Grand final returns to Romsey Park

Macedon won the last senior football premiership at Romsey Park. (Shawn Smits)

Tara Murray

The biggest day of the Riddell District Football Netball League season will be back at Romsey Park this year.

The league has told clubs that the senior netball and football grand finals will be held at Romsey Park on September 11.

Romsey Park was the home of the RDFNL grand finals between 2014 and 2017, before being played at Clarke Oval in Sunbury in 2018 and 2019.

There have been no grand finals the past two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Rupertswood, which has since left the competition, won both the last senior football and A-grade netball grand finals in 2019.

Finals will be played at Romsey Park in three of the four weeks of finals.

The finals series will be a top five this year, down from the top six that was played in the last full season of competition.

Romsey Park will host the qualifying final between second and third on August 20 in week one of the finals. The elimination finals between fourth and fifth will be held the following day at Greenhill Reserve, Wallan.

Week two of the finals, will have the second second final between the minor premiers and the winner of the qualifying final played at Romsey Park on August 27.

The winner will go straight through to the grand final, while the loser will play in the preliminary final.

The first semi final between the loser of the qualifying final and the winner of the elimination final will be played at Gilbert Gordon Reserve in Woodend on August 28.

The winner will play in the preliminary final at Tony Clarke Reserve on September 3, with the grand final to be held the following week.