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class="vector-toc-text"> 3 Membership </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Membership-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Rivalries" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Rivalries"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 4 Rivalries </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Rivalries-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Organisation_and_finance" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Organisation_and_finance"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5 Organisation and finance </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Organisation_and_finance-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> Toggle Organisation and finance subsection </button> <ul id="toc-Organisation_and_finance-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Board" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Board"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5.1 Board </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Board-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Sponsorship" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Sponsorship"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5.2 Sponsorship </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Sponsorship-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-AFL" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#AFL"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5.2.1 AFL </div> </a> <ul id="toc-AFL-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-AFL_Women's" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#AFL_Women's"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5.2.2 AFL Women's </div> </a> <ul id="toc-AFL_Women's-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Honours" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Honours"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 6 Honours </div> </a> <button 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ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li>Bombers</li><li>Dons</li><li>Same Olds</li><li>Planes</li><li>Essington</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Motto</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Fortiter_in_re_suaviter_in_modo" class="mw-redirect" title="Fortiter in re suaviter in modo">Suaviter in Modo, Fortiter in Re</a> "Gently in manner, resolutely in execution"</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background: Black; color: White; border: solid #CC2031 2px"><a href="/wiki/2023_AFL_season" title="2023 AFL season">2023</a> season</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Home-and-away season</th><td class="infobox-data">11th</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Leading goalkicker</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Kyle_Langford_(footballer)" title="Kyle Langford (footballer)">Kyle Langford</a> (51 goals)</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background: Black; color: White; border: solid #CC2031 2px">Club details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Founded</th><td class="infobox-data">1872; 152 years ago (1872)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Colours</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r981673959">.mw-parser-output .legend{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .legend-color{display:inline-block;min-width:1.25em;height:1.25em;line-height:1.25;margin:1px 0;text-align:center;border:1px solid black;background-color:transparent;color:black}.mw-parser-output .legend-text{}</style>  Red <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959">  Black</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Competition</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Australian_Football_League" title="Australian Football League">AFL</a>: Senior men <a href="/wiki/AFL_Women%27s" title="AFL Women's">AFLW</a>: Senior women <a href="/wiki/Victorian_Football_League" title="Victorian Football League">VFL</a>: Reserves men <a href="/wiki/VFL_Women%27s" title="VFL Women's">VFLW</a>: Reserves women VWFL: Wheelchair</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">President</th><td class="infobox-data">David Barham</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">CEO</th><td class="infobox-data">Craig Vozzo</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Coach</th><td class="infobox-data">AFL: <a href="/wiki/Brad_Scott_(Australian_footballer)" title="Brad Scott (Australian footballer)">Brad Scott</a> AFLW: <a href="/wiki/Natalie_Wood_(coach)" title="Natalie Wood (coach)">Natalie Wood</a> VFL: <a href="/wiki/Blake_Caracella" title="Blake Caracella">Blake Caracella</a> VFLW: Cherie O'Neill</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Captain(s)</th><td 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class="infobox-header" style="background: Black; color: White; border: solid #CC2031 2px">Other information</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Official website</th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.essendonfc.com.au/">essendonfc.com.au</a></td></tr></tbody></table> The Essendon Football Club, nicknamed the Bombers or colloquially the Dons, is a professional <a href="/wiki/Australian_rules_football" title="Australian rules football">Australian rules football</a> club that plays in the <a href="/wiki/Australian_Football_League" title="Australian Football League">Australian Football League</a> (AFL), the game's premier competition. The club was formed by the McCracken family in their <a href="/wiki/Ascot_Vale,_Victoria" title="Ascot Vale, Victoria">Ascot Vale</a> home "Alisa" adopting the name of the <a href="/wiki/City_of_Essendon" title="City of Essendon">local borough</a>. While the exact date is unknown, it is generally accepted to have been in 1872. The club's first recorded game took place on 7 June 1873 against a <a href="/wiki/Carlton_Football_Club" title="Carlton Football Club">Carlton</a> seconds team. From 1878 until 1896, the club played in the <a href="/wiki/Victorian_Football_Association" class="mw-redirect" title="Victorian Football Association">Victorian Football Association</a> (VFA), then joined seven other clubs in October 1896 to form the breakaway Victorian Football League (known as the <a href="/wiki/Australian_Football_League" title="Australian Football League">Australian Football League</a> since 1990). Headquartered at the Essendon Recreation Ground, known as <a href="/wiki/Windy_Hill,_Essendon" title="Windy Hill, Essendon">Windy Hill</a>, from 1922 to 2013, the club moved to <a href="/wiki/The_Hangar" title="The Hangar">The Hangar</a> in <a href="/wiki/Tullamarine" class="mw-redirect" title="Tullamarine">Tullamarine</a> in late 2013 on land owned by the <a href="/wiki/Melbourne_Airport" title="Melbourne Airport">Melbourne Airport</a> corporation. The club shares its home games between <a href="/wiki/Docklands_Stadium" title="Docklands Stadium">Docklands Stadium</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Melbourne_Cricket_Ground" title="Melbourne Cricket Ground">Melbourne Cricket Ground</a>. <a href="/wiki/Zach_Merrett" title="Zach Merrett">Zach Merrett</a> is the current <a href="/wiki/List_of_Essendon_Football_Club_captains" title="List of Essendon Football Club captains">club captain</a>. Essendon is one of Australia's best-known and most successful football clubs.<a href="#cite_note-2">[2]</a> It has won 16 VFL/AFL premierships, which, along with <a href="/wiki/Carlton_Football_Club" title="Carlton Football Club">Carlton</a> and <a href="/wiki/Collingwood_Football_Club" title="Collingwood Football Club">Collingwood</a>, is the most of any club in the competition. The club won four consecutive VFA premierships between 1891 and 1894, a feat unmatched in that competition's history. Essendon also hold the distinction of being the only club to win a premiership in their inaugural season (1897). It has struggled to achieve significant on-field success in the 21st century, however, having won its last premiership in <a href="/wiki/2000_AFL_Grand_Final" title="2000 AFL Grand Final">2000</a> and last final in <a href="/wiki/2004_AFL_season" title="2004 AFL season">2004</a>. Three Essendon players—<a href="/wiki/John_Coleman_(Australian_footballer)" title="John Coleman (Australian footballer)">John Coleman</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bill_Hutchison" title="Bill Hutchison">Bill Hutchison</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Dick_Reynolds" title="Dick Reynolds">Dick Reynolds</a>—and one coach, <a href="/wiki/Kevin_Sheedy_(Australian_footballer)" title="Kevin Sheedy (Australian footballer)">Kevin Sheedy</a>, are classified as "<a href="/wiki/Australian_Football_Hall_of_Fame#Legends" title="Australian Football Hall of Fame">Legends</a>" in the <a href="/wiki/Australian_Football_Hall_of_Fame" title="Australian Football Hall of Fame">Australian Football Hall of Fame</a>. Essendon also fields reserve men's and women's teams in the <a href="/wiki/Victoria_Football_League" class="mw-redirect" title="Victoria Football League">Victoria Football League</a> and <a href="/wiki/VFL_Women%27s" title="VFL Women's">VFL Women's</a>, respectively. Since 2022 (S7), it has fielded a senior women's team in the national <a href="/wiki/AFL_Women%27s" title="AFL Women's">AFL Women's</a> competition.<a href="#cite_note-3">[3]</a><a href="#cite_note-AFLW2022-4">[4]</a> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Essendon_Football_Club&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Formation_and_VFA_years_(1871–1896)">Formation and VFA years (1871–1896)</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Essendon_Football_Club&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Formation and VFA years (1871–1896)">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Essendon_fc_1873.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Essendon_fc_1873.jpg/220px-Essendon_fc_1873.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="83" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Essendon_fc_1873.jpg/330px-Essendon_fc_1873.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Essendon_fc_1873.jpg/440px-Essendon_fc_1873.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="484" /></a><figcaption>Essendon players and officials c.1878</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:1891_VFA_Premiership_Match.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/1891_VFA_Premiership_Match.jpg/150px-1891_VFA_Premiership_Match.jpg" decoding="async" width="150" height="213" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/1891_VFA_Premiership_Match.jpg/225px-1891_VFA_Premiership_Match.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/1891_VFA_Premiership_Match.jpg/300px-1891_VFA_Premiership_Match.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3844" data-file-height="5456" /></a><figcaption>Scenes from the <a href="/wiki/1891_VFA_season" title="1891 VFA season">1891 VFA Premiership Match</a> in which Essendon defeated Carlton</figcaption></figure> The club was founded by members of the Royal Agricultural Society, the Melbourne Hunt Club and the Victorian Woolbrokers.<a href="#cite_note-smh-5">[5]</a> The Essendon Football Club is thought to have been formed in 1872 at a meeting it the home of a well-known brewery family, the McCrackens, whose <a href="/wiki/Ascot_Vale" class="mw-redirect" title="Ascot Vale">Ascot Vale</a> property hosted a team of local junior players.<a href="#cite_note-6">[6]</a> Robert McCracken (1813–1885),<a href="#cite_note-7">[7]</a><a href="#cite_note-8">[8]</a> the owner of several city hotels, was the founder and first president of the Essendon Football Club, and his son, <a href="/wiki/Alex_McCracken" title="Alex McCracken">Alex McCracken</a>, its first secretary. Alex later became president of the newly formed VFL. Alex's cousin Collier McCracken, who had already played with <a href="/wiki/Melbourne_Football_Club" title="Melbourne Football Club">Melbourne</a>, was the team's first captain.<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-9">[9]</a> The club played its first recorded match against the <a href="/wiki/Carlton_Football_Club" title="Carlton Football Club">Carlton</a> Second Twenty (the <a href="/wiki/Reserve_team" title="Reserve team">reserves</a>) on 7 June 1873,<a href="#cite_note-10">[10]</a> with Essendon winning by one goal. Essendon played 13 matches in its first season, winning seven, with four draws and losing two.<a href="#cite_note-11">[11]</a> The club was one of the inaugural junior members of the Victorian Football Association (VFA) in 1877,<a href="#cite_note-12">[12]</a> and it began competing as a senior club from the <a href="/wiki/1878_VFA_season" title="1878 VFA season">1878 season</a>.<a href="#cite_note-13">[13]</a> During its early years in the Association, Essendon played its home matches at Flemington Hill, but it moved to the <a href="/wiki/East_Melbourne_Cricket_Ground" title="East Melbourne Cricket Ground">East Melbourne Cricket Ground</a> in 1881. In 1878, at Flemington Hill, Essendon played its first match on what would be considered by modern standards to be a full-sized field. In 1879, Essendon played Melbourne in one of the earliest night matches recorded when the ball was painted white. In 1883, the team played four matches in eight days in Adelaide:<a href="#cite_note-14">[14]</a> losing to Norwood (on 23 June)<a href="#cite_note-15">[15]</a> and defeating Port Adelaide (on 16 June),<a href="#cite_note-16">[16]</a> a combined South Australian team (on 18 June),<a href="#cite_note-17">[17]</a> and South Adelaide (on 20 June).<a href="#cite_note-18">[18]</a> The club played against the <a href="/wiki/1888_British_Lions_tour_to_New_Zealand_and_Australia" title="1888 British Lions tour to New Zealand and Australia">touring British footballers in 1888</a>.<a href="#cite_note-19">[19]</a><a href="#cite_note-20">[20]</a> In 1891, Essendon won their first VFA premiership, which they repeated in <a href="/wiki/1892_VFA_season" title="1892 VFA season">1892</a>, <a href="/wiki/1893_VFA_season" title="1893 VFA season">1893</a> and <a href="/wiki/1894_VFA_season" title="1894 VFA season">1894</a>. One of the club's greatest players, <a href="/wiki/Albert_Thurgood" title="Albert Thurgood">Albert Thurgood</a>, played for the club during this period, making his debut in 1892.<a href="#cite_note-:0-21">[21]</a> Essendon (18 wins, 2 draws) was undefeated in the 1893 season.<a href="#cite_note-:0-21">[21]</a><a href="#cite_note-22">[22]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Founding_of_the_VFL_to_World_War_I_(1897–1915)">Founding of the VFL to World War I (1897–1915)</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Essendon_Football_Club&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Founding of the VFL to World War I (1897–1915)">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Essendon_fc_1897.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Essendon_fc_1897.jpg/220px-Essendon_fc_1897.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="167" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Essendon_fc_1897.jpg/330px-Essendon_fc_1897.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Essendon_fc_1897.jpg/440px-Essendon_fc_1897.jpg 2x" data-file-width="620" data-file-height="470" /></a><figcaption>The Essendon side that won the 1897 VFL premiership</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Performance_Chart_AFL_ESS.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Performance_Chart_AFL_ESS.svg/220px-Performance_Chart_AFL_ESS.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="155" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Performance_Chart_AFL_ESS.svg/330px-Performance_Chart_AFL_ESS.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Performance_Chart_AFL_ESS.svg/440px-Performance_Chart_AFL_ESS.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="864" data-file-height="607" /></a><figcaption>Chart of yearly ladder positions for Essendon in <a href="/wiki/Australian_Football_League" title="Australian Football League">VFL/AFL</a></figcaption></figure> At the end of the <a href="/wiki/1896_VFA_season" title="1896 VFA season">1896 season</a>, Essendon, along with seven other clubs, formed the <a href="/wiki/Victorian_Football_League_(1897%E2%80%931989)" class="mw-redirect" title="Victorian Football League (1897–1989)">Victorian Football League</a>. Essendon's first VFL game was in <a href="/wiki/1897_VFL_season" title="1897 VFL season">1897</a> against <a href="/wiki/Geelong_Football_Club" title="Geelong Football Club">Geelong</a> at <a href="/wiki/Corio_Oval" title="Corio Oval">Corio Oval</a> in <a href="/wiki/Geelong" title="Geelong">Geelong</a>. Essendon won its first VFL premiership by winning the <a href="/wiki/1897_VFL_finals_series" title="1897 VFL finals series">1897 VFL finals series</a> in a <a href="/wiki/Round-robin_tournament" title="Round-robin tournament">round-robin</a> event. Essendon again won the premiership in <a href="/wiki/1901_VFL_season" title="1901 VFL season">1901</a>, defeating <a href="/wiki/Collingwood_Football_Club" title="Collingwood Football Club">Collingwood</a> in the <a href="/wiki/1901_VFL_Grand_Final" class="mw-redirect" title="1901 VFL Grand Final">Grand Final</a>. The club won successive premierships in <a href="/wiki/1911_VFL_season" title="1911 VFL season">1911</a> and <a href="/wiki/1912_VFL_season" title="1912 VFL season">1912</a> over Collingwood and <a href="/wiki/Sydney_Swans" title="Sydney Swans">South Melbourne</a>, respectively.<a href="#cite_note-23">[23]</a><a href="#cite_note-24">[24]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id=""Same_Olds"">"Same Olds"</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Essendon_Football_Club&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: "Same Olds"">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Dave_smith_essendon.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/Dave_smith_essendon.jpg/170px-Dave_smith_essendon.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="190" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/Dave_smith_essendon.jpg/255px-Dave_smith_essendon.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/Dave_smith_essendon.jpg/340px-Dave_smith_essendon.jpg 2x" data-file-width="443" data-file-height="494" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/David_Smith_(sportsman)" title="David Smith (sportsman)">Dave Smith</a> captained Essendon to premiership success in 1911.</figcaption></figure> The club is recorded as having played at McCracken's Paddock, Glass's Paddock, and Flemington Hill. It is likely that these are three different names for the one ground, given that McCracken's Paddock was a parcel of land that sat within the larger Glass's Paddock, which in turn was situated in an area widely known at the time as Flemington Hill. In 1882, the club moved home games to the <a href="/wiki/East_Melbourne_Cricket_Ground" title="East Melbourne Cricket Ground">East Melbourne Cricket Ground</a> (since demolished) after an application to play on the Essendon Cricket Ground (later known as Windy Hill) was voted down by Lord Mayor of the <a href="/wiki/City_of_Essendon" title="City of Essendon">City of Essendon</a>, James Taylor, on the basis that the considered the Essendon Cricket Ground "to be suitable only for the gentleman's game of cricket".<a href="#cite_note-25">[25]</a> The club became known by the nickname "the Same Old Essendon" from the title and <a href="/wiki/Hook_(music)" title="Hook (music)">hook</a> of the principal song performed by a band of supporters which regularly occupied a section of the grandstand at the club's games.<a href="#cite_note-26">[26]</a> The nickname first appeared in print in the local <a href="/wiki/North_Melbourne_Advertiser" title="North Melbourne Advertiser">North Melbourne Advertiser</a> in 1889,<a href="#cite_note-27">[27]</a> and ended up gaining wide use, often as the diminutive "Same Olds".<a href="#cite_note-28">[28]</a> This move away from Essendon, at a time when fans would walk to their local ground, didn't go down too well with many Essendon people; and, as a consequence, a new team and club was formed in 1900, unconnected with the first (although it played in the same colours), that was based at the Essendon Cricket Ground, and playing in the <a href="/wiki/Victorian_Football_Association" class="mw-redirect" title="Victorian Football Association">Victorian Football Association</a>. It was known firstly as <a href="/wiki/Essendon_Association_Football_Club" title="Essendon Association Football Club">Essendon Town</a> and, after 1905, as Essendon (although it was often called Essendon A, with the A standing for association).<a href="#cite_note-29">[29]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Return_to_suburban_Essendon_(1921–1932)">Return to suburban Essendon (1921–1932)</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Essendon_Football_Club&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Return to suburban Essendon (1921–1932)">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Fred_Baring.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/Fred_Baring.jpg/150px-Fred_Baring.jpg" decoding="async" width="150" height="257" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/Fred_Baring.jpg/225px-Fred_Baring.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/Fred_Baring.jpg/300px-Fred_Baring.jpg 2x" data-file-width="428" data-file-height="733" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Fred_Baring" title="Fred Baring">Fred Baring</a> during the 1920s</figcaption></figure> After the 1921 season, the <a href="/wiki/East_Melbourne_Cricket_Ground" title="East Melbourne Cricket Ground">East Melbourne Cricket Ground</a> was closed and demolished to expand the <a href="/wiki/Jolimont_Yard" title="Jolimont Yard">Flinders Street Railyard</a>. Having played at the East Melbourne Cricket Ground from 1882 to 1921, and having won four VFA premierships (1891–1894) and four VFL premierships (<a href="/wiki/1897_VFL_season" title="1897 VFL season">1897</a>, <a href="/wiki/1901_VFL_season" title="1901 VFL season">1901</a>, <a href="/wiki/1911_VFL_season" title="1911 VFL season">1911</a> and <a href="/wiki/1912_VFL_season" title="1912 VFL season">1912</a>) whilst there,<a href="#cite_note-30">[30]</a> Essendon was looking for a new home. It was offered grounds at the current <a href="/wiki/Royal_Melbourne_Showgrounds" class="mw-redirect" title="Royal Melbourne Showgrounds">Royal Melbourne Showgrounds</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ascot_Vale" class="mw-redirect" title="Ascot Vale">Ascot Vale</a>; at <a href="/wiki/Victoria_Park,_Melbourne" title="Victoria Park, Melbourne">Victoria Park</a>, Melbourne; at <a href="/wiki/Arden_Street_Oval" title="Arden Street Oval">Arden St, North Melbourne</a>; and the Essendon Cricket Ground. The Essendon City Council offered the (VFL) team the Essendon Cricket Ground, announcing that it would be prepared to spend over £12,000 ($1,009,066 in 2021 terms, according to the <a href="/wiki/Retail_Price_Index" title="Retail Price Index">Retail Price Index</a><a href="#cite_note-31">[31]</a>) on improvements, including a new grandstand, scoreboard and re-fencing of the oval. The club's first preference was to <a href="/wiki/1921_VFA_season#Closure_of_the_East_Melbourne_Cricket_Ground" title="1921 VFA season">move to North Melbourne</a><a href="#cite_note-1JulyArgus-32">[32]</a>—a move which the <a href="/wiki/North_Melbourne_Football_Club" title="North Melbourne Football Club">North Melbourne Football Club</a> (then in the VFA) saw as an opportunity to get into the VFL. Most of Essendon's members and players were from the North Melbourne area, and sportswriters believed that Essendon would have been taken over by or rebranded as North Melbourne within only a few years of the move.<a href="#cite_note-8JulyArgus-33">[33]</a><a href="#cite_note-9JulyAustralasian-34">[34]</a> However, the VFA, desperate for its own strategic reasons not to lose its use of the North Melbourne Cricket Ground, <a href="/wiki/1921_VFA_season#Association_protest" title="1921 VFA season">successfully appealed</a> to the State Government to block Essendon's move to North Melbourne.<a href="#cite_note-12AugustArgus-35">[35]</a> With its preferred option off the table, the club returned to Essendon, and the Essendon VFA club disbanded, with most of its players moving to North Melbourne.<a href="#cite_note-22OctoberAustralasian-36">[36]</a> The old "Same Olds" nickname fell into disuse, and by 1922 the other nicknames "Sash Wearers" and "Essendonians" that had been variously used from time to time were also abandoned. The team became universally known as "the Dons" (from EssenDON); it was not until much later, during the <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">War years</a> of the early 1940s, that they became known as "The <a href="/wiki/Bomber" title="Bomber">Bombers</a>" due to Windy Hill's proximity to the <a href="/wiki/Essendon_Airport" title="Essendon Airport">Essendon Aerodrome</a>.<a href="#cite_note-37">[37]</a> In the <a href="/wiki/1922_VFL_season" title="1922 VFL season">1922 season</a>, playing in Essendon for the first time in decades, Essendon reached the final four for the first time since <a href="/wiki/1912_VFL_season" title="1912 VFL season">1912</a>, finishing in third place. In the <a href="/wiki/1923_VFL_season" title="1923 VFL season">1923 season</a>, the club topped the ladder with 13 wins from 16 games. After a 17-point Second Semi-Final loss to <a href="/wiki/South_Melbourne_FC" title="South Melbourne FC">South Melbourne</a>, Essendon defeated <a href="/wiki/Fitzroy_Football_Club" title="Fitzroy Football Club">Fitzroy</a> (who had beaten South Melbourne) in the <a href="/wiki/1923_VFL_Grand_Final" class="mw-redirect" title="1923 VFL Grand Final">1923 Grand Final</a> (then known as a "Challenge Final" due to its different finals format): Essendon 8.15 (63) to Fitzroy 6.10 (46). Amongst Essendon's best players were half-forward flanker <a href="/wiki/George_Shorten" title="George Shorten">George "Tich" Shorten</a>, centre half-forward <a href="/wiki/Justin_McCarthy_(footballer)" title="Justin McCarthy (footballer)">Justin McCarthy</a>, centre half-back <a href="/wiki/Tom_Fitzmaurice" title="Tom Fitzmaurice">Tom Fitzmaurice</a>, rover <a href="/wiki/Frank_Maher_(footballer)" title="Frank Maher (footballer)">Frank Maher</a>, and wingman <a href="/wiki/Jack_Garden" title="Jack Garden">Jack Garden</a>. This was one of Essendon's most famous sides, dubbed the "Mosquito Fleet" due to the number of small, very fast players in the side. Six players were 5'6" (167 cm) or smaller. In the <a href="/wiki/1924_VFL_season" title="1924 VFL season">1924 season</a>, for the first time since their inaugural premiership in 1897, there was no ultimate match to decide the league's champion team – either "Challenge Final" or "Grand Final" – to determine the premiers; instead, the top four clubs after the home-and-away season played a <a href="/wiki/Round-robin_tournament" title="Round-robin tournament">round-robin</a> to determine the premiers. Essendon, having previously defeated both Fitzroy (by 40 points) and South Melbourne (by 33 points), clinched the premiership by means of a 20-point loss to Richmond. With the Tigers having already lost a match to Fitzroy by a substantial margin, the Dons were declared premiers by virtue of their superior percentage, meaning that Essendon again managed to win successive premierships. But the low gates for the finals meant this was never attempted again, resulting in Essendon having the unique record of winning the only two premierships without a grand final.<a href="#cite_note-38">[38]</a><a href="#cite_note-:1-39">[39]</a> Prominent contributors to Essendon's 1924 Premiership success included back pocket <a href="/wiki/Clyde_Donaldson" title="Clyde Donaldson">Clyde Donaldson</a>, follower <a href="/wiki/Norm_Beckton" title="Norm Beckton">Norm Beckton</a>, half-back flanker <a href="/wiki/Roy_Laing" title="Roy Laing">Roy Laing</a>, follower <a href="/wiki/Charlie_May_(footballer)" title="Charlie May (footballer)">Charlie May</a>, and rover <a href="/wiki/Charlie_Hardy" title="Charlie Hardy">Charlie Hardy</a>.<a href="#cite_note-:1-39">[39]</a> The 1924 season was not without controversy, however, with rumours of numerous players accepting bribes. Regardless of the accuracy of these allegations, the club's image was tarnished, and the side experienced its lowest period during the decade that followed, with poor results on the field and decreased support off it.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] There was worse to follow, with various Essendon players publicly blaming each other for a poor performance against <a href="/wiki/Richmond_Football_Club" title="Richmond Football Club">Richmond</a>, and then, with dissension still rife in the ranks, the side plummeted to an unexpected and humiliating 28-point loss to VFA premiers <a href="/wiki/Footscray_Football_Club" class="mw-redirect" title="Footscray Football Club">Footscray</a> in a <a href="/wiki/Dame_Nellie_Melba%27s_Limbless_Soldiers%27_Appeal_match" class="mw-redirect" title="Dame Nellie Melba's Limbless Soldiers' Appeal match">special charity match</a> played a week later in front of 46,100 people, in aid of <a href="/wiki/Dame_Nellie_Melba%27s_Limbless_Soldiers%27_Appeal_match" class="mw-redirect" title="Dame Nellie Melba's Limbless Soldiers' Appeal match">Dame Nellie Melba's Limbless Soldiers' Appeal Fund</a>, purportedly (but not officially) for the championship of Victoria.<a href="#cite_note-40">[40]</a> The club's fortunes dipped alarmingly—and persistently. Indeed, after finishing third in the <a href="/wiki/1926_VFL_season" title="1926 VFL season">1926 season</a>, it was to be 14 years later—in <a href="/wiki/1940_VFL_season" title="1940 VFL season">1940</a>—before Essendon would even contest a finals series.<a href="#cite_note-41">[41]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Dick_Reynolds_years_(1933–1960)">Dick Reynolds years (1933–1960)</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Essendon_Football_Club&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Dick Reynolds years (1933–1960)">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Dick_reynolds.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Dick_reynolds.jpg/170px-Dick_reynolds.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="235" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Dick_reynolds.jpg/255px-Dick_reynolds.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5a/Dick_reynolds.jpg 2x" data-file-width="282" data-file-height="389" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Dick_Reynolds" title="Dick Reynolds">Dick Reynolds</a> is regarded as one of Essendon's greatest players.</figcaption></figure> After the malaise of the late 1920s and early 1930, the <a href="/wiki/1933_VFL_season" title="1933 VFL season">1933 season</a> proved a turning point in morale despite no finals entries for the entire 1930s. Essendon saw the debut of the player regarded as one of the game's greatest-ever players, <a href="/wiki/Dick_Reynolds" title="Dick Reynolds">Dick Reynolds</a>. His impact was immediate. He won his first <a href="/wiki/Brownlow_Medal" title="Brownlow Medal">Brownlow Medal</a> aged 19. His record of three Brownlow victories (<a href="/wiki/1934_Brownlow_Medal" title="1934 Brownlow Medal">1934</a>, <a href="/wiki/1937_Brownlow_Medal" title="1937 Brownlow Medal">1937</a>, <a href="/wiki/1938_Brownlow_Medal" title="1938 Brownlow Medal">1938</a>), equalled <a href="/wiki/Fitzroy_Football_Club" title="Fitzroy Football Club">Fitzroy</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Haydn_Bunton,_Sr" class="mw-redirect" title="Haydn Bunton, Sr">Haydn Bunton, Sr</a> (<a href="/wiki/1931_Brownlow_Medal" title="1931 Brownlow Medal">1931</a>, <a href="/wiki/1932_Brownlow_Medal" title="1932 Brownlow Medal">1932</a>, <a href="/wiki/1935_Brownlow_Medal" title="1935 Brownlow Medal">1935</a>), and later equalled by <a href="/wiki/Bob_Skilton" title="Bob Skilton">Bob Skilton</a> (1959, 1963, 1968), and <a href="/wiki/Ian_Stewart_(Australian_rules_footballer)" title="Ian Stewart (Australian rules footballer)">Ian Stewart</a> (<a href="/wiki/1965_Brownlow_Medal" title="1965 Brownlow Medal">1965</a>, <a href="/wiki/1966_Brownlow_Medal" title="1966 Brownlow Medal">1966</a>, <a href="/wiki/1971_Brownlow_Medal" title="1971 Brownlow Medal">1971</a>). Reynolds went on to arguably even greater achievements as a coach, a position to which he was first appointed, jointly with Harry Hunter, in 1939 (this was while Reynolds was still a player). A year later he took the reins on a solo basis and was rewarded with immediate success (at least in terms of expectations at the time which, after so long in the wilderness, were somewhat modest). He was regarded as having a sound tactical knowledge of the game and being an inspirational leader, as he led the side into the finals in 1940 for the first time since 1926, when the side finished 3rd. Melbourne, which defeated Essendon by just 5 points in the preliminary final, later went on to trounce Richmond by 39 points in the grand final. The Essendon Football Club adopted the nickname The Bombers in April 1940.<a href="#cite_note-42">[42]</a> 1941 brought Essendon's first grand final appearance since 1923, but the side again lowered its colours to Melbourne. While Australia had entered <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a> – located primarily in Europe and Africa – in 1939, the <a href="/wiki/Pacific_War" title="Pacific War">Pacific Theatre</a> opened in December 1941. Australian sports competition was considerably weakened, with Geelong being forced to pull out of the competition due petrol rationing. Attendances at games also declined dramatically, whilst some clubs had to move from their normal grounds due to them being used for military purposes. Many players were lost to football due to their military service. Nevertheless, Essendon went on to win the 1942 Premiership with Western Australian <a href="/wiki/Wally_Buttsworth" title="Wally Buttsworth">Wally Buttsworth</a> in irrepressible form at centre half-back. Finally, the long-awaited premiership was Essendon's after comprehensively outclassing Richmond in the grand final, 19.18 (132) to 11.13 (79). The match was played at Carlton in front of 49,000 spectators. In any case, there could be no such reservations about Essendon's next premiership, which came just four years later. Prior to that Essendon lost a hard-fought grand final to Richmond in <a href="/wiki/1943_VFL_grand_final" title="1943 VFL grand final">1943</a> by 5 points, finished 3rd in 1944, and dropped to 8th in 1945. After World War II, Essendon enjoyed great success. In the five years immediately after the war, Essendon won 3 premierships (<a href="/wiki/1946_VFL_Grand_Final" class="mw-redirect" title="1946 VFL Grand Final">1946</a>, <a href="/wiki/1949_VFL_Grand_Final" class="mw-redirect" title="1949 VFL Grand Final">1949</a>, <a href="/wiki/1950_VFL_Grand_Final" class="mw-redirect" title="1950 VFL Grand Final">1950</a>) and were runners up twice (<a href="/wiki/1947_VFL_Grand_Final" class="mw-redirect" title="1947 VFL Grand Final">1947</a>, <a href="/wiki/1948_VFL_Grand_Final" class="mw-redirect" title="1948 VFL Grand Final">1948</a>). In <a href="/wiki/1946_VFL_season" title="1946 VFL season">1946</a>, Essendon were clearly the VFL's supreme force, topping the ladder after the home-and-away games and surviving a drawn second semi-final against Collingwood to make it through to the grand final a week later with a score of 10.16 (76) to 8.9 (57). Then, in the grand final against Melbourne, Essendon set a grand final record score of 22.18 (150) to Melbourne 13.9 (87), featuring a 7-goal performance by centre half-forward <a href="/wiki/Gordon_Lane" title="Gordon Lane">Gordon Lane</a>. Rover Bill Hutchinson, and defenders Wally Buttsworth, <a href="/wiki/Cec_Ruddell" title="Cec Ruddell">Cec Ruddell</a> and <a href="/wiki/Harold_Lambert_(footballer)" title="Harold Lambert (footballer)">Harold Lambert</a> were among the best players. The <a href="/wiki/1947_VFL_Grand_Final" class="mw-redirect" title="1947 VFL Grand Final">1947 Grand Final</a> has to go down in the ledger as 'one of the ones that got away',[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] with Essendon losing to Carlton by a single point despite managing 30 scoring shots to 21. As if to prove that lightning does occasionally strike twice, the second of the 'ones that got away' came just a year later, the Dons finishing with a lamentable 7.27, to tie with Melbourne (who managed 10.9) in the 1948 grand final. A week later Essendon waved the premiership good-bye, as Melbourne raced to a 13.11 (89) to 7.8 (50) triumph. The club's Annual Report made an assessment that was at once restrained and, as was soon to emerge, tacitly and uncannily prophetic: "It is very apparent that no team is complete without a spearhead and your committee has high hopes of rectifying that fault this coming season." The <a href="/wiki/1949_VFL_season" title="1949 VFL season">1949 season</a> heralded the arrival on the VFL scene of <a href="/wiki/John_Coleman_(Australian_footballer)" title="John Coleman (Australian footballer)">John Coleman</a>, arguably the greatest player in Essendon's history, and, in the view of some,[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Words_to_watch#Unsupported_attributions" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Words to watch">who?</a>] the finest player the game has known. In his first ever appearance for the Dons, against <a href="/wiki/Hawthorn_Football_Club" title="Hawthorn Football Club">Hawthorn</a> in Round 1, 1949, he booted 12 of his side's 18 goals to create a round one record which was to endure for forty-five years. More importantly, however, he went on to maintain the same high level of performance throughout the season, kicking precisely 100 goals for the year to become the first player to kick 100 goals in a season since Richmond's <a href="/wiki/Jack_Titus" title="Jack Titus">Jack Titus</a> in <a href="/wiki/1940_VFL_season" title="1940 VFL season">1940</a>.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] The Coleman factor was just what Essendon needed to enable them to take that vital final step to premiership glory, but even so it was not until the business end of the season that this became clear. Essendon struggled to make the finals in 4th place, but once there they suddenly ignited to put in one of the most consistently devastating September performances in VFL history. <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:742692-john-coleman.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/742692-john-coleman.jpg/170px-742692-john-coleman.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="226" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/742692-john-coleman.jpg/255px-742692-john-coleman.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/dc/742692-john-coleman.jpg 2x" data-file-width="316" data-file-height="421" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/John_Coleman_(Australian_footballer)" title="John Coleman (Australian footballer)">John Coleman</a> kicked 537 goals in 98 matches.