Aussie Rules has been going since 1859. Invented to keep cricketers fit. Also it maybe based on an Aboriginal game called Marngrook.

The requirement to bounce the ball while running has been in the rules since the 1860s. This was introduced to even up the play and make it more difficult for fast running players. A free kick for catching the ball (a mark) has been around since the first rules were drawn up in 1858. Four quarters have been around since the 1880s. Used to be 2 halves. Scoring, a goal (6 points) the ball has to be kicked, if it is touched or kicked by the knee or above, or it hits the goal post, it is one point. Starting and restarting the game by the umpire bouncing the ball has been around just as long. Oldest clubs, Melbourne 1858, Geelong 1857, Carlton 1864, North Melbourne 1869, Port Adelaide 1870. The first 2 clubs are older than any in the English soccer club. Crowds in the 1860s were up to 10,000. By the 1880s some crowds exceeded 30,000. The Victorian Football Association (VFA) began in 1877. 8 of the largest clubs seceded from the VFA in 1896 and formed the Victorian Football League. (VFL) The league expanded to include interstate clubs in the 1980s and changed its name to the Australian Football League (AFL) Each club had its own home ground, but it came too expensive to upgrade them. In Melbourne all Melbourne based clubs now play their home games at Marvel Stadium or on the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG). Geelong play at Geelong, Port Adelaide and Adelaide at the Adelaide Oval, Perth Stadium for West Coast Eagles and Fremantle, Brisbane Cricket Ground for Brisbane, Gold Coast Stadium for the Gold Coast Suns, Sydney play on the Sydney Cricket Ground and Greater Western Sydney (GWS) at the Giants Stadium.

22 games for the whole year , then the finals. There are shorter players . They are usually fast and highly manoeuvrable. The taller slower players try and get it down to them so they can take off. Its one of the best features of the game as anyone can play as there is a roll for everyone. The flip side of that is everyone , tall or small, has to be able to do all the skilled aspects of the game like kicking , handball, marking , bouncing and running. Even defenders might on occasion have to shoot for goal and forwards have to tackle. Because the field is so big everyone has to be able to run though , the midfield players run up to 12 miles a game. Its a fast continuous game without the stop starts of NFL and its high scoring un like soccer . The rules are easy. Dont throw the ball , hand ball. Catch a ball thats been kicked 15 m and you can stop and take your kick or play on. Dont push in the back or its a free kick , dont trip ,tackles must be between the shoulders and the knees. If you get tackled and dont dispose of the ball properly after having a chance to then its holding the ball and a free kick is awarded against you . Run but you have to bounce every 15 m . Kick it between the big posts for 6 points . when the ball goes out of bounds the umpires throw it back in and both teams battle for possession . There are finer details but thats the basics.

The flag is the Australian aboriginal flag. Good video and nice to see you ask questions.

The game you were describing sounds a lot like Gaelic football. First played in Ireland in 1885. They play with a round ball.

West Coast Eagles and Fremantle Dockers are from West Oz. Adelaide Crows and Port Adelaide Power from South Australia . Brisbane Lions and Gold Coast Suns are from Queensland. Sydney Swans and Greater Western Sydney Giants are from New South Wales . The other 10 teams are from Victoria. The spiritual home of AFL is the MCG ( Melbourne Cricket Ground ).

Good video and AFL Has been around for 150 years so it will predate those that other sports you were thinking and the 22 home and away seasons games are only 22 games not the 44

The first organised game was played in 1858. The first governing body of the sport was the South Australian Football Association (SAFA) on the 30th April, 1877; closely followed by the Victorian Football Association (VFA) in late 1877, South Tasmanian Football Association and Queensland Football Association were established in 1879, the New South Wales Association was established in 1881, the Western Australian Football Association was established in 1885, with the North Tasmanian Football and Northern Territory Football Leagues formed between 1910 and 1917. The VFL began expanding it's competition, and in 1990 changed their name to the Australian Football League (AFL).

That flag was the Australian Aboriginal flag. There is a better but older video called What is AFL which explains a few more things better than this one.

The fields are used for cricket in summer and footy in winter, well picked up.

At the start of the each quarter and after a Goal has been scored, there must be 6 players in the attack, centre and defence for each team; following the Centre bounce to start and re-start the game, players are free to move wherever they like. There is no offside rule.

I would recommend watching "What Is AFL: Aussie Rules Explained", from the official AFL Channel; Ninh's explanation does a lot of comparisons with Soccer, or as the English call it "Football".

