It will be a nine team Northern Football League division 3 competition next season, with the league confirming Reservoir and Laurimar will enter sides.
Reservoir returns to the competition after a year in recess, while Laurimar will add senior teams to the junior sides it already fields.
Reservoir, which won the division 3 premiership in 2015 before an exodus of players, re-enters the competition after meeting all the obligations set out by the league.
So far they’ve had at least 40 players on the track training.
Laurimar’s move into the senior competition comes after rapid growth from the club’s junior arm.
The club, which joined the NFL junior competition in 2011, fielded 15 junior sides this season.
League chief executive Peter McDougall said both clubs had put in a lot of work to get senior teams up and going for next season.
The division 3 competition will consist of 18 rounds, with each team to play 16 matches and have two byes.
The league’s top division will remain at 10 teams, while division 2 will return to having eight teams with the addition of this year’s division 3 premiers Watsonia.
Division 2 had only seven teams this season because Reservoir didn’t have enough players to field sides.
