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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.
In 1884, the club merged with the Geelong Cricket Club to form the Geelong Cricket and Football Club. [14] This affiliation would continue until the 1950s. Geelong was the only non-Melbourne-based team to regularly play matches against metropolitan teams. Notable was Geelong's success in the "Match of the Century" in 1886. This late season ...
The 2024 Geelong Football Club season was the club's 160th season playing Australian rules football, with the club competing in their 125th season in the Australian Football League (AFL). Geelong continued to field a women's team in the AFL Women's (AFLW) competition, and men's and women's reserves team in the Victorian Football League (VFL ...
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 ...
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.
The following is a list of Geelong Football Club leading goalkickers in each season of the Australian Football League (formerly the Victorian Football League). Tom Hawkins was Geelong's leading goalkicker for 11-straight seasons from 2012–2022.
It was the club's thirteenth AFL season under senior coach Chris Scott, with Patrick Dangerfield appointed as club captain, replacing the retired Joel Selwood. [4] [5]After a poor start to the season, Geelong would become the first reigning premiers to lose their opening three matches since 1976.
The 2021 season is the Geelong Football Club's 122nd season in the Australian Football League (AFL), the eleventh with Chris Scott as senior coach and tenth with Joel Selwood as captain. Geelong participated in the 2021 Marsh Community Series as part of its pre-season schedule, and the club's home-and-away season began 20 March against Adelaide ...