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,
Newcastle City Hall (Australia) the early twentieth century. In 1937 the 11 borough councils in Newcastle were amalgamated to form the City of Newcastle and the Town Hall became the legislative and administrative hub from this time. The name was changed to City Hall in honour of this event. During the war years City Hall formed an important hub for charitable and patriotic organisations as community activities of this nature burgeoned, and also hosted recruitment rallies, patriotic fundraising concerts, returned soldiers events. A request by the Anti-Conscription Committee to hold a meeting in the City Hall, on the other hand, was denied by the