Australian Rules football | National Museum of Australia In the winter of 1858 students from Scotch College and Melbourne Grammar competed against each other in several games of football. These matches are credited as the first organised games of Australian Rules foot

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So to answer a few questions: •The games was codifed (basically got an OFFICIAL rulebook) in 1859, making the oldest codified sport globally, outdating NFL, rugby, basketball and soccer. •It wasn't entirely clear, but there are 18 players in the field PER TEAM, meaning 36 overall. •There are 24 matches in TOTAL over the H&W season. Teams get roughly even split of Home/Away games, however sometimes both teams may be playing their home ground if they share the same place (eg. Melbourne and Collingwood both have the MCG as their homeground, so while in the books it may be an away game for one of the teams, in reality it isn't) •Yes injuries happen often. Of the nine games played of a week (18 teams 1v1) at least one will always have an injury of somekind. Could be a streched hamstring, could be a concussion, could be a broken arm or collarbone; it varies. Injuries from marks aren't super common because the players train and know how to land from a height, but they can happen, most recent memory a player (Jeremy Howe) notorious for big jumps, basically belly flopped from 2 meters up because he got his legs swept out from under him mid-air and broke his forearm. •The red black and yellow flag is the Aboriginal flag and represents the indigenous people of the country.

The Australian Football League began life as the Victorian Football League in and around Melbourne with 12 teams in the competition. Carlton, Collingwood, Essendon, Fitzroy, Footscray, Hawthorn, Melbourne, North Melbourne, Richmond, St Kilda and South Melbourne are all suburbs of Melbourne and there was also Geelong, a city about 75km southwest of Melbourne. While all States had their own football leagues, the VFL was the best league attracting players from all over the country. In 1982, South Melbourne moved to Sydney in New South Wales and became the Sydney Swans. In 1986 two new VFL teams were formed in Brisbane, Queensland, (the Brisbane Bears) and in Perth, Western Australia (the West Coast Eagles). At the end of the 1989 season and before the start of the 1990 season, the VFL became the AFL. Adelaide, South Australia, entered the Adelaide Crows into the competition in 1991. Fremantle, the Port suburb of Perth WA, entered the Fremantle Dockers in 1995. In 1996 the Brisbane Bears merged with the Fitzroy Lions to become the Brisbane Lions. That year saw Footscray change its name to the Western Bulldogs. Port Adelaide Power became the second South Australian club in 1997; the Gold Coast Suns became the second Queensland team in 2011; and the Greater Western Sydney Giants became the second NSW team in 2012. There are, therefore 18 teams in the AFL - 10 Victorian teams, all but one from Melbourne, and two teams each from New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia and South Australia. In 2028, a new team, the Tasmanian Devils, will enter the competition.

Most of the places you don't know are suburbs of Melbourne. The league started as the VFL (Victorian Football League) and expanded nationally in the 80s and 90s, so of the 18 teams 9 are in Melbourne with another one (Geelong) being in a city about an hour drive from Melbourne. Before then each state had their own league. CFC stands for Carlton Football Club and St KFC stands for St Kilda Football club (both in Melbourne). There's going to be a 19th team come in in 2028 in Tasmania. Fremantle and West Coast are the 2 teams in WA, Adelaide and Port Adelaide are the 2 teams in SA, Brisbane and Gold Coast from QLD and Sydney and the Western Sydney Giants from NSW. Western Bulldogs is a bit fonfusing because they represent the western suburbs of Melbourne

The basic rules of the game of Australian Rules Football were drafted long before the rules of American football was standardised. The game was originally created to give the cricket players, a summer sport, some organised form of team sport to play during winter to keep them fit. As the game developed it quickly because an exciting spectator sport in its own right, mostly in Victoria but also in South Australia, Western Australia and Tasmania. It probably close to a hundred years before there was a substantial following in the other Australian states and territories.

