Many local communities are creating organizations to go along with their Youth Football leagues and Youth Basketball leagues.

This move away from Essendon, at a time when fans would walk to their local ground, did not go over well with many Essendon people ; and, as a consequence, a new team and club was formed in 1900, unconnected with the first ( although it played in the same colours ), that was based at the Essendon Cricket Ground, and playing in the Victorian Football Association.

The local football club AEL 1964 FC currently participates in Football League Greece.

Founding father of the NMFC. The North Melbourne Football Club arose from lowly origins in 1869, purportedly established to satisfy the needs of local cricketers who were keen to keep themselves fit over the winter months.

This may have seemed like the end for North, but the local community re-established the North Melbourne Football Club as a new identity, and the VFA re-admitted the new club to the Association for the 1908 season.

* The local American Football team is Den Haag Raiders ' 99.

The FA sanctions all competitive football matches in England at national level, and indirectly at local level through the County Football Associations.

Vaduz also has a local professional association football club, FC Vaduz which, as the other clubs in Liechtenstein, plays in the Swiss Football League.

Most notably, Bassett's Toronto Northmen were forced to find a new home after the Canadian government threatened to ban any American football team from competing with the Canadian Football League ( despite the fact that the Toronto Rifles of the Continental Football League had played in Toronto just seven years prior ); though the Canadian Football Act never passed, the mere threat of it prompted Bassett to move the team to Memphis, where they became the Memphis Southmen, but were generally referred to by fans, local media, and even some official team materials as the " Grizzlies ".

West Hertfordshire merged with local rivals Watford St Mary's in 1898 ; the merged team was named Watford Football Club.

Slane Gaelic Football Club comprises the local parish Gaelic Athletic Association Gaelic football teams for the urban and rural areas of Slane.

The Old Alleynian Football Club is a local rugby union team originally for former pupils of Dulwich College, but is now open to all who wish to play.

Some of the more familiar local landmarks include Alexandra Palace, Bruce Castle, Jacksons Lane, Highpoint I and II, and Tottenham Hotspur Football Club.

Some of the more familiar local landmarks include Alexandra Palace, Bruce Castle and Tottenham Hotspur Football Club.

There are two local football teams: Ards F. C., who play in the IFA Championship, and Ards Rangers F. C., who play in the Northern Amateur Football League.

Wallingford is the local Association Football club.

* Loreauville is home to " Tiger Inn " a small fast food restaurant named after the local High School Football team mascot ( The Loreauville Tigers ).

The local high school ( Kerkhoven-Murdock-Sunburg Fighting Saints ) claimed the 2008 Minnesota High School Football Class A Championship by defeating Royalton, MN and also reigned as 2009 Minnesota Class A Wrestling Champions.

Glouster has been the home of several families / individuals who have come into reasonable success over the years, including the Mulnar's ( owners of several businesses in Athens County, such as Heiner's Bakery ), the Edward's ( owners / business moguls currently living in Nelsonville, Ohio ), Sam Jones ( former professional boxer & local entrepreneur ), Mark Echstenkamper ( former MLB pitcher ), Roger Bingman ( NCAA Division II College Football Champion ), Craig Cornett ( owner / founder of Frog Ranch Salsa ) and Nathan Angle ( former Nat ' l Advisor for French Relations ).

It is home to the Rio Grande Valley Magic of the Southern Indoor Football League, the Rio Grande Valley Killer Bees of the Central Hockey League, and the Rio Grande Valley Vipers of the NBA Development League, who play in the local State Farm Arena ( Formerly Dodge Arena ), also a concert venue serving the McAllen – Edinburg – Mission and Reynosa – McAllen metropolitan areas.

It is known as the " Stampede City ", carries the informal nickname of " Cowtown " and the local Canadian Football League team is called the Stampeders.

Burgess Hill Rugby Football Club, or The Sussex All Blacks, are the local Rugby Football club, playing their home games close to Southway Primary School.

