Campbelltown Blues Australian Football Club is an

Australian rules football Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an oval field, often a modified cricket ground. Points are scored by k ...

club competing in the

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and based out of the Sydney suburb of

Macquarie Fields, New South Wales Macquarie Fields is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Macquarie Fields is located 38 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the City of Campbelltown and is pa ...

History

The Campbelltown Australian Football Club formed in 1975. In 2000, they aligned with the

Penrith Panthers The Penrith Panthers are an Australian professional rugby league football club based in the western Sydney suburb of Penrith that competes in the NRL. The team is based west of the centre of Sydney, at the foot of the Blue Mountains. Penrith ...

to become the Panthers. In 2002, they became the Campbelltown Kangaroos. This was later truncated to the Kangaroos. In 2007, the club reverted to their old name, the "Blues". Campbelltown players who have been recruited to play AFL football include Chris Oliver (St Kilda 2001–03), Dustin Martin (Richmond 2010- ) and Tom Young (Collingwood 2011–12) and Western Bulldogs (2013- ) Wilks, M. (2011) ''Australian football clubs in NSW''Bas Publishing. p. 145.

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External links

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Full Points Footy Profile for Campbelltown
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