Most of the team in the AFL are located in various suburbs of Melbourne. Melbourne (the AFL club) is located near the main business district of Melbourne. Their home stadium is the MCG, the venue for the "Grand Final" game that decides which team is the champion team of the year. Unlike the US Superbowl where the Superbowl game is played at a different stadium each year, the Australian Rules "Grand Final" is always played at the same stadium, the MCG. Carlton (the team with the overlapping CFC emblem). A suburb of Melbourne. Collingwood (their emblem is a bird called a magpie). A suburb of Melbourne. Essendon (their emblem is a military bomber aircraft). A suburb of Melbourne. Hawthorn (the Hawks), a suburb of Melbourne. North Melbourne (their symbol is a kangaroo). A suburb of Melbourne. Richmond, a suburb of Melbourne. St Kilda, a suburb of Melbourne. Western Bulldogs, based in Footscray, a suburb of Melbourne. Geelong, a regional city near Melbourne. Two more teams, the Brisbane Lions and the Sydney Swans used to be based in Melbourne but moved to other cities in Australia. All the other AFL teams were started in the cities they are based in now. Before the early 1980's there was no national football league for Australian Rules Football, most Australian states had their own separate professional leagues, and the separate leagues rarely played teams against each other. Melbourne had the largest and most highly funded league, called the Victorian Football League, but despite having better funding than leagues in other states, not all the teams in the VFL did well financially. In the early 1980's one of the Melbourne based teams, the South Melbourne Swans was facing financial problems and was enticed to move to Sydney (Sydney and Brisbane did not have any professional Australian Rules teams at that time) where it would have more scope to attract better funding and became the Sydney Swans. This prompted the beginning of a national professional Australian Rules football league with teams across the entire country. In the mid 1990's another financially troubled team in Melbourne, the Fitzroy Lions, had difficulty maintaining a home ground/stadium in Melbourne and accepted an offer to move to Brisbane in the hope that doing so would improve their financial problems in the same way the Swans move to Sydney had helped the Swans team financially. The Fitzroy Lions renamed themselves to the Brisbane Lions. There are two more states which currently do not have any teams in the AFL, Tasmania and Northern Territory (not quite a state technically but close enough for this discussion). The creation of a professional AFL team based in Tasmania was officially announced last year but this team is not is expected to be ready to play a full season in the AFL before 2028. There are no plans for a professional AFL team to be based in the Northern Territory. There is also the Australian Capitol Territory/Canberra, not actually a state. It's status is similar to Washington DC, it's a special federal zone created to house the Australian Federal government. Canberra does have a professional Rugby League team, the Raiders, and it could potentially be able to support a professional AFL team (the ACT population is a little lower than the Tasmanian state population) but there doesn't appear to be much interest in creating a Canberra based AFL team right now. The AFL league today is much more stable for funding than the old VFL was in the past, so there isn't much demand to move another team out of Melbourne at present.

Melbourne based teams: Collingwood (Magpies), Essendon (bombers), Carlton Football Club (Blues), St Kilda Football Club, Footscray (Bulldogs), Richmond (Tigers).Hawthorn (Hawks). Geelong (Cats) are about an hour from Melbourne). Freemantle Dockers and West Coast Eagles are both Perth. Giants is a Sydney Team, Gold Coast (Suns). The game started in Victoria and for the first 100 years or so the AFL was the VFL changed in '87.

What you play at school was Gaelic football, which hails from Ireland. And that was an Aboriginal flag!

The oldest teams generally started as local suburban teams, so their names may not be well known. As the league grew and expanded, new teams where added that were named after larger cities or regions.

This National league originated in Victoria so there is a larger number of Melbourne based teams. The other states joined the then VFL and the name changed to AFL in 1990. There are 24 rounds (currently) in a home and away season. 12Home/12Away. Injuries from Speckies are less common than you think. Most injuries are soft tissue or impact injuries from tackling.

The two teams from Perth are the FremantleDockers and the West Coast Eagles. The Western Bulldogs are a Melbourne team from the inner western suburbs of Melbourne.

Collingwood are the Magpies, suburb in Melbourne, formed in 1892, formerly part of the Victorian Football League and won the Premiership this year. They have 16 Premierships, equal highest with Essendon and Carlton, also Melbourne clubs.

Aussie rules was codified before any other ballgame, such as soccer, rugby, NFL, basketball etc. I won't tell you there's no injuries, but I will tell you there is less than what you imagine. The reason is that these guys are elite athletes and they are so well conditioned that they can withstand many of the bumps. Some games there's no injuries at all, others maybe just one, two is not as common. There are two teams in Western Australia, South Australia, New South Wales, and Queensland . The rest are in Melbourne which is where it was first played. Cheers. 🇦🇺🦘

The 3rd team on the top line is CFC which stands for Carlton Football Club (& Carlton is a suburb in Melbourne) & the 4th one is Collingwood Magpies!

