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The reserves teams of AFL clubs, comprised on AFL reserves players and a small list of supplementary players to make up a full team; VFL clubs operating under an affiliation arrangements with an AFL clubs, whereby players from the AFL club would join the senior team of the VFL club when not selected to play in the AFL. At times, there were ...
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. It changed its name to Australian Football ...
Richmond won its first Premierships in 1920 and 1921, but Essendon—battlers since their 1912 flag—took over as the dominant team between 1922 and 1926. In 1925, the VFL expanded from nine teams to twelve, with Footscray, Hawthorn and North Melbourne each crossing from the VFA. North Melbourne and Hawthorn remained very weak in the VFL for a ...
From 1988 until 2013, the competition was played in its entirety before the premiership season began and is competed for by only the VFL or AFL teams (the VFL was renamed the AFL in 1990), and became the Australian Football League pre-season competition. The preseason competition was abandoned in 2014, and replaced with discrete practice matches.
The VFL thus elected to return to the original format for this year's competition as previously used in the 1956 Night Series Cup. Run as a knock-out tournament, it was contested by the eight VFL teams that failed to make the 1958 VFL finals series.
All games were held in Adelaide, but VFL clubs won every Championship from 1968, except in 1972 when South Australia's North Adelaide Football Club upset Victoria's Carlton Football Club to win by a point. [2] In 1976, the National Football League abandoned the post-season Championship of Australia concept by establishing the NFL Night Series ...
In 1976, the National Football League, which was the national administrative body for Australian rules football at the time, established the NFL Night Series.Played concurrently with the premiership season, the Night Series was contested among twelve clubs from the VFL, SANFL and WANFL invited based on their finishing positions from the previous year.
Used in 1901 by the VFL, this system was a simple four-team knockout tournament, with semi-finals of 1st vs 3rd and 2nd vs 4th. The 1st-ranked team's right to challenge did not feature and was not added until 1902; and so although it has come to be referred to by the Argus system name, it otherwise lacks similarity with the other variants.