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The Alberta Football League ( AFL) is an amateur Canadian football league. The league's schedule runs from the start of June through to the end of September. For the 2023 season the league had six teams. They are: Airdrie Irish, Calgary Wolfpack, Central Alberta Buccaneers, Cold Lake Fighter Jets, Edmonton Elite and Peace Country Cowboys.
Alberta Federation of Labour. The Alberta Federation of Labour (AFL) is the Alberta provincial trade union federation [2] of the Canadian Labour Congress. It has a membership of approximately 170,000 from 29 affiliated unions. The AFL was founded in 1912, when mining workers and tradespeople in Lethbridge organized to demand the establishment ...
32,789 (1987). Melbourne v. Sydney ( B.C. Place, Vancouver) Australian rules football in Canada (commonly known as "Aussie Rules" or simply "footy") is played in seven provinces – Ontario, Alberta, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Labrador, Quebec, British Columbia and Saskatchewan. The Ontario league, centred on Toronto is a nine-team league ...
AFL Canada. AFL Canada (formerly the Canadian Australian Football Association, French: Association canadienne de football australien) is the governing body for men's and women's Australian rules football in Canada . AFL Canada was formed on 30 July 2004, when the Canadian Australian Football Association changed its official name.
Essendon won the inaugural VFL premiership in 1897. Fitzroy won the inaugural grand final in 1898. Carlton has won the equal-most premierships with 16, with their first coming in the 1906 season. Collingwood's premiership win in 1930 was the club's fourth successive premiership, a record for the league. Geelong players doing a lap of honour ...
Calgary Kangaroos. The Calgary Kangaroos is an Australian rules football club based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. They welcome all new players, regardless of prior experience, practice at A E Cross High School in Glamorgan, play games at the Inland Athletic Park and are members of AFL Canada. The Roos also run introductory training sessions at ...
The AFL also hope to develop the game in other countries to the point where Australian football is played at an international level by top-quality sides from around the world. The AFL has hosted an International Cup regularly every three years, beginning in 2002, with the third game in 2008 corresponding to the 150th anniversary of the code.
VFL begins. The Victorian Football League was established in 1896 when six of the strongest clubs in Victoria— Collingwood, Essendon, Fitzroy, Geelong, Melbourne, and Sydney Swans —broke away from the established Victorian Football Association to establish the new league. [1] The six clubs invited two more VFA clubs—Carlton and St Kilda ...