1. Melbourne 2. Geelong 3. Carlton 4. ST Kilda 5. Fitzroy ( now the Brisbane Lions ) 6. Collingwood 7. Sth Melbourne ( now the Sydney swans ) 8. Essendon
The oldest of the VFL/AFL teams is Melbourne which was founded in 1859.
The AFL and NFL merged before the start of the 1970 season.
The Melbourne AFL team is known as the Demons.
The Green Bay Packers won the first two NFL-AFL championship games.
The first round of the VFL (renamed AFL in 1990) was in 1897. The games were all played on Saturday May 8th. The teams the played were Fiztroy v Carlton, Collingwood v St Kilda, Geelong v Essendon, South Melbourne v Melbourne.
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1989 - 1990 was the transition from VFL to AFL. The Collingwood football club won the first AFL premiership in 1990.
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
when AFL first began, it was only played in the one Australian state of Victoria, so it used to simply be called the VFL or Victorian football league. then they expanded the game into a nationwide competition and it became the AFL or austrlain football league. there's still a VFL which is a smaller Victorian based league that the coaches of AFL teams go to and watch to pick up new recruits for the major AFL teams. hope this answers your question :) P.S. I'm an Aussie, so I'm not making it up lol.
no ... The most successful AFL teams are Essendon and Carlton, each with 16 Premierships
The first AFL teams to play at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) were Melbourne and Essendon. This historic match took place on May 18, 1858, marking the beginning of the venue's long association with Australian Rules Football. The MCG has since become one of the most iconic sporting venues in the world.