Australian Football League - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The Australian Football League (AFL) is the highest- level professional competition in the sport of Australian rules football. Through the AFL Commission, the AFL also serves as the sport's governing body, and is responsible for controlling the Laws of the Game. The league was founded as the Victorian Football League (VFL) as a breakaway from the previous Victorian Football Association (VFA), with its inaugural season commencing in 1. Originally comprising only teams based in the Australian state of Victoria, the competition's name was changed to the Australian Football League for the 1.
The league currently consists of 1. Australia's six states (Tasmania being the exception). Matches have been played in all mainland states and territories of Australia, as well as in New Zealand. The AFL season currently consists of a pre- season competition (currently branded as the "NAB Challenge"), followed by a 2. Australian winter (March to September). The top eight teams then play off in a four- round finals series, culminating in the AFL Grand Final, which is held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground each year.
The winning team in the Grand Final is termed the "premiers", and is awarded the premiership cup. The current premiers are Hawthorn. History[edit]1. 89. VFL begins[edit]The Victorian Football League was established in 1. Victoria – Collingwood, Essendon, Fitzroy, Geelong, Melbourne and South Melbourne – broke away from the established Victorian Football Association to establish the new league. The six clubs invited two more VFA clubs – Carlton and St Kilda – to join the league for its inaugural season in 1.
Among the notable initiatives established in the new league was an annual finals tournament, rather than awarding the premiership directly to the team with the best record through the season; and, the formal establishment of the modern scoring system, in which six points are scored for a goal, and one point is scored for a behind. Although the Victorian Football League and the Victorian Football Association continued to compete for spectator interest for many years, the VFL quickly established itself as the premier competition in Victoria. In the early years Fitzroy and Collingwood were the dominant teams. Following the arrival of Jack Worrall as coach in 1. Carlton began a dominating period, during which they won three successive flags from 1. Worrall was the club secretary, he took on a player management and direction role which is today recognised as the first official coaching job in the league. Essendon won flags in 1.
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Jack Worrall's coaching. In 1. 90. 8, the league expanded to ten teams, with Richmond crossing from the VFA and University from the Metropolitan Football Association. University, after three promising seasons, finished last each year from 1. VFL at the end of 1. University teams now compete in the Victorian Amateur Football Association.[1][2]From 1.
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VFL premier and the premier of the Adelaide- based South Australian Football League met in a playoff match for the Championship of Australia. Port Adelaide was the most successful club of the competition winning three titles during the period along with an earlier victory. Between the world wars[edit]. The VFL Grand Final in 1. Melbourne Cricket Ground.
In 1. 91. 9, the VFL established a seconds/reserves competition to run alongside the senior competition. In 1. 92. 4 the VFL inaugurated the Brownlow Medal for the player who received the most votes from the umpires for the Best and Fairest player. Richmond won its first Premierships in 1. Essendon – battlers since their 1. In 1. 92. 5, the VFL expanded from nine teams to twelve, with Footscray, Hawthorn and North Melbourne each crossing from the VFA. North Melbourne and Hawthorn remained very weak in the VFL for a very long period.
North Melbourne did not win more than eight games in a season until 1. Hawthorn only once won more than seven until 1.
Between them, Hawthorn and North Melbourne finished in last place fifteen of the twenty- nine years from their admittance until 1. Although North Melbourne would become the first of the 1. Grand Final in 1. Footscray that adapted to the VFL with the most ease of the three clubs, and by 1. Between the years of 1. Collingwood became the first and so far, the only, team to win four successive Premierships.
The club also finished the 1. This team became known as "the Machine" because of the organised and consistent way it played.
With Premiership victories in 1. Collingwood Football Club had already won 1. Premierships, four more than the next most successful club, Fitzroy (7).
In the 1. 93. 0s, Richmond and South Melbourne rivaled Collingwood as the best team. Melbourne, which had won the Premiership in 1. Essendon, after a lean decade in the 1. In 1. 94. 6, the VFL established an Under 1. In 1. 95. 1, the Mc.
Clelland Trophy was established as a prize for the best performing team across all three grades. In 1. 95. 2, the VFL hosted 'National Day', when all six matches were played outside of Melbourne. Matches were played at the Sydney Cricket Ground, Brisbane Exhibition Ground, North Hobart Oval, Albury Sports Ground and Victorian country towns Yallourn and Euroa. In 1. 95. 9, the VFL planned the first purpose built mega- stadium, VFL Park (later known as Waverley Park), to give it some independence from the Melbourne Cricket Club, which managed the Melbourne Cricket Ground. VFL Park was planned to hold 1. Land for the stadium was purchased at Mulgrave, then farmland but predicted to be near the demographic centre of Melbourne's population.
Geelong was the stand out team at the beginning of the 1. Round 1. 2, 1. 95. Round 1. 3, 1. 95. This streak included the 1. Footscray became the first of the 1. Melbourne became a powerhouse during the 1. Norm Smith and star player Ron Barassi.
