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2016 AFL Season
The 2016 AFL season was the 120th season of the Australian Football League (AFL), the highest level senior Australian rules football competition in Australia, which was known as the Victorian Football League until 1989. The season featured eighteen clubs, ran from 24 March until 1 October, and comprised a 22-game home-and-away season followed by a finals series featuring the top eight clubs. Thirty-four players, seventeen of whom were still active in the league, missed the season through suspension by the World Anti-Doping Agency, for doping infringements which occurred at the Essendon Football Club as part of its 2012 sports supplements program. The premiership was won by the Western Bulldogs for the second time, after it defeated by 22 points in the 2016 AFL Grand Final. Pre-season The pre-season series of matches, known as the 2016 NAB Challenge, featured 27 practice matches played over 25 days, which began on 18 February and ended on 13 March. The matches were stand-al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2016 AFL Grand Final
The 2016 AFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between and the at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on 1 October 2016. It was the 121st annual AFL Grand Final, Grand Final of the Australian Football League (formerly the Victorian Football League), staged to determine the List of AFL premiers, premiers of the 2016 AFL season. The match, attended by 99,981 spectators, was won by the Bulldogs by a margin of 22 points, marking the club's second VFL/AFL premiership victory and first since 1954 VFL Grand Final, 1954. It was the first time in VFL/AFL history that a team won the premiership from seventh place on the ladder. Jason Johannisen of the Bulldogs was awarded the Norm Smith Medal as the best player on the ground. Background McClelland Trophy, Minor premiers for the ninth time, the Sydney Swans finished the home-and-away season with a 17-5 record. They were defeated by the GWS Giants in the qualifying final by 36 points, but bounced back with a semi-fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Showgrounds, Wangaratta
The Wangaratta Showgrounds is situated on the banks of the Ovens River, close to central Wangaratta and provides a large venue for a host of local sports and community clubs. It has hosted the Wangaratta Agricultural Show since 1860 and the annual Wangaratta Athletic Carnival since 1917. The sports oval is a major North Eastern cricket and football venue in Wangaratta, Victoria, Australia and is known as the Norm Minns Oval. History The first annual exhibition (Wangaratta Show) was hosted in 1860 by the Ovens and Murray Agricultural and Horticultural Association on land near the Ovens River, Wangaratta. The Boxing Day Wangaratta Hospital Fete was first held at The Showgrounds in 1882, which also included an athletic program. The first recorded international cricket match hosted on the ground came when Wangaratta played the touring Fijians in 1908. In February 1933 at the Wangaratta Sports Carnival, at The Showgrounds, Wangaratta, Austin Robertson Sr. broke the world rec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drummoyne Oval
Drummoyne Oval is a multi-use sports ground in the Sydney inner-west suburb of Drummoyne, New South Wales. The ground has been used for international women's cricket matches, domestic men's cricket matches and first grade rugby league as well as local Australian rules football and Rugby Union games. The stadium has a capacity of 5,500 people and opened in 1931. Ground Usage Between 1932 and 1934, Balmain played their home games at the ground before moving to Leichhardt Oval. The final first grade game to be played at the ground was in 1950 when Balmain defeated Eastern Suburbs 20–11. In 1995, the ground hosted an Under 19s cricket test match between Australia, featuring a young Brett Lee, and India while in the 2009 Women's Cricket World Cup, five games were played there. The Sydney Sixers played a match against the SCG XI in 2012–2013, which was the first night cricket match under lights at the ground. Two Ryobi Cup Cricket matches were played at Drummoyne in 2013, i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arena Joondalup
Arena Joondalup is a multi-purpose sports complex in Joondalup, Western Australia, located on of parkland approximately north of Perth. Opened in 1994, Arena Joondalup is a super complex with many facilities including an outdoor sports ground which can host Australian rules football, rugby, and soccer; an indoor arena which can host sports such as basketball and netball; a swimming and aquatic centre; and a hockey facility. The main sports ground is home to the West Perth Football Club. The club moved to Arena Joondalup in 1994. In 2018, the club secured a deal that allowed them to sell the naming rights of the ground for Falcons home games and general club dealings. The ground is currently known as HIF Health Insurance Oval and has a capacity of 16,000 people. History Arena Joondalup was opened in 1994. The complex was developed by LandCorp as part of the overall Joondalup City project. In 1997, the Western Australian Sports Centre Trust took over ownership and on-going ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Barker, Western Australia
Mount Barker is a town and Suburbs and localities (Australia), locality on Albany Highway and the administrative centre of the Shire of Plantagenet in the Great Southern (Western Australia), Great Southern region of Western Australia. At the 2021 Australian census, 2021 census, Mount Barker had a population of 2,855. The town was named after the nearby hill, which in turn was named in 1829 by Thomas Braidwood Wilson in honour of Collet Barker, Captain Collet Barker, who was in command of Western Australia's original British settlement at King George's Sound from 1829 to 1831. __TOC__ Location Mount Barker is situated on Albany Highway, southeast of Perth and north of the city of Albany, Western Australia, Albany. The coastal town of Denmark, Western Australia, Denmark is around by road to the southwest via the Denmark to Mount Barker Road. The timber town of Manjimup, Western Australia, Manjimup is west of Mount Barker, via Muir Highway. The Hay River, which flows into Wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Princes Park (stadium)
