The origins of the Australian Football League (AFL) can be traced back to 1896 when 8 teams decided to split from the Victorian Football Association (VFA) to form the Victorian Football  League (VFL). The VFA had been formed in 1877 but organised Australian Rules Football had been played in Victoria long before that with the first documented game taking place in August 1858 between Scotch College and Melbourne Grammar. In 1897 Collingwood, Carlton, Essendon, Fitzroy, [...]

The NRL (National Rugby League) is the highest league of professional rugby football league clubs in Australia. The competition of NRL is contested by it’s sixteen best teams. Fifteen of them are based in Australia and the last one is based in New Zealand. NRL is the elite’s rugby league in the Southern Hemisphere and the most popular rugby competition around the globe. Today, the National Rugby League is the embodiment of the top domestic [...]