Bulli-Woonona to Northern Districts, and also saw the Tigers' senior team compete in the Finals series, knocking off Port Kembla and Dapto before falling short to Wollongong in the Grand Final by 15 points. Northern Districts were one of the two teams, along with Port Kembla, destined to play in the 1980 Grand Final but ended up losing their second consecutive Grand Final after a game full of stoushing.

Northern Districts struggled in the next two seasons but beat Wollongong in a thriller in the 1983 Grand Final, and beat the same opposition by 4 points in the following Grand Final of 1984. However a mass exodus of players followed the consecutive premierships wins, which saw the Tigers fall narrowly short of making Finals in the following seasons. 1988 saw the club make its next Finals appearance where they were defeated by arch-rivals Port Kembla.

The Illawarra and South Coast leagues merged in 1989 to form the Leisure Coast league. There was a strong presence on the South Coast that determined that Northern Districts were not good enough to compete in the senior competition, and as a result the club fielded a team competing in the reserves. This result saw the Tigers go through the 1989 season undefeated and storm home with another premiership. The league deemed that Northern Districts return to the 1st grade competition for the 1990 season which was a big stepping stone for the club which was playing against clubs that had drawn players from Victoria and South Australia. The Tigers missed the Finals by a long way that year, and again in the next two seasons.

1993 saw Northern Districts score its largest ever win in a game, the First Grade side thrashing Dapto 220 to 0. That same year saw the Tigers make the Finals again despite being eliminated early, with both the Firsts and Reserves reaching as far as their respective Grand Finals the following year, only to go down to Bomaderry and Port Kembla. The cessation of the local junior competition in the late 1980s had begun to take a toll on the club. With the future of football limited with former juniors that had graduated, Northern Districts were limited to just a First Grade side only. Despite the club showing some spirited performances on the field, the club again missed out on Finals glory. Northern Districts, now with only one senior side, returned to the Reserves competition for the 1997 season as the league believed that the club was only good enough for Reserve grade.

Northern Districts took out the 1997 premiership competing in the Reserves competition which saw them re-admitted back into First Grade. Despite the Tigers missing the Finals for the 1999 season, junior football was reborn within the area with the junior club voted as the best administration club that year, and again in 2000. The club fielded both a Firsts and Reserves side in 2002 after missing the Finals in the previous seasons. The Tigers sat at the top spot of the ladder twelve matches into the 2002 season but ended up playing their final six matches for the year away from home due to abnormality in the fixture. The team was defeated by Albatross in the semi final that year at Ulladulla. Both Northern Districts' First Grade and Reserves teams sat within the top two in the 2004 season with the Firsts posting some large victories and both teams being undefeated at their home turf. However injuries had resulted in both sides bowing out of Finals in straight sets.

By 2005 sponsorship for the club was at an all-time high and the Firsts were undefeated six rounds into the season and finished the season third on the ladder. No flags were won by both Firsts and Reserves in 2005 or 2006, with the Reserves only just dropping short of Finals in both years. 2006 also saw the Premier division side miss the Finals for the first time since 2002. 2007 saw more progress for the Northern Districts club with both senior sides reaching the Finals only to fall just one game short of the premiership.

Maitland Australian Football Club
The Maitland Australian Football Club, nicknamed the Saints is an Australian rules football club that competes in the AFL Hunter Central Coast. The club represents the Hunter Valley city of Maitland and is based in the City of Maitland suburb of Rutherford, New South Wales.

History
Australian rules football in the Hunter Region dates back to 1881 when a club based in West Maitland called Northumberland was founded by bushranger Fred Ward, in which the club would play its first match later that year. The Maitland Mercury newspaper at the time documented that:

“the adoption of the Victorian rules by the newly formed club will be regarded as a step in the right direction, as the Rugby game, which is rendered so objectionable from its roughness and frequency of scrimmages, is gradually dying out in the Metropolis and other places.”

A following member of the rugby fraternity responded a day later to the report.

“This is such a glaring mis-statement, that it should not be allowed to pass unchallenged."

The local competition was established in 1883 with West Maitland (Northumberland) being one of the founding clubs, along with Newcastle City, Lambton, Wallsend & Plattsburg and Singleton. At the time matches were played at agreed dates with the clubs travelling to the matches via steamer.

After the sport died off within the region in 1895, despite on and off attempts to get the now dormant game back up and running, it wasn't until 1948 after World War II that Australian rules would again gain a foothold within the Newcastle region. At some point Maitland had a club that played under the black and white strip of the Magpies that won the 1956 NAFL premiership and played its last Black Diamond Cup game in 1992.

