The Newman National Football League (NNFL), named after the mining centre of Newman, is based in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.
The league was founded in 1972 with three clubs, Centrals, Saints and Tigers. in 1975 a fourth club Pioneers joined the competition.
The four teams make the league unique in Australia as they believe they are the only league to have all four club rooms around the one oval.
Location
Newman (named Mount Newman until 1981) is a town in the Pilbara region of WA. It is located 1,186 km north of Perth and can be reached by the Great Northern Highway. Newman is a modern mining town, with homes contrasting with the surrounding reddish desert. As of the 2021 census, Newman had a population of 6,456. The Hickman Crater, a meteorite impact crater discovered in 2007, is 35 km north of Newman.
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