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.

The Geelong Football Club was formally established at a meeting held in the Victoria Hotel on 18 July 1859.

The Geelong Football Club was among the most powerful in the VFA ( Victorian Football Association ), winning seven VFA premierships up to the birth of the VFL ( Victorian Football League ) in 1897.

For many years the Geelong Football Club were known as the Pivotonians, after the city's nickname ' The Pivot '.

In 1951 the Ford Motor Company signed on as a corporate sponsor of the Geelong Football Club.

Led by Geelong and Essendon, the largest clubs of the VFA formed their own break away league, the Victorian Football League ( VFL ), in 1896.

He became a keen follower of Australian rules football, supporting the Geelong Football Club.

K-Rock's football coverage mainly consists of Australian Football League matches involving the Geelong Football Club.

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 ).

Sketches of Melbourne vs Geelong Football Club | Geelong from the Pictorial Weekly in 1880.

He is a long-standing supporter of the Geelong Football Club in the Australian Football League ( Aussie Rules ).

* 18 July — Geelong Football Club is founded

* Formation of Victorian Football League ( now Australian Football League ) with initial clubs being Carlton, Collingwood, Essendon, Fitzroy, Geelong, Melbourne, St Kilda and South Melbourne

It was created and named in honour of Charles Brownlow, a former Geelong Football Club footballer ( 1880 – 1891 ) and club secretary ( 1885 – 1923 ), and VFL president ( 1918 – 19 ), who had died in January 1924 after an extended illness.

:::::: Geelong Football Club

* Geelong Field Naturalists Club

* Royal Geelong Yacht Club

One of the earliest records of flooding comes from an 1860s match between Geelong captain coached by Tom Wills and Ballarat Football Club in Ballarat.

O ' Connor had caused some controversy after first being elected to Council in November 2004 when he claimed that he had not spoken to prominent Geelong businessman and ( then ) Geelong Football Club President, Frank Costa.

The bay is also the home of the Royal Geelong Yacht Club that was established in 1859, and the adjacent Bay City Marina that was constructed in the 1980s.

* David Mensch-Previously an AFL player at the Geelong Football Club

He was recruited to the Victorian Football League ( VFL ) league in 1962 for the Geelong Football Club, where he played 101 games and captained the team for three seasons.

Bob Davis recruited Farmer to the Geelong Football Club in the VFL in 1962.

Not involved in top level football in 1972, Farmer returned to the VFL as coach of the Geelong Football Club from 1973 to 1975.

Farmer established the Polly Farmer Foundation, joined by Sir Ronald Wilson, former High Court judge, Fred Chaney, former Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, and Greg Durham, chief executive of Geelong Football Club.

Geelong was nicknamed the ' Cats ' in 1923 after a run of losses prompted a local cartoonist to suggest that the club needed a black cat to bring it good luck.

* The Australian Football League club, Geelong, has been nicknamed the " Cats " since 1923 after a suggestion by The Herald newspaper that a black cat would give the unsuccessful team more luck.

Geelong has ever since been known as the Cats.

Prior to then, Essendon had ( and still have ) one of the worst records amongst current AFL clubs against Geelong in recent times, having only beaten the Cats once since 2003.

** West Adelaide Bearcats defeated the Geelong Cats 80-74 in the final.

The team's second ever win in a finals match qualified them for a semifinal to be played against the Geelong Cats at the MCG the following week.

Ablett's individual accolades and achievements include induction into the AFL's Hall of Fame, selection in the AFL Team of the Century, selection in the Geelong Football Club Team of the Century, the 1993 AFLPA MVP award ( now known as the Leigh Matthews Trophy ), three Coleman Medals, four All-Australian jumpers, eleven State representative jumpers for Victoria, selection in the Victorian Team of the Century, a Norm Smith Medal, a Carji Greeves Medal as the 1984 Geelong Best & Fairest Player, and being the leading goal-kicker for the Cats on nine occasions.

Although figuring amongst his team's best with three goals, Ablett's performance in the Qualifying Final was not enough as Essendon humbled Geelong by 76 points to force the Cats into a sudden-death Semi Final showdown with Melbourne.

A behind-the-play incident involving Nathan Burke of St Kilda during the Cats ' Elimination Final triumph over the Saints saw Ablett suspended by the AFL Tribunal for two weeks, with Geelong subsequently losing to the season's two eventual Grand Finalists – Hawthorn in the 2nd Semi-Final and West Coast at Waverley Park in the Preliminary Final – and prematurely ending Ablett's year.

The Geelong Cats CEO Brian Cook announced that the club did not have the money to fund the extra $ 12 million for the originally planned expansion.

The highest crowd to ever attend an event at Kardinia Park was an Australian Rules Football match between the Geelong Cats and the Collingwood Magpies on the 30 August 1952, 49, 109 attended.

In September, 500 Geelong Cats supporters were delayed an hour to the MCG for the Saints – Cats clash due to a faulty V / Line train.

While the Cats eventually made it to the Grand Final, they lost that match and it was a sad tale of Brownless ' career that he played in four losing Grand Final teams with Geelong.

* Geelong Cats, an Australian football league team

While playing for the Cats, Graham attended Deakin University in Geelong.

He kicked a bag of goals in that game and in Round 20, against the Geelong Cats, he kicked five goals and one behind.