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The AFL Victoria Youth Girls Competition is an Australian Rules Football league for girls aged 13 to 17 in Victoria Australia . Some teams are associated with particular Secondary School s and As Of 2005 at least one has been associated with a "seniors" team from the VWFL (Melbourne University), while others are community-based. All teams To Date are based in Melbourne , which is Australian rules' football's leading centre. The Competition is co-ordinated and promoted by AFL Victoria 's Female Football Development Manager. Typically participants will have graduated from . The official ball is Burley , like the VWFL . The competition first ran in 2004 , with 122 girls participating in five teams, which in two years had expended to twelve. The format undergoes significant changes each year as the competition expands. Expansion into the northern suburbs of Melbourne as well as country Victoria is likely in the future. In 2005 three Youth Girls competitors made the Victorian State U19 team, which competed in the AFL Women's National Championships . This was the first underage women's team to play in the national championships (Victoria is the only state to have enough players to support such a team). An U19 team also entered the 2006 Championships (affectionately known as the "Mini-VICs"), with four players from the Youth Girls Competition. [http://youthgirls.footballvic.com.au/default.aspx?s=newsdisplay&aid=109079 COMPETITION STATISTICS 2004 ; Western Bulldogs Forever Foundation Cup (western suburbs) Teams: 2005 ;Footy-Pak Cup (south-eastern suburbs) Six teams: Grand final: ;Western Bulldogs Forever Foundation Cup (western suburbs) Five teams: Grand final: 2006 ;Footy-Pak Cup Six teams: ;Western Bulldogs Forever Foundation Cup Six teams: 2007 ;Footy -Pak Cup Nine teams: ;Western Bulldogs Forever Foundation Cup Ten teams: EXTERNAL LINK |
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