Australian Rules Football

The AFL Aussie rules football league has reached an agreement with the West Australian government for the West Coast Eagles and Fremantle Dockers to begin playing at the new Perth Stadium from 2018.

North Melbourne and Geelong will enter the fledgling women’s competition of the AFL Aussie rules football league in 2019, with Gold Coast, West Coast, Richmond and St Kilda set to follow in 2020.

The AFL Aussie rules football league has announced details of a new short-form competition, which is scheduled to launch in September.

The AFL Aussie rules football league has sealed a new six-year collective bargaining agreement (CBA) with its players which will grant its stars an initial 20 per cent pay rise with wages tied to competition revenue for the first time.

The AFL Aussie rules football league has received eight bids for expansion clubs in its women’s competition, with between two and four expected to join for its 2019 season.

The AFL Aussie rules football league has announced that its women’s league will remain an eight-team competition for the 2018 season before expanding in 2019.

The Australian Football League (AFL) has revealed that it suffered a net loss of Aus$17.8m (€12.9m/$13.7m) in 2016, a figure the Aussie rules football competition says was in line with the year’s budget.

The Australian Football League (AFL) Aussie rules competition and Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) have announced that their International Rules Series will return next year, with Australia to host Ireland in a two-Test series.

BLK, a sportswear company that has partnerships with numerous professional sports franchises and organisations, including several clubs in the Australian Football League (AFL) Aussie rules competition, has been placed into receivership.

Port Adelaide has claimed a piece of history for the Australian Football League (AFL) with the announcement that it will stage a Premiership game against the Gold Coast Suns in Shanghai, China next year.

The Australian Football League (AFL), governing body of the country’s Aussie rules competition, has today (Friday) entered into an agreement with the owners of Etihad Stadium to acquire the management rights and freehold to the Melbourne venue.

The Australian Football League (AFL) Aussie rules football competition has trialled a new seven-a-side version of the game in an effort to raise the sport’s international appeal.

The Australian Football League (AFL) Aussie rules competition is set to stage a regular-season game in China after a Memorandum of Understanding was signed with a view to holding a match in the country.

Eddie McGuire, president of AFL Aussie rules football team Collingwood, has outlined ambitious plans to build a new 60,000-seat, A$1bn (€683m/$749m) stadium in Melbourne that would form part of a major sporting hub for the city.

The Australian Football League (AFL) Aussie rules competition has defended the introduction of a new dynamic ticketing model by claiming it is designed to help increase match attendances at lower-profile fixtures.

Andrew Demetriou, one-time chief executive of the Australian Football League (AFL) Aussie rules competition, has joined forces with the former Football Federation Australia (FFA) chief executive Ben Buckley to launch a new sports technology business.