AFL Clubs Summary

The AFL operates on a single table system, with no divisions, conferences nor promotion and relegation from other leagues.

Many of the current AFL teams date back to the beginnings of the sport of Australian rules football, including the very first club, Melbourne Football Club (1859), a foundation VFL/AFL club whose founders also first codified the sport in 1859. The Victorian Football League, commonly known as the VFL, started in 1897 with eight teams from the Victorian Football Association (VFA): Carlton, Collingwood, Essendon, Fitzroy, Geelong, Melbourne, South Melbourne, and St Kilda. Richmond and University entered in 1908, but University disbanded in 1915. In 1925, Footscray (later known as the Western Bulldogs), Hawthorn and North Melbourne entered the competition. It remained in this 12-team single-state configuration until 1982 when South Melbourne relocated to Sydney, New South Wales to become the Sydney Swans.

The next phase of national expansion occurred in 1987, with the introduction of the West Coast Eagles from Western Australia and the Brisbane Bears from Queensland.

The league was renamed the Australian Football League in 1990 to reflect the expanded nature of the competition.

South Australia was first represented in 1991 when the Adelaide Crows joined the league. The Fremantle Football Club joined as the second WA team in 1995. After the 1996 season the Brisbane Bears merged with Fitzroy, creating the Brisbane Lions in 1996 and the Port Adelaide Football Club joined to maintain the league at 16 teams.

The Australian national football team mostly is composed of the first three clubs, in which the International recruitments from the Republic of Ireland and other countaries have strengthens the Clubs. The World Cup tickets of all matches are now available for sale. Football tickets of all the matches of World Cup are for sale at ticket4football.com, you can buy the Australia World Cup Tickets for its the upcoming matches and World Cup Football tickets of other teams on this website.

Australian Football League

The Australian Football League (AFL) is the major professional Australian national competition in the sport of Australian football and is arguably Australia's biggest sporting competition in terms of membership, corporate sponsorship and attendances (ranked 4th in the world for average attendances).

The league comprises 16 teams which play 22 home and away rounds between late March and late August or early September. This is followed by a four-week finals series which culminates in two teams playing off for the Premiership, in the Grand Final.

The league was officially renamed the Australian Football League in 1990 to reflect the new national perspective, and is more commonly referred to by the acronym AFL. The VFA took over the Victorian Football League name in 1996.

The AFL is the most attended sporting league in Australia . The AFL is currently the fourth-most attended professional sports league in the world in terms of attendance per match, with an average attendance of over 38,000.

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Australian Football Coaches Association

The Australian Football Coaches Association (AFCA) is operational in all states and territories of Australia, managed by the State Coaching Managers in each state.

Each branch operates independently and generally conducts an annual coaching conference, regular updating seminars and an annual awards dinner for their coaches. Most State branches are organised into regions which also conduct local activities.

There are approximately 9,000 current members (4000 in Victoria, 2000 in SA, 1000 in WA and 2000 in other states). Coaching Update, the Association’s coaching journal, has a nationwide readership of over 21,000 nationwide, and is published by the Victorian Branch three times per year. The South Australian Branch, organized by SANFL, and the WA Branch, WAFC, also produce their own journals Coaches Corner and Footyl Fever

These journals discuss a range of topics, including:

Rule ChangesTacticsManagement and PlanningPlayer ConditioningSet PlaysNutritionDrills

Each branch managed by AFL State Development staff is an integral part of their football community and generally provide the following services.

Annual Coach of the year Awards and coach recognition programsLocal Coaching NewslettersDistribution of Coaching Update Regional coaching workshops and seminars.Operating a Coaching Resource Centre.

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Australia Team in recent years

In 1997, after winning the OFC qualifying tournament, Australia had to play Iran over two legs in one week, with the winner progressing to the World Cup finals to be held in France. Australia's road to USA 94 is an example of the difficult qualifying path which members of the Oceania confederation have had to endure. In order to qualify for USA 94, Australia had to endure 3 playoff stages. In 2001 Australia again won the Oceania Confederation qualifying tournament for 2002 FIFA World Cup. Second and third-string lineups thrashed a number of tiny island nations in a competition that made a mockery of the Confederation, including a world-record 22–0 win against Tonga, then smashed that record with a 31–0 win over American Samoa only two days later.

In 2004, the team took the first steps towards qualification for the 2006 FIFA World Cup by topping the round-robin stage of the Oceania Football Confederation World Cup qualification tournament. Australia was placed into 2006 World Cup Group F, along with Japan, Croatia and defending champions Brazil. While in Germany for the 2006 FIFA World Cup, the Socceroos stayed in the town of Öhringen. Just days before Australia's first World Cup match against Japan, it was reported in the west that the Japan Football Association chairman claimed the Socceroos were "guilty of a lot of dirty fouls" and that "they target ankles in particular." Australia, led by Graham Arnold, went to their first Asian Cup sending a strong squad which included 15 players from the World Cup team. Australia was drawn in Group A alongside (co-host) Thailand, Oman and Iraq. The Socceroos were seeded to enter the AFC qualification campaign in the third round alongside Iran, Saudi Arabia, South Korea and Japan. They were drawn into a group comprising of Qatar, Iraq and China with the media dubbing it the "group of death".

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About Australia Football Team

Australia is a four-time Oceania Football Confederation champion and has been represented at two FIFA World Cup tournaments, in 1974 and 2006. 14th is Australia's highest ever FIFA World Ranking since the rankings were introduced in 1992. Australia topped their group in the 2010 World Cup qualification and became one of the first nations to qualify for the finals tournament without losing a match and only conceding one goal.

The Australian national football team are ranked No 48 in the World by FIFA. The qualifying rounds in the Oceania group were a breeze for the Australian football team against minor nations such as Vanuatu & Solomon Islands. The Socceroos will undoubtably come up against stiffer opposition in Germany.

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