GWS Giants. Western Bulldogs. West Coast Eagles. Sydney Swans. Brisbane Lions. Port Adelaide. Cricket 17m ago. Hawthorn came runners-up in , ,, before breaking through to win their first Night Premiership in and again in Known as the Box Hill Hawks, the Club has made 10 finals appearances to date winning 2 Premierships. Hawthorn made the finals on 11 occasions, but only won the premiership once, in In this era till , Hawthorn considered the under 17 competitions to be a major development area for future senior and reserve players.
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Happy Valley 9. Naming Rights Partner. Major Partners. View All Partners. Headliners — Birth of the West coash Eagles. The VFL annual report reveals that without the funds from the two new licenses, the VFL clubs would have lost a combined 3 million. They have no facilities for training, and the change rooms were basically a van.
The VFL announces a reduction in transfer fees for interstate and country recruits. Clearance fees were abolished. The AFL announces that it has reached its ceiling of teams with the inclusion of Fremantle , and no more than 16 teams will be in the AFL. Plans for a second SA license hinge on relocation or merging of Victorian sides. The Queen of Australia, Elizabeth II was a guest at the game and officially opened the stadium to the public. The Grand Finalbetween traditional rivals Carlton and Collingwood, arguably the league's most famous game which saw Carlton recover from a point deficit at half-time to win the game by ten points, featured a famous spectacular mark by Alex Jesaulenko, and was witnessed by a record crowd of , The event was mostly played on Tuesday nights, with night games at Norwood Oval in Adelaide, and all games were televised live in colour on Channel 9, which opened up unprecedented revenue streams from television rights and sponsorship opportunities for the sport.
In November , the VFL announced that it was withdrawing from the NFL's competition, having arranged more substantial television and sponsorship deals for its own Night Series for to be based in Melbourne and feature only the VFL clubs. Light towers were erected at VFL Park specifically for the event.
The VFL established a proprietary limited company called Australian Football Championships Pty Ltd in to run the Night Series, and offered shareholdings to the other state leagues in an attempt to lure other states into the competition. Although the NFL itself continued to exist as an administrative body into the early s, the power gained by the VFL as a result of its Night Series take over was one of the first significant steps in its spread interstate and ultimately its take-over as the Australian Football League of administrative control of all football in Australia.
The size of the competition was reduced from , and thereafter only the top two or three teams from the SANFL and WAFL and the winner of the minor states' annual carnival were invited. The competition was pushed earlier into the year, with the final played on 28 April. The following season, the competition did not overlap with the day premiership season at all, and became entirely a pre-season competition.
The Night Series is generally considered to be of equivalent importance as the pre-season competition and the VFL Night Series — , and records relating to the three competitions are often combined.
With the number of players recruited from country leagues increasing, the wealthier VFL clubs were gaining an advantage that metropolitan zoning and the Coulter law salary cap restricting player payments had prevented in the past.
Country zoning was introduced in the late s, and whilst it pushed Essendon and Geelong from the top of the ladder, it created severe inequality during the s and s. It was officially renamed the Sydney Swans the following year. The s was a period of significant structural change in Australian football around the country. The VFL was the most popular and dominant of the state leagues around the country in terms of overall attendance, interest, and money, and began to look towards expanding its influence directly into other states.
The VFL and its top clubs were asserting their financial power to recruit top players from interstate. As a result of this, rising cost pressures were driving some of Victoria's weaker clubs into dire financial situations. South Melbourne became the first VFL club to relocate interstate, with the club moving its home games to Sydney in , officially renaming themselves the Sydney Swans the following year.
Under the private ownership of wealthy Dr Geoffrey Edelsten during the mids Sydney became a successful team on-field. Of particular note were approaches by the East Perth Royals in , the Norwood Redlegs in and ,and an East-South Fremantle merger proposal in None of these attempts were successful despite Norwood trying again in and These expansion team licences were awarded on payment of multimillion-dollar fees which were not required of the existing VFL clubs.
In financial troubles nearly forced Footscray and Fitzroy to merge, but a fundraising event from Footscray supporters stopped the proposed merger at the eleventh hour. The s first saw new regular timeslots for VFL matches. VFL matches had previously been played on Saturday afternoons but Sydney began playing its home matches on Sunday afternoons and North Melbourne pioneered playing matches on Friday night.
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