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AFL Canada. AFL Canada (formerly the Canadian Australian Football Association, French: Association canadienne de football australien) is the governing body for men's and women's Australian rules football in Canada . AFL Canada was formed on 30 July 2004, when the Canadian Australian Football Association changed its official name.
32,789 (1987). Melbourne v. Sydney ( B.C. Place, Vancouver) Australian rules football in Canada (commonly known as "Aussie Rules" or simply "footy") is played in seven provinces – Ontario, Alberta, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Labrador, Quebec, British Columbia and Saskatchewan. The Ontario league, centred on Toronto is a nine-team league ...
In 2020, about 15 per cent of AFL players were born overseas or had one parent born overseas. This was up from 13 per cent in 2019, according to AFL data. [2] In 2015 season there were 121 multicultural players, more than half had one parent from Anglophone countries, mainly the United Kingdom , Ireland and New Zealand .
Australian Football League has official affiliation agreements with 15 international governing bodies, ARFL Ireland, AFL Canada, Danish Australian Football League, AFL Scotland, AFL England, AFL Wales, AFL Japan, Nauru Australian Football Association, AFL New Zealand, USAFL, AFL South Africa, AFL PNG, AFL Samoa, Tonga Australian Football ...
Essendon won the inaugural VFL premiership in 1897. Fitzroy won the inaugural grand final in 1898. Carlton has won the equal-most premierships with 16, with their first coming in the 1906 season. Collingwood's premiership win in 1930 was the club's fourth successive premiership, a record for the league. Geelong players doing a lap of honour ...
AFL Ontario is the largest Australian football league in North America. It is currently composed of teams from the Greater Toronto Area , Southwestern Ontario and the National Capital Region , who play off for the Conacher Cup (named after Lionel Conacher ), presently awarded to the winner of the annual AFL Ontario Grand Final .
Argentina. Australian rules football has been played in Buenos Aires, Argentina since 1997, the Asociación Argentina de Futbol Australiano as the de facto governing body. Ricardo Acuña, having seen footage of the game in the 1990s, decided to start the game in Argentina and is now president of the Argentine Alternative Sports Association.
Official website. afl.com.au. The Australian Football League ( AFL) is the pre-eminent and only fully 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.