The sport was revived within the Maitland area in 2007 when a new club was founded under the new name the Maitland Saints. The club was originally a junior club until a senior side took the field in 2013. The seniors competed in the Second Division, which was the 3rd tier of the Black Diamond AFL at the time, which consisted of Black Diamond Cup (Premier Division), First Division, Second Division and Under 18s. The Saints finished their inaugural season 2nd on the ladder and reached the Grand Final despite losing to Warners Bay 8.14.62 to 8.1.49.

The following year saw Maitland field both a Firsts and Reserves side in the First and Second Divisions. 2018 saw Maitland promoted to the Black Diamond Cup, the Premier Division of football within the BDAFL, along with Gosford, Singleton, Wyong Lakes and Lake Macquarie, where they have remained since.

Warners Bay Australian Football Club
The Warners Bay AFC, also known as the Bulldogs, is an Australian rules football club affiliated with the AFL Hunter Central Coast competition.

History
Warners Bay have had a history with the game of Australian rules football since the early 1970s when the local Under 17s competition was won by Warners Bay High School in 1972. The school's team won a second premiership in 1974 and that was when the decision was made to start a senior club, mainly filled with high school graduates and upcoming high schoolchildren as there was no senior team to progress onto as Under 17s was the eldest junior grade. The newly-formed club, nicknamed the Bulldogs, fielded their first senior team in the 1976 NAFL Reserve grade competition. The season saw the Bulldogs finish fourth and the team was relegated to First Grade in 1977 and fielded a Reserves team along with Under 17s.

The First Grade's inaugural 1977 season proved to be rather unsuccessful, ending the season with the wooden spoon with two wins and one draw. But there was hope to come, with former Collingwood player Bill Thripp, the Bulldogs went through the 1984 season undefeated and took out their first flag but lost to Singleton the following year in 1985 and West Newcastle in 1986. 1988 saw Warners Bay return to the winners list after a grand final win over Nelson Bay but lost to Wallsend the following year in 1989, the centenary of the opposing Swans. Despite the grand final loss, the Bulldogs went on to win four consecutive flags in a row from 1990 to 1993. Wallsend again challenged the Bulldogs in 1991 bit it was the Bays that came away with the 10-goal win, and again in 1992 with both sides at it again with the Bulldogs winning by 14 goals, the following year defeating West Newcastle for the flag. 1994 saw the Dogs miss out on the Grand Final but were back on the last Saturday of September in 1995 and 1996, losing both deciders but despite making Finals in 1997 and 1999, they were unable to qualify for the Grand Final.

When the Newcastle and Central Coast leagues merged to form the current Black Diamond AFL in 2000, Warners Bay saw the end of a very successful era as they failed to qualify for the Finals since their 1977 debut. 2001 was the 25th anniversary of the club with the seniors having an average season and the 2002 season was starting to look slightly better for the Bulldogs with juniors going extremely well and it was only a matter of time before the Bulldogs were back in the Finals race for potentially a Grand Final spot. The Bulldogs made Finals again in 2003 with the Under 18s side making the Grand Final only to lose to Wyong Lakes. Both sides made Finals again the following 2004 season and 2008 saw the Reserve grade side win the premiership over Newcastle City and the club also fielded a junior team in every grand final that year. The Reserves side were runners up in 2009 and came back to beat Nelson Bay in the 2010 Grand Final with U18s winning the 2011 flag and Reserves beating Maitland in the 2012 decider. Warners Bay fielded their first Women's team in 2015.

External History
The Warners Bay Bulldogs have won 6 premierships in the former Newcastle AFL in 1984, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1992 and 1993 and were runners up in 1983, 1985, 1986, 1989, 1995 and 1996. The highest score the Dogs have kicked was 63.4.382 to 4.2.26 against the Macquarie Magpies on August 1 1998.

Website
WBAFC Website

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Muswellbrook Australian Football Club
The Muswellbrook Australian Football Club, also known as the Cats, is an Australian rules football club based in the Upper Hunter Region town of Muswellbrook, New South Wales, and is currently affiliated with the AFL Hunter Central Coast competition.

