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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.
The AFL Players Association (AFLPA, also simply known as AFL Players) is the representative body for all current and past professional Australian Football League (AFL) and AFL Women's (AFLW) players. The AFLPA promotes and protects its members through initiatives including workplace relations, advocacy, career development, and various community ...
A number-one ticket holder is a person who holds membership ticket number 1 of a particular sporting club.Possession of the number one ticket is largely symbolic. The tradition of having a number one ticket holder is mainly observed in Australia.
[3] [4] There are 48 member clubs, of which 47 have men's teams (all except North Star Blue Ox) and 25 have women's teams. [1] Most of the football clubs in the United States have a traditional 18-a-side team for representative purposes and multiple 9-a-side teams running in a local league.
In 1906 Pat O'Dea along with his older brother and kicking mentor Andrew (of the Wisconsin University Athletic Club and its American Football coach) [14] were able to attain a copy of the Victorian Football Association's rules (as this league was not affiliated with the AFC) [15] and had begun training college students at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
The 2025 AFL season is the upcoming 129th season of the Australian Football League (AFL), the highest-level senior men's Australian rules football competition in Australia. The season will feature 18 clubs and run from 6 March to 27 September.
The official AFL stub for AFL-related competition articles. {{Infobox AFL biography}} See Barry Hall for an example of the template in use. The infobox designed to use on all AFL player pages. {{Afl-project-member}}
The ACT hosted its first AFL match in 1995 and AFL matches have been played every year since 2001 except 2020. Since 2012 the AFL has positioned Greater Western Sydney Giants (GWS) as a local side, scheduling three home games a year at Manuka Oval. In 2013, 2016, 2021 and 2022 the stadium's average attendance was higher than that of the Giants ...