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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.
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.
Australian Football Hall of Fame member Peter Burns was a part of Geelong's inaugural team in 1897. Jim McShane played 82 games for Geelong between 1897 and 1901. Teddy Rankin was part of Geelong's inaugural team in 1897, and, in 1903, became the first Geelong player to play 100 games. Charles Coles played 72 games for Geelong between 1897 and ...
GMHBA Stadium, the current home stadium of the Geelong Football Club.. The Geelong Football Club is an Australian rules football club based in Geelong, Victoria.Since becoming a foundation club of the Victorian Football League (VFL)—which is now known as the Australian Football League (AFL)—in 1897, the club has participated in every season of the competition except the 1916, 1942 and 1943 ...
Melissa Hickey was Geelong's inaugural AFL Women's captain. [1]Geelong Football Club is a professional Australian rules football club based in Geelong, Victoria.The club itself was established in 1859, and has participated in the Australian Football League (AFL), the top-level men's competition, since its formation in 1897.
The 1989 Geelong Football Club season was the club's 118th season of senior competition in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Under new coach Malcolm Blight, the Cats played attractive attacking football, scoring a combined total of 2916 points during the home-and-away season to break Sydney's record set in 1987 (2846 points).
Bradley Close (born 30 July 1998) is an Australian rules footballer who plays for the Geelong Cats in the Australian Football League (AFL). He was recruited by the Geelong Cats with the 14th pick in the 2019 rookie draft.
The 2019 season was Geelong Football Club's first in the AFL Women's (AFLW) competition. Geelong (known as the Cats) joined the league as an expansion club alongside North Melbourne, having initially been denied entry into the competition's first season in 2017. Paul Hood was the club's inaugural senior coach, and Melissa Hickey was appointed ...