Club History
The Muswellbrook AFC was founded in 1988 and competed in the Newcastle Australian Football League, enjoying very little success and eventually disbanding five years later in 1993 due to a lack of players. After ten years of no football in Muswellbrook, the Cats were reformed in 2003 and played in the Tamworth AFL. In their inaugural season in the TAFL, the Cats enjoyed a great deal of success and managed to just finish the season outside of the top four. 2004 saw the club make the Finals series for the first time but unfortunately lost in a semi-final. The following year saw Muswellbrook claim their first premiership, coming from behind to beat the Tamworth Swans by 3 points, sitting second-last halfway through the season to come back and win ten out of their next twelve games to secure a Finals berth, defeating the Inverell Saints and Tamworth Kangaroos before winning the grand final. The Cats remained in the Tamworth AFL (now known as AFL North West) until 2013 when the move was made to the Black Diamond AFL for the 2014 season. They competed in the 2nd Division competition, which was the third tier of the league at the time, and competed in the Black Diamond Plate from to 2017 to 2019, which was the BDAFL/AFLHCC's 2nd tier competition from 2017 to 2019. Muswellbrook's first season in the BDAFL saw them two wins out from making Finals sitting at 6th on the ladder. The 2016 season an undefeated season but ultimately went down to The Entrance Bateau Bay in the Grand Final. The following year saw Muswellbrook struggle with on field success, finishing the home and away season eighth out of nine teams with just two wins but 2018 saw some better results, finishing fourth on the ladder and beating The Entrance Bateau Bay in a home final but ultimately bowed out after losing to Newcastle City the following week. 2019 saw another Finals appearance after finishing 6th but ultimately fell short to The Entrance Bateau Bay which saw them eliminated from the Finals.

The Muswellbrook Cats made history in 2019 when they hosted The Entrance Bateau Bay in their inaugural Pride Round in Round 17, to celebrity and encourage diversity within Australian football.

As a result of the 2019-20 coronavirus pandemic and concerns from the club and the local community regarding COVID-19 transmission, the Muswellbrook Cats AFC withdrew from their respective competitions during the 2020 season after Round 5. The Cats were competing in the Black Diamond Plate, which consisted of the reserves sides of Terrigal-Avoca and Newcastle City, and clubs that only had one men's team, such as Lake Macquarie, The Entrance Bateau Bay and Wallsend-West Newcastle. As a result, the number of teams was reduced to five and a bye added.

Club Song
"It's a grand old flag,

It's a high flying flag,

It's the emblem for me and for you,

It's the emblem of the team we love,

The team of the white and the blue,

Every heart beats true,

For the white and the blue,

As we sing this song to you,

What do we sing?

Should old acquaintance be forgot,

Keep your eye on the white and the blue!"

Bomaderry Australian Football Club
The Bomaderry Tigers are an Australian rules football club based in the town of Bomaderry, New South Wales, and currently competes in the South Coast Australian Football League.

Club History
The Bomaderry Australian Football Club was established in 1969 and began competition in the Leisure Coast AFL, a predecessor to the current South Coast league, in 1970. Originally the club's kit was yellow with long sleeves and a blue sash but eventually the same colours as Richmond of black and yellow was adopted. Bomaderry didn't have an official training venue or home playing ground in 1970, making use of Thurgate Oval in Bomaderry as their training ground before Artie Smith Oval became the club's official home ground.

Bomaderry endured three consecutive Grand Final defeats from 1974 to 1976 early on in their on-field history. Despite the club's Reserves side winning a premiership in 1978, the senior side had to wait until 1989 to win their first premiership. After the Tigers won their second premiership in 1994, the club went on to be one of the more powerhouse clubs in the 2000s, winning 6 premierships from 2000 to 2010, and the Reserves side winning the 2003, 2004, 2006 and 2010 Grand Finals.

A mid-season reorganisation in 2018 saw Bomaderry relegated to Division 2, which not only saw the Tigers' senior and reserves teams win their respective Grand Finals over Kiama and Figtree, but also gave the club the chance to further develop junior sides.

The Bomaderry Tigers AFC celebrated their 50th anniversary in 2019.

Ovingham Football Club
The Ovingham Football Club was an Australian rules football club based in the inner northern suburbs of Adelaide, South Australia, that competed in the South Australian Amateur Football League.

History
Football had been played in and around Ovingham as far back as 1897 with the club being established in 1913 as Ovingham Methodist Football Club and was a founding member of the United Church Football Association. The club originally played on a field where currently the Adelaide Aquatic Centre is located and went into recess from 1926 to 1938 due to World War I. In 1948 the club moved to a new field opposite the former Ru Rua Nursing Home before moving to Cane Reserve in the 1960s, which was donated by Charles Cane to the local council. The Cats were a powerhouse club in the United Church FA from the 1950s to the 1970s, winning a total of 15 premierships.

