1929 MAFA season
The 1929 MAFA season was the 34th season of the Metropolitan Amateur Football Association, an Australian rules football competition played in the state of Victoria. The season began on 27 April and concluded on 21 September, with 30 teams participating across three divisions under a promotion and relegation system.
Background
The MAFA changed the structure of the final series, with the first-placed team playing the fourth-placed team in the semi-finals, while the second-placed team played their third-placed team. Prior to this, first played third and second played fourth. This change occurred several years before the Victorian Football League used the same system for finishing positions. As a modified version of the Argus finals system, the minor premiers still had the right to challenge the winner of the finals series for the premiership, but only if its home-and-away win–loss record was strictly better than that of the team it was challenging.Association membership
Five new clubs − Bentleigh District, East Malvern, Melbourne High School Old Boys, Old Ivanhoe and Old Paradians − entered the MAFA in [|C Section]. Flinders Naval Base left the MAFA to re-enter the Peninsula Football League, while Oakleigh and Pascoe Vale had been expelled during the 1928 season.The MAFA sought to stop the admission of further "B" teams for the 1929 season, and Teachers' College withrew "Teachers' College B" as a result. Sandringham B had already withdrawn from the MAFA late in the 1928 season. However, Glen Huntly was permitted to keep its "Glen Huntly B" team.