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The Fitzroy Football Club, formerly nicknamed The Lions, is an Australian rules football club formed in 1883 to represent the inner Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy, Victoria and was a foundation member club of the Victorian Football League ( now the Australian Football League ) on its inception in 1897.
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In 1896, delegates from the stronger and wealthier VFA clubs — Carlton, Collingwood, Essendon, Fitzroy, Geelong, Melbourne, St Kilda and South Melbourne — met to form a breakaway competition and in 1897, the Victorian Football League ( VFL ), was born as an eight-team competition.
On the morning after winning the flag, the club took the Premiership Cup to the Brunswick Street Oval in Fitzroy, the original home of the Fitzroy Football Club.
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In 1897, Collingwood, along with fellow VFA clubs Fitzroy, Melbourne, St Kilda, Carlton, Essendon, South Melbourne and Geelong split from the VFA and formed the Victorian Football League ( VFL ).
* Melbourne Football Club wins the 4th VFL Premiership: Melbourne 4. 10 ( 34 ) d Fitzroy 3. 12 ( 30 ) at East Melbourne
The Fitzroy Football Club Ltd came out of administration after the merger of its AFL playing operations in late 1998.
For a brief time it experimented in partnerships with other semi professional and amateur clubs before incorporating the Fitzroy Reds ( formerly University Reds ) to play in the Victorian Amateur Football Association.
Fitzroy Football Club resumed as a playing club in the D1 section of the VAFA in 2009.
The Fitzroy Football Club was formed at a meeting at the Brunswick Hotel on 26 September 1883, at a time when Melbourne's population was rapidly increasing.
The Victorian Football Association ( VFA ) made changes to their rules, allowing Fitzroy to join as the seventh club in 1884, playing in the maroon and blue colours of the local Normanby Junior Football Club.
* Formation of Victorian Football League ( now Australian Football League ) with initial clubs being Carlton, Collingwood, Essendon, Fitzroy, Geelong, Melbourne, St Kilda and South Melbourne
After the 1896 season, eight of the thirteen clubs broke away to form the Victorian Football League ( VFL ): Carlton, Collingwood, Essendon, Fitzroy, Geelong, Melbourne, St Kilda and South Melbourne.
Selected at pick 50 from the Hobart Football Club in the 1986 VFL Draft, Lynch began his senior football career at Fitzroy in 1988.
At the time, the Brisbane Bears, like the Fitzroy Football Club, were experiencing lean times, but improving somewhat under the coaching of premiership coach Robert Walls.
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The removal of the track meant that Australian rules football, more specifically the Australian Football League ( AFL ), could now be played at the ground and in 1995 the first AFL match for premiership points was contested between the West Coast Eagles and Fitzroy.
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Melbourne, too, has lost venues, including the Continental in Prahran and the Punters Club in Fitzroy.
The Board elected the highly respected former Fitzroy footballer and Australian test cricketer Jack Worrall, then the secretary of the Carlton Cricket Club, to the same position at the football club.
The St Kilda Lawn Bowls Club on Fitzroy Street has a long history and retains its heritage clubhouse building as well as hosts many community events.
The Club is ruled by Anthony Shaw, a descendant of Sebastian Shaw ; he also has an illegitimate son, Trevor Fitzroy.
* In 1995, the AFL's ailing Fitzroy Football Club played one home game against the West Coast Eagles at the venue.
The Fitzroy Football Club ( the Fitzroy Lions ) was formed in 1883, as part of the VFL / AFL.
The Fitzroy Baseball Club, known as the Fitzroy Lions, is a baseball club founded in 1889 to represent Fitzroy.
The Fitzroy Stars Football Club are an Indigenous club that joined the Northern Football League in 2008.
John McMahon was also the chairman and founding president of the Fitzroy Football Club.
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The weather ship Weather Advisor ( formerly ) was renamed Admiral Fitzroy in 1976.
The City of Yarra was formed in 1994 as a result of the amalgamation of the former Cities of Richmond, Collingwood, Fitzroy and part of Carlton North, formerly part of the City of Melbourne and parts of Alphington and Fairfield, previously part of the former City of Northcote.
Anne Lennard, Countess of Sussex ( 25 February 1661-2 – 16 May 1721-2 ), formerly Lady Anne Palmer, alias Fitzroy, was the eldest daughter of Barbara Palmer née Villiers, 1st Duchess of Cleveland, and most likely Charles II of England or Philip Stanhope, 2nd Earl of Chesterfield.
Charlotte Lee, Countess of Lichfield ( 5 September 1664 – 17 February 1718 ), formerly Lady Charlotte Fitzroy, was the illegitimate daughter of King Charles II of England by one of his most notorious mistresses, Barbara Villiers, 1st Duchess of Cleveland
The area formerly had its own municipal status from 1858, with the City of Fitzroy meeting at Fitzroy Town Hall on Napier Street.
* Fitzroy Football Club, a current Australian rules football team, formerly competing in the national Australian Football League ( AFL ).
The Empress Hotel ( formerly the Empress of India Hotel ) is a pub and live music venue located at 714 Nicholson Street, in the inner Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy North.
* Station: Named after the North Fitzroy railway station, formerly located a few hundred metres from the street's northern end.
* Fitzroy Football Club, a team formerly in the AFL
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The club was formed in 1996 from the merger of the Brisbane Bears and the Fitzroy Lions.
In contrast, the Fitzroy Lions, a foundation club of the VFL / AFL, had been among the dregs of the league for the better part of the last four decades.
It was an important way of connecting with Melbourne-based Lions fans, many of whom had previously supported Fitzroy, and of winning over disaffected Fitzroy fans who had not started supporting the Brisbane Lions post-merger by honouring the history of the club.
* Alastair Lynch – Australian Rules Footballer who played 306 game for Fitzroy, Brisbane Bears and the Brisbane Lions, including the 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004 Grand Finals
** At the end of the season Fitzroy and the Brisbane Bears merge, forming the Brisbane Lions.
When Fitzroy merged with the Bears after the 1996 season to form the Brisbane Lions, Lynch was made a semi-permanent forward but was unable to perform at his peak for the next two seasons due to minor recurrence of his illness.
The Carrum Lions club colours were originally blue and gold, players wore a blue jumper with a gold yolk, this was later change to the Fitzroy Maroon and Blue with a CFC and a Lion on the Jersey.
* Fitzroy Football Club-in 1996 the Melbourne based club merged its playing operations with the interstate Brisbane Bears, a club 1669 kilometres north of its original home, with the Bears becoming the Brisbane Lions.
However, ongoing financial difficulties led to Fitzroy merging with the then Brisbane Bears to form the Brisbane Lions.
The Bears merged with the Fitzroy Football Club after the completion of the following season to form the Brisbane Lions Football Club.
Fitzroy needed to merge its assets with another club, and when a merger with North Melbourne failed to win the support of the other AFL clubs, the Bears stepped into the breach and the Brisbane Lions were born, with Northey as the coach of the merged club.
Before the failed merger of Melbourne and Hawthorn, on 4 July 1996, the Fitzroy and Brisbane clubs had been merged by the directive of the AFL commission to take effect as the Brisbane Lions on 1st November 1996.
* Michael Gale-AFL football player for the Richmond Tigers and Fitzroy Lions
* John Barker ( Australian rules footballer ) ( born 1975 ), Australian rules footballer with Hawthorn, Brisbane Lions and Fitzroy
Merrett was a champion at the Brisbane Bears, while Murray was a legend at the Fitzroy Lions, the two clubs which merged to form the Brisbane Lions.
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