| Australian rules football in England | | Governing body | None recognised | | National team | England | | First played | 1899, London | | Registered players | 800 (total)
435 (adult) | | Clubs | 18 | | Competitions | | Club | | - BARFL | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Audience records | | Single match | 18,884 (2005). West Coast v. Fremantle (The Oval, London) |
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Australian rules football in England is a team and spectator sport with a long but obscure history and has grown since 1989 to several amateur leagues. Australian Football League exhibition matches have been held in London every few years since 1972. British Bulldogs guernsey The Great Britain national Australian rules football team is known as the British Bulldogs. ...
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The West Coast Eagles Football Club is an Australian rules football club competing in the Australian Football League. ...
Fremantle Football Club, nicknamed The Dockers and known unofficially as the Fremantle Dockers and informally as Freo, is one of 16 teams in the Australian Football League. ...
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History of Australian Rules football in England
Early games Australian rules football was played by a British representative rugby team which toured Australia in 1888. The team arrived in Hobart, Tasmania on April 14. They trained with the South Tasmanian Football Club, before going to New Zealand for a series of rugby matches. After they returned to Australia they again trained in Australian rules in Sydney, before leaving for Victoria in mid-June. The tour included 19 matches, against Carlton, Bendigo, Castlemaine, South Melbourne, Maryborough, Castlemaine, Fitzroy , Port Melbourne, South Adelaide, Port Adelaide, Adelaide Football Club (no connection to the later Adelaide club), Norwood, Horsham, Ballarat Imperials, Ballarat, Sandhurst, Kyneton, Essendon and Maitland (Hunter Valley, NSW). They won six matches, including a win over Port Adelade at Adelaide Oval on July 10, 1888, and drew one. The reigning Victorian premiers, Carlton defeated Great Britain at the MCG 14.17 to 3.8. At this stage goals and points were recorded but only goals counted in the score. eg When Great Britain played Castlemaine under very heavy conditions they kicked 1 goal 2 points and the locals kicked 1 goal 4 points but the match was declared a draw). Great Britain also played 35 games of rugby, making a total of 54 games in 21 weeks. A star of the team's Australian rules games was Andrew Stoddart, who captained the team for part of its tour and also captained England in cricket. The 1888 tour had been organised by the English cricketer Arthur Shrewsbury but his involvement with Australian Rules football did not end there. He planned to have an Australian team sent to the United Kingdom to play a series of demonstration matches and to that end he looked to Scotland where he had identified possible opponents. Shrewsbury’s plans are outlined in his correspondence with Alfred Shaw and Turner, the Nottingham Cricket Club Secretary. (His letter can be seen on p150 in the book 'Football's Forgotten Tour'). Between 1870 and the First World War many overseas students studied medicine at Edinburgh and Glasgow Universities and in some years there were over 200 Australians enrolled at Edinburgh alone. They formed their own Edinburgh Australians Club with their own plush premises at 12 Archibald Place. (At one stage their cricket team had 4 Australian Test players). On 12 June 1888, while Shrewsbury's Australian tour was in progress, the Edinburgh Australians travelled down to London to play an Australian Rules game against London University at Balham, a match which drew considerable praise in UK newspapers such as the Times and the Scotsman). Champion Australian Rules players who were members of the Edinburgh Australians Club were Victorian premiership players RH Morrison, AB Timms and GF Read (Geelong); Colin Campbell and ‘Gus’ Kearney ( Essendon). Other prominent players were J (Jos) Adams (Melbourne, Essendon and Geelong), J Pender, AE Syme (Essendon); FJ Clendinnen and AW Marwood (Melbourne). In addition there were many prominent Public School players such as WC and CC Macknight, SW Pitcher, WE O’Hara, DA Robinson, DGM Teague, W Scott, LG Pearson, HW Bryant, (son of ‘Jerry’ Bryant the publican who organised one of the first games in Melbourne), CS and CG Ryan (Melbourne Grammar), CG Timms, I Glassford (Geelong College), D Gordon, J & P Russell, AH Rutherford, RC Irvine (Geelong Grammar), GM Munro, R Fetherstone, CL Carter, T Fitchett, HF Lawrence (Wesley), Ramsay Mailer, HE Jackson and DJ Macrae (Scotch College). Testimony to the existence of the Edinburgh Australians Club are early records and photographs in the University’s Student magazine and the perpetual Cup which the Australians donated to record champion athletes and which is still on display at the University. Shrewsbury suggested that the 'Edinburgh Australians' team at Edinburgh University should travel down to England to meet the Australian team in a series of demonstration matches in Lancashire and Yorkshire. Unfortunately his bold plan did not eventuate as the authorities in Australia aborted the venture and a possible expansion of Australian Rules in the UK was lost. For the Great Britain Lions rugby league football team of similiar title, go to Great Britain national rugby league team First match Otago 3 - 8 Lions (as Great Britain) (28 April 1888) Largest win Manawatu 6 - 109 Lions (28 June 2005) Worst defeat New Zealand 38 - 6 Lions (16 July...
