Newcastle Australian Football League Broadmeadow. After the 1999 season, the NAFL merged with the Central Coast AFL to form the Black Diamond Australian Football League. From 2000 onwards the Premiers are listed under the Black Diamond Australian Football League Newcastle Australian Football League The Newcastle Australian Football League was an Australian rules football competition in the city of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. The first clubs (Wallsend and Plattsburg) began in 1883, however the competition proper began in 1888 with teams contesting for the Black Diamond Cup, now Australia's oldest sporting trophy and presently contested in the Black Diamond Australian Football League. In 1894,
White City Stadium (Newcastle) White City Stadium (Newcastle) White City Stadium (Newcastle) was a greyhound racing stadium near Scotswood Bridge in Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne And Wear. In 1927 the Tyneside Sports Stadium Ltd Company planned to construct a stadium just south of the River Tyne at the end of the Scotswood Bridge. There was a spare plot of land where the stadium could just about squeeze into between the river and the Redheugh Branch railway line. It was the first greyhound track to open in Newcastle and the Greyhound Racing Association (GRA) also had a financial interest in the venture. The stadium opened