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In 2020, Collingwood finished 8th at the end of the home-and-away season. The club made significant on-field and administrative changes in the late 2010s. It was a foundation member of the inaugural AFL Women's competition in 2017 and in the same year established the Collingwood Magpies Netball team, a division of the club competing in the ...
The 2020 Collingwood Football Club season is the club's 124th season of senior competition in the Australian Football League (AFL). The club also fielded its women's team in the AFL Women's competition though because of the COVID-19 pandemic it did not field reserves sides in the Victorian Football League and VFL Women's competitions.
The Collingwood Football Club is a professional Australian rules football club based in Melbourne, Victoria, that competes in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's elite competition. Founded in 1892, the club played five seasons in the Victorian Football Association (VFA), winning one premiership in 1896.
Of the teams currently competing in the Australian Football League, only Fremantle, Gold Coast and Greater Western Sydney are yet to win a premiership. As of 2024, Collingwood, Essendon and Carlton are all tied for winning 16 premierships, with Collingwood winning the most consecutive premierships, at four between 1927 and 1930.
The 2020 season was disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, which was formally declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization on 11 March 2020, eight days prior to the scheduled start of the premiership season. Restrictions imposed by the different state governments related to social distancing, lockdowns of non-essential services which ...
The clubs met for the first time in a Grand Final in 2018, with the Eagles winning by 5 points to claim their fourth premiership after a heroic Dom Sheed goal. [52] The two clubs also share a common coach in Mick Malthouse, who led West Coast to their first two flags in 1992 and 1994 and took Collingwood to their 15th premiership in 2010. After ...
Collingwood began its premiership defence by winning the NAB Cup over Essendon. Collingwood was universally considered the premiership favourites going into the season. Collingwood didn't disappoint its fans, recording a massive 75 point victory over Port Adelaide in round 1 without skipper Nick Maxwell. [11]
The main period of the Colliwobbles ended in the 1990 AFL Grand Final, when Collingwood defeated Essendon to win their first premiership since 1958. Lou Richards ceremoniously announced the end of the Colliwobbles, and the club marked the occasion with the burial of a memoir of the hitherto trying times in front of a large crowd at Victoria Park .