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The Australian Football League (AFL) is the pre-eminent 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.
In Australia, Australian rules football is the most popular spectator sport and the second most participated code of football.Since originating in Victoria in 1858 and spreading elsewhere from 1866, it has been played continuously in every Australian state since 1903 plus the two major territories since 1916.
Barassi International Australian Football Youth Tournament: Worldwide: 1998-2006: Defunct: Bermuda Australian Rules Football Championships: North Atlantic: 2007 (Postponed indefinitely) Defunct: Central European Australian Football League Championships: Central Europe: 2003–2004: Defunct: Dubai Nines: Middle East: 2007: Defunct: EU Cup ...
This is an incomplete list of men's Australian rules football leagues in Australia. There is also a Victorian only list of former Associations and Leagues too. In the early 1900s a lot of club's would move from one association to another and other football associations would be formed amongst nearby small rural clubs and towns.
2 May – Ian Hayden (83), former University Blues and Richmond player [15] [16] 9 May – Cam McCarthy (29), former Greater Western Sydney and Fremantle player [17] 13 May – Berkley Cox (90), Tasmanian Football Hall of Fame member [18]
AFL Sydney is an Australian rules football League, based in metropolitan Sydney, Australia which has been run since 1903.In 1980 was known as the "Sydney Football League" and renamed the "Sydney AFL" in 1998 before adopting its current name in 2009.
Australian rules football is known by several nicknames, including Aussie rules, football and footy. [9] In some regions, where other codes of football are more popular, the sport is most often called AFL after the Australian Football League , while the league itself also uses this name for local competitions in some areas.
Australian rules was the most popular football code for participation and spectators in the nation's capital Canberra between 1978 and 1982. At its peak popularity in 1981 it was the first state or territory outside of Victoria to make an official bid to start a national league now known as the Australian Football League (AFL).