Australian rules football in Scotland describes the sport of Australian rules football being played and watched in the country of Scotland. It is a minor, relatively unknown sport, currently played at amateur level by five clubs spread across the regions of Glasgow, Edinburgh, Fife and West Lothian. The Haggis Cup, a major invitational tournament hosted in Scotland, has been run annually since 2004.
The sport has a long history in Scotland but with extended periods of inactivity.
Scottish involvement had a big influence on the sport's development in its earliest days, coordinating the first competition and trophy, the Caledonian Challenge Cup in 1861, establishing Australian rules football in Queensland in 1866 and one of the game's earliest and most successful clubs, the Essendon Football Club in 1872. The game was first established in Edinburgh in 1888 by students from Edinburgh University.
Edinburgh has hosted the EU Cup, including the 2012 tournament and most recently in 2022. The national men's team best result is 5th in 2009, the women's team's has achieved 3rd in both 2014 and 2022. In all other international tournaments including the AFL Europe Championship and Australian Football International Cup, Scotland competes as part of the combined Great Britain men's or women's side.
Scottish players have featured in the Australian Football League as early as 1897, its first year of competition.
and 22 Related for: Australian rules football in Scotland information
Australianrulesfootball is played in Europe at an amateur level in a large number of countries. The oldest and largest leagues are those in the United...
Australianrulesfootball and Gaelic football are codes of football, from Australia and Ireland respectively, which have similar styles and features of...
Australianrulesfootballin England is a team sport and spectator sport with a long history. It is home to the longest running Australianrules fixture...
traditions. Australianrulesfootball – officially known as "Australianfootball", and informally as "football", "footy" or "Aussie rules". In some areas...
Australianrulesfootball has been played on an organised basis in Wales since 2007, with the league and representative teams run and managed by the Welsh...
a list of Australianrulesfootball families, that is families who have had more than one member play or coach in the AustralianFootball League (previously...
Edinburgh, Scotland, is the first documented club dedicated to football, and the first to describe itself as a football club. The only surviving club rules forbade...
Association football (Scots: fitbaa, Scottish Gaelic: ball-coise) is one of the national sports of Scotland and the most popular sport in the country...
The Scotland men's national football team represents Scotlandin men's international football and is controlled by the ScottishFootball Association. It...
Australianrulesfootballin Catalonia is run by the Catalan League of AustralianFootball (LFAC), member of Aussie Rules Europe. Aussie rules was first...
for AustralianRulesFootballin England. It was formed in 2012 to succeed AFL Britain with the aim to be more effective in governing the game in England...
National Library of Australia. 12 May 1888. p. 6. Retrieved 10 May 2014. "AustralianFootball 150 Years > Article > Football gold mined in coal country". Archived...
Global Information