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The Collingwood team that won the VFA premiership in 1896. The Collingwood Football Club was established on 12 February 1892. [7] [8] [9]Collingwood played its first game in the Victorian Football Association (VFA) against Carlton on 7 May 1892. [10]
Even though this victory brought Collingwood a premiership, it was not promoted as a "Grand Final" but as a Match for the Premiership. [8] In 1897, Collingwood and fellow VFA clubs Fitzroy, Melbourne, St Kilda, Carlton, Essendon, South Melbourne, and Geelong split from the VFA and formed the VFL (Victorian Football League). [9]
The Collingwood team that won the VFA premiership in 1896. The Collingwood Football Club is a professional Australian rules football club based in Melbourne, Victoria, that competes in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's elite competition. Founded in 1892, the club played five seasons in the Victorian Football Association (VFA ...
Of the teams currently competing in the Australian Football League, only Fremantle, Gold Coast and Greater Western Sydney are yet to win a premiership. As of 2024, Collingwood, Essendon and Carlton are all tied for winning 16 premierships, with Collingwood winning the most consecutive premierships, at four between 1927 and 1930.
The main period of the Colliwobbles ended in the 1990 AFL Grand Final, when Collingwood defeated Essendon to win their first premiership since 1958. Lou Richards ceremoniously announced the end of the Colliwobbles, and the club marked the occasion with the burial of a memoir of the hitherto trying times in front of a large crowd at Victoria Park .
The rivalry is regarded by some as one of the most historic and significant in Australian sport. [1] [2] [3]To date, Carlton and Collingwood have played each other 266 times in the VFL/AFL, with the ledger currently in Collingwood's favour (133 wins to Carlton's 129) and 4 draws. [4]
Before the 1927 season, Collingwood had last won a premiership in 1919, and had suffered grand finals losses in 1920, 1922, 1925 and 1926. After pre-season training, the Collingwood committee caused a sensation by sacking three-year captain Charlie Tyson as both captain and player – he was cleared to North Melbourne.
The match, attended by 89,149 spectators, was won by Collingwood by 12 points, the club's 12th premiership victory. This was the third successive Grand Final appearance for the Cats, who were attempting to win three successive flags after having defeated Essendon in the 1951 VFL Grand Final and Collingwood in the 1952 VFL Grand Final.