This was after a great deal of lobbying by the Maricopa County Sports Authority, a local group formed to preserve Cactus League spring training in Arizona and eventually secure a Major League franchise for the state.

He also played Senior hockey with the local Foam Lake Flyers of the Fishing Lake Hockey League, winning the league scoring title as a bantam-aged player.

For example, the rules of tournament bridge are governed by the World Bridge Federation, and by local bodies in various countries such as the American Contract Bridge League in the U. S., and the English Bridge Union in England.

The merchants in the nearby townships of Castellina, Gaiole and Radda formed the Lega del Chianti ( League of Chianti ) to produce and promote the local wine.

The event was the culmination of civil disobedience in the Ballarat region during the Victorian gold rush with miners objecting to the expense of a Miner's Licence, taxation ( via the licence ) without representation and the actions of the government and its agents ( the police and military ) The local rebellion in Ballarat grew from a Ballarat Reform League movement and culminated in organised battle at the stockades against colonial forces.

Frederik Pohl, in his autobiography The Way the Future Was, said that the origins of the Futurians started with the Science Fiction League founded by Hugo Gernsback in 1934, the New York City local chapter of which was called the " Brooklyn Science Fiction League " or BSFL, and headed by G. G. Clark.

Inscriptions recently discovered at Halicarnassus indicate that her grandson Lygdamis negotiated with a local assembly to settle disputes over seized property, which is consistent with a tyrant under pressure, and his name is not mentioned later in the tribute list of the Athenian Delian League, indicating that there might well have been a successful uprising against him sometime before 454 BC.

Within a couple of months, record stores in areas where MTV was available were selling music that local radio stations were not playing, such as Men at Work, Bow Wow Wow, and Human League.

After the war, the League of Nations held the East Prussian plebiscite on 11 July 1920 to determine if the people of the southern districts of East Prussia wanted to remain within East Prussia or to join the Second Polish Republic. The German side terrorized the local population before the plebiscite using violence, Polish organisations and activists were harassed by German militias, and those actions included attacks and murder of Polish activists ; Masurs who supported voting for Poland were singled out and subjected to terror and repressions

The Omakaitse ( Home Guard ) was an organisation formed by the local population of Estonia on the basis of the Estonian Defence League and the forest brothers resistance movement active in the Eastern Front, 3 July 1941 – 17 September 1944.

The political history of the nation began with the birth of the All India Muslim League in 1906 to protect Muslim interests, amid neglect and under-representation, in case the British Raj decided to grant local self-rule.

The Gretzkys made an arrangement with a local family they knew and Wayne played a season in the Ontario Hockey League at the age of 16 with the Greyhounds.

** East Pakistan ( now Bangladesh ) independence is declared by local Awami League leader Hannan Sarker on behalf of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, from Kalurghat Radio Station in Chittagong.

* League franchise, a local or regional business franchising operation under a particular sporting league in activities such as pool, darts, etc.

Other sports which were once held in Staines but are no longer to be found there include: boxing ( there were weekly programmes off the High Street in the 1930s, and local hearsay suggests bare-knuckle events were held at the Crooked Billet earlier in the 20th century ); wrestling ( bouts were included in boxing programmes of the last 1930s ); motorcycle football ( a club existed in the 1960s ; and American football ( a short-lived team called Staines Removers entered the Budweiser League in 1988, but failed to start the season, although they did play some friendly matches at their base on The Lammas ).

* The Woodland Art Fair: An annual event of the Lexington Art League, is held annually in August at Woodland Park and features many local and national artists working in a variety of media.

The team's 2004 promotion to the Russian Premier League gave local fans a chance to see some of the nation's best teams play at the city's own stadium.

A neglected stadium and erosion of local fan support resulted in the Dillas being dropped from the Central League following the 2004 season in favor of the El Paso Diablos.

By the 14th century, the town had become a centre of local administration and trade and a Hanseatic League associate.