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The Carlton Football Club is the sixth oldest Australian rules football club and the third oldest club in the Australian Football League. ...
Bendigo Bombers Logo The Bendigo Bombers are an Australian rules football club based in Bendigo, Victoria, Australia playing in the Victorian Football League (VFL). ...
The Castlemaine Football Club is an Australian rules football club based in Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia. ...
The Sydney Swans is an Australian Football League (AFL) club based in Sydney, New South Wales. ...
The Castlemaine Football Club is an Australian rules football club based in Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia. ...
The Fitzroy Football Club, latterly known as the Lions, was formed in 1883 and was a foundation member club of the Victorian Football League on its inception in 1897. ...
The Port Melbourne Football Club is an Australian rules football club based in the Melbourne suburb of Port Melbourne and currently playing in the Victorian Football League. ...
The South Adelaide Football Club competes in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL). ...
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The Norwood Football Club, known as the Redlegs, is an Australian Rules football club belonging to the South Australian National Football League in the state of South Australia. ...
Essendon Football Club, nicknamed The Bombers, is an Australian rules football club that is part of the Australian Football League. ...
The Hunter Valley is a region of New South Wales, approximately 160 kilometres north of Sydney, Australia with an approximate population of 700,000 people, most of which live in the Newcastle metropolitan area. ...
The Adelaide Oval is a sports stadium in Adelaide, South Australia. ...
The Carlton Football Club is the sixth oldest Australian rules football club and the third oldest club in the Australian Football League. ...
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Andrew Ernest Stoddart (11 March 1863 – 4 April 1915) was an English cricketer and rugby union player. ...
In 1916, a match was held at the Queen's Club in London between Australian Army teams, representing the Combined Training Units and the 3rd Division, in which many league players took part.[1] However, the end of World War I put an end to organised Australian rules competition in England. Entrance to Queens Club during preparations for the 2005 Queens Club Championships. ...
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The Australian 3rd Division was a first formed in World War I, as part of the Australian Imperial Force. ...
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A Fierce Rivalry Emerges After the war, in 1921, the annual Oxford University-Cambridge University Varsity match was played for the first time between expatriate Australian students[2]. This game is still played[3], and is the longest running Australian rules fixture outside Australia[4]. The match is an official Varsity competition, and worth of half-blue status at Oxford. In 2006 Oxford's Blues defeated the Tabs of Cambridge for second year in a row with a scoreline of 5.2.32 to 3.9.27. The University of Oxford, located in the city of Oxford in England, is the oldest university in the English-speaking world. ...
The University of Cambridge is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world, with one of the most selective sets of entry requirements in the United Kingdom. ...
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Exhibition Matches In 1972, the first exhibition match of the AFL was played at The Oval in London. By 1987, the game had become an annual event, missing only some years. With a large number of ex-patriate Australians, interest in the game grew and small crowds of up to 10,000 were in attendance for the event in some years. Interest and crowds grew further with the change of the VFL to the Australian Football League. Highlights during this time included large crowds for the Australian Football League's West Coast Eagles v. Collingwood Football Club (14,000) in 1997, Richmond Football Club v. Essendon Football Club (13,000) in 2002. Australian rules football has been introduced to a wide range of places around Australia and the world since the codes inception in 1848. ...
