In 1982, in a move that heralded big changes within the sport, one of the original VFL clubs and now struggling, South Melbourne, relocated to Sydney and became known as the Sydney Swans.

The Sydney Swans Football Club is an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League ( AFL ).

The club, founded in 1874, was known as the South Melbourne Football Club until it relocated to Sydney in 1982 to become the Sydney Swans.

The Swans play most home games at the Sydney Cricket Ground, while local derbies and larger games against teams such as are played at ANZ Stadium.

Since 1995, the Sydney Swans are the only club not to have missed the finals in consecutive seasons, and have made the finals more years than any other club in the same time, only missing the finals in 2000, 2002 and 2009.

The team's first successful AFL grand final was in 2005 when Sydney Swans won the Grand Final against West Coast Eagles in a tight, low-scoring game.

The following season the two teams met in the Grand Final once again, but this time Sydney Swans finished as runners-up by a single point in front of 97, 431 spectators at the MCG.

In 2012, Sydney Swans took the premiership cup defeating Hawthorn by 10 points front of 99, 683 people at the MCG, the largest crowd the Swans had ever played in front of.

Round 10, 2005 saw St Kilda and its Coleman Medal-winning full-forward, Fraser Gehrig, claim more revenge for its defeat to Sydney in the corresponding fixture the previous season, winning by 43 points, 15. 11 ( 101 ) to Sydney's 8. 10 ( 58 ), after which the Swans earned the ire of the media and the AFL Chief Executive, Andrew Demetriou, for their game plan in the match.

In Round 1, 2008, St Kilda CEO Archie Fraser claimed that Craig Bolton " tunnelled " Saints ' captain Nick Riewoldt numerous times in the low-scoring match ( Sydney losing by two points, 6. 13 ( 49 ) to St Kilda's 6. 13 ( 51 ) in a heavily-criticised match ), leading to outrage amongst Swans fans, and also increasing the rivalry between the two clubs.

The trading of Adam Schneider and Sean Dempster, as well as the team being coached by the former assistant coach at Sydney, Ross Lyon, plus the fact that former Saints players Barry Hall, Tony Lockett and Peter Everitt had played for the Swans, have led to a much stronger rivalry between the clubs, with matches being dubbed " Ross versus Roos " ( from 2007 until 2010 ) by many commentators.

This was also Kangaroos ' veteran Shannon Grant's last AFL game, and he was given a standing ovation by both Swans and Kangaroos players as he represented both clubs throughout his career ( although it was at North Melbourne where Grant really made his mark in the game ) Their only clash in 2009 ( Round 14, which the Swans won by 15 points to end a four-game losing streak ) was aired into both the Sydney and Brisbane markets rather than the live vs. match which was a high-rating television match around the rest of the country.

* 2005 ( as Sydney Swans ) – defeated West Coast 8. 10 ( 58 ) to 7. 12 ( 54 )

* 2012 ( as Sydney Swans ) – defeated Hawthorn 14. 7 ( 91 ) to 11. 15 ( 81 )

* 1996 ( as Sydney Swans ) – defeated by North Melbourne 19. 17 ( 131 ) to 13. 10 ( 88 ); first grand final appearance after relocation

* 2006 ( as Sydney Swans ) – defeated by West Coast 12. 13 ( 85 ) to 12. 12 ( 84 )

* Mike Pyke-Australian Rules Footballer-2012 Premiership Ruckman for the Sydney Swans

Paul Kelly ( born 28 July 1969 ) is a former Australian rules footballer, winner of the Brownlow Medal and captain of the Sydney Swans for ten seasons.

Category: Sydney Swans players

In 1987, Carey was picked up by North Melbourne after a series of events which would have left the Sydney Swans ' recruiting staff slightly red-faced in hindsight.

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* 2005 – Cronulla riots: Thousands of White Australians demonstrate against ethnic violence resulting in a riot against anyone thought to be Lebanese ( and many who are not ) in Cronulla Sydney.

Adam Nelson has won silver medals in the shotput in the 2000 Sydney Olympics and the 2004 Athens Olympics to go along with his gold medal in the 2005 World Championships in Athletics in Helsinki.

At the 2005 Australian International Motor Show in Sydney, Holden paid homage to the FJ with the Efijy concept car.

In 2005, Hewitt won his only title at the Sydney Medibank International defeating little-known Czech player Ivo Minář.

* Anglo, Sydney, Machiavelli-the First Century: Studies in Enthusiasm, Hostility, and Irrelevance, Oxford University Press, 2005, ISBN 0-19-926776-6, ISBN 978-0-19-926776-7

* 2005, Deutsche Bank Place, Sydney, Australia ( the first Sir Norman Foster building in the Southern Hemisphere )

* Symons, Beverley and Rowan Cahill ( editors ), A Turbulent Decade: Social Protest Movements and the Labour Movement, 1965-1975, Newtown: Sydney ASSLH, 2005.

The original line up of Skyhooks including Hill reformed in 2005 at the Annandale Hotel in Sydney for a one-off gig, a benefit for Hill, who had been diagnosed with liver cancer.

Season 2011 saw both Sydney and St Kilda coached by two Roos understudies, John Longmire ( Sydney ) and Lyon ( St Kilda ); both were assistant coaches at Sydney when they won the flag in 2005.

