West Jersey Football League


The West Jersey Football League is a superconference comprising 95 teams from public and private high schools in New Jersey, United States. Created in 2010, the WJFL reached its current size in 2016 covering most of South Jersey, with the addition of the football programs that had participated in the Cape-Atlantic League and the Colonial Conference to the teams already participating from the Burlington County Scholastic League, Colonial Valley Conference, Olympic Conference and the Tri-County Conference. The teams are grouped into 16 six-team divisions grouped by geography, size, competitive balance, strength of program and other factors. The WJFL operates under the auspices of the Leagues and Conferences Committee of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association.

History

The league was created in 2010 as a way to better balance teams that had faced imbalances in the size and quality of teams within conferences. While some regretted the loss of old rivalries, the conference made an effort to establish crossover games between teams that had traditions under which they had played each other regularly in the past.
With a decline in the number of student athletes playing football at West Windsor-Plainsboro High School North that would be inadequate for the school to field a team of its own, the West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional School District attempted to combine the teams from the two schools to have them operate as a single co-operative football team for the 2017-18 school year based at West Windsor-Plainsboro High School South. Given that the size of the schools is larger than the threshold established by the state for co-op programs, the proposal was rejected in a 76-16 vote by the West Jersey Football League and by the Leagues and Conferences Committee of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association, before an appeal of the decision was rejected by the Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Education. In August 2017, the district announced that WW-P North would cancel its program. The members of the canceled program will be eligible to play for the North junior varsity football team, but will not be able to play for the South team.

Divisions

The league is divided into the following 16 divisions:
;American Division
;Capitol Division
;Classic Division
;Colonial Division
;Constitution Division
;Continental Division
;Diamond Division
;Freedom Division
;Independence Division
;Liberty Division
;Memorial Division
;National Division
;Patriot Division
;Royal Division
;United Division
;Valley Division