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Other clubs to have an AFL Commission appointed board include the Sydney Swans, the Gold Coast Suns, Adelaide Football Club and Port Adelaide Football Club. The Commission operates a Competitive Balance Fund, which redistributes profits to the clubs most in need to help ensure that all of its member clubs are financially sustainable in the long ...
The AFL then began work to establish a club on the Gold Coast as a new expansion team. Early in 2008, a meeting held by the AFL discussed having two new teams enter the AFL competition. [32] In March 2008, the AFL won the support of the league's 16 club presidents to establish sides on the Gold Coast and in Western Sydney.
Tasmania is traditionally a strong Australian rules football state, and as such had long been touted as being a location for an AFL club. In October 1992, the AFL Commission voted on shutting down the Sydney Swans, as the club had accrued over AUD $9 million of debt. [26] With Melbourne clubs siding against the Swans, the AFL was desperate to ...
Cowboys Leagues Club Limited Parramatta Eels: Parramatta Leagues Club 15.7 [4] Penrith Panthers: Panthers Leagues Club 6.2 [4] South Sydney Rabbitohs: Blackcourt League Investments Pty Ltd (Russell Crowe, James Packer, Mike Cannon-Brookes) (75%) Financial Members of the club (25%) [10] [11] St George Illawarra Dragons: WIN Corporation (50%)
The club plays its home games at Optus Stadium and has its headquarters at Lathlain Park. The West Australian Football Commission wholly owns the West Coast Eagles and the Fremantle Football Club, the AFL's other Western Australian team. The West Coast Eagles are one of the most successful clubs in the AFL era (1990 onwards).
Port Adelaide Football Club is a professional Australian rules football club based in Alberton, South Australia.The club's senior men's team plays in the Australian Football League (AFL), where it is nicknamed the Power, while its reserves men's team competes in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL), where it is nicknamed the Magpies.
Functionally, the AFL gave up control over its Victorian-based minor grades at the end of 1991—clubs continued to field reserves teams in the independent Victorian State Football League, while an entirely new under-18s competition (the TAC Cup) was established with new, zone-based clubs. Without minor grades, the McClelland Trophy was now ...
The club is one of two AFL clubs based in Queensland, the other being its main rival, the Brisbane Lions, which it competes against in the QClash. In addition to the men's team, the Suns field other teams, including an AFL Women's side, a reserves side in the Victorian Football League , and a Gold Coast Suns Academy side consisting of the club ...