</figcaption></figure> Collingwood succumbed first as the Dons powered their way to an 82-point first semi-final victory, and a fortnight later it was the turn of the <a href="/wiki/North_Melbourne_Football_Club" title="North Melbourne Football Club">North Melbourne Football Club</a> as Essendon won the preliminary final a good deal more comfortably than the ultimate margin of 17 points suggested. In the grand final, Essendon were pitted against Carlton and in a match that was a total travesty as a contest they overwhelmed the Blues to the tune of 73 points, 18.17 (125) to 6.16 (52). Best for the Dons included pacy aboriginal half-back flanker <a href="/wiki/Norm_McDonald_(footballer,_born_1925)" title="Norm McDonald (footballer, born 1925)">Norm McDonald</a>, ruckman <a href="/wiki/Bob_McClure_(footballer)" title="Bob McClure (footballer)">Bob McLure</a>, and rovers <a href="/wiki/Bill_Hutchison" title="Bill Hutchison">Bill Hutchinson</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ron_McEwin" title="Ron McEwin">Ron McEwin</a>. John Coleman also did well, registering six goals. A year later, in <a href="/wiki/1950_VFL_season" title="1950 VFL season">1950</a>, Essendon were—if anything—even more dominant, defeating the <a href="/wiki/North_Melbourne_Football_Club" title="North Melbourne Football Club">North Melbourne Football Club</a> in both the Second Semi-Final and the Grand Final to secure consecutive VFL premierships for the third time. Best afield in the <a href="/wiki/1950_VFL_Grand_Final" class="mw-redirect" title="1950 VFL Grand Final">1950 Grand Final</a>, in what was officially his <a href="/wiki/Swan_song" title="Swan song">swan song</a> as a player, was captain-coach <a href="/wiki/Dick_Reynolds" title="Dick Reynolds">Dick Reynolds</a>, who received sterling support from the likes of Norm McDonald, ruckman/back pocket <a href="/wiki/Wally_May" title="Wally May">Wally May</a>, back pocket <a href="/wiki/Les_Gardiner_(Australian_footballer)" title="Les Gardiner (Australian footballer)">Les Gardiner</a>, and ruckman McLure. With Reynolds, aka 'King Richard', still holding court as coach in 1951, albeit now in a non-playing capacity, Essendon seemed on course for a third consecutive flag, but a controversial four-week suspension dished out to John Coleman on the eve of the finals effectively destroyed their chances. Coleman was reported for retaliation after twice being struck by his direct Carlton opponent, Harry Caspar, and without him the Dons were rated a four-goals-poorer team. Nevertheless, they still managed to battle their way to a 6th successive grand final with wins over Footscray by 8 points in the first semi-final and Collingwood by 2 points in the preliminary final. The Dons sustained numerous injuries in the preliminary final, and the selectors sprang a surprise on <a href="/wiki/1951_VFL_grand_final" title="1951 VFL grand final">Grand Final day</a> by naming the officially retired Dick Reynolds as 20th man. Reynolds was powerless to prevent the inevitable; although leading at half-time, Geelong kicked five goals to Essendon's two points in the third quarter to set up victory by 11 points. Essendon slumped to 8th in <a href="/wiki/1952_VFL_season" title="1952 VFL season">1952</a>, but Coleman was in blistering form, managing 103 goals for the year. Hugh Buggy noted in <a href="/wiki/The_Argus_(Melbourne)" title="The Argus (Melbourne)">The Argus</a>: "It was the wettest season for twenty-two years and Coleman showed that since the war he was without peer in the art of goal kicking." Two seasons later, Coleman's career was ended after he dislocated a knee during the Round 8 clash with the <a href="/wiki/North_Melbourne_Football_Club" title="North Melbourne Football Club">North Melbourne Football Club</a> at Essendon. Aged just 25, he had kicked 537 goals in only 98 VFL games in what was generally a fairly low-scoring period for the game. His meteoric rise and fall were clearly the stuff of legend, and few (if any) players, either before or since, have had such an immense impact over so brief a period. According to <a href="/wiki/Alf_Brown" title="Alf Brown">Alf Brown</a>, football writer for The Herald: <dl><dd><dl><dd>(Coleman) had all football's gifts. He was courageous, a long, straight kick, he had a shrewd football brain and, above all, he was a spectacular, thrilling mark.</dd></dl></dd></dl> Somewhat more colourfully, R.S. Whittington suggested: <dl><dd><dl><dd>"Had he been a <a href="/wiki/Trapeze" title="Trapeze">trapeze</a> artist in a strolling circus, Coleman could have dispensed with the trapeze."</dd></dl></dd></dl> Without Coleman, Essendon's fortunes plummeted, and there were to be no further premierships in the 1950s. The nearest miss came in <a href="/wiki/1957_VFL_season" title="1957 VFL season">1957</a> when the Bombers (as they were popularly known by this time) earned premiership favouritism after a superb 16-point Second Semi-Final defeat of Melbourne—only to lose by over 10 goals against the same side a <a href="/wiki/1957_VFL_Grand_Final" class="mw-redirect" title="1957 VFL Grand Final">fortnight later</a>. <a href="/wiki/1959_VFL_season" title="1959 VFL season">1959</a> saw another grand final loss to Melbourne, this time by 37 points, but the fact that the average age of the Essendon side was only 22 was seen as providing considerable cause for optimism. However, it was to take another three years, and a change of coach, before the team's obvious potential was translated into tangible success.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Post-Reynolds_era_and_the_"Slugging_Seventies"_(1961–1980)">Post-Reynolds era and the "Slugging Seventies" (1961–1980)</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Essendon_Football_Club&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Post-Reynolds era and the "Slugging Seventies" (1961–1980)">edit</a>]</div> John Coleman started his coaching career at Essendon in <a href="/wiki/1961_VFL_season" title="1961 VFL season">1961</a>, thus ending the <a href="/wiki/Dick_Reynolds" title="Dick Reynolds">Dick Reynolds</a> era at the club. In the same year, Essendon finished the season mid-table, and supporters were not expecting too much for the following season. However, the club blitzed the opposition in <a href="/wiki/1962_VFL_season" title="1962 VFL season">1962</a>, losing only two matches and finishing top of the table. Both losses were to the previous year's grand finalists. The finals posed no problems for the resurgent Dons, easily accounting for Carlton in the season's climax, winning the <a href="/wiki/1962_VFL_Grand_Final" class="mw-redirect" title="1962 VFL Grand Final">1962 Premiership</a> by 32 points. This was a remarkable result for Coleman, who, in just his second season of coaching, claimed the ultimate prize in Australian football. As so often is the case after a flag, the following two years were below standard. A further premiership in <a href="/wiki/1965_VFL_Grand_Final" class="mw-redirect" title="1965 VFL Grand Final">1965</a> (won from 4th position on the ladder) was also unexpected due to periods of poor form during the <a href="/wiki/1965_VFL_season" title="1965 VFL season">1965 season</a>. The Bombers were a different club when the finals came around, but some of the credit for the improvement was given to the influence of <a href="/wiki/Brian_Sampson_(footballer)" title="Brian Sampson (footballer)">Brian Sampson</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ted_Fordham" title="Ted Fordham">Ted Fordham</a> during the finals. Coleman's time as coach turned out to be much like his playing career: highly successful but cut short when he had to stand down due to health problems in 1967. Only six years later, on the eve of the <a href="/wiki/1973_VFL_season" title="1973 VFL season">1973 season</a>, he died of a heart attack at just 44 years of age. Following Coleman's retirement, the club experienced tough times on and off the field. Finals appearances were rare for the side, which was often in contention for the <a href="/wiki/Wooden_spoon_(award)" title="Wooden spoon (award)">wooden spoon</a>. Essendon did manage to make the <a href="/wiki/1968_VFL_Grand_Final" class="mw-redirect" title="1968 VFL Grand Final">1968 VFL Grand Final</a>, but it lost to Carlton by just three points and did not make it back to the big stage for a 15 years. During the period from 1968 until 1980, five different coaches were tried, with none lasting longer than four years. Off the field, the club went through troubled times as well. In 1970, <a href="/wiki/Don_McKenzie_(footballer,_born_1939)#Dispute_over_player_payments" title="Don McKenzie (footballer, born 1939)">five players went on strike</a> before the season even began, demanding higher payments. Essendon did make the finals in <a href="/wiki/1972_VFL_season" title="1972 VFL season">1972</a> and <a href="/wiki/1973_VFL_season" title="1973 VFL season">1973</a> under the autocratic direction of <a href="/wiki/Des_Tuddenham" title="Des Tuddenham">Des Tuddenham</a> (Collingwood), but they were beaten badly in successive elimination finals by <a href="/wiki/St_Kilda_Football_Club" title="St Kilda Football Club">St. Kilda</a> and did not taste finals action again until the very end of the decade. The 1970s' Essendon sides were involved in many rough and tough encounters under Tuddenham, who himself came to loggerheads with <a href="/wiki/Ron_Barassi" title="Ron Barassi">Ron Barassi</a> at a quarter-time huddle where both coaches exchanged heated words. Essendon had tough but talented players with the likes of "Rotten Ronnie" <a href="/wiki/Ron_Andrews" title="Ron Andrews">Ron Andrews</a> and experienced players such as <a href="/wiki/Barry_Davis_(footballer)" title="Barry Davis (footballer)">Barry Davis</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ken_Fletcher_(Australian_footballer)" title="Ken Fletcher (Australian footballer)">Ken Fletcher</a>, <a href="/wiki/Geoff_Blethyn" title="Geoff Blethyn">Geoff Blethyn</a>, <a href="/wiki/Neville_Fields" title="Neville Fields">Neville Fields</a> and West Australian import <a href="/wiki/Graham_Moss" title="Graham Moss">Graham Moss</a>. In May 1974, a controversial half-time all-in-brawl with Richmond at Windy Hill and a 1975 encounter with Carlton were testimony of the era. Following the Carlton match, the <a href="/wiki/The_Herald_(Melbourne)" title="The Herald (Melbourne)">Herald</a> described Windy Hill as "Boot Hill" because of the extent of the fights and the high number of reported players (eight in all—four from Carlton and four from Essendon). The peak of these incidents occurred in <a href="/wiki/1980_VFL_season" title="1980 VFL season">1980</a> with new recruit <a href="/wiki/Phil_Carman" title="Phil Carman">Phil Carman</a> making headlines for head-butting an umpire. The tribunal suspended him for sixteen weeks, and although most people thought this was a fair (or even lenient) sentence, he took his case to the supreme court, gathering even more unwanted publicity for the club. Despite this, the club had recruited many talented young players in the late 1970s who emerged as club greats. Three of those young players were <a href="/wiki/Simon_Madden" title="Simon Madden">Simon Madden</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tim_Watson" title="Tim Watson">Tim Watson</a> and <a href="/wiki/Paul_Van_Der_Haar" class="mw-redirect" title="Paul Van Der Haar">Paul Van Der Haar</a>. <a href="/wiki/Terry_Daniher" title="Terry Daniher">Terry Daniher</a> and his brother <a href="/wiki/Neale_Daniher" title="Neale Daniher">Neale</a> came via a trade with <a href="/wiki/South_Melbourne_Swans" class="mw-redirect" title="South Melbourne Swans">South Melbourne</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Roger_Merrett" title="Roger Merrett">Roger Merrett</a> joined soon afterwards to form the nucleus of what would become the formidable Essendon sides of the 1980s. This raw but talented group of youngsters took Essendon to an elimination final in <a href="/wiki/1979_VFL_season" title="1979 VFL season">1979</a> under Barry Davis but were again thrashed in an Elimination Final, this time at the hands of Fitzroy. Davis resigned at the end of the 1980 season after missing out on a finals appearance. One of the few highlights for Essendon supporters during this time was when Graham Moss won the 1976 <a href="/wiki/Brownlow_Medal" title="Brownlow Medal">Brownlow Medal</a>; he was the only Bomber to do so in a 40-year span from 1953 to 1993. Even that was bittersweet, as he quit VFL football to move back to his native Western Australia, where Moss finished out his career as a player and coach at <a href="/wiki/Claremont_Football_Club" title="Claremont Football Club">Claremont Football Club</a>. In many ways, Moss's career reflects Essendon's mixed fortunes during the decade. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Kevin_Sheedy_era_(1981–2007)">Kevin Sheedy era (1981–2007)</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Essendon_Football_Club&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Kevin Sheedy era (1981–2007)">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Frame"><a href="/wiki/File:Essendon80s.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/98/Essendon80s.png" decoding="async" width="138" height="147" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="138" data-file-height="147" /></a><figcaption>Essendon 1980s shield logo</figcaption></figure> Former <a href="/wiki/Richmond_Football_Club" title="Richmond Football Club">Richmond</a> player <a href="/wiki/Kevin_Sheedy_(Australian_footballer)" title="Kevin Sheedy (Australian footballer)">Kevin Sheedy</a> started as head coach in 1981.<a href="#cite_note-43">[43]</a> Essendon reached the Grand Final in 1983, the first time since 1968. Hawthorn won by a then record 83 points.<a href="#cite_note-44">[44]</a> In 1984, Essendon won the pre-season competition and completed the regular season on top of the ladder. The club played, and beat, Hawthorn in the <a href="/wiki/1984_VFL_Grand_Final" class="mw-redirect" title="1984 VFL Grand Final">1984 VFL Grand Final</a> to win their 13th premiership—their first since 1965. The teams met again in the <a href="/wiki/1985_VFL_Grand_Final" class="mw-redirect" title="1985 VFL Grand Final">1985 Grand Final</a>, which Essendon also won. At the start of <a href="/wiki/1986_VFL_season" title="1986 VFL season">1986</a>, Essendon were considered unbackable for three successive flags, but a succession of injuries to key players <a href="/wiki/Paul_Van_der_Haar" class="mw-redirect" title="Paul Van der Haar">Paul Van der Haar</a> (only fifteen games from 1986 to 1988), <a href="/wiki/Tim_Watson" title="Tim Watson">Tim Watson</a>, <a href="/wiki/Darren_Williams_(Australian_rules_footballer)" class="mw-redirect" title="Darren Williams (Australian rules footballer)">Darren Williams</a>, <a href="/wiki/Roger_Merrett" title="Roger Merrett">Roger Merrett</a> and <a href="/wiki/Simon_Madden" title="Simon Madden">Simon Madden</a> led the club to win only eight of its last eighteen games in 1986 and only nine games (plus a draw with <a href="/wiki/Geelong_Football_Club" title="Geelong Football Club">Geelong</a>) in 1987.<a href="#cite_note-45">[45]</a> In July 1987, the Bombers suffered a humiliation at the hands of <a href="/wiki/Sydney_Swans" title="Sydney Swans">Sydney</a>, who fell two points short of scoring the then highest score in VFL history.<a href="#cite_note-46">[46]</a> In 1988, Essendon made a rebound to sixth place with twelve wins, including a 140-point thrashing of Brisbane where they had a record sixteen individual goalkickers.<a href="#cite_note-47">[47]</a> In 1989, they rebounded further to second on the ladder with only five losses and thrashed Geelong in the Qualifying Final. However, after a fiery encounter with Hawthorn ended in a convincing defeat, the Bombers were no match for Geelong next week. In 1990, Essendon were pace-setters almost from the start, but a disruption from the Qualifying Final draw between Collingwood and <a href="/wiki/West_Coast_Eagles" title="West Coast Eagles">West Coast</a> was a blow from which they never recovered. The Magpies comprehensively thrashed them in both the second semi-final and the grand final. Following the 1991 season, Essendon moved its home games from its traditional home ground at <a href="/wiki/Windy_Hill,_Essendon" title="Windy Hill, Essendon">Windy Hill</a> to the larger and newly renovated <a href="/wiki/Melbourne_Cricket_Ground" title="Melbourne Cricket Ground">MCG</a>. This move generated large increases in game attendance, membership and revenue for the club. The club's training and administrative base remained at Windy Hill until 2013. Following the retirement of <a href="/wiki/Tim_Watson" title="Tim Watson">Tim Watson</a> and <a href="/wiki/Simon_Madden" title="Simon Madden">Simon Madden</a> in the early 1990s, the team was built on new players such as <a href="/wiki/Gavin_Wanganeen" title="Gavin Wanganeen">Gavin Wanganeen</a>, <a href="/wiki/Joe_Misiti" title="Joe Misiti">Joe Misiti</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mark_Mercuri" title="Mark Mercuri">Mark Mercuri</a>, <a href="/wiki/Michael_Long_(footballer)" title="Michael Long (footballer)">Michael Long</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dustin_Fletcher" title="Dustin Fletcher">Dustin Fletcher</a> (son of Ken) and <a href="/wiki/James_Hird" title="James Hird">James Hird</a>, who was taken at No. 79 in the 1990 draft. This side became known as the "Baby Bombers", as the core of the side was made up of young players early in their careers. The team won the <a href="/wiki/1993_AFL_Grand_Final" title="1993 AFL Grand Final">1993 Grand Final</a> against Carlton and that same year, Gavin Wanganeen won the <a href="/wiki/Brownlow_Medal" title="Brownlow Medal">Brownlow Medal</a>, the first awarded to an Essendon player since 1976. Three years later, James Hird was jointly awarded the medal with <a href="/wiki/Michael_Voss" title="Michael Voss">Michael Voss</a> of Brisbane. In 2000, the club shifted the majority of its home games to the newly opened <a href="/wiki/Docklands_Stadium" title="Docklands Stadium">Docklands Stadium</a>, signing a 25-year deal to play seven home matches per year at the venue, with the other four remaining at the MCG.<a href="#cite_note-FS2000-48">[48]</a> The season was one of the most successful by any team in VFL/AFL history, and the club opened with 20 consecutive wins before they <a href="/wiki/Super-Flood" title="Super-Flood">lost to the Western Bulldogs in round 21</a>. The team went on to win their 16th premiership, defeating <a href="/wiki/Melbourne_Football_Club" title="Melbourne Football Club">Melbourne</a>, thereby completing the most dominant single season in AFL/VFL history. The defeat to the Bulldogs was the only defeat for Essendon throughout the entire calendar year (Essendon also won the 2000 pre-season competition).<a href="#cite_note-49">[49]</a> Essendon was less successful after 2001. Lucrative contracts to a number of premiership players had caused serious pressure on the club's salary cap, forcing the club to trade several key players.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] <a href="/wiki/Blake_Caracella" title="Blake Caracella">Blake Caracella</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chris_Heffernan" title="Chris Heffernan">Chris Heffernan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Justin_Blumfield" title="Justin Blumfield">Justin Blumfield</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gary_Moorcroft" title="Gary Moorcroft">Gary Moorcroft</a> and <a href="/wiki/Damien_Hardwick" title="Damien Hardwick">Damien Hardwick</a> had all departed by the end of 2002; in 2004, <a href="/wiki/Mark_Mercuri" title="Mark Mercuri">Mark Mercuri</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sean_Wellman" title="Sean Wellman">Sean Wellman</a> and <a href="/wiki/Joe_Misiti" title="Joe Misiti">Joe Misiti</a> retired. The club remained competitive; however, they could progress no further than the second week of the finals each year for the years of <a href="/wiki/2002_AFL_season" title="2002 AFL season">2002</a>, <a href="/wiki/2003_AFL_season" title="2003 AFL season">2003</a>, and <a href="/wiki/2004_AFL_season" title="2004 AFL season">2004</a>. Sheedy signed a new three-year contract at the end of 2004. <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Hird_%26_Sheedy.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="A red banner featuring drawings of former Essendon player James Hird and former coach Kevin Sheedy" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Hird_%26_Sheedy.jpg/220px-Hird_%26_Sheedy.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Hird_%26_Sheedy.jpg/330px-Hird_%26_Sheedy.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Hird_%26_Sheedy.jpg/440px-Hird_%26_Sheedy.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2272" data-file-height="1704" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Kevin_Sheedy_(Australian_footballer)" title="Kevin Sheedy (Australian footballer)">Kevin Sheedy</a> and <a href="/wiki/James_Hird" title="James Hird">James Hird</a> farewell banner ahead of their final game at the Melbourne Cricket Ground </figcaption></figure> In <a href="/wiki/2005_AFL_season" title="2005 AFL season">2005</a>, Essendon missed the finals for the first time since 1997, and in <a href="/wiki/2006_AFL_season" title="2006 AFL season">2006</a>, despite a first-round 27-point thrashing of defending premiers <a href="/wiki/Sydney_Swans" title="Sydney Swans">Sydney</a> in which newly appointed captain <a href="/wiki/Matthew_Lloyd" title="Matthew Lloyd">Matthew Lloyd</a> kicked eight goals playing on <a href="/wiki/Leo_Barry" title="Leo Barry">Leo Barry</a>,<a href="#cite_note-BombersvSwans2006-50">[50]</a> the Bombers were uncompetitive for the majority of the season, partially due to Lloyd suffering a season-ending hamstring injuring in Round 3,<a href="#cite_note-51">[51]</a><a href="#cite_note-sevenmoments-52">[52]</a><a href="#cite_note-53">[53]</a> recording only three wins and one draw from twenty-two games to suffer its worst season since <a href="/wiki/1933_VFL_season" title="1933 VFL season">1933</a>, as well as recording the least-ever number of votes collectively as a team at the <a href="/wiki/2006_Brownlow_Medal" title="2006 Brownlow Medal">2006 Brownlow Medal</a> count.<a href="#cite_note-54">[54]</a><a href="#cite_note-55">[55]</a> In Lloyd's absence, <a href="/wiki/David_Hille" title="David Hille">David Hille</a> was appointed captain for the remainder of the season. The club improved its on-field position in <a href="/wiki/2007_AFL_season" title="2007 AFL season">2007</a> but again missed the finals. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="On-field_woes_and_subsequent_relocation_to_Melbourne_Airport_(2008–2013)">On-field woes and subsequent relocation to Melbourne Airport (2008–2013)</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Essendon_Football_Club&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: On-field woes and subsequent relocation to Melbourne Airport (2008–2013)">edit</a>]</div> Sheedy's contract was not renewed after 2007, ending his 27-year tenure as Essendon coach. <a href="/wiki/Matthew_Knights" title="Matthew Knights">Matthew Knights</a> replaced Sheedy as coach, and coached the club for three seasons, reaching the finals once—an eighth-place finish in <a href="/wiki/2009_AFL_season" title="2009 AFL season">2009</a> at the expense of reigning premiers <a href="/wiki/Hawthorn_Football_Club" title="Hawthorn Football Club">Hawthorn</a>.<a href="#cite_note-56">[56]</a> On 29 August 2010, shortly after the end of the 2010 home-and-away season, Knights was dismissed as coach. <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:EssendonPlayers2013.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/EssendonPlayers2013.jpg/220px-EssendonPlayers2013.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="124" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/EssendonPlayers2013.jpg/330px-EssendonPlayers2013.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/EssendonPlayers2013.jpg/440px-EssendonPlayers2013.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4000" data-file-height="2248" /></a><figcaption>Essendon players prepare to take the field before a match against <a href="/wiki/Greater_Western_Sydney_Giants" title="Greater Western Sydney Giants">Greater Western Sydney</a> in 2013.</figcaption></figure> On 28 September 2010, former captain <a href="/wiki/James_Hird" title="James Hird">James Hird</a> was named as Essendon's new coach from 2011 on a four-year deal. Dual-premiership-winning coach with <a href="/wiki/Geelong_Football_Club" title="Geelong Football Club">Geelong</a> and triple-premiership-winning player with Essendon <a href="/wiki/Mark_Thompson_(footballer)" title="Mark Thompson (footballer)">Mark Thompson</a> later joined Hird on the coaching panel. In his first season, Essendon finished eighth. The club started strongly in 2012, sitting fourth with a 10–3 record at the halfway mark of the season, but won only one more match for the season, finishing eleventh to miss the finals. In 2013, the club moved its training and administrative base to <a href="/wiki/The_Hangar" title="The Hangar">The Hangar</a>, a new facility in the suburb of <a href="/wiki/Melbourne_Airport,_Victoria" title="Melbourne Airport, Victoria">Melbourne Airport</a> which it had developed in conjunction with the <a href="/wiki/Australian_Paralympic_Committee" class="mw-redirect" title="Australian Paralympic Committee">Australian Paralympic Committee</a>. Essendon holds a 37-year lease at the facility<a href="#cite_note-airport-57">[57]</a> and maintains a lease at Windy Hill to use the venue for home matches for its reserves team in the <a href="/wiki/Victorian_Football_League" title="Victorian Football League">Victorian Football League</a> as well as for a social club and merchandise store on the site.<a href="#cite_note-connolly-58">[58]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="ASADA/WADA_investigation_(2013–2016)">ASADA/WADA investigation (2013–2016)</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Essendon_Football_Club&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: ASADA/WADA investigation (2013–2016)">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/2013_Essendon_Football_Club_season" title="2013 Essendon Football Club season">2013 Essendon Football Club season</a>, <a href="/wiki/2014_Essendon_Football_Club_season" title="2014 Essendon Football Club season">2014 Essendon Football Club season</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Essendon_Football_Club_supplements_saga" title="Essendon Football Club supplements saga">Essendon Football Club supplements saga</a></div> During 2013, the club was investigated by the AFL and the <a href="/wiki/Australian_Sports_Anti-Doping_Authority" title="Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority">Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority</a> (ASADA) over its <a href="/wiki/Essendon_Football_Club_supplements_controversy" class="mw-redirect" title="Essendon Football Club supplements controversy">2012 player supplements and sports science program</a>, most specifically over allegations into illegal use of <a href="/wiki/Peptide" title="Peptide">peptide</a> supplements. An internal review found it to have "established a supplements program that was experimental, inappropriate and inadequately vetted and controlled", and on 27 August 2013, the club was found guilty of bringing the game into disrepute for this reason. Among its penalties, the club was fined A$2 million, stripped of early draft picks in the following two drafts, and forfeited its place in the 2013 finals series (having originally finished seventh on the ladder); Hird was suspended from coaching for twelve months.<a href="#cite_note-result-59">[59]</a> Several office-bearers also resigned their posts during the controversy, including chairman David Evans<a href="#cite_note-60">[60]</a> and CEO Ian Robson.<a href="#cite_note-61">[61]</a> In the midst of the supplements saga, assistant coach <a href="/wiki/Mark_Thompson_(footballer)" title="Mark Thompson (footballer)">Mark Thompson</a> took over as coach for the <a href="/wiki/2014_AFL_season" title="2014 AFL season">2014 season</a> during Hird's suspension.<a href="#cite_note-62">[62]</a> He led the club back to the finals for a seventh-place finish but in a tense second elimination final against archrivals North Melbourne, the Bombers led by as much as 27 points at half time before a resurgent Kangaroos side came back and won the game by 12 points. After the 2014 season, Mark Thompson left the club to make way for Hird's return to the senior coaching role. In June 2014, thirty-four players were issued show-cause notices alleging the use of banned peptide <a href="/wiki/Thymosin_beta-4" title="Thymosin beta-4">Thymosin beta-4</a> during the program.<a href="#cite_note-abcnotguilcup-63">[63]</a> The players faced the AFL Anti-Doping Tribunal over the 2014/15 offseason, and on 31 March 2015 the tribunal returned a not guilty verdict, determining that it was "not comfortably satisfied" that the players had been administered the peptide.<a href="#cite_note-64">[64]</a> Hird returned as senior coach for the 2015 season,<a href="#cite_note-65">[65]</a> and after a strong start, the club's form severely declined after the announcement that WADA would appeal the decision of the AFL Anti-Doping Tribunal. The effect of the appeal on the team's morale was devastating and they went on to win only six games for the year. Under extreme pressure, Hird resigned on 18 August 2015 following a disastrous 112-point loss to Adelaide.<a href="#cite_note-afl.com.au-66">[66]</a> Former West Coast Eagles premiership coach <a href="/wiki/John_Worsfold" title="John Worsfold">John Worsfold</a> was appointed as the new senior coach on a three-year contract. On 12 January 2016 the Court of Arbitration for Sport overruled the AFL anti-doping tribunal's decision, deeming that 34 past and present players of the Essendon Football Club, took the banned substance Thymosin Beta-4. As a result, all 34 players, 12 of which were still at the club, were given two-year suspensions. However, all suspensions were effectively less due to players having previously taken part in provisional suspensions undertaken during the 2014/2015 off-season.<a href="#cite_note-67">[67]</a><a href="#cite_note-68">[68]</a> As a result, Essendon contested the 2016 season with twelve<a href="#cite_note-69">[69]</a> of its regular senior players under suspension. In order for the club to remain competitive, the AFL granted Essendon the ability to upgrade all five of their rookie listed players and to sign an additional ten players to cover the loss of the suspended players for the season. Due to this unprecedented situation, many in the football community predicted the club would go through the <a href="/wiki/2016_AFL_season" title="2016 AFL season">2016 AFL season</a> without a win; however, they were able to win three matches: against <a href="/wiki/Melbourne_Football_Club" title="Melbourne Football Club">Melbourne</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gold_Coast_Suns" title="Gold Coast Suns">Gold Coast</a> and <a href="/wiki/Carlton_Football_Club" title="Carlton Football Club">Carlton</a> in rounds 2, 21 and 23 respectively. The absence of its most experienced players also allowed the development of its young players, with <a href="/wiki/Zach_Merrett" title="Zach Merrett">Zach Merrett</a> and <a href="/wiki/Orazio_Fantasia" title="Orazio Fantasia">Orazio Fantasia</a> having breakout years, with <a href="/wiki/Darcy_Parish" title="Darcy Parish">Darcy Parish</a> and <a href="/wiki/Anthony_McDonald-Tipungwuti" title="Anthony McDonald-Tipungwuti">Anthony McDonald-Tipungwuti</a> impressing in their debut seasons. Merrett acted as captain in the side's round 21 win over the Suns.<a href="#cite_note-70">[70]</a> The club eventually finished on the bottom of the ladder and thus claimed its first wooden spoon since 1933. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Post-investigation_(2017–2022)">Post-investigation (2017–2022)</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Essendon_Football_Club&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Post-investigation (2017–2022)">edit</a>]</div> Essendon made their final financial settlement related to the supplements saga in September 2017, just before finals started.<a href="#cite_note-71">[71]</a> They also improved vastly on their 2016 performance, finishing 7th in the home-and-away season and becoming the first team since <a href="/wiki/West_Coast_Eagles" title="West Coast Eagles">West Coast</a> in 2011 to go from wooden spooner to a finals appearance, but they ultimately lost their only final to <a href="/wiki/Sydney_Swans" title="Sydney Swans">Sydney</a>.<a href="#cite_note-72">[72]</a> The <a href="/wiki/2017_AFL_season" title="2017 AFL season">2017 season</a> was also capped off by the retirement of much-loved club legend and ex-captain <a href="/wiki/Jobe_Watson" title="Jobe Watson">Jobe Watson</a>, midfielder <a href="/wiki/Brent_Stanton" title="Brent Stanton">Brent Stanton</a>, and ex-Geelong star <a href="/wiki/James_Kelly_(Australian_footballer)" title="James Kelly (Australian footballer)">James Kelly</a>, who later took up a development coach role at the club. Midfielder <a href="/wiki/Heath_Hocking" title="Heath Hocking">Heath Hocking</a>, who played 126 games for the club, was delisted. Expectations were high for the <a href="/wiki/2018_AFL_season" title="2018 AFL season">2018 season</a>, with the club having an outstanding offseason. The recruitment of <a href="/wiki/Jake_Stringer" title="Jake Stringer">Jake Stringer</a>, <a href="/wiki/Adam_Saad" title="Adam Saad">Adam Saad</a> and <a href="/wiki/Devon_Smith_(footballer)" title="Devon Smith (footballer)">Devon Smith</a> from the <a href="/wiki/Western_Bulldogs" title="Western Bulldogs">Western Bulldogs</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gold_Coast_Football_Club" class="mw-redirect" title="Gold Coast Football Club">Gold Coast Suns</a> and <a href="/wiki/Greater_Western_Sydney_Giants" title="Greater Western Sydney Giants">Greater Western Sydney Giants</a> respectively was expected to throw Essendon firmly into premiership contention. After beating the previous year's runner up <a href="/wiki/Adelaide_Football_Club" title="Adelaide Football Club">Adelaide</a> (which went on to beat reigning premiers <a href="/wiki/Richmond_Football_Club" title="Richmond Football Club">Richmond</a> the following round)<a href="#cite_note-73">[73]</a> in round one,<a href="#cite_note-74">[74]</a> Essendon's form slumped severely, only winning one game out of the next seven rounds and losing to the then-winless Carlton in round eight.<a href="#cite_note-75">[75]</a> Senior assistant coach <a href="/wiki/Mark_Neeld" title="Mark Neeld">Mark Neeld</a> was sacked by the club the following Monday.<a href="#cite_note-76">[76]</a> The team's form improved sharply after this, recording wins against top-eight sides Geelong, GWS, <a href="/wiki/2018_AFL_Grand_Final" title="2018 AFL Grand Final">eventual premiers</a> West Coast, and Sydney, winning ten out of the last 13 games of the season. However, the mid-season revival was short-lived, with a loss to reigning premiers <a href="/wiki/Richmond_Football_Club" title="Richmond Football Club">Richmond</a> by eight points in round 22 ending any hopes they had of reaching the finals. The 2018 season was capped off by the club not offering veteran <a href="/wiki/Brendon_Goddard" title="Brendon Goddard">Brendon Goddard</a> a new contract for 2019. Essendon acquired <a href="/wiki/Dylan_Shiel" title="Dylan Shiel">Dylan Shiel</a> from <a href="/wiki/Greater_Western_Sydney_Giants" title="Greater Western Sydney Giants">Greater Western Sydney</a> in one of the most high-profile trades of the <a href="/wiki/2018_AFL_draft" title="2018 AFL draft">2018 AFL Trade Period</a>.<a href="#cite_note-bombersgettheirman-77">[77]</a> The Bombers had inconsistent form throughout the <a href="/wiki/2019_AFL_season" title="2019 AFL season">2019 season</a> but qualified for the finals for the second time in three seasons,<a href="#cite_note-bombersmakethe8-78">[78]</a> finishing eighth on the ladder with 12 wins and 10 losses. The Bombers, however, were no match for the West Coast Eagles in the first elimination final and lost by 55 points to end their season.<a href="#cite_note-20191stelimfinal-79">[79]</a> The defeat extended their 15-year finals-winning drought, having not won a final since 2004.<a href="#cite_note-5479dayslol-80">[80]</a> Following the end of the 2019 season, assistant coach <a href="/wiki/Ben_Rutten" title="Ben Rutten">Ben Rutten</a> was announced as John Worsfold's successor as senior coach, effective at the end of the <a href="/wiki/2020_AFL_season" title="2020 AFL season">2020 AFL season</a>. Rutten effectively shared co-coaching duties with Worsfold during the 2020 season. <a href="/wiki/2020_AFL_season" title="2020 AFL season">2020</a> was a particularly disappointing year for the club. The Bombers failed to make the finals, finishing thirteenth on the AFL ladder with just six wins and a draw from 17 games. <a href="/wiki/Conor_McKenna" title="Conor McKenna">Conor McKenna</a> became the first AFL player to test positive to COVID-19 during the pandemic. A number of players also left the club at the end of the 2020 season, including <a href="/wiki/Joe_Daniher" title="Joe Daniher">Joe Daniher</a>, Conor McKenna, <a href="/wiki/Adam_Saad" title="Adam Saad">Adam Saad</a> and <a href="/wiki/Orazio_Fantasia" title="Orazio Fantasia">Orazio Fantasia</a>. This also marked 20 years since their last premiership win, a new record for the club's longest premiership drought, with the previous record of 19 years from <a href="/wiki/1965_VFL_grand_final" title="1965 VFL grand final">1965</a>–<a href="/wiki/1984_VFL_grand_final" title="1984 VFL grand final">1984</a> being dethroned. With Rutten solely at the helm in 2021, Essendon improved significantly from the previous year and returned to the finals, finishing eighth on the ladder with 11 wins and 11 losses; and, despite having beaten the <a href="/wiki/Western_Bulldogs" title="Western Bulldogs">Western Bulldogs</a> towards the end of the regular season, the Bombers would lose to the same team by 49 points in the first elimination final. <a href="/wiki/2022_AFL_season" title="2022 AFL season">Season 2022</a> was the club's 150th anniversary. Hopes were high, with some even predicting Essendon to break their 21-year premiership drought.<a href="#cite_note-81">[81]</a> However, these predictions proved drastically wrong, as the Bombers went on to finish 15th, winning only 7 games with a percentage of 83.2%.<a href="#cite_note-82">[82]</a> This poor performance placed Rutten's position under scrutiny, and after a late attempt to lure former Hawthorn coach <a href="/wiki/Alastair_Clarkson" title="Alastair Clarkson">Alastair Clarkson</a> failed,<a href="#cite_note-83">[83]</a> Rutten was unceremoniously sacked.<a href="#cite_note-84">[84]</a> He was replaced by former AFL General Manager of Football and North Melbourne coach <a href="/wiki/Brad_Scott_(Australian_footballer)" title="Brad Scott (Australian footballer)">Brad Scott</a>.<a href="#cite_note-85">[85]</a> As a result of the 2022 season's turmoil, board members such as former CEO Xavier Campbell, former president Paul Brasher, former player <a href="/wiki/Simon_Madden" title="Simon Madden">Simon Madden</a>, and Peter Allen left their roles.<a href="#cite_note-86">[86]</a> Campbell was replaced by <a href="/wiki/Andrew_Thorburn" title="Andrew Thorburn">Andrew Thorburn</a>, who was pressured into resignation after only one day in the role due to his simultaneous position as a board member of the conservative City on the Hill Church Movement—whose controversial teachings conflicted with Essendon's progressive values—was made public.<a href="#cite_note-87">[87]</a> Craig Vozzo replaced Thorburn in November 2022.<a href="#cite_note-88">[88]</a> <a href="/wiki/Anthony_McDonald-Tipungwuti" title="Anthony McDonald-Tipungwuti">Anthony McDonald-Tipungwuti</a>, <a href="/wiki/Devon_Smith_(footballer)" title="Devon Smith (footballer)">Devon Smith</a> and <a href="/wiki/Michael_Hurley_(Australian_footballer)" title="Michael Hurley (Australian footballer)">Michael Hurley</a> announced their retirements at the end of the 2022 season; however, Tipungwuti revoked the announcement on 10 November 2022. Tipungwuti again announced his retirement at the end of the 2023 after playing only two further games at senior level. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Brad_Scott_era_(2023–present)">Brad Scott era (2023–present)</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Essendon_Football_Club&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Brad Scott era (2023–present)">edit</a>]</div> In 2023, reports emerged claiming that the club was reconsidering its logo. These included rumours that the current bomber logo was insensitive due to the operation of bomber jets in conflict. These reports were denied by then-captain <a href="/wiki/Zach_Merrett" title="Zach Merrett">Zach Merrett</a>.<a href="#cite_note-89">[89]</a><a href="#cite_note-90">[90]</a> At the end of the <a href="/wiki/2023_AFL_season" title="2023 AFL season">2023 season</a>, it was announced that former West Coast and Gold Coast player <a href="/wiki/Matt_Rosa" title="Matt Rosa">Matt Rosa</a> would join Essendon as Talent & Operations Manager and that Adrian Dodoro would step back from his position of recruiting manager after the upcoming trade and draft periods.<a href="#cite_note-91">[91]</a> In Brad Scott's first season as coach, Essendon sat in fifth position after round 17, but their form fell off later in the season to finish 11th with 11 wins and 12 losses.<a href="#cite_note-92">[92]</a> In Brad Scotts second season as coach Essendon finished with a win–draw–loss record of 11–1–11.<a href="#cite_note-93">[93]</a> On the 13th of August 2024 club champion <a href="/wiki/Dyson_Heppell" title="Dyson Heppell">Dyson Heppell</a> announced he would retire at the end of the season after playing 253 games for the club.<a href="#cite_note-94">[94]</a> Heppell was the final player of the <a href="/wiki/Essendon_34" class="mw-redirect" title="Essendon 34">Essendon 34</a> still playing at the club. <a href="#cite_note-95">[95]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Club_symbols">Club symbols</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Essendon_Football_Club&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Club symbols">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Guernsey">Guernsey</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Essendon_Football_Club&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Guernsey">edit</a>]</div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:EssendonBanner.