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A game at the Richmond Paddock in the 1860s. A pavilion at the MCG is on the left in the background. (A wood engraving made by Robert Bruce on 27 July 1866.). The first significant redrafting of the rules occurred in 1860 after St Kilda FC called for a meeting of all clubs to develop rules all games are played under. [2]
India vs Australia (masters) Paschim Medinipur district (West Midnapore) India [12] 5,000: 2005: 2005 Australian Football International Cup: Japan vs South Africa: City Oval: Wangaratta, Victoria, Australia Australia [13] 2,500: 2007: 49th Parallel Cup: Canada vs United States: Thunderbird Stadium: Vancouver, British Columbia Canada [13] 500: 2008
The game went on to become the most popular sport in the Territory and build the highest participation rate for the sport nationally. Australia's first recruitment poster, published in 1915, questions the public's commitment to Australian football rather than the war.
Australian rules football grounds, even at the highest level of the game, have no fixed dimensions. For senior football, the playing field is an oval between 135–185 metres (148–202 yd) long goal-to-goal and 110–155 metres (120–170 yd) wide wing-to-wing.
The A-League Men is the premier professional soccer league in Australia. Founded in 2005, the 2013–14 season saw an average 13,041 spectators between the 10 teams, the second-highest average attendance in league history. In 2013 the league had the fourth-highest average attendance among Australian football code crowds.
The following table shows a list of all of grounds that are currently regularly used in the Australian Football League, as of the 2024 AFL season.The table includes grounds where teams have commercial deals in place to transfer home games to these grounds each season but are not full-time tenants of those grounds; in these cases, the club is shown in italics in the current tenants column.
On a warm spring night along Lake Erie five decades ago, a well-intended promotion meant to attract fans for the perpetually lousy Cleveland Indians turned ugly and triggered a booze-fueled riot ...
In 1984 the light towers were installed. The first game played under lights at the stadium was an Escort Cup match which saw South Adelaide defeat Glenelg 10.9 (69) to 7.8 (50). The game was Glenelg champion Peter Carey's 300th game of SANFL league football. To appease the local residents, night games at Football Park had a 10:30pm curfew.