The Kowree Naracoorte Football League was an Australian rules football competition based around Naracoorte, South Australia and the Kowree region of Victoria.
Prior to the Kowree Naracoorte Football League, Naracoorte had a team in the South Eastern Football Association which was based in Mount Gambier however this competition declined and the Naracoorte side split into Naracoorte North and South.
This saw the Naracoorte Football Association revived for 1935, but it was short lived as the next year Lucindale left to the Southern Ports Football League leaving Kybybolite, North and South Naracoorte to join Apsley, Edenhope and Frances in the Kowree Football Association based around Edenhope, Victoria. After a successful 1936 season it was suggested that the league would be renamed the Kowree Naracoorte Football League.
Lucindale joined the KNFL from the Southern Ports League in 1946, while the two Naracoorte clubs merged for the same time that year. South and North Naracoorte were re-formed in 1950; however, they merged again the following year. Unusually, the newly re-formed Naracoorte club decided to field two B-grade sides for the 1951 season. 1951 also saw Frances merge with North Kowree FA club Minimay to form Border Districts after it was determined that Frances would struggle to form an A-grade side and Minimay would only field a B-grade side.
Further additions to the league included Kingston â a merger of the Kingston-based sides of the Southern Ports Football League â in 1966, the newly-formed Padthaway club in 1967 and Western Border club Penola in 1988.
The league continued until 1993 when the KNFL merged with the Tatiara Football League to create the Kowree-Naracoorte-Tatiara Football League. All the KNFL clubs joined this new league.
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