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/EssendonBanner.jpg/250px-EssendonBanner.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="141" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/EssendonBanner.jpg/375px-EssendonBanner.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/EssendonBanner.jpg/500px-EssendonBanner.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4000" data-file-height="2248" /></a><figcaption>Essendon players traditionally run through a banner which is created by its supporters before their matches.</figcaption></figure> Essendon's first recorded jumpers were navy blue (The Footballers, edited by Thomas Power, 1875) although the club wore 'red and black caps and hose'. In 1877, The Footballers records the addition of 'a red sash over left shoulder'. This is the first time a red sash as part of the club jumper, and by 1878 there are newspaper reports referring to Essendon players as 'the men in the sash'. Given that blue and navy blue were the most popular colours at the time, it is thought that Essendon adopted a red sash in 1877 to distinguish its players from others in similar-coloured jumpers. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Clash_jumpers">Clash jumpers</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Essendon_Football_Club&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Clash jumpers">edit</a>]</div> In 2007, the AFL Commission laid down the requirement that all clubs must produce an alternative jumper for use in matches where jumpers are considered to clash. From 2007 to 2011, the Essendon clash guernsey was the same design as its home guernsey, but with a substantially wider sash such that the guernsey was predominantly red rather than predominantly black. This was changed after 2011 when the AFL deemed that the wider sash did not provide sufficient contrast.<a href="#cite_note-2012guernsey-96">[96]</a> From 2012 to 2016, Essendon's clash guernsey was predominantly grey, with a red sash <a href="/wiki/Fimbriation" title="Fimbriation">fimbriated</a> in black; the grey field contained, in small print, the names of all Essendon premiership players.<a href="#cite_note-2012guernsey-96">[96]</a> Before the 2016 season, Essendon's changed their clash guernsey to a predominantly red one, featuring a red sash outlined in black. Similar to the grey jumper, the names of Essendon premiership players were also printed outside the sash.<a href="#cite_note-97">[97]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Yellow_armbands">Yellow armbands</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Essendon_Football_Club&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Yellow armbands">edit</a>]</div> Following <a href="/wiki/Adam_Ramanauskas" title="Adam Ramanauskas">Adam Ramanauskas</a>'s personal battle with cancer, a "Clash for Cancer" match against <a href="/wiki/Melbourne_Football_Club" title="Melbourne Football Club">Melbourne</a> was launched in 2006. This was a joint venture between Essendon and the <a href="/wiki/The_Cancer_Council_Australia" class="mw-redirect" title="The Cancer Council Australia">Cancer Council of Victoria</a> to raise funds for the organisation.<a href="#cite_note-98">[98]</a> Despite a formal request to the AFL being denied, players wore yellow armbands for the match, which resulted in the club being fined $20,000.<a href="#cite_note-99">[99]</a> In 2007, the AFL agreed to allow yellow armbands to be incorporated into the left sleeve of the jumper.<a href="#cite_note-100">[100]</a> The 'Clash for Cancer' match against Melbourne has become an annual event, repeated in subsequent seasons, though in 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2016, <a href="/wiki/Hawthorn_Football_Club" title="Hawthorn Football Club">Hawthorn</a> (twice), the <a href="/wiki/Sydney_Swans" title="Sydney Swans">Sydney Swans</a> and <a href="/wiki/Brisbane_Lions" title="Brisbane Lions">Brisbane Lions</a> were the opponents in those respective seasons instead of Melbourne.<a href="#cite_note-101">[101]</a><a href="#cite_note-102">[102]</a><a href="#cite_note-103">[103]</a> In 2009, the jumpers were auctioned along with yellow boots worn by some players during the match.<a href="#cite_note-104">[104]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Club_song">Club song</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Essendon_Football_Club&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Club song">edit</a>]</div> The club's theme song, "See the Bombers Fly Up", is thought to have been written c. 1959 by Kevin Andrews in the home of player Jeff Gamble at which time Kevin Andrews was living. The song is based on the tune of <a href="/wiki/Johnnie_Hamp" title="Johnnie Hamp">Johnnie Hamp</a>'s 1929 song "<a href="/wiki/Sunny_Side_Up_(1929_film)#(Keep_Your)_Sunny_Side_Up" title="Sunny Side Up (1929 film)">(Keep Your) Sunny Side Up</a>" at an increased tempo. Jeff Gamble came up with the line 'See the bombers fly up, up' while Kevin Andrews contributed all or most of the rest. At the time, "(Keep Your) Sunny Side Up" was the theme song for the popular Melbourne-based TV show on Channel 7 <a href="/wiki/Sunnyside_Up" title="Sunnyside Up">Sunnyside Up</a>.<a href="#cite_note-105">[105]</a> The official version of the song was recorded in 1972 by the Fable Singers and is still used today.<a href="#cite_note-106">[106]</a> The song, as with all other AFL clubs, is played prior to every match and at the conclusion of matches when the team is victorious. <dl><dd>See the Bombers fly up, up!</dd> <dd>To win the premiership flag.</dd> <dd>Our boys who play this grand old game,</dd> <dd>Are always striving for glory and fame!</dd> <dd>See the Bombers fly up, up,</dd> <dd>The other teams they don't fear;</dd> <dd>They all try their best,</dd> <dd>But they can't get near,</dd> <dd>As the Bombers fly up!</dd></dl> Songwriter <a href="/wiki/Mike_Brady_(musician)" title="Mike Brady (musician)">Mike Brady</a>, of "<a href="/wiki/Up_There_Cazaly" title="Up There Cazaly">Up There Cazaly</a>" fame, penned an updated version of the song in 1999 complete with a new verse arrangement, but it was not well received. However, this version is occasionally played at club functions. In 2018, Andrews revealed that there was an error in the lyrics, in which in the line "The other teams they don't fear", the word "they" was supposed to be "we".<a href="#cite_note-107">[107]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Logo_and_mascot">Logo and mascot</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Essendon_Football_Club&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Logo and mascot">edit</a>]</div> The club's current logo was introduced in 1998,<a href="#cite_note-108">[108]</a> making it the second oldest AFL logo currently in use, behind St. Kilda's logo, which was introduced in 1995. Their mascot is known as "Skeeta Reynolds", and was named after Dick Reynolds. He is a mosquito and was created in honour of the team's back-to-back premiership sides in the 1920s known as the "Mosquito Fleet". He was first named through a competition run in the Bomber magazine with "Skeeta" being the winning entry. This was later changed to "Skeeta Reynolds". He appears as a red mosquito in an Essendon jumper and wears a red and black scarf. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Headquarters,_training_and_administration_base">Headquarters, training and administration base</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Essendon_Football_Club&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Headquarters, training and administration base">edit</a>]</div> The Essendon Football Club primary training and administration base has been at <a href="/wiki/The_Hangar" title="The Hangar">The Hangar</a> since 2013.<a href="#cite_note-109">[109]</a> Prior to this, the primary training and administration base of Essendon Football Club was based at <a href="/wiki/Windy_Hill,_Essendon" title="Windy Hill, Essendon">Windy Hill Oval</a> from 1922 until 2013.<a href="#cite_note-110">[110]</a> Prior to Windy Hill, the home ground of Essendon Football Club was at the <a href="/wiki/East_Melbourne_Cricket_Ground" title="East Melbourne Cricket Ground">East Melbourne Cricket Ground</a> from 1882 until 1921.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Membership">Membership</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Essendon_Football_Club&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Membership">edit</a>]</div> <table class="wikitable sortable"> <tbody><tr style="background:#bdb76b;"> <th>Year</th> <th>Total Members[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1984_VFL_season" title="1984 VFL season">1984</a></td> <td style="text-align: center;">10,231 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1985_VFL_season" title="1985 VFL season">1985</a></td> <td style="text-align: center;">11,376 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1986_VFL_season" title="1986 VFL season">1986</a></td> <td style="text-align: center;">12,607 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1987_VFL_season" title="1987 VFL season">1987</a></td> <td style="text-align: center;">8,129 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1988_VFL_season" title="1988 VFL season">1988</a></td> <td style="text-align: center;">8,432 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1989_VFL_season" title="1989 VFL season">1989</a></td> <td style="text-align: center;">7,958 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1990_AFL_season" title="1990 AFL season">1990</a></td> <td style="text-align: center;">11,046 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1991_AFL_season" title="1991 AFL season">1991</a></td> <td style="text-align: center;">11,593 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1992_AFL_season" title="1992 AFL season">1992</a></td> <td style="text-align: center;">10,034 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1993_AFL_season" title="1993 AFL season">1993</a></td> <td style="text-align: center;">11,546 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1994_AFL_season" title="1994 AFL season">1994</a></td> <td style="text-align: center;">19,720 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1995_AFL_season" title="1995 AFL season">1995</a></td> <td style="text-align: center;">23,833 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1996_AFL_season" title="1996 AFL season">1996</a></td> <td style="text-align: center;">24,324 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1997_AFL_season" title="1997 AFL season">1997</a></td> <td style="text-align: center;">28,063 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1998_AFL_season" title="1998 AFL season">1998</a></td> <td style="text-align: center;">27,099 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1999_AFL_season" title="1999 AFL season">1999</a></td> <td style="text-align: center;">29,858 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2000_AFL_season" title="2000 AFL season">2000</a></td> <td style="text-align: center;">34,278 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2001_AFL_season" title="2001 AFL season">2001</a></td> <td style="text-align: center;">36,227 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2002_AFL_season" title="2002 AFL season">2002</a></td> <td style="text-align: center;">35,219 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2003_AFL_season" title="2003 AFL season">2003</a></td> <td style="text-align: center;">31,970 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2004_AFL_season" title="2004 AFL season">2004</a></td> <td style="text-align: center;">33,469 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2005_AFL_season" title="2005 AFL season">2005</a></td> <td style="text-align: center;">32,734 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2006_AFL_season" title="2006 AFL season">2006</a></td> <td style="text-align: center;">32,511 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2007_AFL_season" title="2007 AFL season">2007</a></td> <td style="text-align: center;">32,759 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2008_AFL_season" title="2008 AFL season">2008</a></td> <td style="text-align: center;">41,947 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2009_AFL_season" title="2009 AFL season">2009</a></td> <td style="text-align: center;">40,412 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2010_AFL_season" title="2010 AFL season">2010</a></td> <td style="text-align: center;">40,589 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2011_AFL_season" title="2011 AFL season">2011</a></td> <td style="text-align: center;">50,275 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2012_AFL_season" title="2012 AFL season">2012</a></td> <td style="text-align: center;">47,708 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2013_AFL_season" title="2013 AFL season">2013</a></td> <td style="text-align: center;">56,172 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2014_AFL_season" title="2014 AFL season">2014</a></td> <td style="text-align: center;">60,714 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2015_AFL_season" title="2015 AFL season">2015</a></td> <td style="text-align: center;">61,317 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2016_AFL_season" title="2016 AFL season">2016</a></td> <td style="text-align: center;">57,494 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2017_AFL_season" title="2017 AFL season">2017</a></td> <td style="text-align: center;">67,768 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2018_AFL_season" title="2018 AFL season">2018</a></td> <td style="text-align: center;">79,319 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2019_AFL_season" title="2019 AFL season">2019</a></td> <td style="text-align: center;">84,237 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2020_AFL_season" title="2020 AFL season">2020</a></td> <td style="text-align: center;">66,686 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2021_AFL_season" title="2021 AFL season">2021</a></td> <td style="text-align: center;">81,662 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2022_AFL_season" title="2022 AFL season">2022</a></td> <td style="text-align: center;">86,001 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2023_AFL_season" title="2023 AFL season">2022</a></td> <td style="text-align: center;">86,274 </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Rivalries">Rivalries</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Essendon_Football_Club&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Rivalries">edit</a>]</div> Essendon's biggest rivals are <a href="/wiki/Carlton_Football_Club" title="Carlton Football Club">Carlton</a>, <a href="/wiki/Richmond_Football_Club" title="Richmond Football Club">Richmond</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Collingwood_Football_Club" title="Collingwood Football Club">Collingwood</a>, as these teams and Essendon are the four biggest and most supported clubs in Victoria. Matches between the clubs are often close regardless of form and ladder positions. If out of the race themselves, all four have the desire to deny the others a finals spot or a premiership. Essendon also has a fierce rivalry with Hawthorn, stemming from excessive on-field violence in the 1980s, perhaps reaching its zenith with the infamous <a href="/wiki/Line_in_the_sand_match" class="mw-redirect" title="Line in the sand match">Line in the Sand Match</a> in 2004. Additionally, Essendon has a three-decade rivalry with the <a href="/wiki/West_Coast_Eagles" title="West Coast Eagles">West Coast Eagles</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Carlton_Football_Club" title="Carlton Football Club">Carlton</a> – <a href="/wiki/Carlton%E2%80%93Essendon_AFL_rivalry" title="Carlton–Essendon AFL rivalry">The rivalry between Essendon and Carlton</a> is considered one of the strongest in the league. With the teams sharing the record of 16 premierships, both sides are keen to become outright leader, or if out of the finals race, at least ensure the other doesn't. In recent years, the rivalry has thickened, with Carlton beating the 1999 Minor Premiers and premiership favourites by 1 point in the <a href="/wiki/1999_AFL_First_Preliminary_Final" class="mw-redirect" title="1999 AFL First Preliminary Final">Preliminary Final</a>. Other notable meetings between the two clubs include the <a href="/wiki/1908_VFL_Grand_Final" class="mw-redirect" title="1908 VFL Grand Final">1908</a>, <a href="/wiki/1947_VFL_Grand_Final" class="mw-redirect" title="1947 VFL Grand Final">1947</a>, <a href="/wiki/1949_VFL_season" title="1949 VFL season">1949</a>, <a href="/wiki/1962_VFL_Grand_Final" class="mw-redirect" title="1962 VFL Grand Final">1962</a> and <a href="/wiki/1968_VFL_Grand_Final" class="mw-redirect" title="1968 VFL Grand Final">1968 VFL Grand Finals</a> and <a href="/wiki/1993_AFL_Grand_Final" title="1993 AFL Grand Final">1993 AFL Grand Final</a>, with some decided by small margins.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Collingwood_Football_Club" title="Collingwood Football Club">Collingwood</a> – In the early days of the VFL, this rivalry grew out of several Grand Final meetings: <a href="/wiki/1901_VFL_Grand_Final" class="mw-redirect" title="1901 VFL Grand Final">1901</a>, <a href="/wiki/1902_VFL_season" title="1902 VFL season">1902</a> and <a href="/wiki/1911_VFL_Grand_Final" class="mw-redirect" title="1911 VFL Grand Final">1911</a>. The teams didn't meet again in a Grand Final until <a href="/wiki/1990_AFL_Grand_Final" title="1990 AFL Grand Final">1990</a> when Collingwood won to draw level with the Bombers on 14 premierships and deny the Bombers a chance to join Carlton with 15 flags. Since 1995, the clubs face off against each other annually in the <a href="/wiki/Anzac_Day_clash" class="mw-redirect" title="Anzac Day clash">Anzac Day clash</a>, a match which is described as the second biggest of the season (behind only the Grand Final). Being possibly the two biggest football clubs in Victoria, regardless of their position on the ladder, this game always attracts a huge crowd, and it is a match both teams have a great desire to win regardless of either team's season prospects. The rivalry thickened further in 2023 when Collingwood joined Essendon and Carlton with a record 16 premierships.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richmond_Football_Club" title="Richmond Football Club">Richmond</a> – This rivalry stems out of the 1942 Grand Final which Essendon won. In 1974, a half-time brawl took place involving trainers, officials and players at Windy Hill and has become infamous as one of the biggest ever. The teams didn't meet in the finals between 1944 and 1995, but there have been many close margins in home and away season matches as a result of each team's "never say die" attitude and ability to come back from significant margins in the dying stages of matches. Having met in the AFL's Rivalry Round in (<a href="/wiki/2006_AFL_Season" class="mw-redirect" title="2006 AFL Season">2006</a> and <a href="/wiki/2009_AFL_season" title="2009 AFL season">2009</a>) and meeting in the <a href="/wiki/Dreamtime_at_the_%27G" title="Dreamtime at the 'G">Dreamtime at the 'G</a> match since 2005, the rivalry and passion between the clubs and supporters has re-ignited. In recent years the rivalry has been promoted as the "Clash of the Sash".<a href="#cite_note-111">[111]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hawthorn_Football_Club" title="Hawthorn Football Club">Hawthorn</a> – The two sides had a number of physical encounters in the mid-1980s when they were the top two sides of the competition. The rivalry was exacerbated when <a href="/wiki/Dermott_Brereton" title="Dermott Brereton">Dermott Brereton</a> ran through Essendon's three-quarter time huddle during a match in 1988 and again by an all in brawl during a match in 2004 allegedly instigated by Brereton (now known as the <a href="/wiki/Line_in_the_Sand_Match" title="Line in the Sand Match">Line in the Sand Match</a> after the direction allegedly given by Brereton for the Hawthorn players to make a physical stand). This was reminiscent of the 1980s when battles with Hawthorn were often hard and uncompromising affairs. During Round 22 of the <a href="/wiki/2009_AFL_season" title="2009 AFL season">2009 season</a>, Essendon and Hawthorn played for the last finals spot up for grabs. The teams played out an extremely physical game and despite being 22 points down at half time Essendon went on to win by 17 points. The game included a brawl shortly after half time sparked by Essendon's captain <a href="/wiki/Matthew_Lloyd" title="Matthew Lloyd">Matthew Lloyd</a> knocking out Hawthorn midfielder <a href="/wiki/Brad_Sewell" title="Brad Sewell">Brad Sewell</a>, which led Hawthorn's <a href="/wiki/Campbell_Brown_(footballer)" title="Campbell Brown (footballer)">Campbell Brown</a> to label Lloyd a 'sniper', and promised revenge if Lloyd played on in 2010.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Melbourne_Football_Club" title="North Melbourne Football Club">North Melbourne</a> – One of the fiercest rivalries in the AFL can be traced back to <a href="/wiki/1896_VFA_season" title="1896 VFA season">1896</a>, when several clubs, including Essendon, broke away from the Victorian Football Association to form the Victorian Football League. North sought to join the breakaway competition, but some argue this desire was not realised due to Essendon feeling threatened by North's proximity and the fact their inclusion could drain Essendon of vital talent. More than 100 years later, some North supporters have not forgiven Essendon for the decision and have blamed the Bombers for their small supporter base and gate revenue. North were finally admitted into the VFL in 1925 alongside <a href="/wiki/Western_Bulldogs" title="Western Bulldogs">Footscray</a> and <a href="/wiki/Hawthorn_Football_Club" title="Hawthorn Football Club">Hawthorn</a>. In <a href="/wiki/1950_VFL_Grand_Final" class="mw-redirect" title="1950 VFL Grand Final">1950</a>, the two sides met in their first and only grand final meeting to date, which Essendon won by 38 points. The rivalry would flare up again in the 1980s. In <a href="/wiki/1982_VFL_season" title="1982 VFL season">1982</a>, the Krakouer brothers, <a href="/wiki/Jim_Krakouer" title="Jim Krakouer">Jim</a> and <a href="/wiki/Phil_Krakouer" title="Phil Krakouer">Phil</a>, led the Roos to an Elimination Final win. Essendon had their revenge a year later, winning a Preliminary Final by 86 points. The rivalry was re-ignited in the late 1990s and early 2000s due to the on-field success of the two sides. In preparation for the <a href="/wiki/1998_AFL_finals_series" title="1998 AFL finals series">1998 finals series</a>, and despite losing six of their last eight to the Roos, legendary Essendon coach <a href="/wiki/Kevin_Sheedy_(Australian_footballer)" title="Kevin Sheedy (Australian footballer)">Kevin Sheedy</a> publicly labelled North executives <a href="/wiki/Greg_Miller_(Australian_footballer)" title="Greg Miller (Australian footballer)">Greg Miller</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mark_Dawson_(footballer)" title="Mark Dawson (footballer)">Mark Dawson</a> soft in response to comments from commentators that his Essendon team was soft. The Kangaroos beat Essendon in the much-hyped encounter that followed (a Qualifying Final), and North fans pelted Sheedy with marshmallows as he left the ground, although Sheedy was seemingly unfazed by the incident, encouraging a "Marshmallow Game" the next year and relishing in the fact that Sheedy's ulterior motive was to build up the game and draw a large crowd, which proved to be correct, drawing in 71,154 people to attend the game.<a href="#cite_note-112">[112]</a><a href="#cite_note-113">[113]</a> In <a href="/wiki/2000_AFL_season" title="2000 AFL season">2000</a>, the Bombers thrashed North by 125 points. The biggest VFL/AFL comeback of all time occurred between the two teams when Essendon managed to come back from a <a href="/wiki/Essendon_v_Kangaroos_(2001_AFL_season)" title="Essendon v Kangaroos (2001 AFL season)">69-point deficit</a> to win by 12 points in <a href="/wiki/2001_AFL_season" title="2001 AFL season">2001</a>. A meeting of the two rivals at the MCG in the <a href="/wiki/2014_AFL_finals_series" title="2014 AFL finals series">2014 AFL finals series</a> in the 2nd Elimination Final resulted in North winning by 12 points.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/West_Coast_Eagles" title="West Coast Eagles">West Coast</a> – A three-decade rivalry between the Essendon Bombers and the West Coast Eagles kicked off when Essendon coach <a href="/wiki/Kevin_Sheedy_(Australian_footballer)" title="Kevin Sheedy (Australian footballer)">Kevin Sheedy</a> tied the <a href="/wiki/Windsock" title="Windsock">windsock</a> down on the School End outer terrace so the opposition would not know which way the wind was blowing. Sheedy later said of the incident three decades later, in jest, that it was because the brand sponsor had neglected to pay their account. When West Coast won the toss and kicked against the breeze, it looked as if Sheedy's plan had worked. Nevertheless, West Coast would go on to win by 7 points.<a href="#cite_note-114">[114]</a> In his excitement at winning a close match in Round 16, 1993, with ruckman and forward <a href="/wiki/Paul_Salmon" title="Paul Salmon">Paul Salmon</a> kicking a goal 30 seconds before the final siren against the West Coast Eagles (the reigning premiers), Sheedy waved his jacket in the air as he came rushing from the coaches' box. To this day, the supporters of the winning club wave their jackets in the air after the game when the two teams play.<a href="#cite_note-115">[115]</a> The moment is captured in Jamie Cooper's painting the Game That Made Australia, commissioned by the AFL in 2008 to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the sport, with Sheedy shown waving a red, black and yellow jacket rather than a red and black jacket, to reflect Sheedy's support of indigenous footballers.<a href="#cite_note-116">[116]</a> The Bombers would go on to defeat West Coast again later that year in their semi-final clash and take home the <a href="/wiki/1993_AFL_Grand_Final" title="1993 AFL Grand Final">1993 premiership cup</a> a couple of weeks later. Despite Sheedy's typically measured disposition, Sheedy did lose his cool on one occasion in 2000. In yet another game against the Eagles, Sheedy was fined $7,500 by the tribunal after making a cut-throat gesture to then-Eagle <a href="/wiki/Mitchell_White_(footballer,_born_1973)" title="Mitchell White (footballer, born 1973)">Mitchell White</a> during the half-time break of the Essendon–West Coast clash in Round 15, 2000, also apparently mouthing the words "You... are... fucked!" to White.<a href="#cite_note-117">[117]</a><a href="#cite_note-118">[118]</a><a href="#cite_note-119">[119]</a> In a famous game in 2004, with 35 seconds remaining and the scores deadlocked at 131 points apiece, Essendon legend <a href="/wiki/James_Hird" title="James Hird">James Hird</a> swooped on a loose ball in the right forward pocket and snapped a match-winning goal with his 15th possession for the quarter, famously hugging an Essendon supporter in the crowd in a moment of jubilation after being fined $20,000 earlier in the week for criticising umpire <a href="/wiki/Scott_McLaren" title="Scott McLaren">Scott McLaren</a>.<a href="#cite_note-120">[120]</a><a href="#cite_note-121">[121]</a><a href="#cite_note-122">[122]</a> Full-forward <a href="/wiki/Matthew_Lloyd" title="Matthew Lloyd">Matthew Lloyd</a> also kicked eight goals during the game to net three <a href="/wiki/Brownlow_Medal" title="Brownlow Medal">Brownlow</a> votes.<a href="#cite_note-123">[123]</a> Despite Hird's incredible individual effort, and to the consternation of fans and the audience of the <a href="/wiki/2004_Brownlow_Medal" title="2004 Brownlow Medal">2004 Brownlow medal count</a>, he did not receive any <a href="/wiki/Brownlow_Medal" title="Brownlow Medal">Brownlow Medal</a> votes from the umpires for his 34 disposals and clutch goals, which some have speculated was in retribution for his tirade against umpire McLaren.<a href="#cite_note-judd-brownlow-124">[124]</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Organisation_and_finance">Organisation and finance</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Essendon_Football_Club&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Organisation and finance">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Board">Board</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Essendon_Football_Club&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Board">edit</a>]</div> <dl><dd>For the full list, see <a href="/wiki/List_of_VFL/AFL_presidents#Essendon_FC" class="mw-redirect" title="List of VFL/AFL presidents">List of VFL/AFL presidents</a></dd></dl> David Barham has served as chairman of the board since August 2022. Essendon's board members are David Barham, Andrew Welsh, Melissa Verner Green, Dorothy Hisgrove, Andrew Muir, Kate O'Sullivan, and Kevin Sheedy AO. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Sponsorship">Sponsorship</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Essendon_Football_Club&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Sponsorship">edit</a>]</div> The club's apparel is currently produced by <a href="/wiki/Under_Armour" title="Under Armour">Under Armour</a>. The club's apparel has also been produced by <a href="/wiki/Reebok" title="Reebok">Reebok</a>, <a href="/wiki/Fila_(company)" class="mw-redirect" title="Fila (company)">Fila</a>, <a href="/wiki/Puma_(brand)" title="Puma (brand)">Puma</a>, <a href="/wiki/Adidas" title="Adidas">Adidas</a> and <a href="/wiki/International_Sports_Clothing" class="mw-redirect" title="International Sports Clothing">ISC</a>.<a href="#cite_note-125">[125]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="AFL">AFL</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Essendon_Football_Club&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: AFL">edit</a>]</div> <table class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center"> <tbody><tr style="background:#bdb76b;"> <th>Year</th> <th>Kit Manufacturer</th> <th>Major Sponsor</th> <th>Shorts Sponsor</th> <th>Bottom Back Sponsor</th> <th>Top Back Sponsor </th></tr> <tr> <td>1977–83</td> <td rowspan="5">–</td> <td><a href="/wiki/George_Weston_Foods" title="George Weston Foods">Don Smallgoods</a></td> <td rowspan="2">–</td> <td rowspan="3">–</td> <td rowspan="23">- </td></tr> <tr> <td>1984–92</td> <td rowspan="2">Nubrik </td></tr> <tr> <td>1993</td> <td><a href="/wiki/George_Weston_Foods" title="George Weston Foods">Don Smallgoods</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1994–95</td> <td rowspan="5"><a href="/wiki/Transport_Accident_Commission" title="Transport Accident Commission">Speed Kills TAC</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Delta_Electronics" title="Delta Electronics">Delta</a></td> <td rowspan="5"><a href="/wiki/Transport_Accident_Commission" title="Transport Accident Commission">Speed Kills TAC</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1996–97</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Reebok" title="Reebok">Reebok</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1998</td> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Reebok" title="Reebok">Reebok</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Rebel_(company)" title="Rebel (company)">Rebel</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1999</td> <td rowspan="3">Musashi </td></tr> <tr> <td>2000</td> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Fila_(company)" class="mw-redirect" title="Fila (company)">Fila</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>2001–02</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Orange_S.A." title="Orange S.A.">Orange</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Orange_S.A." title="Orange S.A.">Orange</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>2003–04</td> <td rowspan="4"><a href="/wiki/Puma_(brand)" title="Puma (brand)">Puma</a></td> <td rowspan="4"><a href="/wiki/3_(telecommunications)" class="mw-redirect" title="3 (telecommunications)">3 Mobile</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/IMB_Banking_%26_Financial_Services" class="mw-redirect" title="IMB Banking & Financial Services">IMB</a></td> <td rowspan="4"><a href="/wiki/3_(telecommunications)" class="mw-redirect" title="3 (telecommunications)">3 Mobile</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>2005</td> <td>– </td></tr> <tr> <td>2006–07</td> <td>Abey </td></tr> <tr> <td>2008</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Samsung" title="Samsung">Samsung</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>2009–10</td> <td rowspan="7"><a href="/wiki/Adidas" title="Adidas">Adidas</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Samsung" title="Samsung">Samsung</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Antler_Luggage" title="Antler Luggage">Antler</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Samsung" title="Samsung">Samsung</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>2011</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Samsung" title="Samsung">Samsung</a> (Home) <a href="/wiki/True_Value_Solar" title="True Value Solar">True Value Solar</a> (Away)</td> <td rowspan="6"><a href="/wiki/Toll_Group" title="Toll Group">Toll</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/True_Value_Solar" title="True Value Solar">True Value Solar</a> (Home) <a href="/wiki/Samsung" title="Samsung">Samsung</a> (Away) </td></tr> <tr> <td>2012</td> <td><a href="/wiki/True_Value_Solar" title="True Value Solar">True Value Solar</a> (Home) <a href="/wiki/Kia_Motors" class="mw-redirect" title="Kia Motors">Kia Motors</a> (Away)</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Kia_Motors" class="mw-redirect" title="Kia Motors">Kia Motors</a> (Home) <a href="/wiki/True_Value_Solar" title="True Value Solar">True Value Solar</a> (Away) </td></tr> <tr> <td>2013</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Kia_Motors" class="mw-redirect" title="Kia Motors">Kia Motors</a> (Home) <a href="/wiki/True_Value_Solar" title="True Value Solar">True Value Solar</a> (Away)</td> <td><a href="/wiki/True_Value_Solar" title="True Value Solar">True Value Solar</a> (Home) <a href="/wiki/Kia_Motors" class="mw-redirect" title="Kia Motors">Kia Motors</a> (Away) </td></tr> <tr> <td>2014</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Fujitsu" title="Fujitsu">Fujitsu</a> (Home) <a href="/wiki/Kia_Motors" class="mw-redirect" title="Kia Motors">Kia Motors</a> (Away)</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Kia_Motors" class="mw-redirect" title="Kia Motors">Kia Motors</a> (Home) <a href="/wiki/Fujitsu" title="Fujitsu">Fujitsu</a> (Away) </td></tr> <tr> <td>2015</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Kia_Motors" class="mw-redirect" title="Kia Motors">Kia Motors</a> (Home) <a href="/wiki/Fujitsu" title="Fujitsu">Fujitsu</a> (Away)</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Fujitsu" title="Fujitsu">Fujitsu</a> (Home) <a href="/wiki/Kia_Motors" class="mw-redirect" title="Kia Motors">Kia Motors</a> (Away) </td></tr> <tr> <td>2016</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Fujitsu" title="Fujitsu">Fujitsu</a> (Home) <a href="/wiki/Kia_Motors" class="mw-redirect" title="Kia Motors">Kia Motors</a> (Away)</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Kia_Motors" class="mw-redirect" title="Kia Motors">Kia Motors</a> (Home) <a href="/wiki/Fujitsu" title="Fujitsu">Fujitsu</a> (Away) </td></tr> <tr> <td>2017</td> <td rowspan="3"><a href="/wiki/ISC_(sportswear)" title="ISC (sportswear)">ISC</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Kia_Motors" class="mw-redirect" title="Kia Motors">Kia Motors</a> (Home) <a href="/wiki/Fujitsu" title="Fujitsu">Fujitsu</a> (Away)</td> <td rowspan="3">Border Express</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Fujitsu" title="Fujitsu">Fujitsu</a> (Home) <a href="/wiki/Kia_Motors" class="mw-redirect" title="Kia Motors">Kia Motors</a> (Away) </td></tr> <tr> <td>2018</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Fujitsu" title="Fujitsu">Fujitsu</a> (Home) <a href="/wiki/Kia_Motors" class="mw-redirect" title="Kia Motors">Kia Motors</a> (Away)</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Kia_Motors" class="mw-redirect" title="Kia Motors">Kia Motors</a> (Home) <a href="/wiki/Fujitsu" title="Fujitsu">Fujitsu</a> (Away) </td></tr> <tr> <td>2019</td> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Amart_Furniture" title="Amart Furniture">Amart Furniture</a> (Home) <a href="/wiki/Fujitsu" title="Fujitsu">Fujitsu</a> (Away)</td> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Fujitsu" title="Fujitsu">Fujitsu</a> (Home) <a href="/wiki/Amart_Furniture" title="Amart Furniture">Amart Furniture</a> (Away) </td></tr> <tr> <td>2020</td> <td rowspan="5"><a href="/wiki/Under_Armour" title="Under Armour">Under Armour</a></td> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Coles_Group" title="Coles Group">Coles Insurance</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Fujitsu" title="Fujitsu">Fujitsu</a> (Home) <a href="/wiki/Amart_Furniture" title="Amart Furniture">Amart Furniture</a> (Away) </td></tr> <tr> <td>2021</td> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Fujitsu" title="Fujitsu">Fujitsu</a> (Home) <a href="/wiki/Amart_Furniture" title="Amart Furniture">Amart Furniture</a> (Away)</td> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Amart_Furniture" title="Amart Furniture">Amart Furniture</a> (Home) <a href="/wiki/Fujitsu" title="Fujitsu">Fujitsu</a> (Away)</td> <td rowspan="4">Liberty Financial </td></tr> <tr> <td>2022</td> <td rowspan="3">Tradie </td></tr> <tr> <td>2023</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Amart_Furniture" title="Amart Furniture">Amart Furniture</a> (Home) <a href="/wiki/Fujitsu" title="Fujitsu">Fujitsu</a> (Away)</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Fujitsu" title="Fujitsu">Fujitsu</a> (Home) <a href="/wiki/Amart_Furniture" title="Amart Furniture">Amart Furniture</a> (Away) </td></tr> <tr> <td>2024</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Fujitsu" title="Fujitsu">Fujitsu</a> (Home) Dutton Automotive (Away)</td> <td>Dutton Automotive (Home) <a href="/wiki/Fujitsu" title="Fujitsu">Fujitsu</a> (Away) </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="AFL_Women's">AFL Women's</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Essendon_Football_Club&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: AFL Women's">edit</a>]</div> <table class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center"> <tbody><tr style="background:#bdb76b;"> <th>Year</th> <th>Kit Manufacturer</th> <th>Major Sponsor</th> <th>Shorts Sponsor</th> <th>Bottom Back Sponsor</th> <th>Top Back Sponsor </th></tr> <tr> <td>2022 S7</td> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Cotton_On_Group" title="Cotton On Group">Cotton On</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Fujitsu" title="Fujitsu">Fujitsu</a> (Home) <a href="/wiki/Toyota_Material_Handling,_Inc." class="mw-redirect" title="Toyota Material Handling, Inc.">Toyota Forklifts</a> (Away)</td> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Coles_Supermarkets" title="Coles Supermarkets">Coles</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Toyota_Material_Handling,_Inc." class="mw-redirect" title="Toyota Material Handling, Inc.">Toyota Forklifts</a> (Home) <a href="/wiki/Fujitsu" title="Fujitsu">Fujitsu</a> (Away)</td> <td rowspan="2">Liberty Financial </td></tr> <tr> <td>2023</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Toyota_Material_Handling,_Inc." class="mw-redirect" title="Toyota Material Handling, Inc.">Toyota Forklifts</a> (Home/Away) <a href="/wiki/Fujitsu" title="Fujitsu">Fujitsu</a> (Clash)</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Fujitsu" title="Fujitsu">Airstage</a> (Home/Away) <a href="/wiki/Toyota_Material_Handling,_Inc." class="mw-redirect" title="Toyota Material Handling, Inc.">Toyota Forklifts</a> (Clash) </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Honours">Honours</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Essendon_Football_Club&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: Honours">edit</a>]</div> See <a href="/wiki/Essendon_Football_Club_honours" class="mw-redirect" title="Essendon Football Club honours">Essendon Football Club honours</a>. