Media Release | Outer East FN confirms that the Broadford and Yea football teams will combine for the remainder of season 2022.
The two sides will be known as Broadford-Yea in the seniors and Yea-Broadford in the reserves. Both jumpers will be used across the season, as each club host home games across the year.
The structure of the netball divisions are not affected by this decision, with Yea netball remaining as graded. The football will be aligned to Broadford’s netball team, with clubs to play Yea netball in bye rounds. A key outcome for all Division Two clubs was for football and netball to remain together both home and away, which has been achieved.
Every possible step has been taken to assist both clubs to take the field at full capacity in 2022. The league has met regularly with Broadford and Yea since February. The option to combine was investigated pre-season, however the desire from both clubs was to exhaust every avenue to field full squads, a position supported by the league. With both clubs playing in Round 1 and Yea with the bye following the Easter break, Round 4 was the targeted period to make a decision for 2022.
In the short term, Broadford-Yea will begin as a combined outfit from Round five. Once combined, this will see the outfit have a list of approximately 60 players to choose from each week, which means seniors and reserves football will occur across every fixture (covid dependent) all season.