Nice reaction video. I hope the info below is helpful to you. The AFLW finals are on right now (watching it as I type), so you might be able to find a place to watch them live. CFC = Carlton Football Club (Carlton Blues; Carlton is an inner Melbourne suburb). The game was invented in Melbourne and the Australian Football League, AFL, evolved by expansion of the Victorian Football League, VFL (Victoria is a state of which Melbourne is the capital), so a lot of clubs (9/18) are Melbourne suburbs. Collingwood is also an inner Melbourne suburb and the bird is a magpie, a native Australian bird (birds feature prominently as club nicknames; in addition to the Collingwood Magpies, there are the Hawthorn Hawks (another Melbourne club), the Sydney Swans, the Adelaide Crows and the West Coast Eagles). Essendon (Bombers) is also a Melbourne Suburb. The other Melbourne teams are the Melbourne (dah) Demons, North Melbourne Kangaroos, Richmond Tigers, St Kilda Saints (never noticed the KFC thing - hilarious), Western Bulldogs (from western Melbourne, not Western Australia). The Geelong Cats are from Geelong, a city about 1 hour drive from Melbourne. The other clubs are the Brisbane Lions (started as the Brisbane Bears but changed names when they merged with the Fitzroy Lions, a club relocated from Melbourne) and the Gold Coast Suns in Queensland, Sydney Swans (South Melbourne Swans relocated to Sydney as the first step the expansion of the VFL to a national competition) and Greater Western Sydney Giants) in New South Wales, Adelaide Crows and Port Adelaide Power in South Australia and West Coast Eagles and Fremantle Dockers in Western Australia. This year, a new club in Tasmania was announced but won't start playing in the AFL for a few years. Darwin is a small city but the capital of the Northern Territory. Aussie rules football is big in the Northern Territory and some champion players have come from there, but it does not have a team in the AFL, mainly due to the small population and economy. Once Tasmania joins and there are 19 teams, with the need for a bye every week, I think there will be pressure to include a team from Darwin. Yes, there are positions and when the ball is bounced in the centre (at the start of each quarter and after every goal), the players need to be in their staring positions (within marked areas on the ground). However, after that, they are free to move and often all 36 players will be within a kick of the ball. There are specialised players but all players need to have pretty much all of the skills of the game: marking, hand balling, kicking, tackling. We don't have separate offensive and defensive teams or punters like in American football. In this respect, it is a bit more like soccer, except that there is no goalkeeper. Injuries during a marking contest are not very common. The players practice taking high marks and landing safely during training. Injuries occur more frequently during tackles or just when the player is twisting and turning to evade a tackle. It is common for people reacting to Aussie rules to think that it was cobbled together from lots of other sports (like soccer, rugby, American football and basketball), but the first game was played in 1858 and the game was codified (the laws set down) in 1859, making it one of the oldest codes in the world. You are right; there are a lot fewer stoppages in Aussie rules compared with American football. It is fast paced and flowing. Also, there are no time outs, just 5 mins between the 1st and 2nd and between the 3rd and 4th quarters and 20 mins between the 2nd and 3rd quarters. There are 22 home and away games (11 home, 11 away) total. Actually, in 2023 there was an additional round, so 23 rounds (presumably, half the clubs only got 11 home games and half got 12). To give players a bit of a break, there are three weeks when only six games, rather than nine, are played, so that was a total of 24 weeks. There is also a 1-week break before the finals and the finals take 4 weeks, so the whole season took 29 weeks. Yes, the average AFL footballer is pretty tall but there is a range of player sizes. The tallest players are ruckmen. They are the ones who jump up to tap the ball when it is bounced, thrown up or thrown into the field of play by the umpire. The current tallest player in the AFL is Mason Cox, who played for Collingwood. He is an ex-basketball player from Texas and is 211 cm (6'11") tall. However, it its important to have a range of player sizes in a team. The big guys can fly for an overhead mark or try to punch the ball away from a player trying to take a mark but you also need a quick little player to try to gather the "crumbs" (balls that are not marked but fall to the base of the pack). The shortest player in the AFL is Caleb Daniel (Western Bulldogs) at 171 cm (5'7"). The black and red flag with the yellow circle in the middle is the Aboriginal flag. Aborigines (native Australians), as a rule, have a great talent for this game and have played an important role in the AFL. Some of the greatest players of all time have been Aborigines. Although they only make up 3.8% of the Australian population, 10% of AFL players are Aboriginal. There is some evidence that the origin of Aussie rules may have been influenced by a traditional Aboriginal game called Marn Grook (meaning "ball game"). An early account does sound suspiciously like the style of Aussie rules: "The men and boys joyfully assemble when this game is to be played. One makes a ball of possum skin, somewhat elastic, but firm and strong. ...The players of this game do not throw the ball as a white man might do, but drop it and at the same time kicks it with his foot, using the instep for that purpose. ...The tallest men have the best chances in this game. ...Some of them will leap as high as five feet from the ground to catch the ball. The person who secures the ball kicks it. ...This continues for hours and the natives never seem to tire of the exercise." (books.google.com.au/books?id=As9AAAAAMAAJ&q=joyfully+assemble&redir_esc=y#v=snippet&q=joyfully%20assemble&f=false). Yes, the game is usually played on cricket grounds. This enables the space to be used year round (footy in winter months, cricket in summer). Some state that Tom Wills invented the game to keep cricketers fit during winter, although I understand there is some dispute about this.

The oldest football code in the world. They were playing this game in Australia before the civil war in America. Yes basketball size players running up to 15 miles a game, leaping to catch balls, tackling or bumbing at high speed. Kicking the ball up to 70 yards, almost continues non stop play. Very short stoppages before the ball can quickly move from one part of the ground to another, up 60 yards away where one against one battles of speed and strength occur before the ball moves quickly again. Two hours divided into quarters and the winners are proclaimed. The Roman colosseum on steroids, and the crowds of up to 100,000 going wild with every victorious play during the game.

