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The Geelong Football Club, nicknamed the Cats, is a professional Australian rules football club based at Kardinia Park in South Geelong, Victoria, Australia. The club competes in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's premier competition.
The stadium currently contributes $3-4 million to the Geelong economy each Cats home game, and even more with the new redevelopment attracting events like the Foo Fighters, one of the world’s biggest rock bands, who performed before 30,000 fans at the stadium in 2022. The brand benefits for Geelong were enormous, with packed restaurants on ...
The 2007 Geelong Football Club season was the club's 108th season in the Australian Football League (AFL). Geelong finished the regular season in first position on the ladder, earning the club its eighth McClelland Trophy .
Mascot Manor refers to a fictional house in which the Australian Football League (AFL) club mascots live. Prior to 2003, each AFL club had mascots; however, in order to appeal to Auskick players, a common theme was decided upon for club mascots.
Geelong changed their name to the Geelong Cats in 2008 and continued to dominate with the club having a regular season record of 21 wins and one loss to become the best-performing team in the home-and-away season since Essendon in 2000. The club's sole loss occurred in Round 9 with an 86-point deficit against Collingwood.
Geelong Football Club captains # Name [1] Years 1 Jack Conway: 1897–1899 2 Peter Burns: 1900 3 Henry Young: 1901–1909 4 Bill Eason: 1910–1913 5 Billy Orchard: 1914–1915 Club recess due to World War I (1916) 6 Harry Marsham: 1917 7 Jim Kearney: 1918–1919 8 Alec Eason: 1919–1920 9 Harold Craven: 1921–1922 10 Bert Rankin: 1923 11 ...
The Cats were scheduled to play nine of their eleven home games at GMHBA Stadium for the season's home-and-away fixture; the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) hosted the club's remaining two home games against Essendon and Hawthorn. [6] [7] Geelong signed up 65,063 members and had an average home ground attendance of 33,405 spectators across the ...
On 21 July 2018, Tuohy took a contested mark with 10 seconds of play remaining and then kicked a goal after the siren to secure Geelong a two-point victory against Melbourne. [17] He played his 200th game against Richmond on 11 September 2020, becoming just the second-ever Irish AFL player to reach that milestone, being preceded by Jim Stynes .