Melbourne Football Club

Melbourne Football Club
Melbourne Football Club
Names
Full name	Melbourne Football Club Limited
Nickname(s)	AFL: Demons, Dees; Indigenous rounds: Narrm
Former nickname(s)	Redlegs, Fuchsias (prior to 1933)
2023 season
After finals	6th
Home-and-away season	4th
Leading goalkicker	Bayley Fritsch (38 goals)
Club details
Founded	1858
Colours	Navy Blue Red
Competition	AFL: Men; AFLW: Women
President	Kate Roffey
CEO	Gary Pert
Coach	AFL: Simon Goodwin; AFLW: Mick Stinear;
Captain(s)	AFL: Max Gawn; AFLW: Kate Hore;
Premierships	VFL/AFL (13) 1900; 1926; 1939; 1940; 1941; 1948; 1955; 1956; 1957; 1959; 1960; 1964; 2021; AFLW (1); 2022 (S7); Reserves (12) 1931; 1932; 1933; 1934; 1935; 1939; 1949; 1956; 1969; 1970; 1984; 1993; VFA (Nil); Victorian (3) 1870; 1872; 1876;
Ground(s)	AFL: Melbourne Cricket Ground (100,024); AFLW: Casey Fields (9,000)
Training ground(s)	AFL/AFLW: Gosch's Paddock, Casey Fields
Uniforms
Other information
Official website	melbournefc.com.au

The Melbourne Football Club, nicknamed the Demons, is a professional Australian rules football club that competes in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's elite competition. It is based in Melbourne, Victoria, and plays its home games at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG).

Melbourne is the world's oldest professional club of any football code. Its origins can be traced to an 1858 letter in which Tom Wills, captain of the Victoria cricket team, calls for the formation of a "foot-ball club" with its own "code of laws". An informal Melbourne team played that winter and officially formed in May 1859, when Wills and three other members codified "The Rules of the Melbourne Football Club"—the basis of Australian rules football. The club was a dominant force in the early years of the game and a foundation member of the Victorian Football Association (VFA) in 1877 and the Victorian Football League (VFL) in 1896, now the national AFL. Melbourne has won 13 VFL/AFL premierships, the latest in 2021. The club was a foundation team of the AFL Women's league (AFLW), and won its first AFLW premiership in 2022 season 7.

The football club has been a sporting section of the Melbourne Cricket Club (MCC) since 2009, having previously been associated with the MCC between 1889 and 1980.^[7]

^ "Current details for ABN 27 005 686 902". ABN Lookup. Australian Business Register. November 2014. Retrieved 4 August 2020.
^ Bell's Life in Victoria, 10 July 1858
^ The Footballer An annual Record of Football in Victoria, 1875
^ 100 Years of Football, The Story of the Melbourne Football Club, 1958
^ Smith v Australian Football League [2012] ATMO 20.
^ "Casey Fields". austadiums.com. Austadiums. Retrieved 20 May 2023.
^ "Melbourne Football Club becomes an MCC Sporting Section again". Melbourne Cricket Club. Retrieved 21 February 2012. ...on April 1, 2009, the Melbourne Football Club once again became a Sporting Section of the Melbourne Cricket Club...

[1] "Current details for ABN 27 005 686 902". ABN Lookup. Australian Business Register. November 2014. Retrieved 4 August 2020.

[2] Bell's Life in Victoria, 10 July 1858

[3] The Footballer An annual Record of Football in Victoria, 1875

[4] 100 Years of Football, The Story of the Melbourne Football Club, 1958

[5] Smith v Australian Football League [2012] ATMO 20.

[6] "Casey Fields". austadiums.com. Austadiums. Retrieved 20 May 2023.

[7] "Melbourne Football Club becomes an MCC Sporting Section again". Melbourne Cricket Club. Retrieved 21 February 2012. ...on April 1, 2009, the Melbourne Football Club once again became a Sporting Section of the Melbourne Cricket Club...

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