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Club_achievements">Club achievements</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Essendon_Football_Club&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: Club achievements">edit</a>]</div> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <td colspan="4" style="background:#bdb76b;" align="center">Premierships </td></tr> <tr style="background:#bdb76b;"> <th style="width: 210px;">Competition </th> <th style="width: 145px;">Level </th> <th>Wins </th> <th>Years Won </th></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="3" scope="row" style="text-align: left"><a href="/wiki/Australian_Football_League" title="Australian Football League">Australian Football League</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/List_of_VFL/AFL_premiers" title="List of VFL/AFL premiers">Seniors</a></td> <td>16</td> <td><a href="/wiki/1897_VFL_finals_series" title="1897 VFL finals series">1897</a>, <a href="/wiki/1901_VFL_Grand_Final" class="mw-redirect" title="1901 VFL Grand Final">1901</a>, <a href="/wiki/1911_VFL_Grand_Final" class="mw-redirect" title="1911 VFL Grand Final">1911</a>, <a href="/wiki/1912_VFL_Grand_Final" class="mw-redirect" title="1912 VFL Grand Final">1912</a>, <a href="/wiki/1923_VFL_Grand_Final" class="mw-redirect" title="1923 VFL Grand Final">1923</a>, <a href="/wiki/1924_VFL_season" title="1924 VFL season">1924</a>, <a href="/wiki/1942_VFL_Grand_Final" class="mw-redirect" title="1942 VFL Grand Final">1942</a>, <a href="/wiki/1946_VFL_Grand_Final" class="mw-redirect" title="1946 VFL Grand Final">1946</a>, <a href="/wiki/1949_VFL_Grand_Final" class="mw-redirect" title="1949 VFL Grand Final">1949</a>, <a href="/wiki/1950_VFL_Grand_Final" class="mw-redirect" title="1950 VFL Grand Final">1950</a>, <a href="/wiki/1962_VFL_Grand_Final" class="mw-redirect" title="1962 VFL Grand Final">1962</a>, <a href="/wiki/1965_VFL_Grand_Final" class="mw-redirect" title="1965 VFL Grand Final">1965</a>, <a href="/wiki/1984_VFL_Grand_Final" class="mw-redirect" title="1984 VFL Grand Final">1984</a>, <a href="/wiki/1985_VFL_Grand_Final" class="mw-redirect" title="1985 VFL Grand Final">1985</a>, <a href="/wiki/1993_AFL_Grand_Final" title="1993 AFL Grand Final">1993</a>, <a href="/wiki/2000_AFL_Grand_Final" title="2000 AFL Grand Final">2000</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/List_of_VFL/AFL_premiers#VFL/AFL_Seconds/Reserves_premierships" title="List of VFL/AFL premiers">Reserves</a> (1923–1999)</td> <td>6</td> <td><a href="/wiki/List_of_VFL/AFL_reserves_premiers" title="List of VFL/AFL reserves premiers">1941</a>, <a href="/wiki/List_of_VFL/AFL_reserves_premiers" title="List of VFL/AFL reserves premiers">1950</a>, <a href="/wiki/List_of_VFL/AFL_reserves_premiers" title="List of VFL/AFL reserves premiers">1952</a>, <a href="/wiki/List_of_VFL/AFL_reserves_premiers" title="List of VFL/AFL reserves premiers">1968</a>, <a href="/wiki/List_of_VFL/AFL_reserves_premiers" title="List of VFL/AFL reserves premiers">1983</a>, <a href="/wiki/List_of_VFL/AFL_reserves_premiers" title="List of VFL/AFL reserves premiers">1992</a>, <a href="/wiki/List_of_VFL/AFL_reserves_premiers" title="List of VFL/AFL reserves premiers">1999</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/List_of_VFL/AFL_premiers#VFL/AFL_Thirds/Under-19s_premierships" title="List of VFL/AFL premiers">Under 19s</a> (1946–1991)</td> <td>5</td> <td><a href="/wiki/List_of_VFL/AFL_premiers#VFL/AFL_Thirds/Under-19s_premierships" title="List of VFL/AFL premiers">1950</a>, <a href="/wiki/List_of_VFL/AFL_premiers#VFL/AFL_Thirds/Under-19s_premierships" title="List of VFL/AFL premiers">1952</a>, <a href="/wiki/List_of_VFL/AFL_premiers#VFL/AFL_Thirds/Under-19s_premierships" title="List of VFL/AFL premiers">1959</a>, <a href="/wiki/List_of_VFL/AFL_premiers#VFL/AFL_Thirds/Under-19s_premierships" title="List of VFL/AFL premiers">1961</a>, <a href="/wiki/List_of_VFL/AFL_premiers#VFL/AFL_Thirds/Under-19s_premierships" title="List of VFL/AFL premiers">1966</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/VFL_Women%27s" title="VFL Women's">VFL Women's</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/List_of_VFL_Women%27s_premiers" title="List of VFL Women's premiers">Reserves</a></td> <td>1</td> <td><a href="/wiki/2022_VFL_Women%27s_season" title="2022 VFL Women's season">2022</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Victorian_Football_Association" class="mw-redirect" title="Victorian Football Association">Victorian Football Association</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/List_of_VFA/VFL_premiers" title="List of VFA/VFL premiers">Seniors</a> (1877–1896)</td> <td>4</td> <td><a href="/wiki/1891_VFA_season" title="1891 VFA season">1891</a>, <a href="/wiki/1892_VFA_season" title="1892 VFA season">1892</a>, <a href="/wiki/1893_VFA_season" title="1893 VFA season">1893</a>, <a href="/wiki/1894_VFA_season" title="1894 VFA season">1894</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="4" style="background:#bdb76b;" align="center">Other titles and honours </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Australian_Football_League_pre-season_competition" class="mw-redirect" title="Australian Football League pre-season competition">AFL pre-season competition</a></td> <td>Seniors</td> <td>4</td> <td><a href="/wiki/1990_Foster%27s_Cup" title="1990 Foster's Cup">1990</a>, <a href="/wiki/1993_Foster%27s_Cup" title="1993 Foster's Cup">1993</a>, <a href="/wiki/1994_Foster%27s_Cup" title="1994 Foster's Cup">1994</a>, <a href="/wiki/2000_Ansett_Australia_Cup" title="2000 Ansett Australia Cup">2000</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/McClelland_Trophy" title="McClelland Trophy">McClelland Trophy</a></td> <td>Seniors</td> <td>9</td> <td><a href="/wiki/1951_VFL_season" title="1951 VFL season">1951</a>, <a href="/wiki/1953_VFL_season" title="1953 VFL season">1953</a>, <a href="/wiki/1957_VFL_season" title="1957 VFL season">1957</a>, <a href="/wiki/1968_VFL_season" title="1968 VFL season">1968</a>, <a href="/wiki/1989_VFL_season" title="1989 VFL season">1989</a>, <a href="/wiki/1993_AFL_season" title="1993 AFL season">1993</a>, <a href="/wiki/1999_AFL_season" title="1999 AFL season">1999</a>, <a href="/wiki/2000_AFL_season" title="2000 AFL season">2000</a>, <a href="/wiki/2001_AFL_season" title="2001 AFL season">2001</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Championship_of_Australia" title="Championship of Australia">Championship of Australia</a></td> <td>Seniors</td> <td>1</td> <td><a href="/wiki/1893_Championship_of_Australia" title="1893 Championship of Australia">1893</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/AFC_Night_Series" class="mw-redirect" title="AFC Night Series">AFC Night Series</a></td> <td>Seniors</td> <td>2</td> <td><a href="/wiki/1981_AFC_Night_Series" title="1981 AFC Night Series">1981</a>, <a href="/wiki/1984_AFC_Night_Series" title="1984 AFC Night Series">1984</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Lightning_football#Top_level_lightning_premiership_winners" title="Lightning football">Lightning Premiership</a></td> <td>Seniors</td> <td>3</td> <td><a href="/wiki/1896_VFA_season#Charity_Cup" title="1896 VFA season">1896</a>, <a href="/wiki/1943_VFL_Lightning_Premiership" title="1943 VFL Lightning Premiership">1943</a>, <a href="/wiki/1996_AFL_Lightning_Premiership" title="1996 AFL Lightning Premiership">1996</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="4" style="background:#bdb76b;" align="center">Finishing positions </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="3" scope="row" style="text-align: left"><a href="/wiki/Australian_Football_League" title="Australian Football League">Australian Football League</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/List_of_VFL/AFL_minor_premiers" title="List of VFL/AFL minor premiers">Minor premiership</a></td> <td>17</td> <td><a href="/wiki/1898_VFL_season" title="1898 VFL season">1898</a>, <a href="/wiki/1911_VFL_season" title="1911 VFL season">1911</a>, <a href="/wiki/1923_VFL_season" title="1923 VFL season">1923</a>, <a href="/wiki/1924_VFL_season" title="1924 VFL season">1924</a>, <a href="/wiki/1942_VFL_season" title="1942 VFL season">1942</a>, <a href="/wiki/1946_VFL_season" title="1946 VFL season">1946</a>, <a href="/wiki/1948_VFL_season" title="1948 VFL season">1948</a>, <a href="/wiki/1950_VFL_season" title="1950 VFL season">1950</a>, <a href="/wiki/1962_VFL_season" title="1962 VFL season">1962</a>, <a href="/wiki/1968_VFL_season" title="1968 VFL season">1968</a>, <a href="/wiki/1984_VFL_season" title="1984 VFL season">1984</a>, <a href="/wiki/1985_VFL_season" title="1985 VFL season">1985</a>, <a href="/wiki/1990_AFL_season" title="1990 AFL season">1990</a>, <a href="/wiki/1993_AFL_season" title="1993 AFL season">1993</a>, <a href="/wiki/1999_AFL_season" title="1999 AFL season">1999</a>, <a href="/wiki/2000_AFL_season" title="2000 AFL season">2000</a>, <a href="/wiki/2001_AFL_season" title="2001 AFL season">2001</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/AFL_Grand_Final" title="AFL Grand Final">Grand Finalist</a></td> <td>14</td> <td><a href="/wiki/1898_VFL_Grand_Final" class="mw-redirect" title="1898 VFL Grand Final">1898</a>, <a href="/wiki/1902_VFL_Grand_Final" class="mw-redirect" title="1902 VFL Grand Final">1902</a>, <a href="/wiki/1908_VFL_Grand_Final" class="mw-redirect" title="1908 VFL Grand Final">1908</a>, <a href="/wiki/1941_VFL_Grand_Final" class="mw-redirect" title="1941 VFL Grand Final">1941</a>, <a href="/wiki/1943_VFL_Grand_Final" class="mw-redirect" title="1943 VFL Grand Final">1943</a>, <a href="/wiki/1947_VFL_Grand_Final" class="mw-redirect" title="1947 VFL Grand Final">1947</a>, <a href="/wiki/1948_VFL_Grand_Final" class="mw-redirect" title="1948 VFL Grand Final">1948</a>, <a href="/wiki/1951_VFL_Grand_Final" class="mw-redirect" title="1951 VFL Grand Final">1951</a>, <a href="/wiki/1957_VFL_Grand_Final" class="mw-redirect" title="1957 VFL Grand Final">1957</a>, <a href="/wiki/1959_VFL_Grand_Final" class="mw-redirect" title="1959 VFL Grand Final">1959</a>, <a href="/wiki/1968_VFL_Grand_Final" class="mw-redirect" title="1968 VFL Grand Final">1968</a>, <a href="/wiki/1983_VFL_Grand_Final" class="mw-redirect" title="1983 VFL Grand Final">1983</a>, <a href="/wiki/1990_AFL_Grand_Final" title="1990 AFL Grand Final">1990</a>, <a href="/wiki/2001_AFL_Grand_Final" title="2001 AFL Grand Final">2001</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/List_of_VFL/AFL_wooden_spoons" title="List of VFL/AFL wooden spoons">Wooden spoons</a></td> <td>5</td> <td><a href="/wiki/1907_VFL_season" title="1907 VFL season">1907</a>, <a href="/wiki/1918_VFL_season" title="1918 VFL season">1918</a>, <a href="/wiki/1921_VFL_season" title="1921 VFL season">1921</a>, <a href="/wiki/1933_VFL_season" title="1933 VFL season">1933</a>, <a href="/wiki/2016_AFL_season" title="2016 AFL season">2016</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2" scope="row" style="text-align: left"><a href="/wiki/VFL_Women%27s" title="VFL Women's">VFL Women's</a></td> <td>Minor premiership</td> <td>1</td> <td><a href="/wiki/2022_VFL_Women%27s_season" title="2022 VFL Women's season">2022</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Wooden spoons</td> <td>1</td> <td><a href="/wiki/2018_VFL_Women%27s_season" title="2018 VFL Women's season">2018</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Team_of_the_Century">Team of the Century</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Essendon_Football_Club&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section: Team of the Century">edit</a>]</div> To celebrate the 125th anniversary of the club, as well as 100 years of the VFL/AFL, Essendon announced its "Team of the Century" in 1997.<a href="#cite_note-126">[126]</a> <table class="wikitable" style="font-size: 95%;"> <caption>Essendon Team of the Century </caption> <tbody><tr style="vertical-align:top;"> <td style="background-color:#EFEFEF"><a href="/wiki/Australian_rules_football_positions#Back_line" title="Australian rules football positions">B</a>: </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Gavin_Wanganeen" title="Gavin Wanganeen">Gavin Wanganeen</a> 1991–96, 181 cm, 83 kg, 127 games, 64 goals </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Fred_Baring" title="Fred Baring">Fred Baring</a> 1910–15/1918–24, 185 cm, 90 kg, 154 games, 92 goals </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Tom_Fitzmaurice" title="Tom Fitzmaurice">Tom Fitzmaurice</a> 1918–20/1922–24, 192 cm, 96 kg, 85 games, 30 goals </td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"> <td style="background-color:#EFEFEF"><a href="/wiki/Australian_rules_football_positions#Half-back_line" title="Australian rules football positions">HB</a>: </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Barry_Davis_(footballer)" title="Barry Davis (footballer)">Barry Davis</a> 1961–72, 185 cm, 87 kg, 218 games, 65 goals </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wally_Buttsworth" title="Wally Buttsworth">Wally Buttsworth</a> 1939–49, 185 cm, 91 kg, 188 games, 2 goals </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Harold_Lambert_(footballer)" title="Harold Lambert (footballer)">Harold Lambert</a> 1940–41/1946–51, 175 cm, 76 kg, 99 games, 2 goals </td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"> <td style="background-color:#EFEFEF"><a href="/wiki/Australian_rules_football_positions#Midfield" title="Australian rules football positions">C</a>: </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Reg_Burgess" title="Reg Burgess">Reg Burgess</a> 1954–60, 175 cm, 72 kg, 124 games, 9 goals </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Jack_Clarke_(Australian_footballer,_born_1933)" class="mw-redirect" title="Jack Clarke (Australian footballer, born 1933)">Jack Clarke</a> 1951–67, 175 cm, 78 kg, 263 games, 180 goals </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Michael_Long_(footballer)" title="Michael Long (footballer)">Michael Long</a> 1989–2001, 178 cm, 80 kg, 190 games, 143 goals </td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"> <td style="background-color:#EFEFEF"><a href="/wiki/Australian_rules_football_positions#Half-forward_line" title="Australian rules football positions">HF</a>: </td> <td><a href="/wiki/James_Hird" title="James Hird">James Hird</a> 1992–2007, 188 cm, 89 kg, 253 games, 343 goals </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Ken_Fraser" title="Ken Fraser">Ken Fraser</a> 1958–68, 187 cm, 80 kg, 198 games, 157 goals </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Terry_Daniher" title="Terry Daniher">Terry Daniher</a> 1978–92, 188 cm, 89 kg, 294 games, 447 goals </td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"> <td style="background-color:#EFEFEF"><a href="/wiki/Australian_rules_football_positions#Forward_line" title="Australian rules football positions">F</a>: </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Bill_Hutchison" title="Bill Hutchison">Bill Hutchison</a> 1942–57, 174 cm, 70 kg, 290 games, 496 goals </td> <td><a href="/wiki/John_Coleman_(Australian_footballer)" title="John Coleman (Australian footballer)">John Coleman</a> 1949–54, 185 cm, 80 kg, 98 games, 537 goals </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Albert_Thurgood" title="Albert Thurgood">Albert Thurgood</a> 1899–1902/1906, 183 cm, 76 kg, 46 games, 89 goals </td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"> <td style="background-color:#EFEFEF"><a href="/wiki/Australian_rules_football_positions#Followers" title="Australian rules football positions">Foll</a>: </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Simon_Madden" title="Simon Madden">Simon Madden</a> 1974–92, 198 cm, 99 kg, 378 games, 575 goals </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Tim_Watson" title="Tim Watson">Tim Watson</a> 1977–91/1993–94, 185 cm, 96 kg, 307 games, 335 goals </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Dick_Reynolds" title="Dick Reynolds">Dick Reynolds</a> (c) 1933–51, 179 cm, 82 kg, 320 games, 442 goals </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#EFEFEF; vertical-align:center" rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Australian_rules_football_positions#Interchange_bench" title="Australian rules football positions">Int</a>: </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Mark_Thompson_(footballer)" title="Mark Thompson (footballer)">Mark Thompson</a> 1983–96, 177 cm, 87 kg, 202 games, 50 goals </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Keith_Forbes" title="Keith Forbes">Keith Forbes</a> 1928–37, 171 cm, 72 kg, 152 games, 415 goals </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Frank_Maher_(footballer)" title="Frank Maher (footballer)">Frank Maher</a> 1921–28, 170 cm, 70 kg, 137 games, 124 goals </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Billy_Griffith_(footballer)" title="Billy Griffith (footballer)">William Griffith</a> 1899–1913, 175 cm, 76 kg, 187 games, 13 goals </td> <td> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"> <td style="background-color:#EFEFEF"><a href="/wiki/Coach_(sport)" title="Coach (sport)">Coach</a>: </td> <td colspan="3"><a href="/wiki/Kevin_Sheedy_(Australian_footballer)" title="Kevin Sheedy (Australian footballer)">Kevin Sheedy</a> 1981–2007; Coached 634, Won 386, Lost 242, Drew 6 </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Champions_of_Essendon">Champions of Essendon</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Essendon_Football_Club&action=edit&section=30" title="Edit section: Champions of Essendon">edit</a>]</div> In 2002, a club panel chose and ranked the 25 greatest players to have played for Essendon.<a href="#cite_note-127">[127]</a> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1184024115">.mw-parser-output .div-col{margin-top:0.3em;column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .div-col-small{font-size:90%}.mw-parser-output .div-col-rules{column-rule:1px solid #aaa}.mw-parser-output .div-col dl,.mw-parser-output .div-col ol,.mw-parser-output .div-col 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Thurgood">Albert Thurgood</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tom_Fitzmaurice" title="Tom Fitzmaurice">Tom Fitzmaurice</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Terry_Daniher" title="Terry Daniher">Terry Daniher</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wally_Buttsworth" title="Wally Buttsworth">Wally Buttsworth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reg_Burgess" title="Reg Burgess">Reg Burgess</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bill_Busbridge" title="Bill Busbridge">Bill Busbridge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Barry_Davis_(footballer)" title="Barry Davis (footballer)">Barry Davis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Keith_Forbes" title="Keith Forbes">Keith Forbes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Graham_Moss" title="Graham Moss">Graham Moss</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mark_Harvey" title="Mark Harvey">Mark Harvey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gavin_Wanganeen" title="Gavin Wanganeen">Gavin Wanganeen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mark_Thompson_(footballer)" title="Mark Thompson (footballer)">Mark Thompson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Birt_(footballer)" title="John Birt (footballer)">John Birt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Matthew_Lloyd" title="Matthew Lloyd">Matthew Lloyd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Long_(footballer)" title="Michael Long (footballer)">Michael Long</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fred_Baring" title="Fred Baring">Fred Baring</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harold_Lambert_(footballer)" title="Harold Lambert (footballer)">Harold Lambert</a></li></ol> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Hall_of_Fame">Hall of Fame</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Essendon_Football_Club&action=edit&section=31" title="Edit section: Hall of Fame">edit</a>]</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1251242444">.mw-parser-output .ambox{border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-left:10px solid #36c;background-color:#fbfbfb;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output 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(April 2023) (<a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a>)</div></td></tr></tbody></table> Essendon Hall of Fame Legends (year inducted): Bill Brew (2013), <a href="/wiki/Bill_Busbridge" title="Bill Busbridge">Bill Busbridge</a> (1996), <a href="/wiki/Jack_Clarke_(footballer,_born_1933)" title="Jack Clarke (footballer, born 1933)">Jack Clarke</a> (1996), <a href="/wiki/John_Coleman_(Australian_footballer)" title="John Coleman (Australian footballer)">John Coleman</a> (1996), <a href="/wiki/Bill_Cookson" title="Bill Cookson">Bill Cookson</a> (1996), <a href="/wiki/Wally_Crichton" class="mw-redirect" title="Wally Crichton">Wally Crichton</a> (2010), <a href="/wiki/Terry_Daniher" title="Terry Daniher">Terry Daniher</a> (1996), <a href="/wiki/Barry_Davis_(footballer)" title="Barry Davis (footballer)">Barry Davis</a> (2006), <a href="/wiki/Ron_Evans" title="Ron Evans">Ron Evans</a> (2012), <a href="/wiki/Tom_Fitzmaurice" title="Tom Fitzmaurice">Tom Fitzmaurice</a> (1996), <a href="/wiki/Ken_Fraser" title="Ken Fraser">Ken Fraser</a> (1996), <a href="/wiki/Allan_Hird_Sr." title="Allan Hird Sr.">Allan Hird Sr</a> (1996), <a href="/wiki/James_Hird" title="James Hird">James Hird</a> (2011), <a href="/wiki/Harry_Hunter" title="Harry Hunter">Harry Hunter</a> (2015), <a href="/wiki/Bill_Hutchison" title="Bill Hutchison">Bill Hutchison</a> (1996), <a href="/wiki/Matthew_Lloyd" title="Matthew Lloyd">Matthew Lloyd</a> (2013), <a href="/wiki/Simon_Madden" title="Simon Madden">Simon Madden</a> (1996), <a href="/wiki/Alex_McCracken" title="Alex McCracken">Alex McCracken</a> (1996), <a href="/wiki/Michael_Long_(footballer)" title="Michael Long (footballer)">Michael Long</a> (2010), <a href="/wiki/Howard_Okey" title="Howard Okey">Howard Okey</a> (2012), Frank Reid (1996), <a href="/wiki/Dick_Reynolds" title="Dick Reynolds">Dick Reynolds</a> (1996), <a href="/wiki/Greg_Sewell" title="Greg Sewell">Greg Sewell</a> (2009), <a href="/wiki/Kevin_Sheedy_(Australian_footballer)" title="Kevin Sheedy (Australian footballer)">Kevin Sheedy</a> (2008), <a href="/wiki/Albert_Thurgood" title="Albert Thurgood">Albert Thurgood</a> (1996), <a href="/wiki/Tim_Watson" title="Tim Watson">Tim Watson</a> (1998), <a href="/wiki/Neale_Daniher" title="Neale Daniher">Neale Daniher</a>* (2018), <a href="/wiki/Dustin_Fletcher" title="Dustin Fletcher">Dustin Fletcher</a>*, <a href="/wiki/Bruce_Reid_(doctor)" title="Bruce Reid (doctor)">Dr Bruce Reid</a>* (2014), <a href="/wiki/Gavin_Wanganeen" title="Gavin Wanganeen">Gavin Wanganeen</a>* *denotes recent elevation to Legend status Essendon Hall of Fame members (year inducted): <a href="/wiki/Noel_Allanson" title="Noel Allanson">Noel Allanson</a> (2015), <a href="/wiki/Fred_Baring" title="Fred Baring">Fred Baring</a> (2013), <a href="/wiki/John_Birt_(footballer)" title="John Birt (footballer)">John Birt</a> (2010), <a href="/wiki/Reg_Burgess" title="Reg Burgess">Reg Burgess</a> (2015), <a href="/wiki/Wally_Buttsworth" title="Wally Buttsworth">Wally Buttsworth</a> (2010), <a href="/wiki/Barry_Capuano" title="Barry Capuano">Barry Capuano</a> (2014), <a href="/wiki/Kevin_Egan" title="Kevin Egan">Kevin Egan</a> (2015), <a href="/wiki/Alec_Epis" title="Alec Epis">Alec Epis</a> (2014), <a href="/wiki/Ken_Fletcher_(Australian_footballer)" title="Ken Fletcher (Australian footballer)">Ken Fletcher</a> (2011), <a href="/wiki/Keith_Forbes" title="Keith Forbes">Keith Forbes</a> (2010), <a href="/wiki/Garry_Foulds" title="Garry Foulds">Garry Foulds</a> (2010), <a href="/wiki/Darryl_Gerlach" title="Darryl Gerlach">Darryl Gerlach</a> (2013), <a href="/wiki/Mark_Harvey" title="Mark Harvey">Mark Harvey</a> (2014), Bruce Heymanson (2013), <a href="/wiki/Jack_Jones_(footballer,_born_1924)" title="Jack Jones (footballer, born 1924)">Jack Jones</a> (2012), Ron Kirwan (2016), <a href="/wiki/Harold_Lambert_(footballer)" title="Harold Lambert (footballer)">Harold Lambert</a> (2018), <a href="/wiki/Scott_Lucas_(footballer)" title="Scott Lucas (footballer)">Scott Lucas</a> (2013), <a href="/wiki/Roy_McConnell_(footballer)" title="Roy McConnell (footballer)">Roy McConnell</a> (2013), <a href="/wiki/Don_McKenzie_(footballer,_born_1939)" title="Don McKenzie (footballer, born 1939)">Don McKenzie</a> (2010), <a href="/wiki/Roger_Merrett" title="Roger Merrett">Roger Merrett</a> (2018), <a href="/wiki/Joe_Misiti" title="Joe Misiti">Joe Misiti</a> (2012), <a href="/wiki/Hugh_Mitchell_(Australian_footballer)" title="Hugh Mitchell (Australian footballer)">Hugh Mitchell</a> (2012), <a href="/wiki/Graham_Moss" title="Graham Moss">Graham Moss</a> (2012), <a href="/wiki/Gary_O%27Donnell_(Australian_footballer)" title="Gary O'Donnell (Australian footballer)">Gary O'Donnell</a> (2014), Dr Ian Reynolds (2018), <a href="/wiki/Paul_Salmon" title="Paul Salmon">Paul Salmon</a> (2012), David Shaw (2011), Arthur Showers (2010), <a 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center;">Rookie list </th> <th colspan="2" style="background-color:#CD1A2D; color:#FFFFFF; text-align: center;">Coaching staff </th></tr> <tr> <td style="vertical-align:top;"> <ul><li> 1 <a href="/wiki/Andrew_McGrath" title="Andrew McGrath">Andrew McGrath</a> (vc) </li> <li> 2 <a href="/wiki/Sam_Draper" title="Sam Draper">Sam Draper</a> </li> <li> 3 <a href="/wiki/Darcy_Parish" title="Darcy Parish">Darcy Parish</a> </li> <li> 4 <a href="/wiki/Kyle_Langford_(footballer)" title="Kyle Langford (footballer)">Kyle Langford</a> </li> <li> 5 <a href="/wiki/Elijah_Tsatas" title="Elijah Tsatas">Elijah Tsatas</a> </li> <li> 6 <a href="/wiki/Jye_Caldwell" title="Jye Caldwell">Jye Caldwell</a> </li> <li> 7 <a href="/wiki/Zach_Merrett" title="Zach Merrett">Zach Merrett</a> (c) </li> <li> 8 <a href="/w/index.php?title=Ben_Hobbs_(Australian_footballer)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ben Hobbs (Australian footballer) (page does not exist)">Ben Hobbs</a> </li> <li> 9 <a href="/wiki/Dylan_Shiel" title="Dylan Shiel">Dylan Shiel</a> </li> <li>10 <a href="/w/index.php?title=Isaac_Kako&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Isaac Kako (page does not exist)">Isaac Kako</a> </li> <li>11 <a href="/wiki/Jade_Gresham" title="Jade Gresham">Jade Gresham</a> </li> <li>12 <a href="/wiki/Will_Setterfield" title="Will Setterfield">Will Setterfield</a> </li> <li>13 <a href="/wiki/Nik_Cox" title="Nik Cox">Nik Cox</a> </li> <li>14 <a href="/wiki/Jordan_Ridley" title="Jordan Ridley">Jordan Ridley</a> </li> <li>15 <a href="/wiki/Jayden_Laverde" title="Jayden Laverde">Jayden Laverde</a> </li> <li>16 <a href="/wiki/Archie_Perkins" title="Archie Perkins">Archie Perkins</a> </li> <li>17 <a href="/wiki/Todd_Goldstein" title="Todd Goldstein">Todd Goldstein</a> </li> <li>18 <a href="/w/index.php?title=Lewis_Hayes_(footballer)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Lewis Hayes (footballer) (page does not exist)">Lewis Hayes</a> </li> <li>19 <a href="/w/index.php?title=Kayle_Gerreyn&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kayle Gerreyn (page does not exist)">Kayle Gerreyn</a> </li></ul> </td> <td width="1px"> </td> <td style="vertical-align:top;"> <ul><li>20 <a href="/wiki/Peter_Wright_(Australian_footballer)" title="Peter Wright (Australian footballer)">Peter Wright</a> </li> <li>21 <a href="/w/index.php?title=Archie_Roberts_(Australian_footballer,_born_2005)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Archie Roberts (Australian footballer, born 2005) (page does not exist)">Archie Roberts</a> </li> <li>22 <a href="/wiki/Sam_Durham" title="Sam Durham">Sam Durham</a> </li> <li>23 <a href="/wiki/Harrison_Jones_(footballer)" title="Harrison Jones (footballer)">Harrison Jones</a> </li> <li>24 <a href="/wiki/Nick_Bryan" title="Nick Bryan">Nick Bryan</a> </li> <li>25 <a href="/wiki/Jaxon_Prior" title="Jaxon Prior">Jaxon Prior</a> </li> <li>27 <a href="/wiki/Mason_Redman" title="Mason Redman">Mason Redman</a> </li> <li>28 <a href="/wiki/Xavier_Duursma" title="Xavier Duursma">Xavier Duursma</a> </li> <li>30 <a href="/wiki/Nate_Caddy" title="Nate Caddy">Nate Caddy</a> </li> <li>31 <a href="/wiki/Zach_Reid" title="Zach Reid">Zach Reid</a> </li> <li>32 <a href="/wiki/Ben_McKay_(footballer)" title="Ben McKay (footballer)">Ben McKay</a> </li> <li>33 <a href="/wiki/Alwyn_Davey_Jr." title="Alwyn Davey Jr.">Alwyn Davey Jr.</a> </li> <li>34 <a href="/w/index.php?title=Luamon_Lual&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Luamon Lual (page does not exist)">Luamon Lual</a> </li> <li>35 <a href="/wiki/Matt_Guelfi" title="Matt Guelfi">Matt Guelfi</a> </li> <li>36 <a href="/w/index.php?title=Angus_Clarke&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Angus Clarke (page does not exist)">Angus Clarke</a> </li> <li>37 <a href="/wiki/Nic_Martin" title="Nic Martin">Nic Martin</a> </li> <li>38 <a href="/w/index.php?title=Rhys_Unwin&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Rhys Unwin (page does not exist)">Rhys Unwin</a> </li> <li>40 <a href="/w/index.php?title=Zak_Johnson_(Australian_footballer)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Zak Johnson (Australian footballer) (page does not exist)">Zak Johnson</a> </li></ul> </td> <td width="1px"> </td> <td style="vertical-align:top;"> </td> <td width="1px"> </td> <td style="vertical-align:top;"> <ul><li>29 <a href="/wiki/Jye_Menzie" title="Jye Menzie">Jye Menzie</a> </li> <li>39 <a href="/w/index.php?title=Vigo_Visentini&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Vigo Visentini (page does not exist)">Vigo Visentini</a> </li> <li>41 <a href="/w/index.php?title=Saad_El-Hawli&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Saad El-Hawli (page does not exist)">Saad El-Hawli</a> </li> <li>42 <a href="/w/index.php?title=Jayden_Nguyen&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Jayden Nguyen (page does not exist)">Jayden Nguyen</a> (B) </li> <li>44 <a href="/w/index.php?title=Archer_Day-Wicks&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Archer Day-Wicks (page does not exist)">Archer Day-Wicks</a> </li></ul> </td> <td width="1px"> </td> <td style="vertical-align:top;"> Head coach <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Brad_Scott_(Australian_footballer)" title="Brad Scott (Australian footballer)">Brad Scott</a> </li></ul> Assistant coaches <ul><li>David Rath (coaching innovation/game strategy) </li> <li><a href="/wiki/Daniel_Giansiracusa" title="Daniel Giansiracusa">Daniel Giansiracusa</a> (midfield) </li> <li>Dale Tapping (forward line) </li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ben_Jacobs_(Australian_rules_footballer)" title="Ben Jacobs (Australian rules footballer)">Ben Jacobs</a> (back line) </li> <li>Cam Roberts (head of development) </li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brent_Stanton" title="Brent Stanton">Brent Stanton</a> (development) </li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Hurley_(Australian_footballer)" title="Michael Hurley (Australian footballer)">Michael Hurley</a> (development) </li> <li><a href="/wiki/Travis_Cloke" title="Travis Cloke">Travis Cloke</a> (development) </li> <li><a href="/wiki/Natalie_Wood_(coach)" title="Natalie Wood (coach)">Natalie Wood</a> (development) </li></ul> <hr /> <dl><dt>Legend:</dt></dl> <ul><li>(c) Captain(s)</li> <li>(vc) Vice-captain(s)</li> <li>(B) Category B rookie </li></ul> <hr /> Updated: 25 November 2024 Source(s): <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.essendonfc.com.au/teams/afl">Players</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.essendonfc.com.au/teams/afl/coaches">coaches</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Match_records">Match records</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Essendon_Football_Club&action=edit&section=33" title="Edit section: Match records">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>Highest score: 32.16 (208) v <a href="/wiki/Western_Bulldogs" title="Western Bulldogs">Footscray</a> 9.8 (62) – <a href="/wiki/1982_VFL_season#Round_22" title="1982 VFL season">Round 22, 1982</a>, at <a href="/wiki/Western_Oval" class="mw-redirect" title="Western Oval">Western Oval</a></li> <li>Lowest score: 0.9 (9) v <a href="/wiki/Fitzroy_Football_Club" title="Fitzroy Football Club">Fitzroy</a> 6.11 (47) – <a href="/wiki/1899_VFL_season#Round_1" title="1899 VFL season">Round 1, 1899</a>, at <a href="/wiki/Brunswick_Street_Oval" title="Brunswick Street Oval">Brunswick Street Oval</a></li> <li>Lowest score since 1919: 1.12 (18) v <a href="/wiki/St_Kilda_Football_Club" title="St Kilda Football Club">St Kilda</a> 5.5 (35) – <a href="/wiki/1923_VFL_season#Round_10" title="1923 VFL season">Round 10, 1923</a>, at <a href="/wiki/Junction_Oval" title="Junction Oval">Junction Oval</a></li> <li>Highest losing score: Essendon 21.13 (139) v <a href="/wiki/Collingwood_Football_Club" title="Collingwood Football Club">Collingwood</a> 23.6 (144), <a href="/wiki/1987_VFL_season#Round_22" title="1987 VFL season">Round 22, 1987</a>, <a href="/wiki/Melbourne_Cricket_Ground" title="Melbourne Cricket Ground">M.C.G.</a></li> <li>Lowest winning score: Essendon 1.8 (14) v <a href="/wiki/Melbourne_Football_Club" title="Melbourne Football Club">Melbourne</a> 0.8 (8), <a href="/wiki/1897_VFL_season#Week_3" title="1897 VFL season">Finals Week 3, 1897</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lake_Oval" class="mw-redirect" title="Lake Oval">Lake Oval</a> (League record)</li> <li>Lowest winning score since 1919: Essendon 3.10 (28) v Footscray 3.5 (23), <a href="/wiki/1989_VFL_season#Round_13" title="1989 VFL season">Round 13, 1989</a>, <a href="/wiki/Windy_Hill,_Essendon" title="Windy Hill, Essendon">Windy Hill</a></li> <li>Greatest winning margin: 165 points – Essendon 28.16 (184) v <a href="/wiki/Sydney_Swans" title="Sydney Swans">South Melbourne</a> 2.7 (19), <a href="/wiki/1964_VFL_season#Round_18" title="1964 VFL season">Round 18, 1964</a>, <a href="/wiki/Windy_Hill,_Essendon" title="Windy Hill, Essendon">Windy Hill</a></li> <li>Greatest losing margin: 163 points – Essendon 11.7 (73) v Sydney Swans 36.20 (236), <a href="/wiki/1987_VFL_season#Rounds_16_and_17" title="1987 VFL season">Round 17, 1987</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sydney_Cricket_Ground" title="Sydney Cricket Ground">S.C.G.</a></li> <li>Record attendance (home-and-away game): 94,825 – 25 April 1995 at <a href="/wiki/MCG" class="mw-redirect" title="MCG">MCG</a> v Collingwood (inaugural <a href="/wiki/Anzac_Day_match" title="Anzac Day match">Anzac Day match</a>)</li> <li>Record attendance (finals match): 116,828 – <a href="/wiki/1968_VFL_Grand_Final" class="mw-redirect" title="1968 VFL Grand Final">1968 VFL Grand Final</a> v Carlton</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Reserves_team">Reserves team</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Essendon_Football_Club&action=edit&section=34" title="Edit section: Reserves team">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><table class="infobox vcard" style="width: 22em;"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="background: Black; color: White; border: solid #CC2031 2px">Essendon</th></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background: Black; color: White; border: solid #CC2031 2px">Names</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Full name</th><td class="infobox-data">Essendon Football Club</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Former name(s)</th><td class="infobox-data">Essendon Juniors (1919−1922)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Nickname(s)</th><td class="infobox-data nickname">Bombers, Dons, Same Olds</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background: Black; color: White; border: solid #CC2031 2px"><a href="/wiki/2023_VFL_season" title="2023 VFL season">2023</a> season</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Home-and-away season</th><td class="infobox-data">17th</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background: Black; color: White; border: solid #CC2031 2px">Club details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Founded</th><td class="infobox-data">1919, re-established 2013</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Competition</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Victorian_Football_League" title="Victorian Football League">Victorian Football League</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Coach</th><td class="infobox-data">Leigh Tudor</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Captain(s)</th><td class="infobox-data">Daniel Younan</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Premierships</th><td class="infobox-data">VFL/AFL reserves (7)<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/1921_VJFL_season" title="1921 VJFL season">1921</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_VFL/AFL_reserves_premiers" title="List of VFL/AFL reserves premiers">1941</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_VFL/AFL_reserves_premiers" title="List of VFL/AFL reserves premiers">1950</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_VFL/AFL_reserves_premiers" title="List of VFL/AFL reserves premiers">1952</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_VFL/AFL_reserves_premiers" title="List of VFL/AFL reserves premiers">1968</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_VFL/AFL_reserves_premiers" title="List of VFL/AFL reserves premiers">1983</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_VFL/AFL_reserves_premiers" title="List of VFL/AFL reserves premiers">1992</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_VFL/AFL_reserves_premiers" title="List of VFL/AFL reserves premiers">1999</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Ground(s)</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Windy_Hill,_Essendon" title="Windy Hill, Essendon">Windy Hill</a> (10,000)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Training ground(s)</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/The_Hangar" title="The Hangar">The Hangar</a> (2013–)</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background: Black; color: White; border: solid #CC2031 2px">Uniforms</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"></td></tr><tr><td style="padding: 0; background: #ffffff; text-align: center;" colspan="2"> <table style="width:100%; text-align:center;"> <tbody><tr> <td><div style="width: 100px; margin: 0 auto; padding: 0;"> <div style="position: relative; left: 0px; top: 0px; width: 100px; height: 135px; margin: 0 auto; padding: 0;"> <div style="position: absolute; left: 31px; top: 0px; width: 38px; height: 59px; background-color: #000000;"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/14/Kit_body_redrightsash.png" decoding="async" width="38" height="59" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="38" data-file-height="59" /></div> <div style="position: absolute; left: 31px; top: 0px; width: 38px; height: 59px;"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/15/Kit_body_sleeveless.png" decoding="async" width="38" height="59" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="38" data-file-height="59" /></div> <div style="position: absolute; left: 0px; top: 59px; width: 100px; height: 36px; background-color: #ffffff"></div> <div style="position: absolute; left: 0px; top: 59px; width: 100px; height: 36px;"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Kit_shorts.svg/100px-Kit_shorts.svg.png" decoding="async" width="100" height="36" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Kit_shorts.svg/150px-Kit_shorts.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Kit_shorts.svg/200px-Kit_shorts.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="100" data-file-height="36" /></div> <div style="position: absolute; left: 0px; top: 95px; width: 100px; height: 40px; background-color: #FF0000"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0f/Kit_socks_hoops_black.png" decoding="async" width="100" height="40" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="100" data-file-height="40" /></div> <div style="position: absolute; left: 0px; top: 95px; width: 100px; height: 40px;"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/Kit_socks_long.svg/100px-Kit_socks_long.svg.png" decoding="async" width="100" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/Kit_socks_long.svg/150px-Kit_socks_long.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/Kit_socks_long.svg/200px-Kit_socks_long.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="100" data-file-height="40" /></div> </div> <div style="padding-top: 0.6em; text-align: center;">Home</div> </div></td></tr> </tbody></table></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr></tbody></table> The Essendon reserves are the <a href="/wiki/Reserve_team" title="Reserve team">reserves team</a> of the club, playing in the <a href="/wiki/Victorian_Football_League" title="Victorian Football League">Victorian Football League</a>. