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The Melbourne Football Club, nicknamed the Demons or colloquially the Dees, is a professional Australian rules football club based in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.It competes in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's premier competition and plays its home games at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG).
The following is a list of coaches who have been the official coach of the Melbourne Football Club, an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League (AFL), formerly the Victorian Football League (VFL).
In 1897, Melbourne was a founding member of the breakaway Victorian Football League (VFL) – renamed the Australian Football League (AFL) in 1990 – which they have remained in ever since. In their long history, Melbourne have had long periods of success but also long periods of failure.
Note: In 2023, the AFL Women's league leading goalkicker award was shared by Melbourne players Kate Hore and Eden Zanker. However, as Zanker kicked more goals in finals, Hore did not lead the club's goalkicking that year.
The son of Melbourne Demons star Alan Johnson, Johnson was recruited by the Demons under the father–son rule. Johnson, a running defender, was recruited from East Fremantle, at with the 36th selection in the 2003 AFL National Draft. He spent his entire first season in the Victorian Football League (VFL) before making his AFL debut in 2005.
Christian Petracca (/ p ɛ ˈ t r ɑː k ə / peh-TRAH-ka; [1] born 4 January 1996) is a professional Australian rules footballer playing for the Melbourne Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).
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The 2012 Melbourne Football Club season was the club's 113th year in the VFL/AFL since it began in 1897.. After a horrid ending to 2011 which saw coach Dean Bailey sacked after an embarrassing 186-point loss to Geelong in Round 19, former Collingwood midfield assistant coach Mark Neeld was appointed as head coach for 2012 and vowed that he would make Melbourne 'the hardest team to play against ...