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Fitzroy Football Club: In 1996, the Melbourne-based club merged its playing operations with the interstate Brisbane Bears, a club 1,669 kilometres (1,037 mi) north of its original home, forming a new club known as the Brisbane Lions. Since the merger, the Brisbane club almost doubled its membership and won three consecutive premierships between ...
The club was founded as the "North Melbourne Football Club", but changed to "North Melbourne cum Albert Park" after merging with Albert Park in 1876. [39] Following the reformation of the club in 1877, it was known as the "Hotham Football Club" but later took the name "North Melbourne" again in 1888.
After the split between the VFL and VFA, North Melbourne became one of the stronger clubs in the VFA. In 1908, after University was admitted to the league, North Melbourne merged with West Melbourne and applied to become the tenth team in the league as the City Football Club, but the proposal was rejected and Richmond was admitted instead ...
In 1999 the club dropped the name North Melbourne in its branding to become The Kangaroos in an effort to appeal to interstate markets (at the time, Sydney and Canberra). The move was to prove lucrative with the AFL and North Melbourne gaining ACT government backing to play home games at Canberra's Manuka Oval from 2002.
Less than a week later, a new group of stakeholders from the town of North Melbourne set about reforming the club. [12] At a public meeting on 15 April, the new North Melbourne Football Club was formed, [13] and on 16 April it applied to join the Association. The Association accepted the application, after adding the condition that no person ...
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The North Melbourne Football Club is still active and plays in the national Australian football competition, the Australian Football League. The club's football department and training sessions are based at its traditional home ground at North Melbourne Cricket Ground , which has recently been redeveloped.
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Club membership: 40,343 (4,671) ← 2016: ... (AFL) contested by the North Melbourne Football Club. The club finished in 15th ...