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Australian Football League

The Australian Football League (AFL) is both the governing body and the major professional competition in the sport of Australian rules football. The term is sometimes mistakenly used as the name of the code itself.

The AFL premiership season currently consists of 24 home and away rounds, followed by the finals series and the season concludes with the AFL Grand Final at which the winning team receives the premiership cup.

The AFL was formerly known as the Victorian Football League (VFL). It was renamed the Australian Football League due to the VFL's governing body's decision to market the competition as an officially national league in 1990. This was following expansion into New South Wales, Queensland and Western Australia in the 1980s.

Through the AFL Commission it gained control over the game at most levels and controls the Laws of the Game through the AFL Rules Committee (consisting of members from the AFL Players Association). The Commission pushes for all affiliated leagues and bodies to co-brand with the league (although some state and local associations have sternly resisted).^[1] The AFL is also recognised as the world governing body of Australian football by the majority of larger international leagues.^[2]

The AFL is the most attended sporting league in Australia^[3] and one of the two most watched sports in Australia.^[4]^[5] It is also currently the fourth-most attended professional sports league in the world in terms of attendance per match, with anaverage attendance of 38,417.^[6] It is also the most financially strong sports league in the country due to substantial media and corporate sponsorship arrangements.^[7]

In national terms, however, Australian football is not the most popular sport in all areas of the country. In recent decades, the AFL has increasingly focused on regions behind the "Barassi Line", particularly in metropolitan areas (its "developing markets") where the league and sport has traditionally struggled. The league has granted concessions to teams based in these regions and invested large amounts of development funding. As a result (according to the AFL), participation is increasing in New South Wales and Queensland.^[8]

Clubs

The AFL operates on a single table system, with no divisions, conferences nor promotion and relegation from other leagues.

Many of the current AFL teams date back to the beginnings of the sport of Australian rules football, including the very first club, Melbourne Football Club (1859), a foundation VFL/AFL club whose founders also first codified the sport in 1859. The Victorian Football League, commonly known as the VFL, started in 1897 with eight teams from the Victorian Football Association (VFA): Carlton, Collingwood,Essendon, Fitzroy, Geelong, Melbourne, South Melbourne, and St Kilda. Richmond and University entered in 1908, but University disbanded in 1915. In 1925, Footscray (later known as the Western Bulldogs), Hawthorn and North Melbourne entered the competition. It remained in this 12-team single-state configuration until 1982 when South Melbourne relocated to Sydney, New South Wales to become the Sydney Swans.

The next phase of national expansion occurred in 1987, with the introduction of the West Coast Eagles from Western Australia and theBrisbane Bears from Queensland. The league was renamed the Australian Football League in 1990 to reflect the expanded nature of the competition. South Australia was first represented in 1991 when the Adelaide Football Club joined the league. The Fremantle Football Clubjoined as the second WA team in 1995. After the 1996 season the Brisbane Bears merged with Fitzroy, creating the Brisbane Lions in 1996 and the Port Adelaide Football Club joined to maintain the league at 16 teams. In 2011, the Gold Coast Football Club joined the AFL, withGreater Western Sydney planned to expand the competition to 18 teams in 2012.^[9]

Season structure

Premiership season

The Toyota AFL Premiership Season, contested between the 17 teams from around Australia, lasts for 24 rounds and begins in late March. For the 2011 AFL season, each team will play 22 games, and have two byes. The McClelland Trophy is awarded to the team that finishes the home and away rounds in first position (the minor premiership).

At the end of the 24 rounds, the top eight teams compete in the four-week AFL Finals Series. In the first week the top four teams play in qualifying finals (1st vs 4th and 2nd vs 3rd), the two winning qualifying finals teams progress directly into the two preliminary finals in the third week, with the other four teams playing in elimination finals (5th vs 8th and 6th vs 7th). In the second week the two losing teams from the qualifying finals play the two winning teams from the elimination finals in the semi-finals. The winners of the qualifying finals play the winners of the semi-finals in the preliminary finals. The two winning preliminary final teams play in the grand final in the fourth week of the finals.

The premiership winning team is the team that wins the grand final.

The winning team receives a premiership cup – there is a new one manufactured every year which the winning team gets to keep with the year engraved on it - premiership medallions and a premiership flag.

The premiership flag is a large triangular flag which is blue with a white border and has the AFL logo on it as well as the word "premiers" and the year – there is a new one manufactured every year which the winning club gets to keep. It is tradition to unfurl it at the first home game of the season the following year in front of the home supporters.^[63]

The grand final has traditionally been played at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on the last Saturday in September. Recent exceptions to this were in 1991, when the MCG was being redeveloped and the grand final was played at Waverley Park, and 2000 when the grand final was played in early September as the Sydney Olympics started on 15 September. In 2011, due to the expanded season, the grand final is due to be played on 1 October.

Premiership cup

A trophy cup, known as the premiership cup, and the premiership flag, are awarded to the winner of the AFL Grand Final. In addition, each player receives a premiership medallion.

The premiership cup is silver (with the exception of 1996 when a gold cup was awarded instead of the usual silver one in the AFL/VFL's 100th season) and manufactured by Cash's International at their metalworks in Frankston, Victoria. The cup was first introduced in 1959 by the VFL and, before this, the award was a pennant known by supporters simply as "The Flag". The AFL has since retrospectively awarded the premiers trophies based on the current design. Before the 1960s, premiership players received a personal premiership trophy instead of a medallion.

Themed rounds and special matches

Themed rounds have become immensely popular. There are themes such as Rivalry Round (in which traditional rivals are matched up against each other), Women's Round and Heritage Round (where teams play in old style guernseys). Some matches are also themed for special events. For example, each year Collingwood play Essendon in the annual ANZAC Day match at the MCG and the game will typically sell out regardless of the positions of the two teams on the ladder due to their strong rivalry and huge followings. Another annual match is the Queen's Birthday game between Melbourne and Collingwood. As of 2006, Richmond and Essendon play in the Dreamtime at the 'G match. There are separate trophies for the matches between several clubs and former rivalries such as the Lake Trophy between St Kilda and the Sydney Swans.

NAB Cup

The NAB Cup is a national pre-season competition played and completed prior to the commencement of the premiership season.

The competition is played before the premiership season and on all except one occasion (1997), the final was played at Waverley Park until the ground was sold by the league in 1999 (although a number of the lead-up matches of the 2000 series were played at the ground). The 2000 competition decider was held at the MCG. Since 2001, all except three finals have been played at Docklands Stadium, with the 2001, 2006 and 2008 deciders held at Football Park in Adelaide.

The player judged best on the ground in the final is awarded the Michael Tuck Medal, in honour of the footballer who played more league matches (426) than any other.

For the 2011 NAB Cup, the format has changed from previous years. 18 teams (including Greater Western Sydney) are split up into six groups of three teams. Each team plays the other two teams in their group once. The top team from each group and the next best two teams overall progress to the next round. The competition then returns to the regular format of quarter finals, semi finals and final. Teams that win move through to the next round and the losing teams are eliminated and play practice matches until the competition finishes.

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