There are 16 teams but as of 2011 there will a new team 'Gold Coast' and "Western Sydney"
In alphabetical order:
Adelaide Crows
Brisbane Lions
Carlton Blues
Collingwood Magpies
Essendon Bombers
Fremantle Dockers
Geelong Cats
Hawthorn Hawks
North Melbourne Kangaroos
Melbourne
Port Power
Richmond Tigers
St Kilda
Sydney Swans
West Coast Eagles
Western bulldogs
The Melbourne AFL team is known as the Demons.
The oldest of the VFL/AFL teams is Melbourne which was founded in 1859.
Collingwood
26.
west coast 1987, Brisbane 1987, Adelaide 1991, fremantle 1995, port 1997 swans were already a Melbourne team but moved to sydney sometime in the 80s
no ... The most successful AFL teams are Essendon and Carlton, each with 16 Premierships
Pittsburg, Baltimore and Cleveland
No they did not.
The AFL and NFL merged before the start of the 1970 season.
The New York Jets in 2008
Collingwod and St kilda got into the grandfinals
Carlton and Essendon both have won 16 premierships, Collingwood just behind with 14.