The league last week named the three clubs, two of which will be involved at senior level in the finals series, as venues for its 2022 finals series.
Neither Lancaster or Girgarre, however, are likely play a senior football final on their home ground during the five-weekend finals series.
Lancaster is hosting an elimination final, while Girgarre — which scraped into the finals with a final round win against bottom team Longwood — will host a preliminary final.
Lancaster, which finished the season third, will be involved in the second qualifying final at Merrigum on Sunday, August 28. It will face Murchison-Toolamba — one of the six clubs that will not host a final.
The other clubs to miss out are Violet Town, Stanhope, Nagambie, Dookie United and Undera — in the first time the 14-team competition has operated under final-eight conditions.
Girgarre will make its return, after a two-decade absence, to the Kyabram district league’s finals series at Longwood on Saturday, August 20.
It will face off against fifth-ranked Shepparton East in one of two elimination finals.
In the other elimination final, at Lancaster, sixth- and seventh-ranked Violet Town and Nagambie, will fight for a place in week three of the finals.
The top four teams, Avenel, Murchison-Toolamba, Lancaster and Shepparton East, will all have the opening week on the sidelines and enjoy the coveted double chance.
On Saturday, August 27 Avenel and Stanhope will play off in a Rushworth qualifying final.
The winner will earn for a spot in the preliminary final, while the Lancaster and Murchison-Toolamaba qualifying final (Sunday, August 28) is at Merrigum.
Losers from those qualifying finals will then progress through to the semi-final weekend on September 3-4, against the winners of the elimination finals. Avenel and Shepparton East will host those semi-final matches.
Then the two winners of those semi-finals will play off against the winners of the qualifying finals on September 10 and 11, at Tallygaroopna and Girgarre.
There will be only two teams left after that penultimate weekend, which will compete for the premiership at Mooroopna on Saturday, September 17.