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  2. List of Australian rules football clubs by date of establishment

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    SUANFC claims to be a spin-off of Australia's oldest rugby union club, Sydney University Football Club founded in 1865, which experimented with Australian rules in its early years. If the claim is accepted, this would make SUANFC the oldest Australian rules football club in NSW. However it did not play an Australian rules fixture until 1887 ...

  3. Australian Football League - Wikipedia

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    The Australian Football League (AFL) is the pre-eminent professional competition of Australian rules football.It was originally named the Victorian Football League (VFL) and was founded in 1896 as a breakaway competition from the Victorian Football Association (VFA), with its inaugural season in 1897.

  4. Australian rules football - Wikipedia

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    Australian rules football, also called Australian football or Aussie rules, [2] or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an oval field, often a modified cricket ground.

  5. History of Australian rules football - Wikipedia

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    These two clubs were the foundation clubs of Australian Rules Football in Victoria. The first documented match between clubs was in Richmond paddock on 25 September 1858 with 26 (or 27 [49]) players on each side. [50] It is recorded in a letter to a paper St Kilda Football Club formed from members of the St Kilda Cricket Club in April 1858. [51]

  6. List of Australian rules football clubs in Australia - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of clubs that play Australian rules football in Australia at the senior level. Guide to abbreviations: FC = Football Club; AFC = Australian Football Club (mainly used if in Queensland or NSW or outside Australia) / Amateur Football Club (mainly used in the other Australian States) ARFC = Australian Rules Football Club

  7. Australian rules football in Australia - Wikipedia

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    Australian rules football holds the match attendance record of any football code in Victoria (121,696), South Australia (66,987), Tasmania (24,968) and the Northern Territory (17,500). The national professional competitions are the men's Australian Football League (AFL) and AFL Women's (AFLW). Nationally these are the most popular football ...

  8. Australian rules football in the Australian Capital Territory

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    Australian rules was the most popular football code for participation and spectators in the nation's capital Canberra between 1978 and 1982. At its peak popularity in 1981 it was the first state or territory outside of Victoria to make an official bid to start a national league now known as the Australian Football League (AFL).

  9. History of Australian rules football in Victoria (1859–1900)

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    Graeme Atkinson, writing in Everything You Wanted Know About Australian Rules Football ... considers it likely that these Geelong rules were drawn up prior to the first rules of the Melbourne Football Club which were drafted on 17 May 1859.: [12] [page needed] 1. Distance between goals and the goal posts to be decided by captains. 2.