It was created by UNE students in 1962 and ran until 1984, when its remaining clubs moved to the North West AFL.
The Coffs Harbour Swans also played in the NEAFL before creating their own local competition, the North Coast AFL.
Other new clubs including the Gunnedah Bulldogs and the Wanderers formed in the nearby town of Uralla, although they folded by the early 1980s.
Having seeded two new regional league over the preceding decade, the NEAFL folded after the 1984 season, its clubs moving to the North West AFL.
The NWAFL in turn disbanded in 1993, seeing Aussie Rules revert to being an intramural sport at the university until the formation of the Tamworth AFL in 1997.