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="History_2">History</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Essendon_Football_Club&action=edit&section=35" title="Edit section: History">edit</a>]</div> The team first competed in the <a href="/wiki/AFL_reserves" title="AFL reserves">Victorian Junior Football League</a> (later the <a href="/wiki/AFL_reserves" title="AFL reserves">AFL reserves</a>) when the competition was established in <a href="/wiki/1919_VJFL_season" title="1919 VJFL season">1919</a>, and was known as Essendon Juniors until the end of <a href="/wiki/1922_VJFL_season" title="1922 VJFL season">1922</a>. The team enjoyed success in the form of eight premierships, including in the last year of the reserves competition in <a href="/wiki/1999_AFL_reserves_season" title="1999 AFL reserves season">1999</a>. From 2000 until 2002, the club's reserves team competed in the <a href="/wiki/Victorian_Football_League" title="Victorian Football League">Victorian Football League</a>. At the end of 2002, the club dissolved its reserves team and established a <a href="/wiki/Australian_Football_League_reserves_affiliations" title="Australian Football League reserves affiliations">reserves affiliation</a> with the <a href="/wiki/Bendigo_Football_Club" class="mw-redirect" title="Bendigo Football Club">Bendigo Football Club</a> in the VFL. The affiliation ran for ten years from 2003 until 2012, allowing reserves players from the Essendon list to play with Bendigo. For all but the <a href="/wiki/2012_VFL_season" title="2012 VFL season">final year of the affiliation</a>, Bendigo was known as the Bendigo Bombers. The club re-established its reserves team in 2013, seeking greater developmental autonomy. The team plays its home games at <a href="/wiki/Windy_Hill,_Essendon" title="Windy Hill, Essendon">Windy Hill</a>.<a href="#cite_note-128">[128]</a> The team is made up of senior-listed AFL players and VFL-contracted players. The side has been coached by former Essendon AFL player <a href="/wiki/Brent_Stanton" title="Brent Stanton">Brent Stanton</a> since the start of the <a href="/wiki/2022_VFL_season" title="2022 VFL season">2022 season</a>.<a href="#cite_note-129">[129]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Premierships_(7)">Premierships (7)</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Essendon_Football_Club&action=edit&section=36" title="Edit section: Premierships (7)">edit</a>]</div> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Year </th> <th>Competition </th> <th>Opponent </th> <th>Score </th> <th>Venue </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1941_VFL_season" title="1941 VFL season">1941</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/VFL_seconds" class="mw-redirect" title="VFL seconds">VFL seconds</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Fitzroy_Football_Club" title="Fitzroy Football Club">Fitzroy</a></td> <td>12.16 (88) – 9.17 (71)</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Melbourne_Cricket_Ground" title="Melbourne Cricket Ground">MCG</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1950_VFL_season" title="1950 VFL season">1950</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/VFL_seconds" class="mw-redirect" title="VFL seconds">VFL seconds</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/North_Melbourne_Football_Club" title="North Melbourne Football Club">North Melbourne</a></td> <td>12.8 (80) – 8.7 (55)</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Melbourne_Cricket_Ground" title="Melbourne Cricket Ground">MCG</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1952_VFL_season" title="1952 VFL season">1952</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/VFL_seconds" class="mw-redirect" title="VFL seconds">VFL seconds</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Collingwood_Football_Club" title="Collingwood Football Club">Collingwood</a></td> <td>7.14 (56) – 4.5 (29)</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Melbourne_Cricket_Ground" title="Melbourne Cricket Ground">MCG</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1968_VFL_season" title="1968 VFL season">1968</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/VFL_reserves" class="mw-redirect" title="VFL reserves">VFL reserves</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Richmond_Football_Club" title="Richmond Football Club">Richmond</a></td> <td>15.7 (97) – 13.14 (92)</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Melbourne_Cricket_Ground" title="Melbourne Cricket Ground">MCG</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1983_VFL_season" title="1983 VFL season">1983</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/VFL_reserves" class="mw-redirect" title="VFL reserves">VFL reserves</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Collingwood_Football_Club" title="Collingwood Football Club">Collingwood</a></td> <td>19.14 (128) – 15.9 (99)</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Melbourne_Cricket_Ground" title="Melbourne Cricket Ground">MCG</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1992_AFL_season" title="1992 AFL season">1992</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/AFL_reserves" title="AFL reserves">AFL reserves</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Melbourne_Football_Club" title="Melbourne Football Club">Melbourne</a></td> <td>18.19 (127) – 14.10 (94)</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Melbourne_Cricket_Ground" title="Melbourne Cricket Ground">MCG</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1999_AFL_season" title="1999 AFL season">1999</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/AFL_reserves" title="AFL reserves">AFL reserves</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/St_Kilda_Football_Club" title="St Kilda Football Club">St Kilda</a></td> <td>20.13 (133) – 11.10 (76)</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Melbourne_Cricket_Ground" title="Melbourne Cricket Ground">MCG</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Runners-up_(10)">Runners-up (10)</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Essendon_Football_Club&action=edit&section=37" title="Edit section: Runners-up (10)">edit</a>]</div> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Year </th> <th>Competition </th> <th>Opponent </th> <th>Score </th> <th>Venue </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1922_VFL_season" title="1922 VFL season">1922</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/AFL_reserves" title="AFL reserves">VJFA</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Collingwood_Football_Club" title="Collingwood Football Club">Collingwood</a></td> <td>1.9 (15) – 8.10 (58)</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Melbourne_Cricket_Ground" title="Melbourne Cricket Ground">MCG</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1924_VFL_season" title="1924 VFL season">1924</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/AFL_reserves" title="AFL reserves">VJFA</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Geelong_Football_Club" title="Geelong Football Club">Geelong</a></td> <td>N/A<style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1041539562">.mw-parser-output .citation{word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}</style><a href="#endnote_1">[a]</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Kardinia_Park_(stadium)" title="Kardinia Park (stadium)">Kardinia Park</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1932_VFL_season" title="1932 VFL season">1932</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/AFL_reserves" title="AFL reserves">VFL seconds</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Melbourne_Football_Club" title="Melbourne Football Club">Melbourne</a></td> <td>4.10 (34) – 8.12 (60)</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Melbourne_Cricket_Ground" title="Melbourne Cricket Ground">MCG</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1949_VFL_season" title="1949 VFL season">1949</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/AFL_reserves" title="AFL reserves">VFL seconds</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Melbourne_Football_Club" title="Melbourne Football Club">Melbourne</a></td> <td>9.14 (68) – 17.10 (112)</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Melbourne_Cricket_Ground" title="Melbourne Cricket Ground">MCG</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1951_VFL_season" title="1951 VFL season">1951</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/AFL_reserves" title="AFL reserves">VFL seconds</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Carlton_Football_Club" title="Carlton Football Club">Carlton</a></td> <td>7.9 (51) – 8.15 (63)</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Melbourne_Cricket_Ground" title="Melbourne Cricket Ground">MCG</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1953_VFL_season" title="1953 VFL season">1953</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/AFL_reserves" title="AFL reserves">VFL seconds</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Carlton_Football_Club" title="Carlton Football Club">Carlton</a></td> <td>11.7 (73) – 15.7 (97)</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Melbourne_Cricket_Ground" title="Melbourne Cricket Ground">MCG</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1971_VFL_season" title="1971 VFL season">1971</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/AFL_reserves" title="AFL reserves">VFL reserves</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Richmond_Football_Club" title="Richmond Football Club">Richmond</a></td> <td>8.18 (66) – 14.14 (98)</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Melbourne_Cricket_Ground" title="Melbourne Cricket Ground">MCG</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1981_VFL_season" title="1981 VFL season">1981</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/AFL_reserves" title="AFL reserves">VFL reserves</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Geelong_Football_Club" title="Geelong Football Club">Geelong</a></td> <td>18.6 (114) – 21.14 (140)</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Melbourne_Cricket_Ground" title="Melbourne Cricket Ground">MCG</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1996_AFL_season" title="1996 AFL season">1996</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/AFL_reserves" title="AFL reserves">AFL reserves</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/North_Melbourne_Football_Club" title="North Melbourne Football Club">North Melbourne</a></td> <td>7.10 (52) – 23.18 (156)</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Melbourne_Cricket_Ground" title="Melbourne Cricket Ground">MCG</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1998_AFL_season" title="1998 AFL season">1998</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/AFL_reserves" title="AFL reserves">AFL reserves</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Footscray_Football_Club" class="mw-redirect" title="Footscray Football Club">Footscray</a></td> <td>12.8 (80) – 20.16 (136)</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Melbourne_Cricket_Ground" title="Melbourne Cricket Ground">MCG</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1041539562">a Essendon refused to play the Grand Final in Geelong, so the premiership was awarded to Geelong. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Women's_teams">Women's teams</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Essendon_Football_Club&action=edit&section=38" title="Edit section: Women's teams">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="AFL_Women's_team">AFL Women's team</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Essendon_Football_Club&action=edit&section=39" title="Edit section: AFL Women's team">edit</a>]</div> Essendon fielded a team in the <a href="/wiki/AFL_Women%27s" title="AFL Women's">AFL Women's</a> (AFLW) competition from its seventh season.<a href="#cite_note-130">[130]</a> In March 2022, former <a href="/wiki/North_Melbourne_Football_Club#AFL_Women's_team" title="North Melbourne Football Club">North Melbourne</a> AFLW player and Essendon VFLW captain <a href="/wiki/Georgia_Nanscawen" title="Georgia Nanscawen">Georgia Nanscawen</a> was announced as the club's first AFLW player signing,<a href="#cite_note-131">[131]</a> and <a href="/wiki/Western_Bulldogs#AFL_Women's_team" title="Western Bulldogs">Western Bulldogs</a> AFLW assistant coach <a href="/wiki/Natalie_Wood_(coach)" title="Natalie Wood (coach)">Natalie Wood</a> was announced as the club's first AFLW coach a week later.<a href="#cite_note-132">[132]</a> The club's AFLW coaching panel was finalised in late June.<a href="#cite_note-133">[133]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="AFL_Women's_squad">AFL Women's squad</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Essendon_Football_Club&action=edit&section=40" title="Edit section: AFL Women's squad">edit</a>]</div> <table class="toccolours"> <caption style="background-color:black; color:#FFFFFF; text-align: center; font-weight:bold"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1045256916"><div class="navbar-header" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Essendon Football Club (AFL Women's)<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Essendon_AFL_Women%27s_current_squad" title="Template:Essendon AFL Women's current squad">view</a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Essendon_AFL_Women%27s_current_squad" title="Template talk:Essendon AFL Women's current squad">talk</a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Essendon_AFL_Women%27s_current_squad" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Essendon AFL Women's current squad">edit</a></li></ul></div></div> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="6" style="background-color: #CD1A2D; color:#FFFFFF; text-align: center;">Senior list </th> <th colspan="2" style="background-color: #CD1A2D; color:#FFFFFF; text-align: center;">Rookie list </th> <th colspan="2" style="background-color:#CD1A2D; color:#FFFFFF; text-align: center;">Coaching staff </th></tr> <tr> <td style="vertical-align:top;"> <ul><li> 1 <a href="/w/index.php?title=Emily_Gough&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Emily Gough (page does not exist)">Emily Gough</a> </li> <li> 2 <a href="/wiki/Georgia_Gee" title="Georgia Gee">Georgia Gee</a> </li> <li> 3 <a href="/wiki/Daria_Bannister" title="Daria Bannister">Daria Bannister</a> </li> <li> 4 <a href="/wiki/Madison_Prespakis" title="Madison Prespakis">Madison Prespakis</a> </li> <li> 5 <a href="/wiki/Georgia_Nanscawen" title="Georgia Nanscawen">Georgia Nanscawen</a> </li> <li> 6 <a href="/wiki/Maddison_Gay" title="Maddison Gay">Maddison Gay</a> </li> <li> 7 <a href="/wiki/Kodi_Jacques" title="Kodi Jacques">Kodi Jacques</a> </li> <li> 8 <a href="/wiki/Bonnie_Toogood" title="Bonnie Toogood">Bonnie Toogood</a> (c) </li> <li> 9 <a href="/wiki/Brooke_Walker_(footballer)" title="Brooke Walker (footballer)">Brooke Walker</a> </li> <li>10 <a href="/w/index.php?title=Jacqui_Vogt&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Jacqui Vogt (page does not exist)">Jacqui Vogt</a> </li> <li>11 <a href="/w/index.php?title=Brooke_Sheridan&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Brooke Sheridan (page does not exist)">Brooke Sheridan</a> </li> <li>12 <a href="/wiki/Bess_Keaney" title="Bess Keaney">Bess Keaney</a> </li> <li>14 <a href="/wiki/Ellyse_Gamble" title="Ellyse Gamble">Ellyse Gamble</a> </li> <li>15 <a href="/w/index.php?title=Chloe_Adams&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Chloe Adams (page does not exist)">Chloe Adams</a> </li></ul> </td> <td width="1px"> </td> <td style="vertical-align:top;"> <ul><li>17 <a href="/wiki/Georgia_Clarke" title="Georgia Clarke">Georgia Clarke</a> </li> <li>19 <a href="/w/index.php?title=Mia_Van_Dyke&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Mia Van Dyke (page does not exist)">Mia Van Dyke</a> </li> <li>20 <a href="/wiki/Steph_Cain" title="Steph Cain">Steph Cain</a> (c) </li> <li>22 <a href="/w/index.php?title=Amelia_Radford&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Amelia Radford (page does not exist)">Amelia Radford</a> </li> <li>23 <a href="/w/index.php?title=Amy_Gaylor&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Amy Gaylor (page does not exist)">Amy Gaylor</a> </li> <li>24 <a href="/wiki/Sophie_Alexander_(footballer)" title="Sophie Alexander (footballer)">Sophie Alexander</a> </li> <li>25 <a href="/w/index.php?title=Alex_Morcom&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Alex Morcom (page does not exist)">Alex Morcom</a> </li> <li>26 <a href="/w/index.php?title=Ashleigh_Van_Loon&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ashleigh Van Loon (page does not exist)">Ashleigh Van Loon</a> </li> <li>27 <a href="/wiki/Sophie_Van_De_Heuvel" title="Sophie Van De Heuvel">Sophie Van De Heuvel</a> </li> <li>28 <a href="/w/index.php?title=Mia_Busch&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Mia Busch (page does not exist)">Mia Busch</a> </li> <li>30 <a href="/wiki/Steph_Wales" title="Steph Wales">Steph Wales</a> </li> <li>32 <a href="/wiki/Paige_Scott" title="Paige Scott">Paige Scott</a> </li> <li>33 <a href="/wiki/Amber_Clarke" title="Amber Clarke">Amber Clarke</a> </li> <li>36 <a href="/w/index.php?title=Brooke_Brown_(footballer)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Brooke Brown (footballer) (page does not exist)">Brooke Brown</a> </li></ul> </td> <td width="1px"> </td> <td style="vertical-align:top;"> </td> <td width="1px"> </td> <td style="vertical-align:top;"> <ul><li>16 <a href="/w/index.php?title=Matilda_Dyke&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Matilda Dyke (page does not exist)">Matilda Dyke</a> </li></ul> </td> <td width="1px"> </td> <td style="vertical-align:top;"> Head coach <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Natalie_Wood_(coach)" title="Natalie Wood (coach)">Natalie Wood</a> </li></ul> Assistant coaches <ul><li>Natasha Hardy (back line) </li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Groves_(Australian_coach)" title="Paul Groves (Australian coach)">Paul Groves</a> (midfield) </li> <li>Bernard Shepheard (forward line) </li> <li>Cherie O'Neill (development) </li></ul> <hr /> <dl><dt>Legend:</dt></dl> <ul><li>(c) Captain(s)</li> <li>(vc) Vice-captain(s)</li></ul> <hr /> Updated: 25 November 2024 Source(s): <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.essendonfc.com.au/teams/aflw">Players</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.essendonfc.com.au/teams/aflw/coaches">coaches</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="VFL_Women's_team">VFL Women's team</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Essendon_Football_Club&action=edit&section=41" title="Edit section: VFL Women's team">edit</a>]</div> Essendon has fielded a team in the <a href="/wiki/VFL_Women%27s" title="VFL Women's">VFL Women's</a> (VFLW) competition since the <a href="/wiki/2018_VFL_Women%27s_season" title="2018 VFL Women's season">2018 season</a>. The league is the highest-grade competition for female footballers in Victoria and one of three second-tier female competitions underneath the national AFL Women's. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="VFL_Women's_season_summaries">VFL Women's season summaries</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Essendon_Football_Club&action=edit&section=42" title="Edit section: VFL Women's season summaries">edit</a>]</div> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr style="background:#bdb76b"> <th colspan="9">Essendon VFLW honour roll </th></tr> <tr style="background:#bdb76b"> <th>Season</th> <th>Final position</th> <th>Coach</th> <th>Captain</th> <th>Best and fairest</th> <th>Leading goalkicker </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2018_VFL_Women%27s_season" title="2018 VFL Women's season">2018</a></td> <td>13th</td> <td>Brendan Major</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Lisa_Williams_(footballer)" title="Lisa Williams (footballer)">Lisa Williams</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Hayley_Bullas" title="Hayley Bullas">Hayley Bullas</a></td> <td>Alexandra Quigley (7) </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2019_VFL_Women%27s_season" title="2019 VFL Women's season">2019</a></td> <td>9th</td> <td>Brendan Major</td> <td>Courtney Ugle</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Georgia_Nanscawen" title="Georgia Nanscawen">Georgia Nanscawen</a></td> <td>Alexandra Quigley (10) </td></tr> <tr style="background:#C0C0C0"> <td>2020</td> <td colspan="6">Season cancelled due to the <a href="/wiki/Impact_of_the_COVID-19_pandemic_on_sports#Australian_rules_football" title="Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on sports">impact of the COVID-19 pandemic</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2021_VFL_Women%27s_season" title="2021 VFL Women's season">2021</a></td> <td>3rd</td> <td>Brendan Major</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Georgia_Nanscawen" title="Georgia Nanscawen">Georgia Nanscawen</a></td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Eloise_Ashley-Cooper&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Eloise Ashley-Cooper (page does not exist)">Eloise Ashley-Cooper</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Mia-Rae_Clifford" title="Mia-Rae Clifford">Mia-Rae Clifford</a> (16) </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2022_VFL_Women%27s_season" title="2022 VFL Women's season">2022</a></td> <td>Premiers</td> <td>Brendan Major</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Georgia_Nanscawen" title="Georgia Nanscawen">Georgia Nanscawen</a>/<a href="/wiki/Mia-Rae_Clifford" title="Mia-Rae Clifford">Mia-Rae Clifford</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Georgia_Nanscawen" title="Georgia Nanscawen">Georgia Nanscawen</a></td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Federica_Frew&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Federica Frew (page does not exist)">Federica Frew</a> (35) </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2023_VFL_Women%27s_season" title="2023 VFL Women's season">2023</a></td> <td>5th</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Travis_Cloke" title="Travis Cloke">Travis Cloke</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Mia-Rae_Clifford" title="Mia-Rae Clifford">Mia-Rae Clifford</a>/Courtney Ugle</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Sophie_Molan" title="Sophie Molan">Sophie Molan</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Mia-Rae_Clifford" title="Mia-Rae Clifford">Mia-Rae Clifford</a> (11) </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2024_VFL_Women%27s_season" title="2024 VFL Women's season">2024</a></td> <td>5th</td> <td>Cherie O'Neill</td> <td><a href="/wiki/El_Chaston" title="El Chaston">El Chaston</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/El_Chaston" title="El Chaston">El Chaston</a></td> <td>Olivia Manfre (9) </td></tr></tbody></table> Sources: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://vfl.com.au/essendon-womens-historical-data/">Club historical data</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210308122221/https://vfl.com.au/essendon-womens-historical-data/">Archived</a> 8 March 2021 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a> and <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://websites.sportstg.com/comp_info.cgi?c=1-118-0-437831-0&a=STATS">VFLW stats</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Other_ventures">Other ventures</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Essendon_Football_Club&action=edit&section=43" title="Edit section: Other ventures">edit</a>]</div> In December 2017, Essendon entered <a href="/wiki/Electronic_sports" class="mw-redirect" title="Electronic sports">e-sports</a> by acquiring Australian <a href="/wiki/League_of_Legends" title="League of Legends">League of Legends</a> team Abyss ESports.<a href="#cite_note-134">[134]</a> This made them the second AFL team to acquire an e-sports division after Adelaide acquired Legacy ESports in May. On 2 December 2019, it was announced that the Bombers' OPL slot had been sold to <a href="/wiki/Perth" title="Perth">Perth</a>-based internet provider <a href="/wiki/Pentanet.GG" title="Pentanet.GG">Pentanet</a>, marking Essendon's exit from the e-sports arena.<a href="#cite_note-135">[135]</a><a href="#cite_note-136">[136]</a> In 2018, the Essendon Football Club, along with four other AFL clubs, entered the Victorian Wheelchair Football League. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Activism">Activism</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Essendon_Football_Club&action=edit&section=44" title="Edit section: Activism">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Aboriginal_support">Aboriginal support</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Essendon_Football_Club&action=edit&section=45" title="Edit section: Aboriginal support">edit</a>]</div> Starting with <a href="/wiki/Norm_McDonald_(footballer,_born_1925)" title="Norm McDonald (footballer, born 1925)">Norm McDonald</a> in 1947, Essendon has a proud history of fostering <a href="/wiki/Aboriginal_Australians" title="Aboriginal Australians">Aboriginal</a> talent at the top level. This came to the fore during the 1990s with players such as <a href="/wiki/Michael_Long_(footballer)" title="Michael Long (footballer)">Michael Long</a>, <a href="/wiki/Derek_Kickett" title="Derek Kickett">Derek Kickett</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gavin_Wanganeen" title="Gavin Wanganeen">Gavin Wanganeen</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Dean_Rioli" title="Dean Rioli">Dean Rioli</a> rising through the ranks and being fostered by <a href="/wiki/Kevin_Sheedy_(Australian_footballer)" title="Kevin Sheedy (Australian footballer)">Kevin Sheedy</a>. <a href="/wiki/Dreamtime_at_the_%27G" title="Dreamtime at the 'G">Dreamtime at the 'G</a> and the Long Walk are two prominent annual events staged to help promote and support Aboriginal culture. The Long Walk, specifically, is designed to raise money for <a href="/wiki/Indigenous_Australians" title="Indigenous Australians">Indigenous</a> education programs across the country.<a href="#cite_note-137">[137]</a><a href="#cite_note-138">[138]</a> Additionally, Essendon is a supporter of the <a href="/wiki/Voice_to_Parliament" class="mw-redirect" title="Voice to Parliament">Voice to Parliament</a>.<a href="#cite_note-139">[139]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Same-Sex_Marriage">Same-Sex Marriage</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Essendon_Football_Club&action=edit&section=46" title="Edit section: Same-Sex Marriage">edit</a>]</div> During the <a href="/wiki/Australian_Marriage_Law_Postal_Survey" title="Australian Marriage Law Postal Survey">Australian Marriage Law Postal Survey</a>, Essendon supported the Yes vote.<a href="#cite_note-140">[140]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2>[<a 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leading goalkickers">Leading goalkickers</a></li></ul> <ul><li>AFL coach: <a href="/wiki/Brad_Scott_(Australian_footballer)" title="Brad Scott (Australian footballer)">Brad Scott</a></li> <li>AFL captain: <a href="/wiki/Zach_Merrett" title="Zach Merrett">Zach Merrett</a></li></ul> <ul><li>AFLW coach: <a href="/wiki/Natalie_Wood_(coach)" title="Natalie Wood (coach)">Natalie Wood</a></li> <li>AFLW co-captains: <a href="/wiki/Steph_Cain" title="Steph Cain">Steph Cain</a> & <a href="/wiki/Bonnie_Toogood" title="Bonnie Toogood">Bonnie Toogood</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:black; color:#fff; border: solid #CD1A2D 2px;;width:1%">VFL/AFL home grounds</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/East_Melbourne_Cricket_Ground" title="East Melbourne Cricket Ground">East Melbourne Cricket Ground</a> (1897–1921)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Windy_Hill,_Essendon" title="Windy Hill, Essendon">Windy Hill</a> (1922–1991)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Melbourne_Cricket_Ground" title="Melbourne Cricket Ground">Melbourne Cricket Ground</a> (1992–)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Docklands_Stadium" title="Docklands Stadium">Docklands Stadium</a> (2000–)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:black; color:#fff; border: solid #CD1A2D 2px;;width:1%">VFA premierships (4)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1891_VFA_season" title="1891 VFA season">1891</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1892_VFA_season" title="1892 VFA season">1892</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1893_VFA_season" title="1893 VFA season">1893</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1894_VFA_season" title="1894 VFA season">1894</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:black; color:#fff; border: solid #CD1A2D 2px;;width:1%">VFL/AFL premierships (16)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1897_VFL_season" title="1897 VFL season">1897</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1901_VFL_grand_final" title="1901 VFL grand final">1901</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1911_VFL_grand_final" title="1911 VFL grand final">1911</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1912_VFL_grand_final" title="1912 VFL grand final">1912</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1923_VFL_grand_final" title="1923 VFL grand final">1923</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1924_VFL_season" title="1924 VFL season">1924</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1942_VFL_grand_final" title="1942 VFL grand final">1942</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1946_VFL_grand_final" title="1946 VFL grand final">1946</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1949_VFL_grand_final" title="1949 VFL grand final">1949</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1950_VFL_grand_final" title="1950 VFL grand final">1950</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1962_VFL_grand_final" title="1962 VFL grand final">1962</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1965_VFL_grand_final" title="1965 VFL grand final">1965</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1984_VFL_grand_final" title="1984 VFL grand final">1984</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1985_VFL_grand_final" title="1985 VFL grand final">1985</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1993_AFL_Grand_Final" title="1993 AFL Grand Final">1993</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2000_AFL_Grand_Final" title="2000 AFL Grand Final">2000</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:black; color:#fff; border: solid #CD1A2D 2px;;width:1%">Runner-up (14)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1898_VFL_grand_final" title="1898 VFL grand final">1898</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1902_VFL_grand_final" title="1902 VFL grand final">1902</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1908_VFL_grand_final" title="1908 VFL grand final">1908</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1941_VFL_grand_final" title="1941 VFL grand final">1941</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1943_VFL_grand_final" title="1943 VFL grand final">1943</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1947_VFL_grand_final" title="1947 VFL grand final">1947</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1948_VFL_grand_final" title="1948 VFL grand final">1948</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1951_VFL_grand_final" title="1951 VFL grand final">1951</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1957_VFL_grand_final" title="1957 VFL grand final">1957</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1959_VFL_grand_final" title="1959 VFL grand final">1959</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1968_VFL_grand_final" title="1968 VFL grand final">1968</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1983_VFL_grand_final" title="1983 VFL grand final">1983</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1990_AFL_Grand_Final" title="1990 AFL Grand Final">1990</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2001_AFL_Grand_Final" title="2001 AFL Grand Final">2001</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:black; color:#fff; border: solid #CD1A2D 2px;;width:1%">VFA/VFL/AFL seasons (144)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1878_VFA_season" title="1878 VFA season">1878</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1879_VFA_season" title="1879 VFA season">1879</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1880_VFA_season" title="1880 VFA season">1880</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1881_VFA_season" title="1881 VFA season">1881</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1882_VFA_season" title="1882 VFA season">1882</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1883_VFA_season" title="1883 VFA season">1883</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1884_VFA_season" title="1884 VFA season">1884</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1885_VFA_season" title="1885 VFA season">1885</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1886_VFA_season" title="1886 VFA season">1886</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1887_VFA_season" title="1887 VFA season">1887</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1888_VFA_season" title="1888 VFA season">1888</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1889_VFA_season" title="1889 VFA season">1889</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1890_VFA_season" title="1890 VFA season">1890</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1891_VFA_season" title="1891 VFA season">1891</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1892_VFA_season" title="1892 VFA season">1892</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1893_VFA_season" title="1893 VFA season">1893</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1894_VFA_season" title="1894 VFA season">1894</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1895_VFA_season" title="1895 VFA season">1895</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1896_VFA_season" title="1896 VFA season">1896</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1897_VFL_season" title="1897 VFL season">1897</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1898_VFL_season" title="1898 VFL season">1898</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1899_VFL_season" title="1899 VFL season">1899</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1900_VFL_season" title="1900 VFL season">1900</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1901_VFL_season" title="1901 VFL season">1901</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1902_VFL_season" title="1902 VFL season">1902</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1903_VFL_season" title="1903 VFL season">1903</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1904_VFL_season" title="1904 VFL season">1904</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1905_VFL_season" title="1905 VFL season">1905</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1906_VFL_season" title="1906 VFL season">1906</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1907_VFL_season" title="1907 VFL season">1907</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1908_VFL_season" title="1908 VFL season">1908</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1909_VFL_season" title="1909 VFL season">1909</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1910_VFL_season" title="1910 VFL season">1910</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1911_VFL_season" title="1911 VFL season">1911</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1912_VFL_season" title="1912 VFL season">1912</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1913_VFL_season" title="1913 VFL season">1913</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1914_VFL_season" title="1914 VFL season">1914</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1915_VFL_season" title="1915 VFL season">1915</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1916_VFL_season" title="1916 VFL season">1916</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1917_VFL_season" title="1917 VFL season">1917</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1918_VFL_season" title="1918 VFL season">1918</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1919_VFL_season" title="1919 VFL season">1919</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1920_VFL_season" title="1920 VFL season">1920</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1921_VFL_season" title="1921 VFL season">1921</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1922_VFL_season" title="1922 VFL season">1922</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1923_VFL_season" title="1923 VFL season">1923</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1924_VFL_season" title="1924 VFL season">1924</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1925_VFL_season" title="1925 VFL season">1925</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1926_VFL_season" title="1926 VFL season">1926</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1927_VFL_season" title="1927 VFL season">1927</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1928_VFL_season" title="1928 VFL season">1928</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1929_VFL_season" title="1929 VFL season">1929</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1930_VFL_season" title="1930 VFL season">1930</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1931_VFL_season" title="1931 VFL season">1931</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1932_VFL_season" title="1932 VFL season">1932</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1933_VFL_season" title="1933 VFL season">1933</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1934_VFL_season" title="1934 VFL season">1934</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1935_VFL_season" title="1935 VFL season">1935</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1936_VFL_season" title="1936 VFL season">1936</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1937_VFL_season" title="1937 VFL season">1937</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1938_VFL_season" title="1938 VFL season">1938</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1939_VFL_season" title="1939 VFL season">1939</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1940_VFL_season" title="1940 VFL season">1940</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1941_VFL_season" title="1941 VFL season">1941</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1942_VFL_season" title="1942 VFL season">1942</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1943_VFL_season" title="1943 VFL season">1943</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1944_VFL_season" title="1944 VFL season">1944</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1945_VFL_season" title="1945 VFL season">1945</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1946_VFL_season" title="1946 VFL season">1946</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1947_VFL_season" title="1947 VFL season">1947</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1948_VFL_season" title="1948 VFL season">1948</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1949_VFL_season" title="1949 VFL season">1949</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1950_VFL_season" title="1950 VFL season">1950</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1951_VFL_season" title="1951 VFL season">1951</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1952_VFL_season" title="1952 VFL season">1952</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1953_VFL_season" title="1953 VFL season">1953</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1954_VFL_season" title="1954 VFL season">1954</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1955_VFL_season" title="1955 VFL season">1955</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1956_VFL_season" title="1956 VFL season">1956</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1957_VFL_season" title="1957 VFL season">1957</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1958_VFL_season" title="1958 VFL season">1958</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1959_VFL_season" title="1959 VFL season">1959</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1960_VFL_season" title="1960 VFL season">1960</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1961_VFL_season" title="1961 VFL season">1961</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1962_VFL_season" title="1962 VFL season">1962</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1963_VFL_season" title="1963 VFL season">1963</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1964_VFL_season" title="1964 VFL season">1964</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1965_VFL_season" title="1965 VFL season">1965</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1966_VFL_season" title="1966 VFL season">1966</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1967_VFL_season" title="1967 VFL