North Pilbara Football League


The North Pilbara Football League is an Australian rules football competition based in Karratha and Port Hedland in Western Australia.

History of Football in the Pilbara

Football got its start when a newly transferred Postal worker who was a football fanatic and umpire organized the first game between two pubs in 1962.
Colin Matheson marked out an oval on the mud flats in town and got players from the patrons of the Pier and Esplanade Hotels.
Matheson in 1967 founded the first football association in the area. The Port Hedland Football Association was founded with three teams, Rovers, Panthers and Finucane Island.
In 1969 teams from mining towns of Marble Bar and Goldsworthy entered and formed the newly "De Gray Football Association. Marble Bar lasted 3 seasons before withdrawing, it wasn't until 1975 that the competition expanded again with the creation of two new clubs, Shay Gap and South Hedland.
In Karratha competitive football started with the founding of the Dampier District Association in 1973. Renamed in 1974 as West Pilbara Football League, teams came from Dampier, Karratha, Roebourne and Wickham.
In 1977 the De Grey Football Association and West Pilbara Football League merged to form the De Gray West Pilbara Football League.
In 1983 there was a name change to North Pilbara Football League.

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