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The Australian Football League (AFL) is the pre-eminent professional competition of Australian rules football. It was originally named the Victorian Football League (VFL) and was founded in 1896 as a breakaway competition from the Victorian Football Association (VFA), with its inaugural season in 1897. It changed its name to Australian Football ...
The AFL then began work to establish a club on the Gold Coast as a new expansion team; the Gold Coast Suns were established, and they joined the AFL in 2011 as the 17th team; they finished last on the ladder. The same year, Collingwood played Geelong in the 2011 grand final. Collingwood had only lost to one team all year, Geelong, and now faced ...
The Chiefs upset the Raiders in Oakland 17–7 in the league's championship, the final AFL game played. The Kansas City Chiefs were the first Super Bowl champion to win two road playoff games and the first team to win the Super Bowl despite not having won its division or conference during the regular season.
Central Highlands Football League: First game against Kingston on 24 July 1869. 1869 North Melbourne FC: North Melbourne (Melbourne) Victoria: Australian Football League: Founded as the "North Melbourne Football Club" in 1869. Amalgamated with "Albert Park" to form "Albert Park-North Melbourne" in 1876. Reformed as the "Hotham Football Club" in ...
The clubs were founded in 1858 and 1859 respectively and currently compete in the Australian Football League (AFL), making them the world's oldest football clubs that are now professional. The oldest football clubs trace their origins to the mid-19th century, a period when football evolved from being a casual pastime to an organised mainstream ...
Jeff Fisher was fired by the Rams in 2016, making way for Sean McVay. Since then, Fisher has bounced around lesser leagues and has a daunting task ahead with the AFL.
After an inaugural season that saw the Bills finish 5–8–1 (third in the four-team AFL East Division), the Bills gained four of the first five picks in the 1961 AFL draft, including the top slot, which they used to draft offensive tackle Ken Rice. They also drafted guard Billy Shaw in the same draft. Success did not come overnight.
The 2019 season saw Geelong finish on top of the AFL ladder for the first time since 2008. [90] The Cats were excellent in the first half of the season, winning 11 of their first 12 matches. [91] However, their form dropped off after the round 13 bye and they would not win consecutive matches for the remainder of the year. [92]