Teams in Victoria are Melbourne Demons, North Melbourne Kangaroos, Carlton (CFC) Blues, Collingwood Magpies, Essendon Bombers, Geelong Cats, Hawthorn Hawks, St Kilda Saints, Richmond Tigers, Western (formerly Footscray) Bulldogs

The Speccy doesn't have as many injuries as you'd think because Australians have specially developed shoulders that have evolved to briefly carry the weight of of other players. They also have evolved shoulder blades to withstand the initial impact

There is a USAFL, there is no professional competition like there is here in Australia but amateur teams are playing AFL all over the US.

started in 1850s to keep cricket players fit during the winter months. (Cricket is a summer sport.)

If you get the chance, check out Mason Cox - " Don't believe in never " An American playing AFL... Enjoy cheers thanks 🤠

Adelaide Crows obviously a team out of Adelaide, South Australia.. Brisbane Lions play out of Brissy however they were originally the Fitzroy Lions with Fitzroy being a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria. CFC is Carlton footy club who play out of Carlton, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria. Collingwood footy club is a team that play out of Collingwood a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria. The bird is a magpie hence Collingwood are often referred to as the Pies Essendon footy club play out of Essendon. Essendon is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria Fremantle Dockers play out of Fremantle. Fremantle is a suburb of Perth, Western Australia Geelong Cats play out of Geelong which is a town west of Melbourne, Victoria. Gold Coast Suns play out of the Gold Coast which is north of Brisbane, Queensland. GWS (Greater Western Sydney) play out of western Sydney, NSW. Hawthorn Hawks play out of Hawthorn, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria Melbourne play out of Melbourne, Victoria. North Melbourne play out of North Melbourne, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria. Port Adelaide play out of Port Adelaide a suburb of Adelaide, South Australia. Richmond footy club play out of Richmond, a suburb of Melbourne Victoria. (Go Tiges!!) St Kilda are a team that play out of St Kilda, a suburb of Melbourne Victoria. (Where I live) Sydney are a team that play out of Sydney NSW, however they were originally the South Melbourne (you guessed it a team playing out of a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria) Westcoast Eagles are a team that plays out of Perth, Western Australia. Western Bulldogs are a team that play out of Footscray, (yep) a suburb of Melbourne Victoria. Originally known as just Footscray.

6:00 Jeremy Howe (Collingwood player) actually broke his arm in round 1 earlier this year on his way down

The league was founded as the Victorian Football League (VFL) in 1897,

The Adelaide Crows and Port Adelaide Power are from South Australia, the Fremantle Dockers and West Coast Eagles are from Western Australia, the Brisbane Lions and Gold Coast Suns are from Queensland, the Greater Western Sydney Giants and Sydney Swans are from New South Wales, and all the other teams are from Victoria.

Kudos to you for educating yourself on our game. It is not simple to learn. Safe to say that our players are probably the fittest anywhere. Welcome to what we think is the greatest game in the world.

You are right about the different builds of bodies between Rugby and ALF players. While there is a degree of overlap and exceptions, Rugby players a often stockier in build while AFL players are more often taller and leaner. I think it has to do with what body type works best in winning those games.

Every American seeing AFL for the first time: it's like a combination of lots of different sports AND when did this sport get created ?

This game was created in 1850s but codified in the 1890s starting with the VFA (Victorian Football Association) which was an amateur league in Melbourne when the Cricket was in it's off season (Cricket itself was also a very old sport alongside Rugby Union) which was Autumn and Winter. Then in 1896 eight teams broke away because players wanted to get paid and formed the VFL (Victorian Football League) with the suburban Melbourne teams i.e. Collingwood Magpies, South Melbourne (Now Sydney Swans), Melbourne Demons (The oldest team in the league established in 1859), St Kilda Saints, Fitzroy Lions (merged with the Brisbane Bears in 1996 to form the Brisbane Lions), Carlton Blues (The CFC Monogram logo that you were trying to work out established in 1864), Essendon Bombers, and the second oldest club (est. 1860) an outer Victorian town of Geelong (about a couple of hours drive southwest of Melbourne) called the Geelong Cats

Older than all those other sports that you are thinking of. It was designed for Cricket players to keep fit in the off season.

3:39 Adelaide Crows- Adelaide, South Australia Brisbane Lions- Brisbane, Queensland Carlton Blues- Carlton, Victoria Collingwood Magpies(Carlton’s biggest rivals and most hated club)- Collingwood, Victoria Essendon Bombers- Essendon, Victoria Fremantle Dockers- Fremantle, Western Australia Geelong Cats- Geelong, Victoria Gold Coast Suns (Brisbanes biggest rival)- Gold Coast, Queensland GWS Giants- Western Sydney, NSW Hawthorn Hawks- Hawthorn, Victoria Melbourne Demons- pretty obvious this one North Melbourne Kangaroos(Demons biggest rival)-irrelevant club so idk but they play some games in Tasmania as well as the hawks Port Adelaide Power(Crows biggest rival)- Adelaide, South Australia Richmond tigers- Richmond, Victoria St Kilda Saints- St Kilda, Victoria Sydney Swans(GWS biggest rival) Sydney, NSW West Coast Eagles(Fremantle biggest rival) Perth, Western Australia Western Bulldogs- Footscray, Victoria

