This article is about the Australian sporting organisation. For the sport itself, see Australian rules football. For the women's league, see AFL Women's. For the Australian national soccer league, see A-League Men.
See also: AFL (disambiguation)
Australian Football League
Current season, competition or edition: 2024 AFL season
AFL logo (since 1999)[1][2][3]
Formerly
Victorian Football League (VFL) (1897–1990)
Sport
Australian rules football
Founded
2 October 1896; 127 years ago (1896-10-02)
First season
1897
CEO
Andrew Dillon
No. of teams
18
Country
Australia
Headquarters
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Most recent champion(s)
Collingwood (16th premiership)
Most titles
Carlton Collingwood Essendon (16 premierships)
TV partner(s)
Australia: Seven Network Fox Footy New Zealand: Sky Sport International: List of International broadcast partners
The Australian Football League (AFL) is the pre-eminent and only fully professional competition of Australian rules football. It was originally named the Victorian Football League (VFL) and was founded in 1896 as a breakaway competition from the Victorian Football Association (VFA), with its inaugural season in 1897. It changed its name to Australian Football League in 1990 after expanding its competition to other Australian states in the 1980s. The AFL publishes its Laws of Australian football, which are used, with variations, by other Australian football organisations.
The AFL competition currently consists of 18 teams spread over Australia's five mainland states, with Tasmania to join the league as its 19th team in 2028.[4] AFL Premiership Season matches have been played in all states and mainland territories, as well as in New Zealand and China to expand its audience.
The AFL premiership season currently consists of a 23-match regular (or home-and-away) season, which runs from March to September. The team with the best record at the end of the home-and-away season is awarded the minor premiership; the top eight teams then play off in a four-round finals series, culminating in the AFL Grand Final, which is normally held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground each year. The grand final winners are termed the premiers, the most important team prizes for which are the premiership cup and flag. Carlton, Collingwood and Essendon are the joint-most successful clubs in the competition, having each won 16 premierships. Collingwood is the reigning premier, having won the 2023 AFL Grand Final.
^"AFL Record, October 1999". 26 April 2021. Retrieved 17 November 2023.
^"1999 AFL National Draft". 21 July 2022. Retrieved 17 November 2023.
^"1999 AFL Millennium Match". 31 December 2019. Retrieved 17 November 2023.
^"Tasmania has signed deal with AFL to establish state team 'after decades of fighting', premier says". ABC News. 3 May 2023. Retrieved 3 May 2023.
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