 The teams were merged and called the Myrtleford Football Club with the first eighteen to compete in the Ovens and King and the second eighteen in the Myrtleford and Bright District Football League.Myrtleford First Team went through their first season winning nearly all their games but a controversial issue saw them losing all their points and ending up on the bottom of the ladder instead of first place.A player named A. Janides was registered under his nickname 'Mick' resulting in the points been deducted.