Russell Crowe supports the Leeds Rhinos in the Super League and the Richmond Tigers in the Australian Football League ( AFL )

From 1995 the 2. 0 litre cars, now contesting their own series as Super Touring Cars, became ineligible for the Australian Touring Car Championship.

* Western Force, an Australian rugby union team in the Super 14

Graham's appearance in Super Bowl XLIII made him the first Australian to play in the NFL's championship game.

HPVs racing at the Murray Bridge 24 Hour for the Australian HPV Super Series.

Titles held in the city include: ABCRA National Finals and Junior National Finals, Australian Quarter Horse National Championships and Barrel Race Super Challenge, and the National Cutting Horse Association Futurity among many other events.

The flagship sports of the brand are cricket, National Rugby League ( NRL ), and formerly Australian rules football, until Nine lost the rights in 2006, and Super League while it existed.

Australian HPV Super Series competitors.

These have also been used in Australian HPV Super Series since 1985.

The Australian Army briefly used PIATs at the start of the Korean War alongside bazookas, but quickly replaced both weapons with M20 " Super Bazookas ".

The NRL formed in the aftermath of the 1990s ' Super League war as a joint partnership between the sport's already-existing national governing body, the Australian Rugby League ( ARL ) and media giant News Corporation-controlled Super League, after both organisations ran premierships parallel to each other in 1997.

League Division 1, FIFA World Cup, Olympic Games, UEFA European Football Championship, Cricket World Cup, Commonwealth Games, The Ashes, UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League, Heineken Cup, Indian Premier League, Six Nations Championship, FA Cup, Premier League, La Liga, Serie A, Fußball-Bundesliga, Australian Football League, Rugby League State of Origin, Super League, Rugby League Challenge Cup, Grand Slam tennis, World Series Baseball, Rugby World Cup, Kentucky Derby, Melbourne Cup, PGA Tour, National Rugby League, All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, NBA, NFL, NHL, MLB, MLS, Wimbledon, Formula One, and NASCAR.

As such, spin-offs have included American Idol, Arab Idol, Australian Idol, Latin American Idol, Idols ( Denmark, Netherlands, Finland, South Africa, West Africa, Serbia-Montenegro & Macedonia ), Idool ( Belgium ), Canadian Idol, Indian Idol, Indonesian Idol, New Zealand Idol, Hay Superstar ( Armenia ), Idol stjörnuleit ( Iceland ), Pinoy Idol ( Philippines ), Idol ( Sweden ), Idol ( Norway ), Idol ( Poland ), Nouvelle Star ( France ), Deutschland sucht den Superstar ( Germany ), Singapore Idol, Malaysian Idol, Vietnam Idol, Music Idol ( Bulgaria ), Ídolos ( Brazil and Portugal ), Greek Idol, Super Star ( Arab States ), Hrvatska traži zvijezdu ( Croatia ), SuperStar KZ ( Kazakhstan ), Eesti otsib superstaari ( Estonia ), Slovensko hľadá SuperStar ( Slovakia ), Macedonian Idol and Kokhav Nolad ( Israel ).

This included the Jägermeister Music Tour, The Hottest Chicks in Metal Tour 2007 Loudpark Festival ' 07 in Saitama City's Saitama Super Arena, and the Australian leg of Megadeth's Gigantour.

In the 1990s and early 2000s, the Vectra B Super Touring took part in the British Touring Car Championship, the Asia-Pacific Touring Car Championship, the German Super Tourenwagen Cup, the Australian Super Touring Championship and the Swedish Touring Car Championship.

Uwe Alzen was third in Super Tourenwagen Cup in 1997 and 1998 and second in 1999 ; John Henederson was runner-up in the 2000 / 2001 Australian Super Touring Championship ; John Cleland was British Touring Car Champion in 1995 and finished third in 1992 and fourth in 1993 and 1994 ; Yvan Muller was sixth in the 1999 British Touring Car Championship and fourth in 2000 ; and Nicklas Karlsson was third in the 2002 Swedish Touring Car Championship.