We know where they all are. The ball isn’t round, you cannot throw a ball forward, you can only handball forward. No, it is not like any other game because it was first before you had football. We even use our feet and do not wear pads. These are elite athletes that have to run on average over 10 miles in up to 90 minutes without losing any skills. You need to watch What is AFL. It is fast and it is fun, it is played on the biggest field of any sport and the field is oval. A normal grand final crowd at The MCG is between 95,000 and 105,000 fans. There is nothing like the roar of that crowd at the G. Yes, we shorten everything. Collingwood mascot is a Magpie, most of the teams are from Victoria. Then they sent South Melbourne to Sydney and they became the Sydney Swans until almost every State has one or more teams. CFC is Carlton Football Club or the Navy Blues. Both teams I mentioned are mine and they are the two biggest enemies in the league. I took over Carlton for my Dad when he passed so young and I never watch when they play each other. Both are still Victorian teams.

The flag you mentioned is that of our First Nations indigenous people.

I lived in Melbourne for a couple of years as a schoolkid - I watched a few games on TV, and played some knockabout aussie rule footy with my classmates, but I wish I had hassled my dad to take us to see a real match I suspect I learned to tackle hard in those years, which didn't translate well to playing football (soccer) back in Britain, but left me ready to learn and enjoy the rudiments of rugby, even though I was shorter & lighter than many of my classmates

What adds to he excitement of Aussie rules footy is that the oval ball can randomly bounce anywhere, keeping the players on high alert. This game would be one of the oldest. It is inspired by a game played by the aboriginal/first nations people who called it 'marn grook' and used a stuffed animal skin for a ball. Tom Wills, one of the inventors of the game, watched them playing it on his family's farm in (Western) Victoria, the state of origin of the game. The flag that you queried is the first nations flag. The remnant aboriginal people of Australia are the oldest culture in the world, many thousands of years old. The AFL players are supreme athletes.

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22 games (on per week) in the regular season, 11 at home and 11 away; plus 4 weeks of finals.

That flag is the official indigenous aboriginal flag... the field is also used for cricket in the summer months.

That game of "Handball" seems like it has a similar scoring theme to Gaelic Football or the International Rules Football game. Over the post goals are called "overs", for example and are worth 3 points (in IR anyway).

There are players of all heights from about 5'6" to over seven foot. Except for the ruckman which is the player that takes the centre bounce most of the players in mid-field are generally the shorter players while the full forwards and full backs are generally the tallest. Players may be able to move anywhere on the field during the play but have to start out from set positions for set plays like the centre bounce or the line throw in. It should also be noted that most AFL fields are about 200 metres long and around 150 metres wide so there is a lot of running needed to be done in any game for most of the players. The full forwards and full backs only occasionally might move further out than about 50 metres from their properties goals and the mid fielders like the wingers will generally stay within a centre zone that ends about 50 metres from each goal unless they are on the ball or actively chasing those who are on the ball. Passing the ball forward to a teammate by an accurate 50 plus metre kick is not uncommon, either on the left foot or the right foot, it doesn't really matter to most players.

The basic Aussie Rules field is generally a Cricket Oval, that is why it looks egg-shaped; it is longer than it is wider.

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All the teams are based off of cities. Numbering the list you were shown 1-18, Victoria has 10 teams consisting of Carlton Blues(3) Collingwood Magpies(4) Essendon Bombers(5) Geelong Cats(7) Hawthorn Hawks(10) Melbourne Demons and North Melbourne Kangaroos(11&12) Richmond Tigers(14) Stkilda Saint(15) and the Western Bulldogs (18). New South Wales, South Aus, Western Aus and Queensland all have 2 teams each. NSW: Greater Western Sydney (GWS) Giants(9) and Sydney Swans (16) SA: Adelaide Crows(1) and Port Adelaide Power(13) WA: Fremantle Dockers(6) and West Coast Eagles(17) QLD: Brisbane Lions(2) and Gold Coast Suns(8) Both Tasmania and The Northern Territory do not have a team as of 2024, however Tasmania has secured the license for the 19th team to be created in the coming years (2025+).

A lot of the sides are suburbs of Melbourne (e.g. the one you said might be Canberra is Carlton - they're in Melbourne, so is Collingwood, Hawthorn, St Kilda, Essendon, Richmond, North Melbourne, Western Bulldaogs - and Geelong is an hour or two from Melbourne in country Vic). The game evolved separately throughout the country, but the current league evolved from the Victorian Football League (and these days the other major leagues tend to follow their rules - they sometimes have small differences in rules, but ultimately their rules derive from the Laws of the Game as stipulated by the AFL (and any variation in a particular rule is usually explicitly specified in a separate document).