The name of the club was changed to Ovingham United in 1977 until 1983 where the name 'United' was dropped. During that time period, the club moved to the Norwood-North Football Association for the 1977 season. They only lasted in the NNFA for that one season where they transitioned to the Adelaide Suburban Football League until 1979, when they moved again to the South Australian Amateur Football League for the following 1980 season. During a match in round 11 of the 1985 season, an ugly incident took place in which an Ovingham player struck an umpire, which saw Ovingham disqualified from the league. They instead competed in the Southern Metropolitan Football League for the 1986 season and joined the Northern Metropolitan Football League for the following two seasons until the SAAFL allowed the club to rejoin for the 1989 season.

Upon re-entry into the SAAFL in 1989, Ovingham never seemed to recapture the glory and success that they previously had in the past. The 2009 season saw Ovingham finish in last place in the SAAFL Division 7 competition with just 1 win that season. The next four years were extremely difficult for the club with trouble finding players, financial problems and not having a secure home ground for the 2014 season as the lease for their Charles Cane Reserve home ground had ended and the council had recommended the BOSA Soccer Club take over as the new tenants of the reserve. A decision was made in December 2013 for the 100 year old club to ultimately fold.

Gosford Australian Football Club
The Gosford Tigers Australian Football Club is an Australian rules football club that is affiliated with the AFL Hunter Central Coast competition, and represents the Central Coast suburb of Gosford and surrounds.

Club History
The Gosford Australian Football Club was founded in 1971 and is to date the oldest Australian football club on the Central Coast of New South Wales. The club competed in the Newcastle Australian Football League, as there was no competition yet on the coast, and made its first Grand Final in just its second season which resulted in a loss, but ultimately saw the interest of the code grow within the area. The Central Coast Australian Football League was established in 1976 with Gosford being an inaugural member, along with The Lakes, Terrigal, Narara Wyoming and Woy Woy. Gosford were defeated by Terrigal in a very close encounter in the CCAFL's inaugural 1976 Grand Final but prevailed the following year in 1977 to win their first flag. The former Narara Wyoming club merged with Gosford in 1979 which saw the club play under the name Gosford Wyoming Tigers, and went on to become one of the more dominant clubs in the early 1980s, winning three premierships in 1980, 1983 and 1984. However, the 1990s saw quite the opposite of success, disbanding in 1996 due to low number players. That same year however, saw the formation of the Gosford Bulldogs, the junior club. The senior club was revived in 1997 with both senior and reserves teams, both of which made their respective Grand Finals and were defeated, the seniors losing to Killarney Vale.

In 2000 the Newcastle and Central Coast leagues merged to form the Black Diamond Australian Football League, which saw some mixed results for the club, including a winless season in 2004 and receiving the wooden spoon. The 2006 saw the Tigers fare much better, finishing fifth out of eight teams with eight wins during the eighteen-round season. 2007 saw Gosford slump slightly with just six wins but got back up to sixth place in 2008 with eight wins. Ultimately Gosford struggled throughout the next seasons to follow, which saw them transfer to AFL Sydney in 2013 due to their unavailability to field a reserves team due to low player numbers, which was a prerequisite to be a member club of the BDAFL.

Gosford returned to the BDAFL in 2016 and competed in the Division 1 competition, which was the second tier of football in the league at the time, and finished in fourth place to qualify for the Finals where they were beaten by Newcastle City in the first semi final. The BDAFL renamed their second and third tier competitions to Black Diamond Plate and Reserve Grade the following year. Gosford remained in the second tier Black Diamond Plate, where they finished the 2017 season in fifth spot out of nine teams. The Tigers were one of five clubs, along with Lake Macquarie, Maitland, Singleton and Wyong Lakes, to join a revamped Black Diamond Cup competition for the 2018 season, where they finished eighth place out of an eleven team 1st Grade competition. 2019 however, saw Gosford slump to win the wooden spoon, winning only 3 games.

Singleton Australian Football Club
The Singleton Australian Football Club, nicknamed the Roosters, is an Australian rules football club based in the Hunter Valley town of Singleton, New South Wales, and compete in the AFL Hunter Central Coast competition.

History
The Singleton Roosters AFC have had a long history of competing in the Newcastle Australian Football League with origins of the club dating as far back as the late nineteenth century. Originally known as the Singleton Lone Pine Roosters due to having a historically intrinsic link with the nearby Lone Pine Army Base, the club has always been involved with competition in the NAFL with senior premierships in 1972 and 1985.