The forthcoming Super League war hung over the tournament, with the Australian Rugby League refusing to select players who had signed for the rival competition.

* The ICC Super Series, a three-ODI series played between the ICC World XI and the then-top ranked Australian cricket team in the 2005 / 06 season.

Amongst the leagues dropped were Super Rugby ( rugby union ), the Australian Football League ( the principal Australian rules football league ), and the Australian National Rugby League.

* Australian Production Touring Car Championship PTCC ( AASA ) -

Formerly the Australian Touring Car Championship, the current formula was devised in 1993 ( based on Group A regulations ) and branded as ' V8 Supercars ' in 1997.

In January 1993 the Confederation of Australian Motor Sport replaced the existing Group 3A Touring Car category ( formerly based on FIA Group A rules ) with a new three-class Group 3A.

Cars from all three classes would contest the Australian Touring Car Championship as well as non-championship Australian touring car events such as the Bathurst 1000 ; but for the purposes of race classification and points allocation, cars competed in two classes:

The name Shell Australian Touring Car Championship was replaced by Shell Championship Series.

In the Group 3A / V8 Supercar category, from 1993 to 2011, Holden drivers have won eleven Australian Touring Car Championships / Shell Championship Series / V8 Supercar Championship Series titles and Ford drivers have won eight.

* List of Australian Touring Car and V8 Supercar Champions

Recipients have mostly not been V8 Supercar drivers but from the Australian Touring Car Championship era and have been multiple winners of the ATCC or the Bathurst 1000.

The GT-R proceeded to win the JGTC Group A series championship 4 years in a row, and also had success in the Australian Touring Car Championship winning from 1990 – 1992, until a regulation change excluded the GT-R in 1993.

Other championship titles include the 1991 Australian Touring Car Championship Jim Richards, the 1991 Australian Endurance Championship ( Mark Gibbs & Rowan Onslow ), the 1991 Australian Manufacturers ' Championship, the 1992 Australian Touring Car Championship ( Mark Skaife ) and the 1992 Spanish Touring Car Championship.

:* Central Coast Rays, a rugby union club playing in the Australian Rugby Championship

Albert Park also has the distinction of being the only venue to hold the Australian Grand Prix in both World Championship and non-World Championship formats.

Originally built for the Central Coast Bears team in the NRL rugby league competition ( to this day, the seats are arranged to say ' Go Bears '), since 2005 it is now the home of the Central Coast Mariners A-League association football team and was the home venue of the Central Coast Rays rugby union Australian Rugby Championship team

In 1992, he joined County Championship newcomers Durham before retiring midway through the 1993 season, his last match being Durham's match against the visiting Australian XI.

* Australian V8 Superboats Jet Sprint Championship

Brabham won the 1948 Australian Speedway Championship, the 1949 Australian and South Australian Speedcar championships, and the 1950 – 1951 Australian championship with the car.

In February and March 1985 the Benson & Hedges World Championship of Cricket was played at the MCG, a One Day International tournament involving all of the then Test match playing countries to celebrate 150 years of the Australian state of Victoria.

He raced in Australian Superbikes in the late 1980s, and also won both races as Superbike World Championship visited Oran Park in.

* Australian Production Car Championship APCC ( CAMS / FIA )-

Other transnational competitions include the Pro 12, involving Irish, Italian, Scottish and Welsh teams ; The Rugby Championship, involving South African, Australian, New Zealand and Argentinian Teams ; and the Heineken Cup, involving the top European teams from their respective domestic competitions.

* July 10 – Peter Thomson becomes the first Australian to win the British Open Golf Championship.

* Australian Sports Car Championship – A series which ran from 1969 to 1988.

* Australian GT Championship – A series for GT type cars which ran from 1982 to 1985 and from 2005 to date.

* Australian Nations Cup Championship A series for GT type cars which ran from 2000 to 2004.

It was then renamed for 2005 as the Australian GT Championship.

* Australian Rally Championship