They use to play each other twice but now there’s so many added teams only some play each other once.

Port Adelaide, Carlton, Essendon and Collingwood have had the most successful history. But only the Hawthorn Hawks have won a Premiership in every decade from the 1960s to the present. Although they are yet to win one in the 2020s.

The 3rd one (the C) is for Carleton, the KFC is the St. Kilda Football Club. A mark/speccy is a technique they train for. This sport is true-blue Aussie👍

So for my last comment cutting short, sent too early. I was going to say that aussie rules do play and can be played on cricket fields. The sport started in 1858

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hi, there is a video about the history of aussie rules and it does have lineage from cricket which is why these games do playand can

Q & A - Teams, their home City and State Adelaide Crows Adelaide - South Australia Brisbane Lions Brisbane - Queensland Carlton Melbourne - Victoria Collingwood Melbourne - Victoria Essendon Melbourne - Victoria Fremantle Perth - Western Australia Geelong Cats Geelong - Victoria Gold Coast Suns Gold Coast - Queensland GWS Giants Sydney - New South Wales Hawthorn Melbourne - Victoria Melbourne Melbourne - Victoria North Melbourne Melbourne - Victoria Port Adelaide Adelaide - South Australia Richmond Melbourne - Victoria St Kilda Melbourne - Victoria Sydney Swans Sydney - New South Wales West Coast Eagles Perth = Western Australia Western Bulldogs Melbourne - Victoria CFC is the Carlton Football Club, Collingwood’s mascot is a Magpie, Saint Kilda Football Club, Bulldogs are Victorian, Darwin is not overly populated, currently has no AFL team and is very humid. Teams play occasional games up there. 18 players per team on the ground, specific player starting positions at the start of each quarter and after goals are now required. Game started in 1858 so is older than many of the other sports you feel parts of were copied from. Injuries from marks happen but not as many as you probably think as players are conditioned from a young age taking a ‘mark/specky’ over a sibling. Players getting winded and head cuts are probably higher than other injuries. Between the 2 large posts (goal posts) without being touched by any player is a goal - 6 points. Hitting the goal post or going between goal and smaller post (point post) 1 point. Hit the smaller post without the ball being touch is out of bounds and a kick is paid to the apposing team. 22 games all up 11 home 11 away games before finals. Players range from about 5’ 8” to 7 feet, Flag is the Australian Aboriginal Flag. Hope this helps.

Each team comprises of 18 players on the field and 4 players on the Interchange Bench. The Women's Competition 16 players on the field and 5 players on the Interchange Bench.

The Victorian Football Association was founded in May 1877. The VFL was a breakaway from the VFA, which happened in 1897. In 1990 the VFL was renamed the AFL. The SANFL was established in 1877. It's the oldest State League competition in Australia, one week older than the Victorian Football Association. The original name was SAFA, the South Australian Football Association. 1877-1906 In 1907 it was renamed the South Australian Football League. 1907-1926 In 1927, the N was added. 1927 to present, SANFL, South Australian National Football League. The most successful team in SANFL history is the Port Adelaide Magpies, who became the Port Adelaide Power in the AFL in 1997.

Between the two big central posts = 6 points = 1 goal Between one big post and one small post = 1 point = 1 behind. You have to kick the ball to score the big points, ie, a goal. Nothing else will do.

"Don't like Collingwood" 🤣🤣🤣 "They are too rough for our Melbourne rich boys." "They are criminals" 😂 Nah, why would you want to tell every American not to like the team which has the American guy playing for them? The only team to ever win the premiership with an American player. Although he is now technically Australian. But his family are still American. Just let people like what they want. America is meant to be about freedom. Go Ravens! Pies won!

You have Adelaide Crows, Brisbane Lions, Carlton Blues, Collingwood Magpies, Essendon Bombers, Fremantle Dockers,Geelong Cats, Gold Coast Suns, Greater Western Sydney Giants,Hawthorn Hawks, Melbourne Demons, North Melbourne Kangaroos,Port Adelaide Power,Richmond Tigers, St Kilda Saints, Sydney Swans, West Coast Eagles and Western Bulldogs.

the person who is credited as the father of AFL, who created it to keep cricket players fit, went to Rugby school in the UK. Rugby Schools football use to be different from current day rugby and this probably influenced AFL, like it did NFL.

CFC - Carlton Football Club

Stkfc is st kilda football club. Western Bulldogs is a melbourne club. Darwin is a very small city no "major league" team there. You have a starting position but you can do what you want after play starts. Not many speccys result in injuries.

Most of the teams are based in Melbourne. West Coast and Fremantle are from Western Australia.Port Adelaide and The crows are from South Australia. Brisbane and The Gold Coast are from Queensland.

Invented in Melbourne in the late 1850s and codified in 1859, Australian Rules is the oldest code of football in the world. In this period each of the British schools and universities played by its own rules, and the codification of Rugby Union, Association soccer and Gaelic football was several decades away.

