 At its peak in the early 1980s the SAFL contained 12 divisions, but for season 2016/2017 there will be 4.For more than 20 years, the League was split into a Premier section of three divisions, with two or three further divisions comprising Section One, so named as it preserved the divisions of the original league.But following an SAFA directive during the 2011–12 season, this format has been changed back to one all-in competition, with effect from the start of the 2012–13 season.