Following the re-release of their album At First Sight, Violets Are Blue and the release of the Mushroom Soup: The Citadel Years in 2003, The Stems found themselves playing to packed houses across the country, touring Europe, playing the prestigious " Little Stevens Underground Garage Festival " in August 2005, and then at the " Come Together Festival " at Sydney ’ s Luna Park with the cream of Australia ’ s newest bands in September 2005.

In January 2005, the University of Sydney transferred the OAC to Charles Sturt University.

Taco Bell later opened in 1997 in Australia with a store in the cinema district on George St in Sydney and a year later in 1998 within a few KFC stores in the state of New South Wales, but by 2005, the Taco Bell brand was pulled out of the country.

The last Olympic Games that included the long, or " classic ", three-day format was the 2000 Summer Games in Sydney, while Rolex Kentucky, the Badminton Horse Trials, and Burghley Horse Trials ran their last long format three-day in 2005.

* Equity in a Nutshell by T. Cockburn & M. Shirley, Lawbook Co, Sydney, 2005.

* Equity & Trusts by T. Cockburn, W. Harris & M. Shirley, Butterworths, Sydney, 2005.

In 2005, Little was presented with an honorary doctorate in music by the University of Sydney.

* Baggs, Sydney A., Baggs, Joan C. & Baggs, David W., Australian Earth-Covered Building IP Publishers, QLD, Aus, 2005 ISBN 978-0-9756807-1-1 can be accessed online at

* Phillip ' Pip ' Branson-rhythm guitar and violin. Ex-member of Sydney band Sidewinder, and currently ( 2005 ) playing with band as " Pip Branson Corporation ".

Melbourne, heading into the match, had not won its season opening match since 2005, nor did Sydney.

North went on to win the 1996 premiership, with Carey again a stand out in all three finals games, including the Grand Final against Sydney, where he was runner-up to Glenn Archer in Norm Smith Medal voting.

Melbourne defeated Sydney by 73 points, thereby inflicting the worst loss Sydney has ever had, under premiership winning coach, Paul Roos.

* October 3 – Canterbury Bulldogs defeats Sydney Roosters 16-13 in the Grand Final to win the NRL premiership

** North Melbourne wins the 100th AFL premiership ( North Melbourne 19. 17 ( 131 ) d Sydney Swans 13. 10 ( 88 ))

He began playing with the North Ballarat Rebels as a 16 year old in the Victorian Football League and played in a winning premiership side where he was scouted by the Sydney Swans.

Penrith's most recent premiership achievement was over the Sydney Roosters in the 2003 Grand Final where Penrith were considered underdogs but came out on top with a 18 – 6 victory.

In 1966 word was out that the New South Wales Rugby League in 1967 would introduce two new teams to the Sydney premiership.

Known as Herman by teammates after his resemblance to Herman Munster, he played in the front row for the Manly-Warringah and North Sydney clubs in the New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership.

Known briefly in the 1990s as the Sydney Bulldogs, as a result of the Super League war the club competed in that competition in 1997 before changing their name to the geographically indistinct Bulldogs and continuing to play every season of the re-unified NRL, winning their most recent premiership in 2004.

In 1967, having ended the 11-year premiership reign of the great St. George by knocking them out in the final, " The Berries " ( as they were known at the time ) went down to the South Sydney Rabbitohs in the grand final.

In addition to his sons, Ablett has a nephew, Luke Ablett, who played for the Sydney Swans and won a premiership with them in 2005.

** The Sydney Swans win the 109th AFL Premiership, defeating West Coast Eagles 8. 10 ( 58 ) to 7. 12 ( 54 ), the club's first premiership in 72 years

Cronin retired from the game having scored 1, 971 points in the Sydney premiership ( 75 tries, 865 goals and 2 field goals, all for Parramatta ), at the time the record number of points scored in a career.

The long wait finally ended in 1941 when St George defeated Eastern Suburbs 31 – 14 at the Sydney Cricket Ground to take their inaugural First Grade premiership.

The Illawarra Mercury daily newspaper was increasing its coverage of the Sydney premiership and Illawarra's inclusion was viewed as the best way of reviving the local league.

Signing renowned hardmen Peter Kelly from the now defunct Newtown club and Peter Tunks from South Sydney, this front row pairing would provide the basis for three Bulldogs ' premiership victories.

* 3 October – The Canterbury Bulldogs defeat the Sydney Roosters 16-13 to win the 97th NSWRL / ARL / NRL premiership.

* October 1 at Telstra Stadium, Sydney – 2006 NRL premiership culminates in the Brisbane Broncos ' 15 – 8 win over the Melbourne Storm in the Grand Final before 79, 609

Inspired by their barnstorming finish to the season, the Bears, now coached by former Richmond premiership player John Northey, had an excellent 1996 season, finishing third behind Sydney and North Melbourne.

He kept faith in Steve Corica and John Aloisi and several others who had threatened to walk out on the club, and as a result, Sydney FC won its first premiership in the club's history.

* 5 October – The 2003 NRL grand final is won by the Penrith Panthers, who defeated the Sydney Roosters 18-6 to win their second premiership.

* 6 October – The Sydney Roosters defeat the New Zealand Warriors 30-8 to win the 95th NSWRL / ARL / NRL premiership.