season">1967</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1968_VFL_season" title="1968 VFL season">1968</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1969_VFL_season" title="1969 VFL season">1969</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1970_VFL_season" title="1970 VFL season">1970</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1971_VFL_season" title="1971 VFL season">1971</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1972_VFL_season" title="1972 VFL season">1972</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1973_VFL_season" title="1973 VFL season">1973</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1974_VFL_season" title="1974 VFL season">1974</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1975_VFL_season" title="1975 VFL season">1975</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1976_VFL_season" title="1976 VFL season">1976</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1977_VFL_season" title="1977 VFL season">1977</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1978_VFL_season" title="1978 VFL season">1978</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1979_VFL_season" title="1979 VFL season">1979</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1980_VFL_season" title="1980 VFL season">1980</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1981_VFL_season" title="1981 VFL season">1981</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1982_VFL_season" title="1982 VFL season">1982</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1983_VFL_season" title="1983 VFL season">1983</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1984_VFL_season" title="1984 VFL season">1984</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1985_VFL_season" title="1985 VFL season">1985</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1986_VFL_season" title="1986 VFL season">1986</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1987_VFL_season" title="1987 VFL season">1987</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1988_VFL_season" title="1988 VFL season">1988</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1989_VFL_season" title="1989 VFL season">1989</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1990_AFL_season" title="1990 AFL season">1990</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1991_AFL_season" title="1991 AFL season">1991</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1992_AFL_season" title="1992 AFL season">1992</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1993_AFL_season" title="1993 AFL season">1993</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1994_AFL_season" title="1994 AFL season">1994</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1995_AFL_season" title="1995 AFL season">1995</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1996_AFL_season" title="1996 AFL season">1996</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1997_AFL_season" title="1997 AFL season">1997</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1998_AFL_season" title="1998 AFL season">1998</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1999_AFL_season" title="1999 AFL season">1999</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2000_AFL_season" title="2000 AFL season">2000</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2001_AFL_season" title="2001 AFL season">2001</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2002_AFL_season" title="2002 AFL season">2002</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2003_AFL_season" title="2003 AFL season">2003</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2004_AFL_season" title="2004 AFL season">2004</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2005_AFL_season" title="2005 AFL season">2005</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_AFL_season" title="2006 AFL season">2006</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2007_AFL_season" title="2007 AFL season">2007</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2008_AFL_season" title="2008 AFL season">2008</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2009_Essendon_Football_Club_season" title="2009 Essendon Football Club season">2009</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2010_AFL_season" title="2010 AFL season">2010</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2011_Essendon_Football_Club_season" title="2011 Essendon Football Club season">2011</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2012_Essendon_Football_Club_season" title="2012 Essendon Football Club season">2012</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2013_Essendon_Football_Club_season" title="2013 Essendon Football Club season">2013</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2014_Essendon_Football_Club_season" title="2014 Essendon Football Club season">2014</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2015_AFL_season" title="2015 AFL season">2015</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2016_AFL_season" title="2016 AFL season">2016</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2017_Essendon_Football_Club_season" title="2017 Essendon Football Club season">2017</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2018_Essendon_Football_Club_season" title="2018 Essendon Football Club season">2018</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2019_AFL_season" title="2019 AFL season">2019</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2020_AFL_season" title="2020 AFL season">2020</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2021_AFL_season" title="2021 AFL season">2021</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2022_AFL_season" title="2022 AFL season">2022</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2023_Essendon_Football_Club_season" title="2023 Essendon Football Club season">2023</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2024_AFL_season" title="2024 AFL season">2024</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:black; color:#fff; border: solid #CD1A2D 2px;;width:1%">AFLW home grounds</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/North_Port_Oval" title="North Port Oval">North Port Oval</a> (2022 (S7))</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Windy_Hill,_Essendon" title="Windy Hill, Essendon">Windy Hill</a> (2023–)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" 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<li>1902: <a href="/wiki/Collingwood_Football_Club" title="Collingwood Football Club">Collingwood</a></li> <li>1903: <a href="/wiki/Collingwood_Football_Club" title="Collingwood Football Club">Collingwood</a></li> <li>1904: <a href="/wiki/Fitzroy_Football_Club" title="Fitzroy Football Club">Fitzroy</a></li> <li>1905: <a href="/wiki/Fitzroy_Football_Club" title="Fitzroy Football Club">Fitzroy</a></li> <li>1906: <a href="/wiki/Carlton_Football_Club" title="Carlton Football Club">Carlton</a></li> <li>1907: <a href="/wiki/Carlton_Football_Club" title="Carlton Football Club">Carlton</a></li> <li>1908: <a href="/wiki/Carlton_Football_Club" title="Carlton Football Club">Carlton</a></li> <li>1909: <a href="/wiki/Sydney_Swans" title="Sydney Swans">South Melbourne</a></li> <li>1910: <a href="/wiki/Collingwood_Football_Club" title="Collingwood Football Club">Collingwood</a></li> <li>1911: <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Essendon</a></li> <li>1912: <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Essendon</a></li> <li>1913: <a href="/wiki/Fitzroy_Football_Club" title="Fitzroy Football Club">Fitzroy</a></li> <li>1914: <a href="/wiki/Carlton_Football_Club" title="Carlton Football Club">Carlton</a></li> <li>1915: <a href="/wiki/Carlton_Football_Club" title="Carlton Football Club">Carlton</a></li> <li>1916: <a href="/wiki/Fitzroy_Football_Club" title="Fitzroy Football Club">Fitzroy</a></li> <li>1917: <a href="/wiki/Collingwood_Football_Club" title="Collingwood Football Club">Collingwood</a></li> <li>1918: <a href="/wiki/Sydney_Swans" title="Sydney Swans">South Melbourne</a></li> <li>1919: <a href="/wiki/Collingwood_Football_Club" title="Collingwood Football Club">Collingwood</a></li> <li>1920: <a href="/wiki/Richmond_Football_Club" title="Richmond Football Club">Richmond</a></li> <li>1921: <a href="/wiki/Richmond_Football_Club" title="Richmond Football Club">Richmond</a></li> <li>1922: <a href="/wiki/Fitzroy_Football_Club" title="Fitzroy Football Club">Fitzroy</a></li> <li>1923: <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Essendon</a></li> <li>1924: <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Essendon</a></li> <li>1925: <a href="/wiki/Geelong_Football_Club" title="Geelong Football Club">Geelong</a></li> <li>1926: <a href="/wiki/Melbourne_Football_Club" title="Melbourne Football Club">Melbourne</a></li> <li>1927: <a href="/wiki/Collingwood_Football_Club" title="Collingwood Football Club">Collingwood</a></li> <li>1928: <a href="/wiki/Collingwood_Football_Club" title="Collingwood Football Club">Collingwood</a></li> <li>1929: <a href="/wiki/Collingwood_Football_Club" title="Collingwood Football Club">Collingwood</a></li> <li>1930: <a href="/wiki/Collingwood_Football_Club" title="Collingwood Football Club">Collingwood</a></li> <li>1931: <a href="/wiki/Geelong_Football_Club" title="Geelong Football Club">Geelong</a></li> <li>1932: <a href="/wiki/Richmond_Football_Club" title="Richmond Football Club">Richmond</a></li> <li>1933: <a href="/wiki/Sydney_Swans" title="Sydney Swans">South Melbourne</a></li> <li>1934: <a href="/wiki/Richmond_Football_Club" title="Richmond Football Club">Richmond</a></li> <li>1935: <a href="/wiki/Collingwood_Football_Club" title="Collingwood Football Club">Collingwood</a></li> <li>1936: <a href="/wiki/Collingwood_Football_Club" title="Collingwood Football Club">Collingwood</a></li> <li>1937: <a href="/wiki/Geelong_Football_Club" title="Geelong Football Club">Geelong</a></li> <li>1938: <a href="/wiki/Carlton_Football_Club" title="Carlton Football Club">Carlton</a></li> <li>1939: <a href="/wiki/Melbourne_Football_Club" title="Melbourne Football Club">Melbourne</a></li> <li>1940: <a href="/wiki/Melbourne_Football_Club" title="Melbourne Football Club">Melbourne</a></li> <li>1941: <a href="/wiki/Melbourne_Football_Club" title="Melbourne Football Club">Melbourne</a></li> <li>1942: <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Essendon</a></li> <li>1943: <a href="/wiki/Richmond_Football_Club" title="Richmond Football Club">Richmond</a></li> <li>1944: <a href="/wiki/Fitzroy_Football_Club" title="Fitzroy Football Club">Fitzroy</a></li> <li>1945: <a href="/wiki/Carlton_Football_Club" title="Carlton Football Club">Carlton</a></li> <li>1946: <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Essendon</a></li> <li>1947: <a href="/wiki/Carlton_Football_Club" title="Carlton Football Club">Carlton</a></li> <li>1948: <a href="/wiki/Melbourne_Football_Club" title="Melbourne Football Club">Melbourne</a></li> <li>1949: <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Essendon</a></li> <li>1950: <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Essendon</a></li> <li>1951: <a href="/wiki/Geelong_Football_Club" title="Geelong Football Club">Geelong</a></li> <li>1952: <a href="/wiki/Geelong_Football_Club" title="Geelong Football Club">Geelong</a></li> <li>1953: <a href="/wiki/Collingwood_Football_Club" title="Collingwood Football Club">Collingwood</a></li> <li>1954: <a href="/wiki/Western_Bulldogs" title="Western Bulldogs">Footscray</a></li> <li>1955: <a href="/wiki/Melbourne_Football_Club" title="Melbourne Football Club">Melbourne</a></li> <li>1956: <a href="/wiki/Melbourne_Football_Club" title="Melbourne Football Club">Melbourne</a></li> <li>1957: <a href="/wiki/Melbourne_Football_Club" title="Melbourne Football Club">Melbourne</a></li> <li>1958: <a href="/wiki/Collingwood_Football_Club" title="Collingwood Football Club">Collingwood</a></li> <li>1959: <a href="/wiki/Melbourne_Football_Club" title="Melbourne Football Club">Melbourne</a></li> <li>1960: <a href="/wiki/Melbourne_Football_Club" title="Melbourne Football Club">Melbourne</a></li> <li>1961: <a href="/wiki/Hawthorn_Football_Club" title="Hawthorn Football Club">Hawthorn</a></li> <li>1962: <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Essendon</a></li> <li>1963: <a href="/wiki/Geelong_Football_Club" title="Geelong Football Club">Geelong</a></li> <li>1964: <a href="/wiki/Melbourne_Football_Club" title="Melbourne Football Club">Melbourne</a></li> <li>1965: <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Essendon</a></li> <li>1966: <a href="/wiki/St_Kilda_Football_Club" title="St Kilda Football Club">St Kilda</a></li> <li>1967: <a href="/wiki/Richmond_Football_Club" title="Richmond Football Club">Richmond</a></li> <li>1968: <a href="/wiki/Carlton_Football_Club" title="Carlton Football Club">Carlton</a></li> <li>1969: <a href="/wiki/Richmond_Football_Club" title="Richmond Football Club">Richmond</a></li> <li>1970: <a href="/wiki/Carlton_Football_Club" title="Carlton Football Club">Carlton</a></li> <li>1971: <a href="/wiki/Hawthorn_Football_Club" title="Hawthorn Football Club">Hawthorn</a></li> <li>1972: <a href="/wiki/Carlton_Football_Club" title="Carlton Football Club">Carlton</a></li> <li>1973: <a href="/wiki/Richmond_Football_Club" title="Richmond Football Club">Richmond</a></li> <li>1974: <a href="/wiki/Richmond_Football_Club" title="Richmond Football Club">Richmond</a></li> <li>1975: <a href="/wiki/North_Melbourne_Football_Club" title="North Melbourne Football Club">North Melbourne</a></li> <li>1976: <a href="/wiki/Hawthorn_Football_Club" title="Hawthorn Football Club">Hawthorn</a></li> <li>1977: <a href="/wiki/North_Melbourne_Football_Club" title="North Melbourne Football Club">North Melbourne</a></li> <li>1978: <a href="/wiki/Hawthorn_Football_Club" title="Hawthorn Football Club">Hawthorn</a></li> <li>1979: <a href="/wiki/Carlton_Football_Club" title="Carlton Football Club">Carlton</a></li> <li>1980: <a href="/wiki/Richmond_Football_Club" title="Richmond Football Club">Richmond</a></li> <li>1981: <a href="/wiki/Carlton_Football_Club" title="Carlton Football Club">Carlton</a></li> <li>1982: <a href="/wiki/Carlton_Football_Club" title="Carlton Football Club">Carlton</a></li> <li>1983: <a href="/wiki/Hawthorn_Football_Club" title="Hawthorn Football Club">Hawthorn</a></li> <li>1984: <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Essendon</a></li> <li>1985: <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Essendon</a></li> <li>1986: <a href="/wiki/Hawthorn_Football_Club" title="Hawthorn Football Club">Hawthorn</a></li> <li>1987: <a href="/wiki/Carlton_Football_Club" title="Carlton Football Club">Carlton</a></li> <li>1988: <a href="/wiki/Hawthorn_Football_Club" title="Hawthorn Football Club">Hawthorn</a></li> <li>1989: <a href="/wiki/Hawthorn_Football_Club" title="Hawthorn Football Club">Hawthorn</a></li> <li>1990: <a href="/wiki/Collingwood_Football_Club" title="Collingwood Football Club">Collingwood</a></li> <li>1991: <a href="/wiki/Hawthorn_Football_Club" title="Hawthorn Football Club">Hawthorn</a></li> <li>1992: <a href="/wiki/West_Coast_Eagles" title="West Coast Eagles">West Coast</a></li> <li>1993: <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Essendon</a></li> <li>1994: <a href="/wiki/West_Coast_Eagles" title="West Coast Eagles">West Coast</a></li> <li>1995: <a href="/wiki/Carlton_Football_Club" title="Carlton Football Club">Carlton</a></li> <li>1996: <a href="/wiki/North_Melbourne_Football_Club" title="North Melbourne Football Club">North Melbourne</a></li> <li>1997: <a href="/wiki/Adelaide_Football_Club" title="Adelaide Football Club">Adelaide</a></li> <li>1998: <a href="/wiki/Adelaide_Football_Club" title="Adelaide Football Club">Adelaide</a></li> <li>1999: <a href="/wiki/North_Melbourne_Football_Club" title="North Melbourne Football Club">Kangaroos</a></li> <li>2000: <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Essendon</a></li> <li>2001: <a href="/wiki/Brisbane_Lions" title="Brisbane Lions">Brisbane Lions</a></li> <li>2002: <a href="/wiki/Brisbane_Lions" title="Brisbane Lions">Brisbane Lions</a></li> <li>2003: <a href="/wiki/Brisbane_Lions" title="Brisbane Lions">Brisbane Lions</a></li> <li>2004: <a href="/wiki/Port_Adelaide_Football_Club" title="Port Adelaide Football Club">Port Adelaide</a></li> <li>2005: <a href="/wiki/Sydney_Swans" title="Sydney Swans">Sydney</a></li> <li>2006: <a href="/wiki/West_Coast_Eagles" title="West Coast Eagles">West Coast</a></li> <li>2007: <a href="/wiki/Geelong_Football_Club" title="Geelong Football Club">Geelong</a></li> <li>2008: <a href="/wiki/Hawthorn_Football_Club" title="Hawthorn Football Club">Hawthorn</a></li> <li>2009: <a href="/wiki/Geelong_Football_Club" title="Geelong Football Club">Geelong</a></li> <li>2010: <a href="/wiki/Collingwood_Football_Club" title="Collingwood Football Club">Collingwood</a></li> <li>2011: <a href="/wiki/Geelong_Football_Club" title="Geelong Football Club">Geelong</a></li> <li>2012: <a href="/wiki/Sydney_Swans" title="Sydney Swans">Sydney</a></li> <li>2013: <a href="/wiki/Hawthorn_Football_Club" title="Hawthorn Football Club">Hawthorn</a></li> <li>2014: <a href="/wiki/Hawthorn_Football_Club" title="Hawthorn Football Club">Hawthorn</a></li> <li>2015: <a href="/wiki/Hawthorn_Football_Club" title="Hawthorn Football Club">Hawthorn</a></li> <li>2016: <a href="/wiki/Western_Bulldogs" title="Western Bulldogs">Western Bulldogs</a></li> <li>2017: <a href="/wiki/Richmond_Football_Club" title="Richmond Football Club">Richmond</a></li> <li>2018: <a href="/wiki/West_Coast_Eagles" title="West Coast Eagles">West Coast</a></li> <li>2019: <a href="/wiki/Richmond_Football_Club" title="Richmond Football Club">Richmond</a></li> <li>2020: <a href="/wiki/Richmond_Football_Club" title="Richmond Football Club">Richmond</a></li> <li>2021: <a href="/wiki/Melbourne_Football_Club" title="Melbourne Football Club">Melbourne</a></li> <li>2022: <a href="/wiki/Geelong_Football_Club" title="Geelong Football Club">Geelong</a></li> <li>2023: <a href="/wiki/Collingwood_Football_Club" title="Collingwood Football Club">Collingwood</a></li> <li>2024: <a href="/wiki/Brisbane_Lions" title="Brisbane Lions">Brisbane Lions</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="VFL/AFL_minor_premiers" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks 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href="/wiki/Collingwood_Football_Club" title="Collingwood Football Club">Collingwood</a></li> <li>1904: <a href="/wiki/Fitzroy_Football_Club" title="Fitzroy Football Club">Fitzroy</a></li> <li>1905: <a href="/wiki/Collingwood_Football_Club" title="Collingwood Football Club">Collingwood</a></li> <li>1906: <a href="/wiki/Carlton_Football_Club" title="Carlton Football Club">Carlton</a></li> <li>1907: <a href="/wiki/Carlton_Football_Club" title="Carlton Football Club">Carlton</a></li> <li>1908: <a href="/wiki/Carlton_Football_Club" title="Carlton Football Club">Carlton</a></li> <li>1909: <a href="/wiki/Sydney_Swans" title="Sydney Swans">South Melbourne</a></li> <li>1910: <a href="/wiki/Carlton_Football_Club" title="Carlton Football Club">Carlton</a></li> <li>1911: <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Essendon</a></li> <li>1912: <a href="/wiki/Sydney_Swans" title="Sydney Swans">South Melbourne</a></li> <li>1913: <a href="/wiki/Fitzroy_Football_Club" title="Fitzroy Football Club">Fitzroy</a></li> <li>1914: <a href="/wiki/Carlton_Football_Club" title="Carlton Football Club">Carlton</a></li> <li>1915: <a href="/wiki/Collingwood_Football_Club" title="Collingwood Football Club">Collingwood</a></li> <li>1916: <a href="/wiki/Carlton_Football_Club" title="Carlton Football Club">Carlton</a></li> <li>1917: <a href="/wiki/Collingwood_Football_Club" title="Collingwood Football Club">Collingwood</a></li> <li>1918: <a href="/wiki/Sydney_Swans" title="Sydney Swans">South Melbourne</a></li> <li>1919: <a href="/wiki/Collingwood_Football_Club" title="Collingwood Football Club">Collingwood</a></li> <li>1920: <a href="/wiki/Richmond_Football_Club" title="Richmond Football Club">Richmond</a></li> <li>1921: <a href="/wiki/Carlton_Football_Club" title="Carlton Football Club">Carlton</a></li> <li>1922: <a href="/wiki/Collingwood_Football_Club" title="Collingwood Football Club">Collingwood</a></li> <li>1923: <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Essendon</a></li> <li>1924: <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Essendon</a></li> <li>1925: <a href="/wiki/Geelong_Football_Club" title="Geelong Football Club">Geelong</a></li> <li>1926: <a href="/wiki/Collingwood_Football_Club" title="Collingwood Football Club">Collingwood</a></li> <li>1927: <a href="/wiki/Collingwood_Football_Club" title="Collingwood Football Club">Collingwood</a></li> <li>1928: <a href="/wiki/Collingwood_Football_Club" title="Collingwood Football Club">Collingwood</a></li> <li>1929: <a href="/wiki/Collingwood_Football_Club" title="Collingwood Football Club">Collingwood</a></li> <li>1930: <a href="/wiki/Collingwood_Football_Club" title="Collingwood Football Club">Collingwood</a></li> <li>1931: <a href="/wiki/Geelong_Football_Club" title="Geelong Football Club">Geelong</a></li> <li>1932: <a href="/wiki/Carlton_Football_Club" title="Carlton Football Club">Carlton</a></li> <li>1933: <a href="/wiki/Richmond_Football_Club" title="Richmond Football Club">Richmond</a></li> <li>1934: <a href="/wiki/Richmond_Football_Club" title="Richmond Football Club">Richmond</a></li> <li>1935: <a href="/wiki/Sydney_Swans" title="Sydney Swans">South Melbourne</a></li> <li>1936: <a href="/wiki/Sydney_Swans" title="Sydney Swans">South Melbourne</a></li> <li>1937: <a href="/wiki/Geelong_Football_Club" title="Geelong Football Club">Geelong</a></li> <li>1938: <a href="/wiki/Carlton_Football_Club" title="Carlton Football Club">Carlton</a></li> <li>1939: <a href="/wiki/Melbourne_Football_Club" title="Melbourne Football Club">Melbourne</a></li> <li>1940: <a href="/wiki/Melbourne_Football_Club" title="Melbourne Football Club">Melbourne</a></li> <li>1941: <a href="/wiki/Carlton_Football_Club" title="Carlton Football Club">Carlton</a></li> <li>1942: <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Essendon</a></li> <li>1943: <a href="/wiki/Richmond_Football_Club" title="Richmond Football Club">Richmond</a></li> <li>1944: <a href="/wiki/Richmond_Football_Club" title="Richmond Football Club">Richmond</a></li> <li>1945: <a href="/wiki/Sydney_Swans" title="Sydney Swans">South Melbourne</a></li> <li>1946: <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Essendon</a></li> <li>1947: <a href="/wiki/Carlton_Football_Club" title="Carlton Football Club">Carlton</a></li> <li>1948: <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Essendon</a></li> <li>1949: <a href="/wiki/North_Melbourne_Football_Club" title="North Melbourne Football Club">North Melbourne</a></li> <li>1950: <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Essendon</a></li> <li>1951: <a href="/wiki/Geelong_Football_Club" title="Geelong Football Club">Geelong</a></li> <li>1952: <a href="/wiki/Geelong_Football_Club" title="Geelong Football Club">Geelong</a></li> <li>1953: <a href="/wiki/Geelong_Football_Club" title="Geelong Football Club">Geelong</a></li> <li>1954: <a href="/wiki/Geelong_Football_Club" title="Geelong Football Club">Geelong</a></li> <li>1955: <a href="/wiki/Melbourne_Football_Club" title="Melbourne Football Club">Melbourne</a></li> <li>1956: <a href="/wiki/Melbourne_Football_Club" title="Melbourne Football Club">Melbourne</a></li> <li>1957: <a href="/wiki/Melbourne_Football_Club" title="Melbourne Football Club">Melbourne</a></li> <li>1958: <a href="/wiki/Melbourne_Football_Club" title="Melbourne Football Club">Melbourne</a></li> <li>1959: <a href="/wiki/Melbourne_Football_Club" title="Melbourne Football Club">Melbourne</a></li> <li>1960: <a href="/wiki/Melbourne_Football_Club" title="Melbourne Football Club">Melbourne</a></li> <li>1961: <a href="/wiki/Hawthorn_Football_Club" title="Hawthorn Football Club">Hawthorn</a></li> <li>1962: <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Essendon</a></li> <li>1963: <a href="/wiki/Hawthorn_Football_Club" title="Hawthorn Football Club">Hawthorn</a></li> <li>1964: <a href="/wiki/Melbourne_Football_Club" title="Melbourne Football Club">Melbourne</a></li> <li>1965: <a href="/wiki/St_Kilda_Football_Club" title="St Kilda Football Club">St Kilda</a></li> <li>1966: <a href="/wiki/Collingwood_Football_Club" title="Collingwood Football Club">Collingwood</a></li> <li>1967: <a href="/wiki/Richmond_Football_Club" title="Richmond Football Club">Richmond</a></li> <li>1968: <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Essendon</a></li> <li>1969: <a href="/wiki/Collingwood_Football_Club" title="Collingwood Football Club">Collingwood</a></li> <li>1970: <a href="/wiki/Collingwood_Football_Club" title="Collingwood Football Club">Collingwood</a></li> <li>1971: <a href="/wiki/Hawthorn_Football_Club" title="Hawthorn Football Club">Hawthorn</a></li> <li>1972: <a href="/wiki/Carlton_Football_Club" title="Carlton Football Club">Carlton</a></li> <li>1973: <a href="/wiki/Collingwood_Football_Club" title="Collingwood Football Club">Collingwood</a></li> <li>1974: <a href="/wiki/Richmond_Football_Club" title="Richmond Football Club">Richmond</a></li> <li>1975: <a href="/wiki/Hawthorn_Football_Club" title="Hawthorn Football Club">Hawthorn</a></li> <li>1976: <a href="/wiki/Carlton_Football_Club" title="Carlton Football Club">Carlton</a></li> <li>1977: <a href="/wiki/Collingwood_Football_Club" title="Collingwood Football Club">Collingwood</a></li> <li>1978: <a href="/wiki/North_Melbourne_Football_Club" title="North Melbourne Football Club">North Melbourne</a></li> <li>1979: <a href="/wiki/Carlton_Football_Club" title="Carlton Football Club">Carlton</a></li> <li>1980: <a href="/wiki/Geelong_Football_Club" title="Geelong Football Club">Geelong</a></li> <li>1981: <a href="/wiki/Carlton_Football_Club" title="Carlton Football Club">Carlton</a></li> <li>1982: <a href="/wiki/Richmond_Football_Club" title="Richmond Football Club">Richmond</a></li> <li>1983: <a href="/wiki/North_Melbourne_Football_Club" title="North Melbourne Football Club">North Melbourne</a></li> <li>1984: <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Essendon</a></li> <li>1985: <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Essendon</a></li> <li>1986: <a href="/wiki/Hawthorn_Football_Club" title="Hawthorn Football Club">Hawthorn</a></li> <li>1987: <a href="/wiki/Carlton_Football_Club" title="Carlton Football Club">Carlton</a></li> <li>1988: <a href="/wiki/Hawthorn_Football_Club" title="Hawthorn Football Club">Hawthorn</a></li> <li>1989: <a href="/wiki/Hawthorn_Football_Club" title="Hawthorn Football Club">Hawthorn</a></li> <li>1990: <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Essendon</a></li> <li>1991: <a href="/wiki/West_Coast_Eagles" title="West Coast Eagles">West Coast</a></li> <li>1992: <a href="/wiki/Geelong_Football_Club" title="Geelong Football Club">Geelong</a></li> <li>1993: <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Essendon</a></li> <li>1994: <a href="/wiki/West_Coast_Eagles" title="West Coast Eagles">West Coast</a></li> <li>1995: <a href="/wiki/Carlton_Football_Club" title="Carlton Football Club">Carlton</a></li> <li>1996: <a href="/wiki/Sydney_Swans" title="Sydney Swans">Sydney</a></li> <li>1997: <a href="/wiki/St_Kilda_Football_Club" title="St Kilda Football Club">St Kilda</a></li> <li>1998: <a href="/wiki/North_Melbourne_Football_Club" title="North Melbourne Football Club">North Melbourne</a></li> <li>1999: <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Essendon</a></li> <li>2000: <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Essendon</a></li> <li>2001: <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Essendon</a></li> <li>2002: <a href="/wiki/Port_Adelaide_Football_Club" title="Port Adelaide Football Club">Port Adelaide</a></li> <li>2003: <a href="/wiki/Port_Adelaide_Football_Club" title="Port Adelaide Football Club">Port Adelaide</a></li> <li>2004: <a href="/wiki/Port_Adelaide_Football_Club" title="Port Adelaide Football Club">Port Adelaide</a></li> <li>2005: <a href="/wiki/Adelaide_Football_Club" title="Adelaide Football Club">Adelaide</a></li> <li>2006: <a href="/wiki/West_Coast_Eagles" title="West Coast Eagles">West Coast</a></li> <li>2007: <a href="/wiki/Geelong_Football_Club" title="Geelong Football Club">Geelong</a></li> <li>2008: <a href="/wiki/Geelong_Football_Club" title="Geelong Football Club">Geelong</a></li> <li>2009: <a href="/wiki/St_Kilda_Football_Club" title="St Kilda Football Club">St Kilda</a></li> <li>2010: <a href="/wiki/Collingwood_Football_Club" title="Collingwood Football Club">Collingwood</a></li> <li>2011: <a href="/wiki/Collingwood_Football_Club" title="Collingwood Football Club">Collingwood</a></li> <li>2012: <a href="/wiki/Hawthorn_Football_Club" title="Hawthorn Football Club">Hawthorn</a></li> <li>2013: <a href="/wiki/Hawthorn_Football_Club" title="Hawthorn Football Club">Hawthorn</a></li> <li>2014: <a href="/wiki/Sydney_Swans" title="Sydney Swans">Sydney</a></li> <li>2015: <a href="/wiki/Fremantle_Football_Club" title="Fremantle Football Club">Fremantle</a></li> <li>2016: <a href="/wiki/Sydney_Swans" title="Sydney Swans">Sydney</a></li> <li>2017: <a href="/wiki/Adelaide_Football_Club" title="Adelaide Football Club">Adelaide</a></li> <li>2018: <a href="/wiki/Richmond_Football_Club" title="Richmond Football Club">Richmond</a></li> <li>2019: <a href="/wiki/Geelong_Football_Club" title="Geelong Football Club">Geelong</a></li> <li>2020: <a href="/wiki/Port_Adelaide_Football_Club" title="Port Adelaide Football Club">Port Adelaide</a></li> <li>2021: <a href="/wiki/Melbourne_Football_Club" title="Melbourne Football Club">Melbourne</a></li> <li>2022: <a href="/wiki/Geelong_Football_Club" title="Geelong Football Club">Geelong</a></li> <li>2023: <a href="/wiki/Collingwood_Football_Club" title="Collingwood Football Club">Collingwood</a></li> <li>2024: <a href="/wiki/Sydney_Swans" title="Sydney Swans">Sydney</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Australian_Football_League" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks hlist mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2" style="background:#0C3F91; color:white;background:#F0001B; color:white; box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #0C3F91, inset -2px -2px 0 #0C3F91;"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Australian_Football_League" title="Template:Australian Football League"><abbr title="View this template" style="color:white">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Australian_Football_League" title="Template talk:Australian Football League"><abbr title="Discuss this template" style="color:white">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Australian_Football_League" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Australian Football League"><abbr title="Edit this template" 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href="/wiki/List_of_VFL/AFL_players_to_have_played_200_games_for_one_club" title="List of VFL/AFL players to have played 200 games for one club">200-game players for one club</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/VFL/AFL_goalkicking_records" title="VFL/AFL goalkicking records">Goalkicking records</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/All-Australian_team" title="All-Australian team">All-Australian team</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coleman_Medal" title="Coleman Medal">Coleman Medal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/AFL_Rising_Star" title="AFL Rising Star">Rising Star</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#0C3F91; color:white;width:1%">Clubs</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background:#0C3F91; color:white">Current</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Adelaide_Football_Club" title="Adelaide Football Club">Adelaide</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brisbane_Lions" title="Brisbane Lions">Brisbane Lions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carlton_Football_Club" title="Carlton Football Club">Carlton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Collingwood_Football_Club" title="Collingwood Football Club">Collingwood</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Essendon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fremantle_Football_Club" title="Fremantle Football Club">Fremantle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Geelong_Football_Club" title="Geelong Football Club">Geelong</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gold_Coast_Suns" title="Gold Coast Suns">Gold Coast</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greater_Western_Sydney_Giants" title="Greater Western Sydney Giants">Greater Western Sydney</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hawthorn_Football_Club" title="Hawthorn Football Club">Hawthorn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Melbourne_Football_Club" title="Melbourne Football Club">Melbourne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Melbourne_Football_Club" title="North Melbourne Football Club">North Melbourne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Port_Adelaide_Football_Club" title="Port Adelaide Football Club">Port Adelaide</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richmond_Football_Club" title="Richmond Football Club">Richmond</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St_Kilda_Football_Club" title="St Kilda Football Club">St Kilda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sydney_Swans" title="Sydney Swans">Sydney</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/West_Coast_Eagles" title="West Coast Eagles">West Coast</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Western_Bulldogs" title="Western Bulldogs">Western Bulldogs</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background:#0C3F91; color:white">Future</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Tasmania_Football_Club" title="Tasmania Football Club">Tasmania</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background:#0C3F91; color:white">Former</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Brisbane_Bears" title="Brisbane Bears">Brisbane Bears</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fitzroy_Football_Club" title="Fitzroy Football Club">Fitzroy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Melbourne_University_Football_Club" title="Melbourne University Football Club">University</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#0C3F91; color:white;width:1%">Seasons</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1897_VFL_season" title="1897 VFL season">1897</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1898_VFL_season" title="1898 VFL season">1898</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1899_VFL_season" title="1899 VFL season">1899</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1900_VFL_season" title="1900 VFL season">1900</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1901_VFL_season" title="1901 VFL season">1901</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1902_VFL_season" title="1902 VFL season">1902</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1903_VFL_season" title="1903 VFL season">1903</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1904_VFL_season" title="1904 VFL season">1904</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1905_VFL_season" title="1905 VFL season">1905</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1906_VFL_season" title="1906 VFL season">1906</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1907_VFL_season" title="1907 VFL season">1907</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1908_VFL_season" title="1908 VFL season">1908</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1909_VFL_season" title="1909 VFL season">1909</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1910_VFL_season" title="1910 VFL season">1910</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1911_VFL_season" title="1911 VFL season">1911</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1912_VFL_season" title="1912 VFL season">1912</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1913_VFL_season" title="1913 VFL season">1913</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1914_VFL_season" title="1914 VFL season">1914</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1915_VFL_season" title="1915 VFL season">1915</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1916_VFL_season" title="1916 VFL season">1916</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1917_VFL_season" title="1917 VFL season">1917</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1918_VFL_season" title="1918 VFL season">1918</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1919_VFL_season" title="1919 VFL season">1919</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1920_VFL_season" title="1920 VFL season">1920</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1921_VFL_season" title="1921 VFL season">1921</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1922_VFL_season" title="1922 VFL season">1922</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1923_VFL_season" title="1923 VFL season">1923</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1924_VFL_season" title="1924 VFL season">1924</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1925_VFL_season" title="1925 VFL season">1925</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1926_VFL_season" title="1926 VFL season">1926</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1927_VFL_season" title="1927 VFL season">1927</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1928_VFL_season" title="1928 VFL season">1928</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1929_VFL_season" title="1929 VFL season">1929</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1930_VFL_season" title="1930 VFL season">1930</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1931_VFL_season" title="1931 VFL season">1931</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1932_VFL_season" title="1932 VFL season">1932</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1933_VFL_season" title="1933 VFL season">1933</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1934_VFL_season" title="1934 VFL season">1934</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1935_VFL_season" title="1935 VFL season">1935</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1936_VFL_season" title="1936 VFL season">1936</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1937_VFL_season" title="1937 VFL season">1937</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1938_VFL_season" title="1938 VFL season">1938</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1939_VFL_season" title="1939 VFL season">1939</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1940_VFL_season" title="1940 VFL season">1940</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1941_VFL_season" title="1941 VFL season">1941</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1942_VFL_season" title="1942 VFL season">1942</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1943_VFL_season" title="1943 VFL season">1943</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1944_VFL_season" title="1944 VFL season">1944</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1945_VFL_season" title="1945 VFL season">1945</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1946_VFL_season" title="1946 VFL season">1946</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1947_VFL_season" title="1947 VFL season">1947</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1948_VFL_season" title="1948 VFL season">1948</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1949_VFL_season" title="1949 VFL season">1949</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1950_VFL_season" title="1950 VFL season">1950</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1951_VFL_season" title="1951 VFL season">1951</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1952_VFL_season" title="1952 VFL season">1952</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1953_VFL_season" title="1953 VFL season">1953</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1954_VFL_season" title="1954 VFL season">1954</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1955_VFL_season" title="1955 VFL season">1955</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1956_VFL_season" title="1956 VFL season">1956</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1957_VFL_season" title="1957 VFL season">1957</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1958_VFL_season" title="1958 VFL season">1958</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1959_VFL_season" title="1959 VFL season">1959</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1960_VFL_season" title="1960 VFL season">1960</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1961_VFL_season" title="1961 VFL season">1961</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1962_VFL_season" title="1962 VFL season">1962</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1963_VFL_season" title="1963 VFL