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Victorian Football League
The Victorian Football League (VFL) is an Australian rules football competition in Australia operated by the Australian Football League (AFL) as a second-tier, regional, semi-professional competition. It includes teams from clubs based in eastern states of Australia: Victoria (Australia), Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland, including reserve team, reserves teams for the eastern state AFL clubs. It succeeded and continues the competition of the former Victorian Football Association (VFA) which began in 1877. The name of the competition was changed to the Victorian Football League in 1996. Under its VFL brand, the AFL also operates a women's football competition known as VFL Women's, which was established in 2016. The VFA was formed in 1877 and was the second-oldest Australian rules football league, replacing the loose affiliation of clubs that existed in the History of Australian rules football in Victoria (1859–1900), early years of the game. It was the top-level club c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AFL Victoria
AFL Victoria (formerly Football Victoria) is the state-level sport governing body for Australian rules football in the state of Victoria, Australia. Responsibility AFL Victoria, as part of the sport's national governing body the Australian Football League, AFL, has the overarching responsibility for approximately 115 Sports league, leagues – including the Victorian Football League (VFL), the Victorian Amateur Football Association, the AFL Victoria Country, and all local metropolitan and country leagues – and 1,942 clubs, (not including the state's ten Australian Football League clubs) as well as developmental, Coach (sport), coaching, and Umpire (Australian rules football), umpiring bodies. Football Victoria took over the organisation of the VFL competition in 1999, replacing the Victorian State Football League as the peak governing body for Australian rules football in Victoria, under the Australian Football League Commission. The organisation filling the gap created in 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reserve Team
In sports, a reserve team is a team composed of players who are under contract to a club but who do not regularly play in matches for the club's primary team. Reserve teams usually include players who are part of the larger first-team squad but unable to command a place in the team itself as well as young players who need playing time to improve their skills before progressing to the first team. In some countries, reserve or development teams compete in entirely separate competitions from first teams, while some countries allow reserve teams or farm teams to compete in the same league system as their club's first team, although usually in separate divisions. In association football Reserve teams usually consist of a combination of emerging youth players and first-team squad players. These teams are distinct from a club's youth team, which usually consists of players under a certain age and plays in an age-specific league. In England, Argentina and the Major League Soccer, United ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melbourne Football Club
The Melbourne Football Club, nicknamed the Demons or colloquially the Dees, is a professional Australian rules football club based in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It competes in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's premier competition and plays its home games at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG). Melbourne is the world's oldest football clubs, oldest professional club of any football code. If we are to accept contemporary accounts from the news of the day the club's founding father is James Bryant (Australian cricketer), James Bryant (1826-1881), an Australian cricketer who played first-class cricket matches for Surrey cricket team, Surrey and Victoria cricket team, Victoria. Bryant used Melbourne's Bell's Life newspaper to call for the young men of Melbourne to assemble at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) at one o’clock on the 31st July 1858 to play a game of football, and after, further assemble to form a committee to draw up a short code of rules."Footb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North Melbourne Football Club
The North Melbourne Football Club, nicknamed the Kangaroos or colloquially the Roos, is a professional Australian rules football club. The men's team competes in the Australian Football League (AFL), and the women's team in the AFL Women's (AFLW). The Kangaroos also field a Australian Football League reserves affiliations, reserves men's team in the Victorian Football League (VFL) and women's team in the VFLW. Founded informally in the suburb of North Melbourne by the North Melbourne Cricket Club in 1860 and based at the Arden Street Oval since the 29th April 1882, after playing its last game against Richmond at Royal Park on Saturday 22nd April, 1882, it is the List of Australian rules football clubs by date of establishment, 4th oldest club in the competition and one of the oldest surviving clubs in the world. Playing football first at Royal Park historically its home at Arden Street continues to serve as its headquarters, training facilities and home ground for its w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlton Football Club
The Carlton Football Club, nicknamed the Blues, is a professional Australian rules football club based at Princes Park (stadium), Princes Park in Carlton North, Victoria, Carlton North, an inner suburb of Melbourne in Victoria, Australia. The club competes in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's premier competition. Founded in the 1860s, the club began playing out of parklands historically part of Carlton, Victoria, Carlton not far from its current base. It quickly became one of the major football clubs in the city. It was a foundation member of the Victorian Football League, Victorian Football Association (VFA), winning the inaugural premiership in 1877 VFA season, 1877. In 1896, Carlton joined the breakaway Victorian Football League (since renamed the AFL), and alongside rivals , and is regarded as one of the league's historical "Big Four" clubs, with 16 VFL/AFL premierships (a joint record with Collingwood and Essendon). The club's AFL Women's team has compete ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Park Football Club (VFA)
