Carlton Football Club

Carlton Football Club
Names
Full name	Carlton Football Club Limited[1]
Nickname(s)	Blues, Blue Baggers, Baggers, Old Navy Blues
Motto	Mens sana in corpore sano (a healthy mind in a healthy body)
2023 season
After finals	3rd
Home-and-away season	5th
Leading goalkicker	Charlie Curnow (81 goals)
Club details
Founded	1864; 160 years ago (1864)
Colours	Navy blue, white
Competition	AFL: Senior men AFLW: Senior women VFL: Reserves men VFLW: Reserves women
President	Luke Sayers
CEO	Brian Cook
Coach	AFL: Michael Voss AFLW: Mathew Buck
Captain(s)	AFL: Patrick Cripps AFLW: Kerryn Peterson
Premierships	VFL/AFL (16) 1906 1907 1908 1914 1915 1938 1945 1947 1968 1970 1972 1979 1981 1982 1987 1995 VFA (2) 1877 1887 Victorian (4) 1871 1873 1874 1875
Ground(s)	AFL: Marvel Stadium (56,347) & Melbourne Cricket Ground (100,024) AFLW & VFL & VFLW: Ikon Park (12,000)
Former ground(s)	Princes Park (1897–2005)
Training ground(s)	Princes Park (Ikon Park)
Uniforms
Home Away Clash
Other information
Official website	carltonfc.com.au
Current season

The Carlton Football Club, nicknamed the Blues, is a professional Australian rules football club that competes in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's top professional competition.

Founded in 1864, in Carlton, an inner suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Carlton quickly became a dominant club in early Australian rules football competitions, and was a foundation member of the Victorian Football Association (VFA), winning the inaugural premiership in 1877. In 1896, Carlton joined the breakaway Victorian Football League (since renamed the AFL), and alongside rivals Collingwood and Essendon, is regarded as one of the league's historical "Big Three" clubs, having won sixteen VFL/AFL premierships, equal with Collingwood and Essendon as the most of any AFL club.

Carlton's headquarters and training facilities are located in Carlton North at Princes Park, its traditional home ground, and it currently plays its home matches at Docklands Stadium and the Melbourne Cricket Ground. Since 2017, Carlton has fielded a team in the AFL Women's, its best result thus far being a grand final loss in 2019. Carlton also has reserves sides in the Victorian Football League and VFL Women's.