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The famous gasometers, which are now listed buildings. ...
This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ...
This article is about the national league in Australian rules football. ...
This article is about the national league in Australian rules football. ...
The West Coast Eagles Football Club is an Australian rules football club competing in the Australian Football League. ...
The Collingwood Football Club, nicknamed The Magpies after the black and white striped guernseys worn by the players, is an Australian rules football club, playing in the elite Australian Football League. ...
The Richmond Football Club, nicknamed The Tigers, is an Australian rules football club playing in the Australian Football League. ...
Essendon Football Club, nicknamed The Bombers, is an Australian rules football club that is part of the Australian Football League. ...
The First Local League Australian football was only sporadically played in England until 1989, when the British Australian rules football League (BARFL) was formed. Serious competition began and the competition became more popular, with the local BARFL Grand Finals becoming a large event attracting attendances in the thousands, including a record crowd of 1,500 in 1999. The British Australian Rules Football League is a body for Australian rules football in the United Kingdom, including four separate competitions - the London Premiership, London Conference, Regional Premiership and the Scottish Australian Rules Football League. ...
A Grand Final is the culmination of a series of final matches played between a number of sporting teams to decide the premier team. ...
In 2002 a national team represented Great Britain at the Australian Football International Cup for the first time, finishing the tournament in 6th place. 2005 saw the British Bulldogs again compete in the International Cup, again finishing 6th overall. The Australian Football International Cup is an international Australian rules football competition hosted by the Australian Football League. ...
Following the 2005 International Cup, promising 22 year old British Bulldog Luke Matias began playing with the Port Melbourne Football Club in the Victorian Football League. The Port Melbourne Football Club is an Australian rules football club based in the Melbourne suburb of Port Melbourne and currently playing in the Victorian Football League. ...
The Victorian Football League, formerly known as the Victorian Football Association (VFA), is a second-tier Australian rules football league. ...
Also in 2005, the first Western Derby to be played outside of Australia, the West Coast Eagles v. Fremantle game was played as a pre-season test at The Oval in London, drawing a record crowd of 18,884. The Western Derby is the name given to the Australian Football League match between the Fremantle Dockers and West Coast Eagles. ...
The West Coast Eagles Football Club is an Australian rules football club competing in the Australian Football League. ...
Fremantle Football Club, nicknamed The Dockers and known unofficially as the Fremantle Dockers and informally as Freo, is one of 16 teams in the Australian Football League. ...
The famous gasometers, which are now listed buildings. ...
In the 2005 Oxford vs Cambridge match, held at Oxford, the Oxford dark blues triumphed 99-22 over the light blue tabs, despite the loss of their inspirational full forward, whose finger was snapped off in a freak brawling accident. Like Daniel Chick, he is set to return with nine fingers to play again this year. Daniel Chick (born February 10, 1976) is a professional Australian rules footballer who plays for the West Coast Eagles in the Australian Football League. ...
In 2005 the first junior development program, Aussie Rules Schools, commenced. The program is co-ordinated by Aussie Rules UK and Aussie Rules International. This project has seen up to 10 English schools adopt Aussie Rules as part of the school curriculum to combat obesity. Juniors teams have competed at the London Youth Games. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...
Aussie Rules International Logo // Mission The role of Aussie Rules International is to promote and develop the sport of Australian Rules Football internationally. ...
2006 was a big year for Aussie Rules in England, with the admission of new BARFL clubs in Manchester, Middlesbrough and Thanet. This article is about the City of Manchester in England. ...
Middlesbrough is a large town in the North East of England, and is the principal location in the borough of Middlesbrough. ...
Thanet is a local government district of Kent, England which was formed under the Local Government Act 1972, and came into being on 1 April of 1974. ...