The Albert Park Football Club (historically styled as Albert-park) was a 19th-century Australian rules football club based in the Melbourne suburb of Albert Park. The club was one of the main first-rate senior football clubs during the unaffiliated era of Victorian football. Albert Park was a founding senior member of the Victorian Football Association (VFA) in 1877, before amalgamating with neighbouring (now known as ) in 1880. A newer, unrelated club called the Albert Park Football Club currently competes in the Victorian Amateur Football Association (VAFA). History Early years The club was established as the South Melbourne Football Club in May 1867. It changed its name to Emerald-hill in April 1868, then to Albert-park in May 1869. It played its home games at the Emerald-hill Ground. The club quickly became one of the main senior clubs competing at the time. The best performance in its history was in the 1870 season; it was undefeated, but it finished second for the p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1891 VFA Premiership Match
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Melbourne Fc 1879
Melbourne ( , ; Boonwurrung/ or ) is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second most-populous city in Australia, after Sydney. The city's name generally refers to a metropolitan area also known as Greater Melbourne, comprising an urban agglomeration of 31 local government areas. The name is also used to specifically refer to the local government area named City of Melbourne, whose area is centred on the Melbourne central business district and some immediate surrounds. The metropolis occupies much of the northern and eastern coastlines of Port Phillip Bay and spreads into the Mornington Peninsula, part of West Gippsland, as well as the hinterlands towards the Yarra Valley, the Dandenong Ranges, and the Macedon Ranges. As of 2023, the population of the metropolitan area was 5.2 million, or 19% of the population of Australia; inhabitants are referred to as "Melburnians". The area of Melbourne has been home to Aboriginal Victor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2025 VFL Season
The 2025 VFL season is the 143rd season of the Victorian Football League (VFL), a second-tier Australian rules football competition played in the states of Victoria, New South Wales, and Queensland. The season began on 21 March and is scheduled to conclude on either 20 September or 21 September with the grand final. Background Death of Dale Tapping On 4 February 2025, coach Dale Tapping died, two years after he was diagnosed with myeloma, an aggressive form of blood cancer. Essendon had appointed Tapping as its VFL coach for the 2025 season only several months prior on 11 October 2024. He had previously served as 's VFL coach from 2013 until the end of the 2016 season, and was named VFL Coach of the Year in 2016. Cameron Joyce, who coached in the AFL Women's (AFLW) from 2022 season 6 until he was dismissed at the end of the 2024 season, was announced as Essendon's new VFL coach on 24 February 2025. Practice matches Clubs held practice matches beginning on 15 February 2025. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North East Australian Football League
The North East Australian Football League (NEAFL ) was an Australian rules football league in New South Wales, Queensland, the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory. The league was formed in November 2010, and its inaugural competition was in 2011. It was a second division league, sitting below the national Australian Football League (AFL) and featured the reserves teams of the region's four AFL clubs playing alongside six non-AFL affiliated NEAFL senior teams. Nine NEAFL seasons were contested between 2011 and 2019, before the 2020 season was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and the league was amalgamated into the Victorian Football League from 2021. History The NEAFL was formed at the end of 2010 primarily as an amalgamation of the two major football leagues in Australia's north-east - the Queensland Australian Football League, based in South-East Queensland and including one team from the Northern Territory, and AFL Canberra, based around ACT ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2021 VFL Season
The 2021 VFL season was the 139th season of the Victorian Football League (VFL), a second-tier Australian rules football competition played in the states of Victoria, New South Wales, and Queensland. The season began on 16 April but was curtailed without a premiership awarded on 1 September, due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. The 2021 season saw significant transition in the composition of the league, with the amalgamation of the North East Australian Football League (NEAFL) into the VFL and resulting expansion interstate into New South Wales and Queensland. The league also underwent some shifts as a result of the financial fall-out from the first year of the pandemic, which had seen the 2020 season cancelled without a match played; and, a transition in league rules to strengthen its position as a pathway between underage and professional leagues. The season was played during and disrupted by the ongoing pandemic, with several rounds of play cancelled owing to restricti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2000 VFL Season
The 2000 VFL season was the 119th season of the Victorian Football League (VFL), a second-tier Australian rules football competition played in the state of Victoria. The season began on 16 March and concluded on 27 August, comprising a 19-match home-and-away season, followed by a four-week finals series. won the premiership for the seventh time, defeating by 31 points in the 2000 VFL Grand Final. The league underwent significant changes for the 2000 season, being merged with the Australian Football League (AFL) reserves competition. Since this season, the VFL has served as a state-level senior competition in which reserves players and reserves teams from most AFL clubs compete. Merger with AFL reserves The Victorian State Football League (VFSL) had operated two open-age senior competitions during the 1990s: the VFL, which it took control of in 1995, and the AFL reserves, which it had operated since 1992. The AFL Reserves competition was contested by the reserves teams ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
