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  2. History of the Australian Football League - Wikipedia

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    As with most of the sporting world, AFL in the early 2020s was majorly impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition to putting the health of players, staff, and spectators in jeopardy, the 2020 AFL season needed to be majorly restructured to accommodate unprecedented challenges. This meant a shortened draw, strict crowd limits, and ...

  3. Australian Football League - Wikipedia

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    The Total Player Earnings (TPE) – or total amount of revenue spent on reimbursement of AFL listed players – at the conclusion of the 2012 season was $173.7 million, up by 13 per cent from $153.7 million in 2011. [56] In June 2017, the AFL and AFL Players Association agreed to a new CBA deal which resulted in a 20% increase in players ...

  4. History of Australian rules football - Wikipedia

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    The AFL also hope to develop the game in other countries to the point where Australian football is played at an international level by top-quality sides from around the world. The AFL has hosted an International Cup regularly every three years, beginning in 2002, with the third game in 2008 corresponding to the 150th anniversary of the code.

  5. Australian rules football in Australia - Wikipedia

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    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]

  6. Expansion of the Australian Football League - Wikipedia

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    The Australian Football League, currently an 18 team competition, has a history of expansion since 1908 when its 8 club competition, formed as an 1897 breakaway from the rival Victorian Football Association, grew to 10 teams. Many clubs have been proposed since this time, particularly since the 1980s when the league began to expand nationally.

  7. Australian rules football in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The Australian Football World Tour visited New York on Sunday, 5 November 1967 with the Australian Galahs playing International Rules at Gaelic Park against the New York GAA at Gaelic Park, New York City. The Galahs lost the match 4-8 (20) to 0-5 (5), the visitors not managing a score after half time. [158]

  8. Origins of Australian rules football - Wikipedia

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    The first rules of Australian football were published in the annual Victorian Cricketer's Guide alongside rules used in English public schools for the purpose of comparison. In the 1860 edition, J. B. Thompson announced: [32] Football, as played in Victoria, is now fit to run alone.

  9. Geography of Australian rules football - Wikipedia

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    Australian rules football spread throughout the world by the 1910s, however in the first major study of the early international growth of the code de Moore (2021) cites a "lack of systematic support from its heartland" [2] and the then VFL (now AFL)'s disregard for representative football, amateurism and the global growth in popularity of other ...