Collingwood Football Club - VFL - was created in 1892.
Collingwood Football Club's motto is 'Floreat Pica'.
Essendon and Carlton Football Clubs both have 16 AFL/VFL Premierships, Essendon has 1 more VFA premiership though.
1989 - 1990 was the transition from VFL to AFL. The Collingwood football club won the first AFL premiership in 1990.
the Melbourne football club.
Collingwood
Collingwood
15 VFL/AFL premierships.
Collingwood won the VFA premiership in 1896. It's first VFL/AFL premiership was in 1902.
# Bendigo Bombers # Box Hill Hawks # Casey Scorpians # Coburg Tigers # Collingwood Magpies # Frankston Dolphins # Geelong Cats # North Ballarat Roosters # Northern Bullants # Port Melbourne Borough # Sandringham Zebras # Tasmanian Devils Football Club # Werribee Tigers # Williamstown Seagulls Note: These teams are the current clubs in the Victorian Football League. Not all the clubs which have joined the VFL as a lot have left.
The 1966 VFL Grand Final was won by St. Kilda - their only premiership so far! However, strictly, there was no AFL national competition in 1966. But, effectively, the state VFL (Victorian Football League) added a few interstate clubs into the competition and became the headquarters for the AFL national competition by 1990.
Tony Liberatore of Footscray won the Brownlow Medal in 1990. This was the first year of the national competition - the AFL - Australian Football League. Edward Greeves of Geelong won the very first Brownlow ever awarded in the VFL - Victorian Football League: in those days, the competitions were run state by state, separately. The AFL is the national competition.
I' believe it was in 1897; but it was merely VFL state football back then. The previous [opening] year of the VFL, in 1896, the top team of the league after the home-and-away matches won the 'flag' with no finals. The AFL commenced in 1990: Collingwood won the premiership that year.