Ovens & Murray Football League
The Ovens and Murray Football League, often referred to locally as the O&M, is a semi-professional Australian rules football league based around ten clubs in north-eastern Victoria and the southern Riverina region of New South Wales, and affiliated with the Victorian Country Football League. The current chairman of the league is Greg Claney and the current general manager is Tom O'Connor.
All clubs field teams in three grades - senior, reserve and under 18s - as well as three grades of women's netball in an associated competition. A home and away season of eighteen rounds is played so that each club plays each other twice, followed by a series of finals involving the top five teams, played to a McIntyre System schedule culminating in a Grand Final, usually played at the Lavington Sports Ground. Attendances at games during the home and away season vary from 300 to 2,000, while the grand final can draw in excess of 15,000 spectators.
Read more about Ovens & Murray Football League: Junior Development, Current Clubs, Premiership Table, Interleague Competition, Morris Medal, The 1990 Bloodbath Grand Final, 2007 Ladder, 2008 Ladder, 2009 Ladder, 2010 Ladder, 2011 Ladder, 2012 Ladder
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