Good Friday football will return to the Essendon District Football League women’s competition this year.
The league released the fixture for the three women’s divisions last week, with the league having the same amount of women’s teams as last season.
To start the season, two premier division matches will be played on Good Friday, to run alongside men’s matches.
Keilor will host Strathmore following the men’s matches between the two teams, while Hillside, which is also hosting Good Friday men’s matches, will host Oak Park at 10am.
The teams will then have a bye in round two.
All other teams will kick off their seasons on April 15.
Strathmore earned promotion to the top flight after winning last season’s division 1 grand final.
Burnside Heights has been relegated to division 1. Tullamarine is the other new team in that division, after winning the division 2 premiership.
Moonee Valley 2 has dropped down to division 2.
Division 2 will be a seven team competition. Airport West and Coburg Districts are the two first sides in the competition, with Aberfeldie, Maribyrnong Park, Greenvale, Moonee Valley and Westmeadows second sides in that division.
Aberfeldie and Greenvale have both added second sides this season, while the Sunbury Kangaroos and Oak Park have gone from two to one sides.
All three division finals will be held the same weekend. The semi finals are the weekend of August 5, the preliminary finals on the weekend of August 12 and the grand finals on August 19.
Each division will have a 14 round season.
