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List of Australian rules football clubs by date of establishment

This is a chronological list of Australian rules football clubs since their formation.

Note that some of these football clubs that formed before 1866 (see Laws of Australian football) may not have originally played the game known today as Australian rules football. It is more than likely that most of these clubs were influenced by the Melbourne Rules of 1859 in their early days, but some played by their own rules and often compromised rules when playing against other clubs.

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Australia

Year Date Club (original name) City State Status/League Note
1858 August 7 Melbourne Football Club Melbourne Victoria Australian Football League In 1859, members of the club published the first code of rules for Australian football.
1858 Saint Kilda Football Club St Kilda Victoria defunct not related to current St Kilda Football Club [1][2]
1859 June 15 Castlemaine Football Club* Castlemaine Victoria Ballarat Football League possibly dormant for periods [3]
1859 July 18 Geelong Football Club Geelong Victoria Australian Football League
1859 Melbourne University Football Club* Melbourne Victoria VAFA disbanded for some time after World War I, leaving the VFL, then reformed with multiple teams the VAFA
1860 20th May Ballarat Football Club* Ballarat Victoria Ballarat Football League established as junior club. Senior club established in 1862[4]
1863* Sydney University Australian National Football Club University of Sydney, Sydney New South Wales Sydney AFL SUANFC claims to be a spin-off of Australia's oldest rugby union club, Sydney University Football Club, which experimented with Australian rules in its early years. If the claim is accepted, this would make SUANFC the oldest Australian rules football club in NSW, although it did not play an inter-club fixture until 1887.
1864* South Yarra Football Club South Yarra, Melbourne defunct Merged with the St Kilda Cricketers' Club in 1873 to form the present-day St Kilda Football Club.[4]
1864 Carlton Football Club Carlton Victoria Australian Football League [5]
1866 Brisbane Australian Football Club* Brisbane Queensland defunct No connection to Brisbane Bears or Brisbane Lions [6]
1868 Woodville Football Club* Adelaide South Australia defunct Club disbanded in 1877. Club with same name later formed in 1938.
1869 Hotham Football Club North Melbourne Victoria Australian Football League now known as the Kangaroos or North Melbourne Football Club
1870 Port Adelaide Football Club Port Adelaide South Australia Australian Football League Formerly played in the SANFL as the Port Adelaide Magpies until 1997 before awarded a licence to enter the AFL in 1996. Entered AFL in 1997 as the "Power". A new club known as the Port Adelaide Magpies Football Club was formed in 1997 to fill it's void in the SANFL
1870 Volunteer Artillery* Brisbane Queensland defunct
1870 Brisbane Grammar School Football Club'* Brisbane Queensland defunct New junior club established in 2005 to participate in Queensland Independent Schools Australian Football League
1870 Civil Service Football Club* Brisbane Queensland defunct
1870 Ipswich Football Club* Ipswich Queensland defunct
1871 Ararat Football Club* Ararat Victoria now Wimmera Football League
1872 Kensington Football Club* Adelaide South Australia defunct Possibly formed earlier. Folded in 1881
1873 Albert Park Football Club Albert Park Victoria defunct last season was in 1970. Another club which continues has its origins in the 1920s and now uses the same name.
1873 Essendon Football Club Essendon Victoria Australian Football League
1873 St Kilda Football Club St Kilda Victoria Australian Football League
1873 Hawthorn Football Club* Hawthorn Victoria Australian Football League The continuity of clubs with this name is disputed. The existing Hawthorn Football Club is purported to have formed in 1901.
1874 June 8th Rochester Football Club Rochester Victoria Goulburn Valley Football League
1874 Willunga Football Club Willunga South Australia Great Southern Football League 1877 foundation member of SAFA - which became SANFL.[7]
1874 South Melbourne Football Club South Melbourne Victoria Australian Football League now Sydney Swans
1874 Port Melbourne Football Club Port Melbourne Victoria Victorian Football League
1875 Launceston Football Club Launceston Tasmania Northern Tasmanian Football League
1876 South Adelaide Football Club Adelaide South Australia SANFL Merged with a club of the same name to form the modern club in 1876
1876 Inglewood Football Club Inglewood Victoria Loddon Valley Football League [8]
1876 Heidelberg Football Club Heidelberg Victoria Northern Football League
1877 Beechworth Football Club Beechworth Victoria Tallangatta & District Football League
1877 Footscray Football Club Footscray Victoria Australian Football League now known as "Western Bulldogs"
1878 Norwood Football Club Adelaide South Australia SANFL
1879 West Melbourne Football Club West Melbourne Victoria defunct merged with North Melbourne Football Club
1878 New Norfolk District Football Club New Norfolk Tasmania Southern Football League (Tasmania)
1881 Unions Football Club* Fremantle Western Australia defunct
1881 Murchison Football Club Murchison Victoria Kyabram District Football League
1881 North Hobart Football Club North Hobart Tasmania Southern Football League (Tasmania)
1882 Fremantle Football Club Fremantle Western Australia defunct No relation to the present-day club by the same name. Formed as a rugby club but switched to Australian rules in 1883.
1883 September Fitzroy Football Club Fitzroy Victoria dormant/non-playing playing operations merged with the Brisbane Bears in 1996, but the club continues to trade as standalone entity
1885 Rovers Football Club Perth Western Australia defunct Inaugural premiers of the WA competition in 1885 and again in 1891. Disbanded in 1899.
1885 Victorians Football Club West Perth Western Australia West Australian Football League In 1889, the club changed its name to Metropolitans and in 1891 to West Perth, the name by which it is still known.
1888 Melbourne Gunners Football Club Melbourne Victoria Dream Team Football League

* = defunct, disputed, poorly documented or dormant for a period.

References

  1. ^ http://www.footypedia.com/00001360.htm
  2. ^ http://www.footystamps.com/st_kilda_saints.htm
  3. ^ [1]
  4. ^ http://www.ballaratfc.com/?id=clubhistory
  5. ^ [2]
  6. ^ http://www.footystamps.com/ot_other_competitions.htm]
  7. ^ http://www.gsfl.com.au/wi/default.asp
  8. ^ [3]

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