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Collingwood has also enjoyed a healthy Anzac Day rivalry with Essendon since 1995. Collingwood fields a reserves team in the Victorian Football League (formerly the VFA) and women's teams in the AFL Women's and VFL Women's competitions. It also owned and operated a netball team in the National Netball League from 2017 to 2023.
This is a list of Collingwood 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. Collingwood were one of the foundation clubs for the inaugural VFL season in 1897.
This era included the most incredible run of successive premierships, four in a row from 1927 to 1930, the only VFL/AFL undefeated season (1929), and the longest-serving coach in the history of the VFL/AFL, Jock McHale, who coached Collingwood for 37 years from 1912 to 1949 after playing for the Magpies from 1902 to 1921. The record of four ...
He was the first player to kick 100 goals in a VFL season (which he did in 1929, 1930, 1933, and 1934), kicked a total of 1299 goals in VFL football, and 100 goals in VFL representative teams. Coventry was made a life member of the Collingwood Football Club in 1932, [17] and was also Collingwood's best and fairest player in 1933.
In 1912, Lee had a cartilage removed from his knee; [9] and, according to his (then) team captain, Dan Minogue, writing in 1937, Lee was the first senior VFL footballer to have that operation. [10] His last kick in his last match for Collingwood scored Collingwood's final goal in its 11-point loss to Fitzroy in the 1922 VFL Grand Final.
Former VFL player; former Collingwood vice-president. 2 (1953, 1958) [13] [14] 6 Tom Sherrin 1963 1974 11 years, 214 days Manufacturer; former Collingwood vice-president. — [15] [16] 7 Ern Clarke 1974 1976 1 year, 213 days Businessman — [17] 8 John Hickey 1976 1982 6 years, 153 days RAAF pilot; former Collingwood vice-president. — [18] 9 ...
The Collingwood Football Club is a professional Australian rules football club based in Melbourne, Victoria, that competes in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's elite competition. Founded in 1892, the club played five seasons in the Victorian Football Association (VFA), winning one premiership in 1896.
James Francis "Jock" McHale (12 December 1882 – 4 October 1953) was an Australian rules football player and coach for the Collingwood Football Club in the Victorian Football League in a marathon career that extended from 1903 to 1949. He is the most successful VFL/AFL coach of all time, having lead Collingwood to a record eight premierships.