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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.
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.
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 ...
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 2025 Collingwood Football Club season will be the club's 129th season of senior competition in the Australian Football League (AFL). The club also fielded its reserves team in the Victorian Football League and women's teams in the AFL Women's and VFL Women's competitions.
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.
Collingwood and Carlton have met in six VFL Grand Finals. Collingwood won the first (1910), and Carlton won the other five (1915, 1938, 1970, 1979 and 1981). The 1970 Grand Final is regarded as one of the league's all-time classic games, played in front of the largest ever crowd of 121,696, featuring a famous specky by Alex Jesaulenko , and won ...
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.