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Essendon Football Club (AFL Women's, 2023–present) Windy Hill (officially known as Essendon Recreation Reserve ) is an Australian rules football and cricket ground located in Napier Street, Essendon , a northwestern suburb of the Melbourne metropolitan area.
The Essendon Football Club, nicknamed the Bombers or colloquially the Dons, is a professional Australian rules football club that plays in the Australian Football League (AFL), the game's premier competition.
TV audiences during the 2022 AFL season totalled 125.4 million viewers, with an average of 537,000 people watching each match; the TV audience for the 2023 AFL Grand Final was 4.98 million—plus an additional 756,000 on 7plus, for a total of 5.736 million [93] [94] [95] —and the game was seen by 100,024 stadium spectators, which was exactly ...
The ground also plays host to a variety of commercially-oriented tenancies, including retail (The Western Bulldogs merchandise shop, Bulldogs Central) and health (Physioplus Footscray). It also headquarters the WMR (Western Metropolitan Region) division of DEECD , which oversees all government schools in Melbourne's West.
The Queensland Australian Football League (QAFL / ˈ k w ɒ f ə l / KWOF-əl or "Q-A-F-L") is an Australian rules football competition organised by the AFL Queensland, contested by clubs from South East Queensland.
In 2023 (the year Collingwood won their 16th premiership), they broke the AFL membership record figure again with 106,470 members. [6] The club's extensive membership base tends to be a large crowd-pulling power, which has caused the AFL to be accused of favouring Collingwood when scheduling to maximise the league's attendance figures.
AFL CEO Andrew Demetriou was quoted to have said to the Tasmanian premier Paul Lennon "Not now, not ever". [32] Hobart's major daily newspaper The Mercury started a petition in response to this news on 16 April 2008. [33] The premier vowed to bypass the AFL CEO and take the appeal directly to the AFL Commission.
The AFL then began work to establish a club on the Gold Coast as a new expansion team; the Gold Coast Suns were established, and they joined the AFL in 2011 as the 17th team; they finished last on the ladder. The same year, Collingwood played Geelong in the 2011 grand final. Collingwood had only lost to one team all year, Geelong, and now faced ...