The club contested seven consecutive grand finals from 1. Television coverage began in 1. At first, several channels competed through broadcasting different games. However, when the VFL found that television was reducing crowds, it decided that no coverage was to be allowed for 1. In 1. 96. 1, replays (in Melbourne) were introduced although direct telecasts were rarely permitted in Melbourne (other States and Territories, however, enjoyed live telecasts every Saturday afternoon). The VFL Premiership Trophy was first awarded in addition to a pennant flag in 1. In the 1. 96. 0s, television began to have a huge impact.
Spectators hurried home from games to watch replays and many former players took up positions as commentators on pre- game preview programs and post- game review programs. There were also several attempts at variety programs featuring VFL players, who generally succeeded in demonstrating that their skills were limited to the football ground. The VFL played the first of a series of exhibition matches in 1. Hawthorn won its first premiership in 1.
Footscray. Melbourne extended its success from the 1. Barassi was recruited by Carlton as captain- coach after the season, followed by Norm Smith being sacked during the 1.
Melbourne would not return to the finals for twenty- three years, and (as of 2. St Kilda, which had never won a VFL or VFA premiership in more than 9. Grand Final victory against Collingwood by one point in 1. With the number of players recruited from country leagues increasing, the wealthier clubs were gaining an advantage that metropolitan zoning and the Coulter law (salary cap) restricting player payments had prevented in the past. Country zoning was introduced in the late 1. Essendon and Geelong from the top of the ladder, it created severe inequality during the 1.
Between 1. 97. 2 and 1. Carlton, Collingwood, Essendon, Hawthorn, North Melbourne and Richmond – played in Grand Finals; by comparison, nine different clubs had contested Grand Finals between 1. The 1. 97. 0 season saw the opening of VFL Park, with the inaugural match being played between Geelong and Fitzroy, on 1. April 1. 97. 0. Construction work was carried out at the stadium as the 1. Sir Kenneth Luke stand. The Queen of Australia, Elizabeth II was a guest at the game and officially opened the stadium to the public.
The 1. 97. 0 Grand Final between traditional rivals Carlton and Collingwood, arguably the league's most famous game, saw Carlton recover from a 4. Alex Jesaulenko, and was witnessed by a record crowd of 1. Carlton and Richmond won three premierships each between 1. Grand Finals. North Melbourne, after struggling for most of its time in the VFL, finally won its first premiership in 1. Grand Final each year from 1.
Hawthorn, who also won two premierships. Carlton won three premierships in four years from 1.
Among the notable rule changes made during the decade were: The finals series was expanded from four teams to five in 1. The introduction of the centre diamond, later changed to a square, to limit the number of players allowed around the centre bounce to four per team. The introduction of a second field umpire in 1. The introduction of unlimited interchange in 1. National expansion[edit]The 1. Australian football around the country. The VFL was the most popular and dominant of the state leagues around the country in terms of overall attendance, interest, and money, and began to look towards expanding its influence directly into other states.
The VFL and its top clubs already had the buying power to recruit top players from interstate. As a result of this, rising cost pressures were driving some of Victoria's weaker clubs into dire financial situations.
But in spite of the increasing dominance of Victoria, the country's three top leagues – the VFL, South Australia's SANFL and Western Australia's WAFL, with teams from all three leagues competing in the Night Series, a competition run separate to the league competitions on weekday evenings. South Melbourne became the first VFL club to relocate interstate, and the club moved to Sydney to become the Sydney Swans in 1.
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American Football League Championship Game. The 1. 96. 5 American Football League Championship Game was the sixth AFL championship game, played on December 2. Balboa Stadium in San Diego, California.[2]It matched the Western Division champion San Diego Chargers (9–2–3) and the Eastern Division champion Buffalo Bills (1. American Football League (AFL) champion for the 1.
The defending champion Bills entered the game as 6. ВЅ point underdogs; [2] the Chargers had won the regular season meeting on October 1. In favorable 6. 0 В°F (1.
В°C) conditions on the day after Christmas,[2] the Bills shut out the Chargers and repeated as champions, scoring two touchdowns in the second quarter, one on a punt return. They added three field goals in the second half to win 2. Of the ten AFL title games, this was the only shutout. This was the last AFL Championship to end the season; the first. Super Bowl followed the 1. Scoring summary[edit]Sunday, December 2.
Kickoff: 1: 0. 0 p. PSTFirst quarter. Second quarter. Third quarter. BUF – Field goal Gogolak 1.
BUFBUF – Field goal Gogolak 3. BUFFourth quarter. BUF – Field goal Gogolak 3. BUFPlayers' shares[edit]The winning Bills players were allocated $5,1. Chargers players received $3,4.
Aftermath[edit]This game marked the last time that a final pro football championship was decided in December, within the same calendar year as the regular season games. The following season would conclude with the first Super Bowl played in January 1.
This is the last professional American football championship game to have been won by a team from Buffalo, New York, as well as the last of any major league team from the city. Indeed, the fortunes of both teams, and for that matter both cities, would go southward since then. The Bills would not appear in another championship game until Super Bowl XXV when the infamous Wide Right occurred, and would also proceed to lose the next three Super Bowls. The Chargers meanwhile would not appear in another championship until Super Bowl XXIX, which they lost to the San Francisco 4. Both San Diego and Buffalo presently as of 2. Marty Schottenheimer, a rookie linebacker for the Bills, went on to a long coaching career in the NFL, including leading the Chargers as head coach from 2.
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