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Essendon won the inaugural VFL premiership in 1897. Fitzroy won the inaugural grand final in 1898. Carlton has won the equal-most premierships with 16, with their first coming in the 1906 season. Collingwood's premiership win in 1930 was the club's fourth successive premiership, a record for the league. Geelong players doing a lap of honour ...
Official website. afl.com.au. The Australian Football League ( AFL) is the pre-eminent and only fully professional competition of Australian rules football. It was originally named the Victorian Football League (VFL) and was founded in 1896 as a breakaway competition from the Victorian Football Association (VFA), with its inaugural season in 1897.
The Australian Football League stages the highest-level senior Australian rules football competition in the country.. However, there has not been a league-wide reserves competition since 1987, when the then-Victorian Football League expanded interstate to become the modern Australian Football League, with the AFL reserves competition being shut down at the end of the 1999 season.
The origins of Australian rules football date back to the late 1850s in Melbourne, the capital city of Victoria . There is documentary evidence of "foot-ball" being played in Australia as early as the 1820s. These games were poorly documented but appear to have been informal, one-off affairs.
2009 season. The 2009 AFL season was the Adelaide Football Club ' s 19th season in the Australian Football League (AFL). The captain for this season was Simon Goodwin, and the leadership group was Tyson Edwards, Brett Burton, Ben Rutten, Nathan van Berlo, Michael Doughty and Scott Stevens. [2]
The Tasmania Football Club, nicknamed the Devils, is a professional Australian rules football club set to compete in the Australian Football League (AFL) from the 2028 season and the AFL Women's (AFLW) from an unspecified date. The club will be based in Tasmania, with matches to be played across the state.
The 2021 AFL season was the 125th season of the Australian Football League (AFL), the highest level senior men's Australian rules football competition in Australia, which was known as the Victorian Football League until 1989. The season featured eighteen clubs, ran from 18 March until 25 September, and comprised a 22-game home-and-away season ...
Vin Crowe. 1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1968. Vincent Robert Crowe (born 13 January 1946) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Richmond and Hawthorn in the Victorian Football League (VFL). [1]