Princes Park (also known as Ikon Park under naming rights) is an Australian rules football ground located inside the Princes Park, Carlton, Princes Park precinct in the inner Melbourne suburb of Carlton North, Victoria, Carlton North. Officially the Carlton Recreation Ground, it is a historic venue, having been Carlton Football Club's VFL/AFL home ground from 1897. At its highest usage, the ground had a nominal capacity of 35,000, making it the third largest Australian rules football venue in Melbourne after the Melbourne Cricket Ground and Docklands Stadium. Princes Park hosted three VFL Grand Final, grand finals during World War II, with a record attendance of 62,986 at the 1945 VFL Grand Final between Carlton and . After 2005, when the ground hosted its last Australian Football League (AFL) game, two stands were removed and replaced with an indoor training facility and administration building, reducing the capacity. The venue reached capacity (24,500) for the inaugural AFL ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holm Park Recreation Reserve
Holm Park Recreation Reserve (sometimes referred to as Holm Park Reserve or simply Holm Park) is multi-sports complex in Beaconsfield, a southeastern suburb of Melbourne. It includes three Australian rules football ovals (two with cricket wickets), four netball courts, and a skate park. Holm Park is the home of the Beaconsfield Eagles Football Club, which competes in the Eastern Football Netball League (EFNL). Holm Park officially opened on 13 April 2013 following several years of development. After entering into a partnership with the Cardinia Shire Council, the Richmond Football Club hosted an Australian Football League (AFL) pre-season match in 2016 at Holm Park. Richmond has also used the ground for several pre-season open training sessions, and its reserves team has hosted several Victorian Football League (VFL) games at the ground in 2017 and 2018 Events January * January 1 – Bulgaria takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, after ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Oval
Elizabeth Oval (also known as X Convenience Oval under naming rights) is an Australian rules football stadium located in Elizabeth, a suburb 24 km north of Adelaide, South Australia. Elizabeth Oval is the home ground of the Central District Football Club who play in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL). The Bulldogs (also commonly known as the Centrals) played their first SANFL league match at the ground in 1964 after playing in the SANFL B-grade (Reserves) since the club's inception in 1959. The ground has a capacity of approximately 18,000 people, with a single grandstand that seats 1,500. The oval, the longest goal to goal venue in the SANFL at 178m (3m longer than Woodville Oval, though fence to fence it is 15m shorter), and is surrounded by concrete terracing on the grandstand side of the ground, plus a 5 row ring of concrete around the rest of the ground, with grass banks around the entire outer. The ground record crowd of 16,029 was set in 1984 f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kardinia Park
Kardinia Park is a major public park located in South Geelong, Victoria, South Geelong, Victoria (Australia), Victoria. A number of public and sporting facilities are located in the park: a major Australian Football League, AFL stadium, a secondary football oval, a cricket field, an open air swimming pool, a number of netball courts, various sporting clubrooms, and a senior citizens centre. The park is bounded by Moorabool Street, the Warrnambool railway line, Victoria, Geelong railway line, Kilgour Street, Latrobe Terrace, and Park Crescent. History Kardinia Park was first proclaimed as a public park in May 1872 by the Commissioner of Crown Lands. Then known as Chilwell Flat the new park was 60 acres (24 hectares) in size. Control of the land was vested in the City of Geelong, Geelong, Newtown, and Chilwell councils. 1872 saw Kardinia Park adopted as the name. The park originally stretched north to Kilgour Street until the extension of the Geelong railway line, Victoria, Geel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manuka Oval
Manuka Oval is a sporting venue in Canberra, the capital of Australia. It is located in Griffith, Australian Capital Territory, Griffith, in the area of that suburb known as Manuka, Australian Capital Territory, Manuka. Manuka Oval has a seating capacity of 13,550 people and an overall capacity of 16,000 people, although this is lower for some sports depending on the configuration used. The area on which the ground is situated has been used for sport since the early 20th century, but was only enclosed in 1929. It has since undergone several redevelopments, most recently beginning in 2011. Currently, Manuka Oval is primarily used for cricket (during the summer months) and Australian rules football (during the winter months). The ground was previously also used for rugby league and rugby union matches, but there are now more suitable venues in Canberra for those sports. As a cricket ground, Manuka Oval is the home venue for the ACT Comets (men's) and the ACT Meteors (women's) teams ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burpengary, Queensland
Burpengary is a town and suburb in the City of Moreton Bay, Queensland, Australia. In the , the suburb of Burpengary had a population of 16,488 people. It is by road from the Brisbane central business district. Geography The locality is bounded to the east by the Bruce Highway, to the west by Oakey Flat Road, to the north-west by the North Coast railway line, and to the south-west by Burpengary Creek and the North Coast railway line. Burpengary railway station serves the town (). Burpengary Creek is the suburb's main waterway. Burpengary–Caboolture Road (Morayfield Road) runs through the locality from north-east to north. History The name is derived from the Aboriginal word ''burpengar'', meaning the "place of the green wattle". When Europeans settled in Burpengary in the 1870s, the industry was mainly timber-cutting. Burpengary Provisional School opened on 9 November 1876. On 1 January 1909 it became Burpengary State School. It closed and re-opened a number of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moreton Bay Central Sports Complex
Moreton Bay Central Sports Complex is a sports field complex in Burpengary, a suburb of the City of Moreton Bay, Queensland, Australia, primarily for both Australian rules football and soccer. It was built and opened in 2013 and are managed by Caboolture Sports Football Club, Moreton Bay Australian Football Club and AFL Queensland's Northern Brisbane Academy Programs. It is the home ground for Caboolture Sports Football Club, playing within Football Queensland competitions, and also the home ground for Moreton Bay in the Queensland Football Association Northern Conference. It was the primary home ground for the Brisbane Lions AFL Women's team from 2019 until the completion of Springfield Central Stadium in 2022. Soccer Caboolture Sports Football Club are located in the Moreton Bay Central Sports Complex. This complex was opened in May 2019 and is a new multi-million-dollar purpose-built football facility. The clubhouse is surrounded by a synthetic field and two full size ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
