2024 Division 3 Women’s Team of the Year
The Division 3 Team of the Year has landed featuring star players across the board. Therry Penola produced a near perfect season, dropping just one game, to go on and
With finals upon us, it is timely to remind everyone of the VAFA’s finals eligibility rules. Please read below for everything you need to know:
To be eligible for finals (and subject to the operation of Rule 55D) a player must be eligible and registered to represent the club; meet any applicable age requirement; and meet the games qualification stated below:
(i) a player who has played in 6 or more Open-age games must have played a minimum of 6 Under 18 games; and
(ii) a player must not have played more than 10 Under 19 games.
Under-age hybrid teams
The finals qualification for a hybrid team comprising a combination of players from more than one Club (including a Club from another competition as referred to in Rule 44(b)) is a minimum of 5 games for that team.
Playing more than one game on a weekend
Clubs fielding more than one team in a Grade
More than one team playing finals on the same weekend
Where a club has more than one team playing finals on the same calendar weekend the following special games qualifications apply:
Over-age players in Under-age Grades
An over-age player permitted by the Board in accordance with Rule 51 or 53 to play home and away games in an Under-age Grade is subject to a finals qualification of a minimum of 8 games for the team he wishes to represent in finals.
AFL, VFL or TAC listed players
The qualification is a minimum of 5 games for the team a player wishes to represent in finals, 2 of which must be after 30 June or in the alternative, a minimum of 8 games in total during the season without any temporal limitation PROVIDED THAT an Under-age player may combine Senior and Under-age games in order to meet the 5 or 8 game qualification for Senior finals.
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