The AFL, currently with 18 member clubs, is the sport's elite competition and the most powerful body and continues to seek further opportunities to expand into new markets.

The Brisbane Lions is an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League ( AFL ).

It is the most successful AFL club of the last decade ( 2000 – 2009 ), having appeared in four consecutive AFL Grand Finals between 2001 and 2004, winning three premierships ( 2001, 2002 and 2003 ).

The Essendon Football Club, nicknamed The Bombers, is an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League ( AFL ).

Essendon has won 16 VFL / AFL premierships which, along with Carlton, is the most of any club in the AFL.

The song, as with all other AFL clubs, is played prior to every match and at the conclusion of matches where the team is victorious.

He is the mascot for Essendon in AFL mascot manor.

The Geelong Football Club, nicknamed The Cats, is a professional Australian rules football club, named after and based in the city of Geelong, playing in the Australian Football League ( AFL ).

Geelong is the most successful club since the AFL began in 1990, with three premierships and seven grand final appearances.

Formed in 1859, Geelong is the second oldest club in the AFL after Melbourne and one of the oldest football clubs in the world.

However, a bid for an Tasmanian AFL team is a popular topic among football fans.

Besides the bid for an AFL club which was passed over in favour of a second Queenland team, despite several major local businesses and the Premier pioneering for a club, there is also a Hobart bid for entry into the A-League.

* Ian Stewart – Australian Rules Footballer who played 127 games for St. Kilda including the clubs first ( and thus far only ) Premiership in 1966, he is also a member of the AFL Hall of Fame with legend status

* Peter Hudson – Australian Rules Footballer, considered one of the greatest full-forwards in the game's history, when playing for Glenorchy he kicked 616 goals in 81 games with some records stating he instead kicked 769 goals ; he is also a member of the AFL Hall of Fame

In some formal language studies, ( e. g. AFL Theory ) a variation on the Kleene star operation called the Kleene plus is used.

The merger is a result of 20 years of effort put forth by both the AFL and CIO presidents, George Meany and Walter Reuther.

This loss of members is in large part due to the 1957 removal of the Teamsters ' Union who were longtime members of the AFL.

The North Melbourne Football Club, nicknamed The Kangaroos, is the fourth oldest Australian rules football club in the Australian Football League ( AFL ) and is one of the oldest sporting clubs in Australia and the world.

The Port Adelaide Football Club is an Australian rules football club based in Alberton, South Australia, which plays in the Australian Football League ( AFL ) ( in which they are known as the Power ) and the South Australian National Football League ( SANFL ) ( in which they are known as the Magpies ).< ref >

* In Australia, the AFL Grand Final is played on the last Saturday of September.

: For the full list, see List of VFL / AFL presidents

: For a list of AFL Championship Games and winners, see List of AFL champions

: For a list of AFL Championship Games and winners, see List of AFL champions

* List of AFL left-footers

* List of AFL Championship Game broadcasters

During its final two years of existence, the AFL teams won upset victories over the NFL teams in Super Bowl III and IV, the former New York Jets victory was considered one of the biggest upsets in American sports history.

Entering Super Bowl III, just like the previous two Super Bowls, many sports writers and fans believed that AFL teams did not have the same caliber of talent as NFL clubs, and thus fully expected the Colts to defeat the Jets.

Still, many sports writers and fans believed that any team in the older NFL was vastly superior to any club in the upstart AFL, and thus expected that Green Bay would blowout Kansas City.

Still, many sports writers and fans believed that the game was a mismatch, and that any team from the long-established NFL was far superior to the best team from the upstart AFL.

Coming into this game, like during the first Super Bowl, many sports writers and fans believed that any team in the NFL was vastly superior to any club in the AFL.

Like the previous year, most fans and sports writers believed that the top NFL teams were superior to the top AFL teams.

Despite the AFL's New York Jets winning the previous season's Super Bowl, many sports writers and fans thought it was a fluke and continued to believe that the NFL was still superior to the AFL, and thus fully expected the Vikings to defeat the Chiefs ; the Vikings entered the Super Bowl as 12. 5 to 13-point favorites.

The move gave the city its second ' permanent ' major professional sports team after the AFL Oklahoma Wranglers.

* Ricky Nixon, sports agent and former AFL footballer

As the AFL grew into an established league with close to 20 teams, it defined itself as a major market pro sports product and welcomed Commissioner C. David Baker, ( 1996 – 2008 ).

In 2003 3AK evolved into sports radio station SEN 1116, and provided a coverage of VFL matches, but this was discontinued after they won the rights to broadcast the AFL ( Australian Football League ), as from the 2007 season.

The city provides dedicated sports facilities for motor racing, Rugby League ( part of Group 10 ), Rugby Union, AFL, Athletics, Cricket, Netball, Tennis, Football and Touch Football.

Maule " was certainly an NFL loyalist ," and several sports reporters took his deprecatory columns about the AFL as fact.

In another example, another former Rozelle employee, Tex Schramm, was CBS's director of sports during the period when that network refused to give AFL scores.

Long-time sports writer Jerry Magee of the San Diego Union-Tribune wrote: " Al Davis taking over as commissioner was the strongest thing the AFL ever did.

Optus Vision negotiated exclusive access to AFL ( Aussie Rules ) football Rugby League, and other sports.

Popular sports include rugby league, rugby union, tennis, cricket, basketball, netball, softball, baseball, hockey, AFL, touch football, soccer, track and field athletics, and beach volleyball.

Howsam's ownership in the AFL was short-lived as overwhelming debt forced Howsam to sell all his sports interests in 1961.

The term is rarely used when all participants play one another more than twice, and is never used when one participant plays others an unequal number of times ( as is the case in almost all of the major United States professional sports leagues-see AFL ( 1940-41 ) and All-America Football Conference for exceptions ).

On 13 May 2011, the Geelong Football Club applied for Federal Government funding for A $ 9 million to install AFL and international cricket standard lighting at Skilled, and $ 6 million to deliver a sports museum, permanent broadcast screens, improved food and beverage facilities for spectators, an upgrade to existing education centre plans, and a long room-style members ' lounge.

Coolangatta has many sports teams Coolangatta Tweed Heads Australian Football Club is a Gold Coast based club competing in the AFL Queensland Australian rules football competition.

* The Footy Show ( AFL ), a sports entertainment programme centred around Australian rules football first screened in 1994

Like many past players, Watson has become a media personality, serving as the Melbourne sports presenter on Seven News as well as a special commentator for Seven's AFL coverage.

It is considered to be Australia's " premier sports precinct ", and regularly hosts some of the biggest domestic and international sporting events, including the AFL Grand Final ( Australian rules football ), Australian Open ( tennis ) and Boxing Day Test ( cricket ).