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The 2023 Essendon Football Club season was the club's 125th season playing in the Australian Football League (AFL). The club also fielded an AFLW side that competed in the AFLW's 8th Season. Essendon also fielded reserve teams for the AFL and AFLW in the Victorian Football League (VFL) and the VFLW. This was the club's 14th season in the VFL.
On 8 February 2007, Foxtel came to an agreement to broadcast four games a week from 2007 to 2011, up from three during 2002–2006 on Fox Sports channels, although it didn't include an AFL channel. It was announced on 28 April 2011 that the channel would be revived for the 2012 AFL season, as part of the new broadcast rights deal that gave ...
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 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 ...
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).
Mark Robinson is an Australian sports journalist. [1] He is the chief football writer for Melbourne's Herald Sun newspaper, appears on the 1116 SEN radio station's pre-match Australian Football League (AFL) discussion and co-hosts Fox Footy's AFL 360 television program.
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 made them the second AFL team to acquire an e-sports division after Adelaide acquired Legacy ESports in May. On 2 December 2019, it was announced that the Bombers' OPL slot had been sold to Perth-based internet provider Pentanet, marking Essendon's exit from the e-sports arena. [136] [137]