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The following day, the AFL announced the addition on Sunday night matches as a semi-regular fixture in 2025, with nine of the first 16 rounds featuring a Sunday night match. [8] In the same month, Adelaide [9] and St Kilda unveiled new club logos, [10] while Gold Coast unveiled a new logo and playing guernseys as part of a rebrand of the club. [11]
The Essendon Football Club, nicknamed the Bombers or colloquially the Dons, is a professional Australian rules football club that plays in the Australian Football League (AFL), the game's premier competition.
ASADA releases its interim report on Essendon's supplements program to the AFL. [108] 13 August 2013: The AFL charges the Essendon Football Club, senior coach James Hird and other parties over governance and duty-of-care breaches related to the program. [109] 22 August 2013: James Hird lodges an action against the charges in the Supreme Court ...
Following the many suspensions handed out to Essendon players at the end of 2015 for the supplements controversy fallout, McDonald-Tipungwuti was elevated to the Bombers' senior list. [6] He made his AFL debut in Round 1 of the 2016 season against the Gold Coast Suns at Metricon Stadium , and he retained his position in the team until his ...
The Dreamtime at the 'G is an annual Australian rules football match between Australian Football League clubs Essendon and Richmond.. Since the 2007 season the match has been held annually on the Saturday night of the AFL's "Indigenous Round", also known as the Sir Doug Nicholls Round.
This is a list of Essendon 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 and the AFL Women's. Essendon were one of the foundation clubs for the inaugural VFL season in 1897. They joined the AFLW in 2022 (S7).
The modern version of the Anzac Day match was conceived by then Essendon coach Kevin Sheedy while pottering in his garden in the mid-1990s. [5] Sheedy, who had served two years in the army after being drafted to Richmond in 1969, thought back to the success of the Collingwood–Richmond game in 1977, and he considered how football on Anzac Day could pay suitable tribute to those who had served ...
[13] [14] Essendon drew with long-time rivals Carlton to end its then-record 14-match losing streak dating back to round two. Some people had speculated that O'Donnell's return to Essendon indicated that he was the preferred replacement for Sheedy upon the latter's retirement, but O'Donnell denied this, and on 27 September 2007 it was announced ...