season">1963</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1964_VFL_season" title="1964 VFL season">1964</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1965_VFL_season" title="1965 VFL season">1965</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1966_VFL_season" title="1966 VFL season">1966</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1967_VFL_season" title="1967 VFL season">1967</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1968_VFL_season" title="1968 VFL season">1968</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1969_VFL_season" title="1969 VFL season">1969</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1970_VFL_season" title="1970 VFL season">1970</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1971_VFL_season" title="1971 VFL season">1971</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1972_VFL_season" title="1972 VFL season">1972</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1973_VFL_season" title="1973 VFL season">1973</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1974_VFL_season" title="1974 VFL season">1974</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1975_VFL_season" title="1975 VFL season">1975</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1976_VFL_season" title="1976 VFL season">1976</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1977_VFL_season" title="1977 VFL season">1977</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1978_VFL_season" title="1978 VFL season">1978</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1979_VFL_season" title="1979 VFL season">1979</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1980_VFL_season" title="1980 VFL season">1980</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1981_VFL_season" title="1981 VFL season">1981</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1982_VFL_season" title="1982 VFL season">1982</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1983_VFL_season" title="1983 VFL season">1983</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1984_VFL_season" title="1984 VFL season">1984</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1985_VFL_season" title="1985 VFL season">1985</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1986_VFL_season" title="1986 VFL season">1986</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1987_VFL_season" title="1987 VFL season">1987</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1988_VFL_season" title="1988 VFL season">1988</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1989_VFL_season" title="1989 VFL season">1989</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1990_AFL_season" title="1990 AFL season">1990</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1991_AFL_season" title="1991 AFL season">1991</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1992_AFL_season" title="1992 AFL season">1992</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1993_AFL_season" title="1993 AFL season">1993</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1994_AFL_season" title="1994 AFL season">1994</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1995_AFL_season" title="1995 AFL season">1995</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1996_AFL_season" title="1996 AFL season">1996</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1997_AFL_season" title="1997 AFL season">1997</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1998_AFL_season" title="1998 AFL season">1998</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1999_AFL_season" title="1999 AFL season">1999</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2000_AFL_season" title="2000 AFL season">2000</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2001_AFL_season" title="2001 AFL season">2001</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2002_AFL_season" title="2002 AFL season">2002</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2003_AFL_season" title="2003 AFL season">2003</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2004_AFL_season" title="2004 AFL season">2004</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2005_AFL_season" title="2005 AFL season">2005</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_AFL_season" title="2006 AFL season">2006</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2007_AFL_season" title="2007 AFL season">2007</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2008_AFL_season" title="2008 AFL season">2008</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2009_AFL_season" title="2009 AFL season">2009</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2010_AFL_season" title="2010 AFL season">2010</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2011_AFL_season" title="2011 AFL season">2011</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2012_AFL_season" title="2012 AFL season">2012</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2013_AFL_season" title="2013 AFL season">2013</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2014_AFL_season" title="2014 AFL season">2014</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2015_AFL_season" title="2015 AFL season">2015</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2016_AFL_season" title="2016 AFL season">2016</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2017_AFL_season" title="2017 AFL season">2017</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2018_AFL_season" title="2018 AFL season">2018</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2019_AFL_season" title="2019 AFL season">2019</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2020_AFL_season" title="2020 AFL season">2020</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2021_AFL_season" title="2021 AFL season">2021</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2022_AFL_season" title="2022 AFL season">2022</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2023_AFL_season" title="2023 AFL season">2023</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2024_AFL_season" title="2024 AFL season">2024</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2025_AFL_season" title="2025 AFL season">2025</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#0C3F91; color:white;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/AFL_Grand_Final" title="AFL Grand Final">Grand finals</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>1897</li> <li><a href="/wiki/1898_VFL_grand_final" title="1898 VFL grand final">1898</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1899_VFL_grand_final" title="1899 VFL grand final">1899</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1900_VFL_grand_final" title="1900 VFL grand final">1900</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1901_VFL_grand_final" title="1901 VFL grand final">1901</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1902_VFL_grand_final" title="1902 VFL grand final">1902</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1903_VFL_grand_final" title="1903 VFL grand final">1903</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1904_VFL_grand_final" title="1904 VFL grand final">1904</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1905_VFL_grand_final" title="1905 VFL grand final">1905</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1906_VFL_grand_final" title="1906 VFL grand final">1906</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1907_VFL_grand_final" title="1907 VFL grand final">1907</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1908_VFL_grand_final" title="1908 VFL grand final">1908</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1909_VFL_grand_final" title="1909 VFL grand final">1909</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1910_VFL_grand_final" title="1910 VFL grand final">1910</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1911_VFL_grand_final" title="1911 VFL grand final">1911</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1912_VFL_grand_final" title="1912 VFL grand final">1912</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1913_VFL_grand_final" title="1913 VFL grand final">1913</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1914_VFL_grand_final" title="1914 VFL grand final">1914</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1915_VFL_grand_final" title="1915 VFL grand final">1915</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1916_VFL_grand_final" title="1916 VFL grand final">1916</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1917_VFL_grand_final" title="1917 VFL grand final">1917</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1918_VFL_grand_final" title="1918 VFL grand final">1918</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1919_VFL_grand_final" title="1919 VFL grand final">1919</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1920_VFL_grand_final" title="1920 VFL grand final">1920</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1921_VFL_grand_final" title="1921 VFL grand final">1921</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1922_VFL_grand_final" title="1922 VFL grand final">1922</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1923_VFL_grand_final" title="1923 VFL grand final">1923</a></li> <li>1924</li> <li><a href="/wiki/1925_VFL_grand_final" title="1925 VFL grand final">1925</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1926_VFL_grand_final" title="1926 VFL grand final">1926</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1927_VFL_grand_final" title="1927 VFL grand final">1927</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1928_VFL_grand_final" title="1928 VFL grand final">1928</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1929_VFL_grand_final" title="1929 VFL grand final">1929</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1930_VFL_grand_final" title="1930 VFL grand final">1930</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1931_VFL_grand_final" title="1931 VFL grand final">1931</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1932_VFL_grand_final" title="1932 VFL grand final">1932</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1933_VFL_grand_final" title="1933 VFL grand final">1933</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1934_VFL_grand_final" title="1934 VFL grand final">1934</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1935_VFL_grand_final" title="1935 VFL grand final">1935</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1936_VFL_grand_final" title="1936 VFL grand final">1936</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1937_VFL_grand_final" title="1937 VFL grand final">1937</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1938_VFL_grand_final" title="1938 VFL grand final">1938</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1939_VFL_grand_final" title="1939 VFL grand final">1939</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1940_VFL_grand_final" title="1940 VFL grand final">1940</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1941_VFL_grand_final" title="1941 VFL grand final">1941</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1942_VFL_grand_final" title="1942 VFL grand final">1942</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1943_VFL_grand_final" title="1943 VFL grand final">1943</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1944_VFL_grand_final" title="1944 VFL grand final">1944</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1945_VFL_grand_final" title="1945 VFL grand final">1945</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1946_VFL_grand_final" title="1946 VFL grand final">1946</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1947_VFL_grand_final" title="1947 VFL grand final">1947</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1948_VFL_grand_final" title="1948 VFL grand final">1948</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1949_VFL_grand_final" title="1949 VFL grand final">1949</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1950_VFL_grand_final" title="1950 VFL grand final">1950</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1951_VFL_grand_final" title="1951 VFL grand final">1951</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1952_VFL_grand_final" title="1952 VFL grand final">1952</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1953_VFL_grand_final" title="1953 VFL grand final">1953</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1954_VFL_grand_final" title="1954 VFL grand final">1954</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1955_VFL_grand_final" title="1955 VFL grand final">1955</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1956_VFL_grand_final" title="1956 VFL grand final">1956</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1957_VFL_grand_final" title="1957 VFL grand final">1957</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1958_VFL_grand_final" title="1958 VFL grand final">1958</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1959_VFL_grand_final" title="1959 VFL grand final">1959</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1960_VFL_grand_final" title="1960 VFL grand final">1960</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1961_VFL_grand_final" title="1961 VFL grand final">1961</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1962_VFL_grand_final" title="1962 VFL grand final">1962</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1963_VFL_grand_final" title="1963 VFL grand final">1963</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1964_VFL_grand_final" title="1964 VFL grand final">1964</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1965_VFL_grand_final" title="1965 VFL grand final">1965</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1966_VFL_grand_final" title="1966 VFL grand final">1966</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1967_VFL_grand_final" title="1967 VFL grand final">1967</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1968_VFL_grand_final" title="1968 VFL grand final">1968</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1969_VFL_grand_final" title="1969 VFL grand final">1969</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1970_VFL_grand_final" title="1970 VFL grand final">1970</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1971_VFL_grand_final" title="1971 VFL grand final">1971</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1972_VFL_grand_final" title="1972 VFL grand final">1972</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1973_VFL_grand_final" title="1973 VFL grand final">1973</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1974_VFL_grand_final" title="1974 VFL grand final">1974</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1975_VFL_grand_final" title="1975 VFL grand final">1975</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1976_VFL_grand_final" title="1976 VFL grand final">1976</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1977_VFL_grand_final" title="1977 VFL grand final">1977</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1978_VFL_grand_final" title="1978 VFL grand final">1978</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1979_VFL_grand_final" title="1979 VFL grand final">1979</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1980_VFL_grand_final" title="1980 VFL grand final">1980</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1981_VFL_grand_final" title="1981 VFL grand final">1981</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1982_VFL_grand_final" title="1982 VFL grand final">1982</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1983_VFL_grand_final" title="1983 VFL grand final">1983</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1984_VFL_grand_final" title="1984 VFL grand final">1984</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1985_VFL_grand_final" title="1985 VFL grand final">1985</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1986_VFL_grand_final" title="1986 VFL grand final">1986</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1987_VFL_grand_final" title="1987 VFL grand final">1987</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1988_VFL_grand_final" title="1988 VFL grand final">1988</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1989_VFL_grand_final" title="1989 VFL grand final">1989</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1990_AFL_Grand_Final" title="1990 AFL Grand Final">1990</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1991_AFL_Grand_Final" title="1991 AFL Grand Final">1991</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1992_AFL_Grand_Final" title="1992 AFL Grand Final">1992</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1993_AFL_Grand_Final" title="1993 AFL Grand Final">1993</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1994_AFL_Grand_Final" title="1994 AFL Grand Final">1994</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1995_AFL_Grand_Final" title="1995 AFL Grand Final">1995</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1996_AFL_Grand_Final" title="1996 AFL Grand Final">1996</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1997_AFL_Grand_Final" title="1997 AFL Grand Final">1997</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1998_AFL_Grand_Final" title="1998 AFL Grand Final">1998</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1999_AFL_Grand_Final" title="1999 AFL Grand Final">1999</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2000_AFL_Grand_Final" title="2000 AFL Grand Final">2000</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2001_AFL_Grand_Final" title="2001 AFL Grand Final">2001</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2002_AFL_Grand_Final" title="2002 AFL Grand Final">2002</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2003_AFL_Grand_Final" title="2003 AFL Grand Final">2003</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2004_AFL_Grand_Final" title="2004 AFL Grand Final">2004</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2005_AFL_Grand_Final" title="2005 AFL Grand Final">2005</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_AFL_Grand_Final" title="2006 AFL Grand Final">2006</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2007_AFL_Grand_Final" title="2007 AFL Grand Final">2007</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2008_AFL_Grand_Final" title="2008 AFL Grand Final">2008</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2009_AFL_Grand_Final" title="2009 AFL Grand Final">2009</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2010_AFL_Grand_Final" title="2010 AFL Grand Final">2010</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2011_AFL_Grand_Final" title="2011 AFL Grand Final">2011</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2012_AFL_Grand_Final" title="2012 AFL Grand Final">2012</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2013_AFL_Grand_Final" title="2013 AFL Grand Final">2013</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2014_AFL_Grand_Final" title="2014 AFL Grand Final">2014</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2015_AFL_Grand_Final" title="2015 AFL Grand Final">2015</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2016_AFL_Grand_Final" title="2016 AFL Grand Final">2016</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2017_AFL_Grand_Final" title="2017 AFL Grand Final">2017</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2018_AFL_Grand_Final" title="2018 AFL Grand Final">2018</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2019_AFL_Grand_Final" title="2019 AFL Grand Final">2019</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2020_AFL_Grand_Final" title="2020 AFL Grand Final">2020</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2021_AFL_Grand_Final" title="2021 AFL Grand Final">2021</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2022_AFL_Grand_Final" title="2022 AFL Grand Final">2022</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2023_AFL_Grand_Final" title="2023 AFL Grand Final">2023</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2024_AFL_Grand_Final" title="2024 AFL Grand Final">2024</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#0C3F91; color:white;width:1%"><abbr title="Venues that hosted matches during the 2024 season">Venues</abbr></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Adelaide_Oval" title="Adelaide Oval">Adelaide Oval</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bellerive_Oval" title="Bellerive Oval">Blundstone Arena</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sydney_Showground_Stadium" title="Sydney Showground Stadium">Engie Stadium</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Gabba" title="The Gabba">The Gabba</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kardinia_Park_(stadium)" title="Kardinia Park (stadium)">GMHBA Stadium</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manuka_Oval" title="Manuka Oval">Manuka Oval</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eureka_Stadium" title="Eureka Stadium">Mars Stadium</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Docklands_Stadium" title="Docklands Stadium">Marvel Stadium</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Melbourne_Cricket_Ground" title="Melbourne Cricket Ground">Melbourne Cricket Ground</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Norwood_Oval" title="Norwood Oval">Norwood Oval</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Perth_Stadium" title="Perth Stadium">Optus Stadium</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carrara_Stadium" title="Carrara Stadium">People First Stadium</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Summit_Sport_and_Recreation_Park" title="Summit Sport and Recreation Park">Summit Sport and Recreation Park</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sydney_Cricket_Ground" title="Sydney Cricket Ground">Sydney Cricket Ground</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marrara_Oval" title="Marrara Oval">TIO Stadium</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Traeger_Park" title="Traeger Park">TIO Traeger Park</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/York_Park" title="York Park">University of Tasmania Stadium</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#0C3F91; color:white;width:1%">Other awards</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/AFL_Coaches_Association_awards" title="AFL Coaches Association awards">AFL Coaches Association awards</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/AFL_Players_Association_awards" title="AFL Players Association awards">AFL Players Association awards</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Leigh_Matthews_Trophy" title="Leigh Matthews Trophy">Leigh Matthews Trophy</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Goal_of_the_Year_(AFL)" title="Goal of the Year (AFL)">Goal of the Year</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mark_of_the_Year" title="Mark of the Year">Mark of the Year</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#0C3F91; color:white;width:1%">Major recurring events</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Australian_Football_League_Draft" class="mw-redirect" title="Australian Football League Draft">AFL draft</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/AFL_finals_series" title="AFL finals series">AFL finals series</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/AFL_Futures_match" title="AFL Futures match">AFL Futures match</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/AFL_Grand_Final" title="AFL Grand Final">AFL Grand Final</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anzac_Day_match#Other_ANZAC_Day_fixtures" title="Anzac Day match">Anzac Day Eve match</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anzac_Day_match" title="Anzac Day match">Anzac Day match</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dreamtime_at_the_%27G" title="Dreamtime at the 'G">Dreamtime at the 'G</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rivalries_in_the_Australian_Football_League#Hawthorn_v_Geelong" title="Rivalries in the Australian Football League">Easter Monday clash</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/E._J._Whitten_Legends_Game" title="E. J. Whitten Legends Game">E. J. Whitten Legends Game</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gather_Round" title="Gather Round">Gather Round</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/King%27s_Birthday_match" title="King's Birthday match">King's Birthday match</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anzac_Day_match#Len_Hall_Tribute_game" title="Anzac Day match">Len Hall Tribute game</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rivalries_in_the_Australian_Football_League#Richmond_v_Carlton" title="Rivalries in the Australian Football League">Opening game</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/QClash" title="QClash">QClash</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Showdown_(AFL)" title="Showdown (AFL)">Showdown</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sydney_Derby_(AFL)" title="Sydney Derby (AFL)">Sydney Derby</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Western_Derby" title="Western Derby">Western Derby</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#0C3F91; color:white;width:1%">Second-tier and junior competitions</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background:#0C3F91; color:white">Current</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/AFL_National_Championships" title="AFL National Championships">AFL National Championships</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Talent_League" title="Talent League">Talent League</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_Australian_National_Football_League" title="South Australian National Football League">South Australian National Football League</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Victorian_Football_League" title="Victorian Football League">Victorian Football League</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/West_Australian_Football_League" title="West Australian Football League">West Australian Football League</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background:#0C3F91; color:white">Former</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/AFL_reserves" title="AFL reserves">AFL reserves</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/AFL_under-19s" title="AFL under-19s">AFL under-19s</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_East_Australian_Football_League" title="North East Australian Football League">North East Australian Football League</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/VFL_Sub-Districts" title="VFL Sub-Districts">VFL Sub-Districts</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#0C3F91; color:white;width:1%">Related articles</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/AFL_Coaches_Association" title="AFL Coaches Association">AFL Coaches Association</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/AFL_Commission" title="AFL Commission">AFL Commission</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/AFL_Players_Association" title="AFL Players Association">AFL Players Association</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/AFL_Record" title="AFL Record">AFL Record</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/AFL_Umpires_Association" title="AFL Umpires Association">AFL Umpires Association</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/AFL_Women%27s" title="AFL Women's">AFL Women's</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/AFLX" title="AFLX">AFLX</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carlton_Football_Club_salary_cap_breach" title="Carlton Football Club salary cap breach">Carlton salary cap breach</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_current_Australian_Football_League_coaches" title="List of current Australian Football League coaches">Current coaches</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Essendon_Football_Club_supplements_saga" title="Essendon Football Club supplements saga">Essendon supplements saga</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/AFL_Grand_Final_location_debate" title="AFL Grand Final location debate">Grand final location debate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_AFL_Grand_Final_pre-match_performances" title="List of AFL Grand Final pre-match performances">Grand Final pre-match performances</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_the_Australian_Football_League" title="History of the Australian Football League">History</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_individual_match_awards_in_the_Australian_Football_League" title="List of individual match awards in the Australian Football League">Individual match awards</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/International_Rules_Series" title="International Rules Series">International Rules Series</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/McClelland_Trophy" title="McClelland Trophy">McClelland Trophy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Melbourne_Football_Club_tanking_scandal" title="Melbourne Football Club tanking scandal">Melbourne tanking scandal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_VFL/AFL_premiership_captains_and_coaches" title="List of VFL/AFL premiership captains and coaches">Premiership captains and coaches</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/VFL/AFL_premiership_and_grand_final_statistics" title="VFL/AFL premiership and grand final statistics">Premiership/grand final statistics</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Proposed_VFL/AFL_clubs" class="mw-redirect" title="Proposed VFL/AFL clubs">Proposed clubs</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Tasmanian_AFL_bid" class="mw-redirect" title="Tasmanian AFL bid">Tasmanian AFL bid</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_VFL/AFL_records" title="List of VFL/AFL records">Records</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Australian_Football_League_reserves_affiliations" title="Australian Football League reserves affiliations">Reserves affiliations</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rivalries_in_the_Australian_Football_League" title="Rivalries in the Australian Football League">Rivalries</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Australian_Football_League_television_shows" title="List of Australian Football League television shows">Television shows</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/AFL_(video_game_series)" title="AFL (video game series)">Video games</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2" style="background:#0C3F91; color:white"><div>Known as the Victorian Football League from 1897–1989; no grand finals were held in 1897 and 1924</div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="AFL_reserves" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2" style="background:#F0001B; color:white; box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #0C3F91, inset -2px -2px 0 #0C3F91;"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:AFL_reserves" title="Template:AFL reserves"><abbr title="View this template" style="color:white">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:AFL_reserves" title="Template talk:AFL reserves"><abbr title="Discuss this template" style="color:white">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:AFL_reserves" title="Special:EditPage/Template:AFL reserves"><abbr title="Edit this template" style="color:white">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div><div id="AFL_reserves" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/AFL_reserves" title="AFL reserves">AFL reserves</a></div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#F0001B; color:white; box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #0C3F91, inset -2px -2px 0 #0C3F91;;width:1%;background:#0C3F91; color:white">Clubs</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background:#0C3F91; color:white">Final season</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Carlton_Football_Club#Reserves_team" title="Carlton Football Club">Carlton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Collingwood_Football_Club#Reserves_team" title="Collingwood Football Club">Collingwood</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#Reserves_team">Essendon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Geelong_Football_Club#Reserves_team" title="Geelong Football Club">Geelong</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hawthorn_Football_Club#Reserves_team" title="Hawthorn Football Club">Hawthorn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Melbourne_Football_Club#Reserves_team" title="North Melbourne Football Club">Kangaroos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Melbourne_Football_Club#Reserves_team" title="Melbourne Football Club">Melbourne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richmond_Football_Club#Reserves_team" title="Richmond Football Club">Richmond</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St_Kilda_Football_Club#Reserves_team" title="St Kilda Football Club">St Kilda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sydney_Swans#Reserves_team" title="Sydney Swans">Sydney</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Western_Bulldogs#Reserves_team" title="Western Bulldogs">Western Bulldogs</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background:#0C3F91; color:white">Former</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Brisbane_Bears" title="Brisbane Bears">Brisbane Bears</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carlton_Football_Club#Reserves_team" title="Carlton Football Club">Carlton District</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/East_Caulfield_Football_Club" title="East Caulfield Football Club">Caulfield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coburg_Football_Club" title="Coburg Football Club">Coburg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Collingwood_District_Football_Club" title="Collingwood District Football Club">Collingwood District</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fitzroy_Football_Club" title="Fitzroy Football Club">Fitzroy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fitzroy_Football_Club" title="Fitzroy Football Club">Fitzroy Juniors</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leopold_Football_Club" title="Leopold Football Club">Leopold</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St_Kilda_Football_Club#Reserves_team" title="St Kilda Football Club">St Kilda District</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Melbourne_University_Football_Club" title="Melbourne University Football Club">University A</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Melbourne_University_Football_Club" title="Melbourne University Football Club">University B</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/West_Melbourne_Football_Club_(1918)" title="West Melbourne Football Club (1918)">West Melbourne</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#F0001B; color:white; box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #0C3F91, inset -2px -2px 0 #0C3F91;;width:1%;background:#0C3F91; color:white">Seasons</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1919_VJFL_season" title="1919 VJFL season">1919</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1920_VJFL_season" title="1920 VJFL season">1920</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1921_VJFL_season" title="1921 VJFL season">1921</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1922_VJFL_season" title="1922 VJFL season">1922</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1923_VJFL_season" title="1923 VJFL season">1923</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1924_VJFL_season" title="1924 VJFL season">1924</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1925_VFL_seconds_season" title="1925 VFL seconds season">1925</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1926_VFL_seconds_season&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1926 VFL seconds season (page does not exist)">1926</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1927_VFL_seconds_season&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1927 VFL seconds season (page does not exist)">1927</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1928_VFL_seconds_season&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1928 VFL seconds season (page does not exist)">1928</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1929_VFL_seconds_season&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1929 VFL seconds season (page does not exist)">1929</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1930_VFL_seconds_season&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1930 VFL seconds season (page does not exist)">1930</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1931_VFL_seconds_season&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1931 VFL seconds season (page does not exist)">1931</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1932_VFL_seconds_season&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1932 VFL seconds season (page does not exist)">1932</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1933_VFL_seconds_season&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1933 VFL seconds season (page does not exist)">1933</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1934_VFL_seconds_season&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1934 VFL seconds season (page does not exist)">1934</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1935_VFL_seconds_season&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1935 VFL seconds season (page does not exist)">1935</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1936_VFL_seconds_season&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1936 VFL seconds season (page does not exist)">1936</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1937_VFL_seconds_season&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1937 VFL seconds season (page does not exist)">1937</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1938_VFL_seconds_season&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1938 VFL seconds season (page does not exist)">1938</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1939_VFL_seconds_season&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1939 VFL seconds season (page does not exist)">1939</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1940_VFL_seconds_season&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1940 VFL seconds season (page does not exist)">1940</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1941_VFL_seconds_season&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1941 VFL seconds season (page does not exist)">1941</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1942_VFL_seconds_season&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1942 VFL seconds season (page does not exist)">1942</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1943_VFL_seconds_season&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1943 VFL seconds season (page does not exist)">1943</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1944_VFL_seconds_season&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1944 VFL seconds season (page does not exist)">1944</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1945_VFL_seconds_season&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1945 VFL seconds season (page does not exist)">1945</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1946_VFL_seconds_season&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1946 VFL seconds season (page does not exist)">1946</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1947_VFL_seconds_season&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1947 VFL seconds season (page does not exist)">1947</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1948_VFL_seconds_season&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1948 VFL seconds season (page does not exist)">1948</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1949_VFL_seconds_season&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1949 VFL seconds season (page does not exist)">1949</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1950_VFL_seconds_season&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1950 VFL seconds season (page does not exist)">1950</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1951_VFL_seconds_season&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1951 VFL seconds season (page does not exist)">1951</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1952_VFL_seconds_season&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1952 VFL seconds season (page does not exist)">1952</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1953_VFL_seconds_season&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1953 VFL seconds season (page does not exist)">1953</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1954_VFL_seconds_season&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1954 