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The VFL/AFL has been broadcast every year since then by the ABC and (since 1927) by various commercial stations. The saturation period was the early 1960s when seven of the eight extant radio stations ( 3AR , 3UZ , 3DB , 3KZ , 3AW , 3XY and 3AK ) broadcast VFL games each week, as well as broadcasts of Geelong games by local station 3GL .
The same year saw the West Coast Eagles become the first interstate club reach the grand final, losing to Hawthorn in the 1991 AFL Grand Final; the Eagles would then win the premiership in 1992 and 1994. In 1994, the Fremantle Football Club was formed in Western Australia; they joined the AFL in 1995, becoming the fifth interstate club.
VFL clubs operating under an affiliation arrangements with an AFL clubs, whereby players from the AFL club would join the senior team of the VFL club when not selected to play in the AFL. At times, there were rules limiting the number of AFL-listed players who could play in a VFL team, but these rules no longer exist.
Participated in the VFL/AFL from 1987 until 1996, then merged with Fitzroy to form the Brisbane Lions. 1986: West Coast Eagles: Perth: Western Australia: Australian Football League: Participant in the VFL/AFL since the 1987 VFL season. 1987: Belconnen: Canberra: Australian Capital Territory: AFL Canberra: Merger of West Canberra and Turner 1989 ...
AFL Central West: 1982– 6: 2: Bathurst [106] VFL/AFL: 1983– 2: 1: Melbourne, Victoria [107] Australian Football Championships night series: 1983–1986: 1: 1: Melbourne, Victoria: Discontinued Summerland Australian Football League: 1984–2021: 11: 1: Ballina: Taken over by AFL Queensland as QFA Northern Rivers in 2011 before folding in ...
This page is a collection of VFL/AFL premiership and grand final statistics. The Australian Football League (AFL), known as the Victorian Football League (VFL) until 1990, is the elite national competition in men's Australian rules football. Each year, the premiership is awarded to the club that wins the AFL Grand Final. The grand final has ...
Football is the most highly attended spectator sport in Australia. Government figures show that more than 2.5 million people (16.8% of the population) attended games in 1999. [5] In 2005, a cumulative 6,283,788 people attended Australian Football League (AFL) premiership matches, a record for the competition. [6]
Three clubs, Carlton, Collingwood and Essendon, have won the most VFL/AFL premierships, with 16 each. [11] All teams currently competing in the AFL except Fremantle, Gold Coast and Greater Western Sydney (three of the four newest clubs) have won a premiership, and all except Gold Coast have played in a grand final. [12]