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The AFL then began work to establish a club on the Gold Coast as a new expansion team; the Gold Coast Suns were established, and they joined the AFL in 2011 as the 17th team; they finished last on the ladder. The same year, Collingwood played Geelong in the 2011 grand final. Collingwood had only lost to one team all year, Geelong, and now faced ...
Fielding teams in the SANFL since foundation and in the AFL since 1997. [37] Only pre-existing non-Victorian club to be competing in the Australian Football League. 1870: Brisbane Grammar † Brisbane: Queensland: Defunct: Switched to rugby in 1885. New junior club established in 2005 to participate in Queensland Independent Schools Australian ...
The Australian Capital Territory Australian Football League was the first league from a major city to express an interest in fielding a team in a national competition as early as the 1970s, however the first official bid was made in 1981, [11] [12] The VFL dismissed the bid, opting for a Sydney side instead.
Three clubs, Carlton, Collingwood and Essendon, have won the most VFL/AFL premierships, with 16 each. [11] All teams currently competing in the AFL except Fremantle, Gold Coast and Greater Western Sydney (three of the four newest clubs) have won a premiership, and all except Gold Coast have played in a grand final. [12]
Teams moved into the Murray Football League in 1932 Students Football Association South Australia c. 1922 c. 1937 Sunday Football League: Western Australia 1983 2009 Sunshine Coast Australian Football League Queensland 1970 1992 Restructured competition involving Brisbane and Gold Coast Clubs Tamar Football Association Tasmania 1970 1984
Hawthorn is the only club to have won premierships in each decade of the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, and 2010s. In total, it has won 13 senior VFL/AFL premierships. The team play in brown-and-gold vertically striped guernseys. The club's Latin motto is spectemur agendo, the English translation being "Let us be judged by our acts."
The AFL then began work to establish a club on the Gold Coast as a new expansion team. Early in 2008, a meeting held by the AFL discussed having two new teams enter the AFL competition. [32] In March 2008, the AFL won the support of the league's 16 club presidents to establish sides on the Gold Coast and in Western Sydney.
This is a list of Essendon Football Club players who have made one or more appearance in the Australian Football League (AFL), known as the Victorian Football League (VFL) until 1990 and the AFL Women's.