VFL seconds season (page does not exist)">1954</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1955_VFL_seconds_season&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1955 VFL seconds season (page does not exist)">1955</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1956_VFL_seconds_season&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1956 VFL seconds season (page does not exist)">1956</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1957_VFL_seconds_season&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1957 VFL seconds season (page does not exist)">1957</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1958_VFL_seconds_season&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1958 VFL seconds season (page does not exist)">1958</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1959_VFL_seconds_season&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1959 VFL seconds season (page does not exist)">1959</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1960_VFL_reserves_season&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1960 VFL reserves season (page does not exist)">1960</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1961_VFL_reserves_season&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1961 VFL reserves season (page does not exist)">1961</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1962_VFL_reserves_season&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1962 VFL reserves season (page does not exist)">1962</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1963_VFL_reserves_season&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1963 VFL reserves season (page does not exist)">1963</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1964_VFL_reserves_season&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1964 VFL reserves season (page does not exist)">1964</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1965_VFL_reserves_season&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1965 VFL reserves season (page does not exist)">1965</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1966_VFL_reserves_season&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1966 VFL reserves season (page does not exist)">1966</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1967_VFL_reserves_season&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1967 VFL reserves season (page does not exist)">1967</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1968_VFL_reserves_season&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1968 VFL reserves season (page does not exist)">1968</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1969_VFL_reserves_season&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1969 VFL reserves season (page does not exist)">1969</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1970_VFL_reserves_season&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1970 VFL reserves season (page does not exist)">1970</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1971_VFL_reserves_season&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1971 VFL reserves season (page does not exist)">1971</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1972_VFL_reserves_season&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1972 VFL reserves season (page does not exist)">1972</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1973_VFL_reserves_season&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1973 VFL reserves season (page does not exist)">1973</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1974_VFL_reserves_season&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1974 VFL reserves season (page does not exist)">1974</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1975_VFL_reserves_season&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1975 VFL reserves season (page does not exist)">1975</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1976_VFL_reserves_season&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1976 VFL reserves season (page does not exist)">1976</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1977_VFL_reserves_season&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1977 VFL reserves season (page does not exist)">1977</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1978_VFL_reserves_season&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1978 VFL reserves season (page does not exist)">1978</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1979_VFL_reserves_season&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1979 VFL reserves season (page does not exist)">1979</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1980_VFL_reserves_season&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1980 VFL reserves season (page does not exist)">1980</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1981_VFL_reserves_season&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1981 VFL reserves season (page does not exist)">1981</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1982_VFL_reserves_season&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1982 VFL reserves season (page does not exist)">1982</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1983_VFL_reserves_season&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1983 VFL reserves season (page does not exist)">1983</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1984_VFL_reserves_season&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1984 VFL reserves season (page does not exist)">1984</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1985_VFL_reserves_season&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1985 VFL reserves season (page does not exist)">1985</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1986_VFL_reserves_season&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1986 VFL reserves season (page does not exist)">1986</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1987_VFL_reserves_season&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1987 VFL reserves season (page does not exist)">1987</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1988_VFL_reserves_season&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1988 VFL reserves season (page does not exist)">1988</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1989_VFL_reserves_season" title="1989 VFL reserves season">1989</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1990_AFL_reserves_season" title="1990 AFL reserves season">1990</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1991_AFL_reserves_season" title="1991 AFL reserves season">1991</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1992_AFL_reserves_season" title="1992 AFL reserves season">1992</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1993_AFL_reserves_season" title="1993 AFL reserves season">1993</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1994_AFL_reserves_season&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1994 AFL reserves season (page does not exist)">1994</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1995_AFL_reserves_season&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1995 AFL reserves season (page does not exist)">1995</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1996_AFL_reserves_season&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1996 AFL reserves season (page does not exist)">1996</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1997_AFL_reserves_season&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1997 AFL reserves season (page does not exist)">1997</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1998_AFL_reserves_season&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1998 AFL reserves season (page does not exist)">1998</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1999_AFL_reserves_season" title="1999 AFL reserves season">1999</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#F0001B; color:white; box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #0C3F91, inset -2px -2px 0 #0C3F91;;width:1%;background:#0C3F91; color:white">Related articles</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Australian_Football_League_reserves_affiliations" title="Australian Football League reserves affiliations">AFL reserves affiliations</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/AFL_under-19s" title="AFL under-19s">AFL under-19s</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_VFL/AFL_reserves_premiers" title="List of VFL/AFL reserves premiers">Premiers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_VFL/AFL_reserves_records" title="List of VFL/AFL reserves records">Records</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Victorian_Football_League" title="Victorian Football League">Victorian Football League</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2" style="background:#F0001B; color:white; box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #0C3F91, inset -2px -2px 0 #0C3F91;"><div>Known as the Victorian Junior Football League from 1919–1924; VFL seconds 1925–1959; VFL reserves 1960–1989</div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="AFL_under-19s" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2" style="background:#F0001B; color:white; box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #0C3F91, inset -2px -2px 0 #0C3F91;"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:AFL_Under-19s" title="Template:AFL Under-19s"><abbr title="View this template" style="color:white">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:AFL_Under-19s" title="Template talk:AFL Under-19s"><abbr title="Discuss this template" style="color:white">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:AFL_Under-19s" title="Special:EditPage/Template:AFL Under-19s"><abbr title="Edit this template" style="color:white">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div><div id="AFL_under-19s" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/AFL_under-19s" title="AFL under-19s">AFL under-19s</a></div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#F0001B; color:white; box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #0C3F91, inset -2px -2px 0 #0C3F91;;width:1%;background:#0C3F91; color:white">Clubs</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background:#0C3F91; color:white">Final season</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Carlton_Football_Club" title="Carlton Football Club">Carlton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Collingwood_Football_Club" title="Collingwood Football Club">Collingwood</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Essendon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fitzroy_Football_Club" title="Fitzroy Football Club">Fitzroy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Western_Bulldogs" title="Western Bulldogs">Footscray</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Geelong_Football_Club" title="Geelong Football Club">Geelong</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hawthorn_Football_Club" title="Hawthorn Football Club">Hawthorn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Melbourne_Football_Club" title="Melbourne Football Club">Melbourne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Melbourne_Football_Club" title="North Melbourne Football Club">North Melbourne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richmond_Football_Club" title="Richmond Football Club">Richmond</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St_Kilda_Football_Club" title="St Kilda Football Club">St Kilda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sydney_Swans" title="Sydney Swans">Sydney</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background:#0C3F91; color:white">Former</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Essendon_Doutta_Stars_Football_Club" title="Essendon Doutta Stars Football Club">North Essendon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/TAA_(football_club)" title="TAA (football club)">TAA</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richmond_Football_Club" title="Richmond Football Club">Richmond Juniors</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#F0001B; color:white; box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #0C3F91, inset -2px -2px 0 #0C3F91;;width:1%;background:#0C3F91; color:white">Seasons</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1946_VFL_thirds_season" title="1946 VFL thirds season">1946</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1947_VFL_thirds_season" title="1947 VFL thirds season">1947</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1948_VFL_thirds_season" title="1948 VFL thirds season">1948</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1949_VFL_thirds_season" title="1949 VFL thirds season">1949</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1950_VFL_thirds_season" title="1950 VFL thirds season">1950</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1951_VFL_thirds_season&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1951 VFL thirds season (page does not exist)">1951</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1952_VFL_thirds_season&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1952 VFL thirds season (page does not exist)">1952</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1953_VFL_thirds_season&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1953 VFL thirds season (page does not exist)">1953</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1954_VFL_thirds_season&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1954 VFL thirds season (page does not exist)">1954</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1955_VFL_thirds_season&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1955 VFL thirds season (page does not exist)">1955</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1956_VFL_thirds_season&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1956 VFL thirds season (page does not exist)">1956</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1957_VFL_thirds_season&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1957 VFL thirds season (page does not exist)">1957</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1958_VFL_thirds_season&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1958 VFL thirds season (page does not exist)">1958</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1959_VFL_thirds_season&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1959 VFL thirds season (page does not exist)">1959</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1960_VFL_under-19s_season&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1960 VFL under-19s season (page does not exist)">1960</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1961_VFL_under-19s_season&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1961 VFL under-19s season (page does not exist)">1961</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1962_VFL_under-19s_season&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1962 VFL under-19s season (page does not exist)">1962</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1963_VFL_under-19s_season&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1963 VFL under-19s season (page does not exist)">1963</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1964_VFL_under-19s_season&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1964 VFL under-19s season (page does not exist)">1964</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1965_VFL_under-19s_season&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1965 VFL under-19s season (page does not exist)">1965</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1966_VFL_under-19s_season&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1966 VFL under-19s season (page does not exist)">1966</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1967_VFL_under-19s_season&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1967 VFL under-19s season (page does not exist)">1967</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1968_VFL_under-19s_season&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1968 VFL under-19s season (page does not exist)">1968</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1969_VFL_under-19s_season&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1969 VFL under-19s season (page does not exist)">1969</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1970_VFL_under-19s_season&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1970 VFL under-19s season (page does not exist)">1970</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1971_VFL_under-19s_season&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1971 VFL under-19s season (page does not exist)">1971</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1972_VFL_under-19s_season&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1972 VFL under-19s season (page does not exist)">1972</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1973_VFL_under-19s_season&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1973 VFL under-19s season (page does not exist)">1973</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1974_VFL_under-19s_season&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1974 VFL under-19s season (page does not exist)">1974</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1975_VFL_under-19s_season&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1975 VFL under-19s season (page does not exist)">1975</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1976_VFL_under-19s_season&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1976 VFL under-19s season (page does not exist)">1976</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1977_VFL_under-19s_season&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1977 VFL under-19s season (page does not exist)">1977</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1978_VFL_under-19s_season&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1978 VFL under-19s season (page does not exist)">1978</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1979_VFL_under-19s_season&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1979 VFL under-19s season (page does not exist)">1979</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1980_VFL_under-19s_season&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1980 VFL under-19s season (page does not exist)">1980</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1981_VFL_under-19s_season&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1981 VFL under-19s season (page does not exist)">1981</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1982_VFL_under-19s_season&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1982 VFL under-19s season (page does not exist)">1982</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1983_VFL_under-19s_season&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1983 VFL under-19s season (page does not exist)">1983</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1984_VFL_under-19s_season&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1984 VFL under-19s season (page does not exist)">1984</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1985_VFL_under-19s_season&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1985 VFL under-19s season (page does not exist)">1985</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1986_VFL_under-19s_season&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1986 VFL under-19s season (page does not exist)">1986</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1987_VFL_under-19s_season&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1987 VFL under-19s season (page does not exist)">1987</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1988_VFL_under-19s_season&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1988 VFL under-19s season (page does not exist)">1988</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1989_VFL_under-19s_season&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1989 VFL under-19s season (page does not exist)">1989</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1990_AFL_under-19s_season&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1990 AFL under-19s season (page does not exist)">1990</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1991_AFL_under-19s_season" title="1991 AFL under-19s season">1991</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#F0001B; color:white; box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #0C3F91, inset -2px -2px 0 #0C3F91;;width:1%;background:#0C3F91; color:white">Related articles</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/AFL_reserves" title="AFL reserves">AFL reserves</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_VFL/AFL_premiers#VFL/AFL_Thirds/Under-19s_premierships" title="List of VFL/AFL premiers">Premiers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Talent_League" title="Talent League">Talent League</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Victorian_Football_League#Thirds/Under-19s" title="Victorian Football League">VFA thirds</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2" style="background:#F0001B; color:white; box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #0C3F91, inset -2px -2px 0 #0C3F91;"><div>Known as the VFL thirds from 1946–1958; VFL under-19s from 1960–1989</div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Victorian_Football_League" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks hlist mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2" style="background:#172A5B;color:white"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Victorian_Football_League" title="Template:Victorian Football League"><abbr title="View this template" style="color:white">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Victorian_Football_League" title="Template talk:Victorian Football League"><abbr title="Discuss this template" style="color:white">t</abbr></a></li><li 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Hill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brisbane_Lions#Reserves_team" title="Brisbane Lions">Brisbane Lions reserves</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Casey_Demons" title="Casey Demons">Casey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carlton_Football_Club#Reserves_team" title="Carlton Football Club">Carlton reserves</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coburg_Football_Club" title="Coburg Football Club">Coburg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Collingwood_Football_Club#Reserves_team" title="Collingwood Football Club">Collingwood reserves</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#Reserves_team">Essendon reserves</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Western_Bulldogs#Reserves_team" title="Western Bulldogs">Footscray reserves</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frankston_Football_Club" title="Frankston Football Club">Frankston</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Geelong_Football_Club#Reserves_team" title="Geelong Football Club">Geelong reserves</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gold_Coast_Suns#Reserves_team" title="Gold Coast Suns">Gold Coast reserves</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greater_Western_Sydney_Giants#Reserves_team" title="Greater Western Sydney Giants">Greater Western Sydney reserves</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Melbourne_Football_Club#Reserves_team" title="North Melbourne Football Club">North Melbourne reserves</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Northern_Bullants" title="Northern Bullants">Northern Bullants</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Port_Melbourne_Football_Club" title="Port Melbourne Football Club">Port Melbourne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richmond_Football_Club#Reserves_team" title="Richmond Football Club">Richmond reserves</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sandringham_Football_Club" title="Sandringham Football Club">Sandringham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Southport_Australian_Football_Club" title="Southport Australian Football Club">Southport</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sydney_Swans#Reserves_team" title="Sydney Swans">Sydney reserves</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Werribee_Football_Club" title="Werribee Football Club">Werribee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Williamstown_Football_Club" title="Williamstown Football Club">Williamstown</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background:#172A5B;color:white">Future</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Tasmania_Football_Club" title="Tasmania Football Club">Tasmania</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background:#172A5B;color:white">Former</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Albert_Park_Football_Club_(VFA)" title="Albert Park Football Club (VFA)">Albert Park</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aspley_Football_Club" title="Aspley Football Club">Aspley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ballarat_Football_Club" title="Ballarat Football Club">Ballarat</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ballarat_Imperial_Football_Club" title="Ballarat Imperial Football Club">Ballarat Imperial</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Berwick_Football_Club" title="Berwick Football Club">Berwick</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bendigo_Gold_Football_Club" title="Bendigo Gold Football Club">Bendigo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brighton_Football_Club" title="Brighton Football Club">Brighton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brighton_Football_Club" title="Brighton Football Club">Brighton-Caulfield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brunswick_Football_Club" title="Brunswick Football Club">Brunswick</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Camberwell_Football_Club" title="Camberwell Football Club">Camberwell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carlton_Football_Club" title="Carlton Football Club">Carlton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Caulfield_Football_Club" title="Caulfield Football Club">Caulfield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Collingwood_Football_Club" title="Collingwood Football Club">Collingwood</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dandenong_Football_Club" title="Dandenong Football Club">Dandenong</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/East_Melbourne_Football_Club" title="East Melbourne Football Club">East Melbourne</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Essendon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Essendon_Association_Football_Club" title="Essendon Association Football Club">Essendon A</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fitzroy_Football_Club" title="Fitzroy Football Club">Fitzroy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Western_Bulldogs" title="Western Bulldogs">Footscray</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Geelong_Football_Club" title="Geelong Football Club">Geelong</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Geelong_Association_Football_Club" title="Geelong Association Football Club">Geelong A</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Geelong_West_St_Peters_Football_Club" title="Geelong West St Peters Football Club">Geelong West</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gold_Coast_Suns" title="Gold Coast Suns">Gold Coast</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hawthorn_Football_Club" title="Hawthorn Football Club">Hawthorn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Melbourne_Football_Club" title="North Melbourne Football Club">Hotham/North Melbourne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kilsyth_Football_Club" title="Kilsyth Football Club">Kilsyth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Melbourne_Football_Club" title="Melbourne Football Club">Melbourne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Melbourne_City_Football_Club_(VFA)" title="Melbourne City Football Club (VFA)">Melbourne City</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moorabbin_Football_Club" title="Moorabbin Football Club">Moorabbin (1951–1963)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moorabbin_Football_Club_(1979%E2%80%931987)" title="Moorabbin Football Club (1979–1987)">Moorabbin (1983–1987)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mordialloc_Football_Club" title="Mordialloc Football Club">Mordialloc</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Murray_Kangaroos_Football_Club" title="Murray Kangaroos Football Club">Murray Kangaroos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Ballarat_Football_Club" title="North Ballarat Football Club">North Ballarat</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Northcote_Football_Club" title="Northcote Football Club">Northcote</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oakleigh_Football_Club" title="Oakleigh Football Club">Oakleigh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prahran_Football_Club" title="Prahran Football Club">Prahran</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richmond_Football_Club" title="Richmond Football Club">Richmond</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St_Kilda_Football_Club" title="St Kilda Football Club">St Kilda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St_Kilda_Football_Club#Reserves_team" title="St Kilda Football Club">St Kilda reserves</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_Ballarat_Football_Club" title="South Ballarat Football Club">South Ballarat</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sydney_Swans" title="Sydney Swans">South Melbourne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_Williamstown_Football_Club" title="South Williamstown Football Club">South Williamstown</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sunshine_Football_Club_(VFA)" title="Sunshine Football Club (VFA)">Sunshine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tasmanian_Devils_(senior_team)" class="mw-redirect" title="Tasmanian Devils (senior team)">Tasmania</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Traralgon_Football_Club" title="Traralgon Football Club">Traralgon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Melbourne_University_Football_Club" title="Melbourne University Football Club">University</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Waverley_Football_Club" title="Waverley Football Club">Waverley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/West_Melbourne_Football_Club" title="West Melbourne Football Club">West Melbourne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yarraville_Football_Club" title="Yarraville Football Club">Yarraville</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#172A5B;color:white;width:1%">Venues</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Arden_Street_Oval" title="Arden Street Oval">Arden Street Oval</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blacktown_ISP_Oval" title="Blacktown ISP Oval">Blacktown ISP Oval</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Box_Hill_City_Oval" title="Box Hill City Oval">Box Hill City Oval</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carrara_Stadium" title="Carrara Stadium">Carrara Stadium</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Casey_Fields" title="Casey Fields">Casey Fields</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chirnside_Park_(stadium)" title="Chirnside Park (stadium)">Chirnside Park</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coburg_City_Oval" title="Coburg City Oval">Coburg City Oval</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fankhauser_Reserve" title="Fankhauser Reserve">Fankhauser Reserve</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frankston_Park" title="Frankston Park">Frankston Park</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kardinia_Park_(stadium)" title="Kardinia Park (stadium)">Kardinia Park</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Melbourne_Cricket_Ground" title="Melbourne Cricket Ground">Melbourne Cricket Ground</a></li> <li><a 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title="Trevor Barker Beach Oval">Trevor Barker Beach Oval</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Victoria_Park,_Melbourne" title="Victoria Park, Melbourne">Victoria Park</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Whitten_Oval" title="Whitten Oval">Whitten Oval</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Williamstown_Cricket_Ground" title="Williamstown Cricket Ground">Williamstown Cricket Ground</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Windy_Hill,_Essendon" title="Windy Hill, Essendon">Windy Hill</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#172A5B;color:white;width:1%">Awards</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Fothergill%E2%80%93Round%E2%80%93Mitchell_Medal" title="Fothergill–Round–Mitchell Medal">Fothergill–Round–Mitchell Medal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/J._J._Liston_Trophy" title="J. J. Liston Trophy">J. J. Liston Trophy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/J._J._Liston_Trophy#J._Field_Medal" title="J. J. Liston Trophy">J. Field Medal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jim_%27Frosty%27_Miller_Medal" title="Jim 'Frosty' Miller Medal">Jim 'Frosty' Miller Medal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Norm_Goss_Memorial_Medal" title="Norm Goss Memorial Medal">Norm Goss Memorial Medal</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#172A5B;color:white;width:1%">Former grades</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/VFL_Development_League" title="VFL Development League">Development League (reserves)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Victorian_Football_League#Thirds/Under-19s" title="Victorian Football League">Under-19s</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/VFA_Sub-Districts" class="mw-redirect" title="VFA Sub-Districts">Sub-Districts</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#172A5B;color:white;width:1%">Related articles</th><td 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href="/wiki/Williamstown_vs_Geelong_West_(1983_VFA_season)" title="Williamstown vs Geelong West (1983 VFA season)">Williamstown vs Geelong West (1983 thirds season)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Talent_League" title="Talent League">Talent League</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/VFL_Women%27s" title="VFL Women's">VFL Women's</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vicki_Cleary_Day" title="Vicki Cleary Day">Vicki Cleary Day</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Victorian_Junior_Football_Association" title="Victorian Junior Football Association">Victorian Junior Football Association</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2" style="background:#172A5B;color:white"><div>Known as the Victorian Football Association (VFA) from 1877–1996</div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div 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href="/wiki/Port_Melbourne_Football_Club" title="Port Melbourne Football Club">Port Melbourne</a></li> <li>2024: <a href="/wiki/North_Melbourne_Football_Club#Women's_teams" title="North Melbourne Football Club">North Melbourne</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2" style="background:#172A5B; color:white"><div>No premiership was awarded in 2020 or 2021</div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="VFL_Women&#039;s" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2" style="background:#172A5B; color:white"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" 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Cats</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greater_Western_Sydney_Giants#AFL_Women's_team" title="Greater Western Sydney Giants">Greater Western Sydney</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Melbourne_Football_Club#Women's_teams" title="North Melbourne Football Club">North Melbourne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Port_Melbourne_Football_Club" title="Port Melbourne Football Club">Port Melbourne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Southern_Saints" title="Southern Saints">Southern Saints</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sydney_Swans#Women's_team" title="Sydney Swans">Sydney</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Western_Bulldogs#Women's_teams" title="Western Bulldogs">Western Bulldogs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Williamstown_Football_Club" title="Williamstown Football Club">Williamstown</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background:#172A5B; color:white">Former</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cranbourne_Football_Club" title="Cranbourne Football Club">Cranbourne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Diamond_Creek_Women%27s_Football_Club" title="Diamond Creek Women's Football Club">Diamond Creek</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eastern_Devils" title="Eastern Devils">Eastern Devils</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Geelong_Football_Club" title="North Geelong Football Club">Geelong Magpies</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hawthorn_Football_Club_(AFL_Women%27s)" title="Hawthorn Football Club (AFL Women's)">Hawthorn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Knox_Football_Club" title="Knox Football Club">Knox</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Melbourne_University_Football_Club#Women's_team" title="Melbourne University Football Club">Melbourne University</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Northern_Territory_Football_Club" title="Northern Territory Football Club">Northern Territory</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richmond_Football_Club#Women's_teams" title="Richmond Football Club">Richmond</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Seaford_Football_Club" title="Seaford Football Club">Seaford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St_Kilda_Sharks" title="St Kilda Sharks">St Kilda Sharks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parkside_Spurs" title="Parkside Spurs">Western Spurs</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#172A5B; color:white;width:1%">Seasons</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2016_VFL_Women%27s_season" title="2016 VFL Women's season">2016</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2017_VFL_Women%27s_season" title="2017 VFL Women's season">2017</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2018_VFL_Women%27s_season" title="2018 VFL Women's season">2018</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2019_VFL_Women%27s_season" title="2019 VFL Women's season">2019</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=2020_VFL_Women%27s_season&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="2020 VFL Women's season (page does not exist)">2020</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2021_VFL_Women%27s_season" title="2021 VFL Women's season">2021</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2022_VFL_Women%27s_season" title="2022 VFL Women's season">2022</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2023_VFL_Women%27s_season" title="2023 VFL Women's season">2023</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2024_VFL_Women%27s_season" title="2024 VFL Women's season">2024</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#172A5B; color:white;width:1%">Venues</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Arden_Street_Oval" title="Arden Street Oval">Arden Street Oval</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bill_Lawry_Oval" title="Bill Lawry Oval">Bill Lawry Oval</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Box_Hill_City_Oval" title="Box Hill City Oval">Box Hill City Oval</a></li> <li><a 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color:white;width:1%">Awards</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lambert%E2%80%93Pearce_Medal" title="Lambert–Pearce Medal">Lambert–Pearce Medal</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#172A5B; color:white;width:1%">Related articles</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/AFL_Women%27s" title="AFL Women's">AFL Women's</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_VFL_Women%27s_premiers" title="List of VFL Women's premiers">Premiers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Victorian_Football_League" title="Victorian Football League">Victorian Football League</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Victorian_Women%27s_Football_League" title="Victorian Women's Football League">Victorian Women's Football League</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td 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