It's the best game in the world mate, hope you enjoy learning our great game

not many injury's from being marked on more injury's are ACL or hamys and the guys can kick over 60yards

Hitting the (goal) post is bad, o.k. we don't like that. The post forms the outside boundary of the goal. So hitting the post is outside of the scoring area, even if it then bounces into the goal, it doesn't count..........because of reasons. The sport was "created" waaay back in the 1850's. So, it's not so much that it's similar to a bunch of other sports, but the other way around. The main guy (Thomas Wentworth Wills) was a Rugby (and Cricket) player during his school years in England (even though he was Australian) when he returned to Australia he insisted that "We must have a game of our own" and the Melbourne Cricket Club thought that was a brilliant idea. That's why the home of AFL is the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG).

Handball is a popular sport, especially in Europe but the rules isn't anything like what you played it sound like.

Your awesome too mate!

Probably fairer to say that by mid 19th century there were various attempts to merge the many various forms of football that existed across the british isles at the time. Aussie rules (1859) and Gaelic rules football amongst the earliest that survive but there were other earlier attempts. Aussie rules was basically an attempt to merge Cambridge Composite rules(1848) with others including Rugby type rules. Another attempt in the UK resulted in the FA ( soccer) in 1863. The Rugby Union formed in 1871 using again a compromised set of rules. But both FA and Rugby obviously draw from football traditions that go back centuries earlier. Marngrook is often quoted in relation to Aussie Rules, but its difficult to see exactly what influence if any it had on Aussie Rules. It was essentially a game of keepy-uppy with no scoring or teams, the winner being the individual deemed to have played with the most skill and flair.

Very much based on Gaelic football but opened up to be more inclusive in the gold fields of Victoria.

Most of those teams are from Melbourne and nearby Melbourne mate

22 total per normal season - 22 weeks. Then top 8 elimination

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NFL is way more slow paced with the constant flagging. Theres hardly any breaks in play with AFL besides when a goal is scored or the ball goes out of play

Our game goes way back. People see it for the first time and compare it with whatever sport they happen to know about. You don’t get it, our game is one of the oldest codified sports. Not copying your sport. Also the members (fans) own the teams. I think there’s an exception..? But that is also unique, or very unusual.

Mr Mcjibbiln you really need to learn about australia before you come over here there is an on line test

Less injuries then you would think, basketball has a higher injury rate, but the sport with the most injuries is cycling.

Did that handball game you played have unders and overs ,? Sounds a bit like Gaelic Football , closest thing to Aussie Rules but with a round ball , 2 team Perth 2 Adelaide 2 QLD 2 in NSW 8 in mother state Victoria , no off side rule ,You can get smashed from 360,degree, it's a game of attrition so injuries , and the skill to manipulate an oval ball is extraordinary, the big post is a behind , the small post is out of play if it bounces , on the full hit the small post is out on the full , free kick to defender , it's a taxing , fast no stop vigorous game , and just landing awkwardly taking g a big grab , can seriously injure them selves , players 171 CM,to 211 CM,, but teams are bigger now than ever before , the flag is an indigenous Australian Aboriginal flag , respect BRO , it's an awesome game, blood Rules since AIDS , Concussion protocols , now the risk of this condition, it is the first codified football code in 1858 , although early game were played on rugger grid , Tom Will's who helped codify the game , but Harry Harrison of Harrison House head quarters for the VFL/AFLfor over 100 years ,also wrote the rules and codify this wonderful game is a forgotten crucial figure in football history , it's been discovered by the world ,and it's links too marngrook are tenuous ,

Throw like a football...you have to realise how mad that sounds...

The northern territory, ACT (Canberra essentially) & Tassie are the only areas without a team currently

Twenty two games total. Some at home ground and some away.

It’s 22 games then finals Rugby league play 27 games then finals

the game you are describing at the start of the video, sounds a lot closer to Gaelic football than afl

Fremantle is the port of Perth. The western bulldogs are actually the western suburbs of melbourne (originally called Footscray) where the AFL started (hence 10 teams alone being in Victoria). You've naively murdered a few pronunciations, 😉 but i'll just stick to my team. Geelong is pronounced more like djil-long; originally from an aboriginal word djilang, a meeting place where everyone from all tribes gather together in peace and harmony. GO CATS!! 😺

The Women's Competition consists of each team having 5 home and 5 away games, whilst the Men's Competition consists of each team having 11 home and 11 away games. In the Women's Competition, the top 4 teams play in knockout Finals; whilst in the Men's Competition, the top 8 teams play in a progressive Finals.

The flag you mentioned is the australian aboriginals official native flag

I hope you read your comments mate! Lotsa good info here.

Honestly, I think the What is AFL? video from a few years ago explains things better than this one. Although foreigners are always confused about the scoring.

Cricket and Aussie Rules are played on the same ground.