2016 NEAFL season

The 2016 NEAFL season was the sixth season of the North East Australian Football League. The season began on Saturday, 2 April and concluded on Sunday, 11 September with the NEAFL Grand Final. The premiership was won by the.

Participating clubs

Two teams changed their names prior to the 2016 season. Eastlake's NEAFL side started to play as the Canberra Demons in an attempt to be seen as Canberra's representative team in the NEAFL competition. The club wishes to provide a clear AFL pathway for local talent and to get rid of the baggage between other clubs in the ACT. As part of this decision the team also adopted a blue and gold guernsey for home games, reflecting the territory's traditional colours. The team will still wear Eastlake's red and black colours in away matches. The Greater Western Sydney reserves team became known as the Western Sydney University Giants to reflect the re-branding of the university from University of Western Sydney.

Premiership season

All starting times are local.

Round 8

Round 16

Win/Loss table

Bold – Home game
X – Bye
Opponent for round listed above margin
This table can be sorted by margin

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	F1	F2	GF	Ladder
								X					X							X				X	4
						X								X						X		X	X	X	10
					X						X						X					X	X	X	9
					X							X					X						X	X	6
						X						X							X				X	X	5
					X						X								X			X	X	X	8
					X							X						X				X	X	X	7
								X					X					X				X			2
						X						X						X						X	3
						X								X				X				X			1
Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	F1	F2	GF	Ladder

Ladder

Ladder progression

Numbers highlighted in green indicates the team finished the round inside the top 6.
Numbers highlighted in blue indicates the team finished in first place on the ladder in that round.
Numbers highlighted in red indicates the team finished in last place on the ladder in that round.
Underlined numbers indicates the team had a bye during that round.

	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21
1		4	8	12	16	20	24	28	28	32	36	36	40	40	44	48	52	52	52	56	56	60
2		4	4	8	8	8	8	12	16	16	16	20	24	28	28	32	32	36	36	40	44	48
3		0	4	8	12	12	12	16	20	20	20	24	24	24	28	32	36	40	40	44	48	48
4		4	8	8	12	16	20	24	24	28	28	28	28	28	28	32	36	40	44	48	48	48
5		4	4	8	12	16	16	16	20	20	24	28	28	32	32	32	36	36	36	36	40	44
6		0	0	4	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	12	16	20	20	20	24	24	28	32
7		4	4	4	4	4	4	8	8	12	16	20	20	24	24	24	24	28	28	28	28	28
8		4	8	8	8	8	12	12	16	20	24	24	24	24	24	24	24	24	24	24	24	28
9		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	4	4	4	8	8	8	8	12	12	12	12
10		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	4	4	8	8	8	8	12	12	12	12	12	12

Awards

The League MVP was awarded to Matt Payne of, who received 87 votes.
The NEAFL Rising Star was awarded to Hayden Bertoli-Simmonds of.
The NEAFL leading goalkicker was awarded to Darren Ewing of, who kicked 58 goals during the regular season.
The NEAFL goal of the year was awarded to Luke Rogerson of.
The NEAFL mark of the year was awarded to Matt Flynn of.

Rising Star nominations

The NEAFL Rising Star is awarded to the most promising young talent in the NEAFL competition. Players are nominated each week and must be under the age of 21 and have played less than 20 NEAFL games.

Round	Player	Club	Ref.
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3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18

AFL draftees

Draft pick	Player	Club	Drafted to
10_N
14_N
20_N
34_N
36_N
42_N
47_N
51_N
54_N
55_N
67_N
72_N
75_N
51_R
Academy pre-selection
Academy pre-selection
QLD zone selection
NSW zone selection

N – national draft

R – rookie draft