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Richmond won their first in 37 years and broke a record for biggest comeback season after finishing 13th in 2016; additionally, Richmond's Dustin Martin became the first player in VFL/AFL history to win a Brownlow Medal, a Norm Smith Medal, and a premiership medallion in the same year.
The Australian Football League (AFL) is the pre-eminent professional competition of Australian rules football.It was originally named the Victorian Football League (VFL) and was founded in 1896 as a breakaway competition from the Victorian Football Association (VFA), with its inaugural season in 1897.
Most clubs have since migrated away from this model, and since 2021 seven of the ten Victorian AFL clubs have fielded stand-alone reserves teams in the VFL. [51] Through the 2000s, the AFL preferred that its Victorian clubs retained VFL-affiliations, and offered a disincentive in the form of an inflated licence fee for fielding a stand-alone ...
It was known as the Victorian Junior Football League from 1919 until 1923, the Seconds from 1924 until 1959, the VFL Reserves from 1960 until 1989, and as the AFL reserves from 1990 until 1999. [13] Until 1991, the competition was run by the VFL/AFL, and from 1992 until 1999 it was administered by the Victorian State Football League.
Throughout the 1980s, the VFL began to expand to teams based outside Victoria: the league had looked to establish a new club in Sydney in 1982 before the South Melbourne Football Club elected to relocate there instead (becoming the Sydney Swans), [1] and newly established clubs based in Perth (the West Coast Eagles) and south-eastern Queensland ...
The AFL also hope to develop the game in other countries to the point where Australian football is played at an international level by top-quality sides from around the world. The AFL has hosted an International Cup regularly every three years, beginning in 2002, with the third game in 2008 corresponding to the 150th anniversary of the code. [167]
The league changed its name to the Australian Football League (AFL) following the 1989 season, later gaining further West Australian and South Australian teams. The VFA/VFL became a secondary league, although even it has grown to accommodate a team from Tasmania.
Canberra has had an open bid for a license backed by AFL Canberra and the ACT government since the 1980s, which has been overlooked by the VFL/AFL for decades including when the South Melbourne became the Sydney Swans in 1982, in 1985 prior to the sale of the club to Geoffrey Edelsten, in 1986 when it was overlooked in favour of Perth and ...