Participation In 2004, there were a total of around 435 senior players across 18 clubs in England.[5] The local league has a higher amount of ex-patriate Australians compared to other countries that participate in the sport, however the league recently put in place caps on the number of expatriate players in certain divisions to improve the mix and encourage more local players. In May 2007 the first Women's Footy game was held and there is now a league with two teams. Womens Aussie Rules is a fast growing sport played in Australia, United States, Papua New Guinea and Japan. ...
Audience
Television Setanta Sports and British Eurosport are the current holders of the British rights to the Australian Football League (AFL). Setanta Sports shows three live games each round of the season including the playoffs and the AFL Grand Final. Eurosport shows one game a week but the coverage is delayed. Setanta Sports (pronounced Seh-tan-tah) is a leading Irish international sports broadcaster, operating 12 channels in 24 countries. ...
Eurosport is the largest European sports satellite and cable network available in 54 countries and broadcasting in 18 different languages. ...
Part of the pre-match entertainment at the 2006 AFL Grand Final at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. ...
Attendance Records
Local Competitions 1,500 (1999). BARFL Grand Final. West London Wildcats vs Wandsworth Demons. London (source IAFC) Year 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1999 Gregorian calendar). ...
The British Australian Rules Football League is the governing body for Australian Rules Football in England. ...
A Grand Final is the culmination of a series of final matches played between a number of sporting teams to decide the premier team. ...
The West London Wildcats are an Australian rules football and netball club based in London, England. ...
The Wandsworth Demons are an Australian Rules Football club who play in the British Australian Rules Football League. ...
This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ...
Exhibition Match 18,884 (2005). West Coast v. Fremantle (The Oval, London) 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The West Coast Eagles Football Club is an Australian rules football club competing in the Australian Football League. ...
Fremantle Football Club, nicknamed The Dockers and known unofficially as the Fremantle Dockers and informally as Freo, is one of 16 teams in the Australian Football League. ...
The famous gasometers, which are now listed buildings. ...
This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ...
National Team England is represented by the England Dragonslayers.
Leagues
Open The British Australian Rules Football League is a body for Australian rules football in the United Kingdom, including four separate competitions - the London Premiership, London Conference, Regional Premiership and the Scottish Australian Rules Football League. ...
Juniors To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...
English born players in the AFL England has not yet produced local talent, however the country has had some locally born and bred players find their way into the AFL.
Current Players Brett Kirk (born 25 October 1976) In England came to Australia when he was 6 and grew up in Dubbo, NSW is a south country NSW Australian football player with the Sydney Swans of the AFL, and is known colloquially as Kirky, Captain Kirk or during the 2005 Finals Series...
Brendon Lade (born July 10, 1976) is an Australian rules footballer. ...
Bradley Brad Moran (born September 29, 1986 in England) is an Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League. ...
Past Players - Clive Waterhouse (Fremantle)
- Colin Alexander (Collingwood/Brisbane)
- Mark Bayliss (Collingwood)
- Lawrence Bingham (Hawthorn/St Kilda)
- Wayne Blackwell (Claremont/Carlton)
- Chris Burton (Footscray/Richmond)
- Ian Dargie (St Kilda/West Coast)
- Fred Fairweather (North Melbourne)
- Andy Goodwin (Richmond/Melbourne)
- Paul Harding (Hawthorn/St Kilda/West Coast)
- Johnny Leonard (Subiaco/South Melbourne/West Perth/Claremont)
- Brian Mynott (St Kilda)
- Richard Nixon (St Kilda)
- Polly Perkins (Richmond)
Clive Waterhouse, born June 23, 1974 is an Australian rules footballer. ...
Mark Bayliss (born December 12, 1965) was an Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League. ...
Johnny Leonard (born 8 June 1903; died 3 May 1995) was a famous player and coach of Australian rules football in the West Australian Football League (WAFL) and the Victorian Football League (later renamed to Australian Football League) in the period 1922 to 1946. ...
Brian Mynott (born January 29, 1944) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for St Kilda in the Australian Football League. ...
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