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Non-weekend night matches of Australian rules football first emerged in the late 1970s/early 1980s with the night series, a knock-out tournament featuring teams from across the country and run in parallel with the league seasons. The first Victorian Football League matches on Friday nights were introduced in 1985. At this time, these games were ...
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.
Hosted by Tony Armstrong, Bianca Hunt (2020) and Megan Waters (2021-present), with rotating panellists, former AFL players Darryl White, Andrew Krakouer and Gilbert McAdam. Much like its predecessor, The Marngrook Footy Show, it focuses on indigenous players and issues.
All matches are broadcast live to air in Standard, High Definition and in 4K Ultra HD with no commercial breaks during play. When two live matches are being played simultaneously, Fox Sports 503 broadcasts one of the matches. From the start of the 2012 AFL season, Fox Footy had become the most watched Pay-TV network in Australia. [4]
The pre-match show may also be omitted from the schedule if a local team's match being played in the twilight timeslot (i.e. 4:35 pm) is televised and overlaps into the 6:30pm timeslot. During Seven's exclusively live broadcast of the AFL Grand Final as part of the 2012-2016 Broadcast Deal, the Saturday Night Footy team host both the pre-match ...
West Australian Football League: 1960's-1987, 2015–present 1 match in Perth per Round. Most finals and the Grand Final shown Live. Cricket: Men's Test Matches in Australia: Fox Cricket: 2018–present Every Test Match Live on 7 and 7plus Cricket: Women's Test Matches in Australia: Fox Cricket: 2018–present Every Match Live on 7 and 7plus ...
The 2024 AFL season was the 128th season of the Australian Football League (AFL), the highest-level senior men's Australian rules football competition in Australia. The season featured 18 clubs and ran from 7 March to 28 September, comprising a 23-match home-and-away season over 25 rounds, followed by a four-week finals series featuring the top eight clubs.
Showdown 51 was the first edition of the fixture to be played on Friday night, the AFL's marquee time-slot, although this match partially overlapped with a match between Melbourne and Essendon that was played simultaneously that night and was not broadcast free-to-air nationally. Entering the match both Adelaide and Port Adelaide were winless ...