Between 1997 and 2005 the Roosters did not field a senior team due to lack of players and instead decided to focus on building their junior base and the players eventually worked up the ranks to senior level, with senior football returning to the town in 2006 in 1st Division and an Under 18s side, with the senior side making Finals but eventually losing to Woy Woy Peninsula. The club's senior side competed in the Reserve Grade in 2010 and won the flag that year. After the BDAFL was re-organised as a three tier competition, Singleton competed in the First Division, the second tier of the league, and won premierships in 2012 and 2016 over Nelson Bay and Maitland. The First Division was renamed the Black Diamond Plate competition in 2017, still being the second tier of BDAFL football and the last year of three senior men's grades until the 2018 season scrapped the Reserves grade with Black Diamond Cup still being the top flight of football and the Black Diamond Plate becoming the Reserves competition. The club's first Black Diamond Cup team was fielded in 2011, not enjoying much luck with only four wins to finish eighth out of a nine team competition. 2018 saw the Roosters return to the Black Diamond Cup and finish the home and away season fourth but to lose the first week of Finals to Warners Bay. 2019 fared much better to the Roosters, reaching as far as the preliminary final before going down to Terrigal-Avoca.

The Singleton Roosters still continue to field junior and senior teams in the Hunter Junior AFL and the AFLHCC and the club's player base stretches out as far south as Maitland and as far north as Tamworth.

Lake Macquarie Australian Football Club
The Lake Macquarie Australian Football Club, nicknamed the Dockers, is an Australian rules football club that competes in the Black Diamond Plate competition in the AFL Hunter Central Coast. It is one of the youngest clubs in the AFLHCC.

Club History
The club was founded as the Macquarie Magpies in 1996 in which they were under until the end of the 2002 season when the name and colours were changed in favour of the Adelaide Football Club in an attempt to unify both the juniors and seniors.

Originally playing under the black and white strip of the Collingwood Football Club, the Macquarie Magpies, as they were known at the time, had selected Tulkaba Park in Teralba as their home ground. The ground was being used by only one league team and had good facilities. The club's inaugural season saw only a senior side and an Under 12s side.

Club Song
We are the mighty Dockers

Were the raiders of the night

We come from Lake Macquarie

We'd rather play than fight

Who are we!

We are the mighty Dockers

The best you'll ever see

Oogy, Oogy, Oogy

Duck, Step and Weave

We are the mighty Dockers

The envy of the league.

The Entrance Bateau Bay Australian Football Club
The Entrance Bateau Bay Australian Football Club, also known as the Blues, is an Australian rules football club that competes in the AFL Hunter Central Coast. They currently compete in the Black Diamond Plate (Division Two) competition.

Black Diamond AFL
The club's senior side was revived in 2014 and competed in the Black Diamond Australian Football League's Second Division, which was the name of the third tier men's competition at the time. In their debut season the Blues finished in 3rd spot and made Finals, although they would go on to lose to Warners Bay in the first week of Finals by 10 points. The following year of 2015 would see The Entrance Bateau Bay make their first Grand Final, losing to Newcastle City 9.11.65 to 16.5.101 but the Blues would again make the big dance the following year, this time claiming the title over the undefeated minor premiers Muswellbrook 7.10.52 to 5.6.36.

The 2016 premiership success would see The Entrance Bateau Bay go up to the men's second division for the 2017 season. The Blues had a rough year that year, finishing 9th and at the bottom of the ladder with just 1 win, but when the BDAFL restructured the league in 2018 by reducing the number of men's competitions from three to two, the Blues endured a much better year finishing in 5th spot and making the Finals, eventually losing to 4th-placed Muswellbrook in the first week of Finals. In both the 2019 and 2020 seasons The Entrance Bateau Bay continued to perform rather strongly, defeating Newcastle City to make the 2019 Grand Final in the Black Diamond Plate (men's division two competition) where they were soundly defeated by 122 points by Terrigal-Avoca, who had endured a second undefeated season. In the season of 2020, which was shortened due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Blues made the Finals yet again after finishing in 3rd spot, although the first week of Finals saw Terrigal-Avoca beat Bateau by 103 points. The Blues finished the Black Diamond Plate season in 4th place after Round 10 of the 2021 season, which was eventually called off due to the large COVID outbreak in Greater Sydney which affected all community sport on the Central Coast.

Nelson Bay Australian Football Club
The Nelson Bay Australian Football Club is an Australian rules football club based in the township of Nelson Bay, New South Wales. The club is nicknamed the Marlins and currently competes in the Black Diamond Cup competition of the AFL Hunter Central Coast league.