1980s • The MAL was created for the 1985–86 school year's basketball season with
Bettsville,
Hopewell-Loudon,
New Riegel,
Old Fort and
Seneca East coming from the crumbling Seneca County League to combine with
North Baltimore and
St. Wendelin from the former
Lakeshore Conference. Hopewell-Loudon and Seneca East were also full members of the Lakeshore Conference.
Tiffin Calvert and
St. Joseph agreed to join the league, but were not able to leave the
Sandusky Bay Conference until the 1985–86 school year ended.
1990s •
Carey and
Mohawk leave the
North Central Conference and join the MAL for the 1990–91 school year.
2000s •
Lakota left the
Suburban Lakes League at the end of the 2008–09 school year to join the MAL in all sports in time for the 2009 fall sports season. • St. Wendelin competed in the
Northwest Central Conference for football only in 2009 and 2010, but remained a member of the MAL for all other sports. They were eventually voted out of the NWCC for canceling 3 football games in 2010 and competed in the Christian Athletic League of America out of Michigan for football in 2012 and 2013. • On September 8 of 2009, the MAL voted against adding SLL schools Elmwood and Gibsonburg after both submitted letters of interest for membership.
2010s • On December 1, 2011, Carey, Mohawk, and Seneca East announced they would leave the MAL to help form the new
Northern 10 Athletic Conference in 2014 with Bucyrus, Buckeye Central, Colonel Crawford, Crestline, Riverdale, Wynford and Ridgedale. • On April 19, 2012, Calvert, Hopewell-Loudon, and North Baltimore also announced they would leave the MAL to join the
Blanchard Valley Conference after answering a letter of interest made by the BVC in February 2012. Leaving only two football-playing schools (Lakota and St. Joseph CC) it appeared likely that the MAL would not sponsor the sport anymore. • On May 21, 2012, Hopewell-Loudon and North Baltimore were invited to join the BVC for 2014–15, with responses expected by July 1, 2012. North Baltimore accepted on June 19, 2012 while Hopewell-Loudon accepted a day later. Hopewell-Loudon considered a proposal that would make them dual-members of both the MAL and the BVC for every sport except football. • In July 2012, Lakota sent a letter of inquiry to the
TAAC about potential membership. • In December 2012, North Baltimore decided to participate in both the MAL and BVC for all sports except football, which would have been BVC-only. This depended on what setup the MAL would have had in the future. • On February 1, 2013,
St. Mary Central Catholic High School in Sandusky announced they would be forming a new league called the
Sandusky River League in 2014–15 with Calvert, Lakota, New Riegel, Old Fort, and St. Joe's. This league's intention was to have eight football-playing members and 2-3 non-football schools. This league would ultimately give a home to the remaining MAL football schools along with New Riegel and Old Fort for all other sports. Bettsville and St. Wendelin were not initially added to the SRL, but were extended invitations and encouraged to apply. • On March 19, 2013, St. Wendelin was accepted to join the Sandusky River League as its seventh member for 2014. • On April 4, 2013, it was confirmed that Bettsville would not be admitted to the SRL and would have competed as an independent following the MAL's demise. In early 2014, Bettsville opted to let Old Fort absorb its district prior to the 2014–15 school year in order to save its district from financial issues. • On May 13, 2013, Tiffin Calvert was unanimously voted in as the 11th member of the TAAC for 2014. They will join the TAAC without actually competing in the SRL. • As the last calendar day for the 2013–14 school year, June 30, 2014, was the last day the MAL existed as a league. DateFormat = yyyy ImageSize = width:1000 height:auto barincrement:25 Period = from:1985 till:2015 TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal PlotArea = right:30 left:0 bottom:50 top:5 Colors = id:barcolor id:line value:black id:bg value:white PlotData= width:20 textcolor:black shift:(5,-5) anchor:from fontsize:m bar:1 color:powderblue from:1985 till:2014 text:Bettsville (1985-2014) bar:2 color:powderblue from:1985 till:2014 text:Hopewell-Loudon (1985-2014) bar:3 color:powderblue from:1985 till:2014 text:New Riegel (1985-2014) bar:4 color:powderblue from:1985 till:2014 text:North Baltimore (1985-2014) bar:5 color:powderblue from:1985 till:2014 text:Old Fort (1985-2014) bar:6 color:powderblue from:1985 till:2014 text:St. Wendelin (1985-2014) bar:7 color:powderblue from:1985 till:2014 text:Seneca East (1985-2014) bar:8 color:powderblue from:1986 till:2014 text:Tiffin Calvert (1986-2014) bar:9 color:powderblue from:1986 till:2014 text:St. Joseph (1986-2014) bar:10 color:powderblue from:1990 till:2014 text:Carey (1990-2014) bar:11 color:powderblue from:1990 till:2014 text:Mohawk (1990-2014) bar:12 color:powderblue from:2009 till:2014 text:Lakota (2009-2014) ScaleMajor = gridcolor:line unit:year increment:10 start:1985 TextData = fontsize:L textcolor:black pos:(370,30) # tabs:(0-center) text:"MAL Membership History" ==Boys championships==