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Brunswick Street Oval has been called the spiritual home of both Fitzroy and the Brisbane Lions. During their premiership years, the club took the premiership cups to Brunswick Street Oval, Fitzroy, the home of the Fitzroy Football Club, each morning after the grand final. Honouring Fitzroy's history at their traditional home ground was seen as ...
It was the Brisbane Lions' first appearance in a grand final, and it broke a long grand final drought for the two clubs who merged to form it in 1997: its Melbourne-based predecessor, Fitzroy Lions, had not contested a grand final since 1944, and its Brisbane-based predecessor, Brisbane Bears, did not contest a grand final in its ten-year history.
The Brisbane Lions are an Australian rules football club. The Queensland-based expansion club was formed in 1987, as the Brisbane Bears. [1] In late 1996, via a deal with the administrator of the 1883 VFL/AFL foundation club Fitzroy Football Club, Fitzroy's club operations at the AFL level were merged with that of the Bears.
The 2001 AFL season was the 105th season of the Australian Football League (AFL), the highest level senior Australian rules football competition in Australia. The season featured sixteen clubs, ran from 30 March until 29 September, and comprised a 22-game home-and-away season followed by a finals series featuring the top eight clubs.
A list of all players that were a part of the team that won the AFL/VFL premiership at least once with the Brisbane Lions. Pages in category "Brisbane Lions premiership players" The following 51 pages are in this category, out of 51 total.
Brisbane Lions (P) 22 17 5 0 2538 1989 127.6 68 3 Port Adelaide: 22 16 6 0 2473 1918 128.9 64 4 Richmond: 22 15 7 0 2126 1973 107.8 60 5 Carlton: 22 14 8 0 2311 1797 128.6 56 6 Hawthorn: 22 13 9 0 2149 2041 105.3 52 7 Sydney: 22 12 10 0 2121 1833 115.7 48 8 Adelaide: 22 12 10 0 2085 2026 102.9 48 9 Collingwood: 22 11 11 0 2232 2088 106.9 44 10 ...
The 2003 AFL Grand final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Brisbane Lions and the Collingwood Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 27 September 2003.
The Lions' 1998 wooden spoon came in a year in which their National Rugby League neighbours, the Brisbane Broncos, won the premiership. [ 2 ] Most of the players on the Lions' 1998 playing list would later feature in their run of three consecutive premierships between 2001–03.