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Carlton Football Club
The Carlton Football Club, nicknamed the Blues, is a professional Australian rules football club based at Princes Park (stadium), Princes Park in Carlton North, Victoria, Carlton North, an inner suburb of Melbourne in Victoria, Australia. The club competes in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's premier competition. Founded in the 1860s, the club began playing out of parklands historically part of Carlton, Victoria, Carlton not far from its current base. It quickly became one of the major football clubs in the city. It was a foundation member of the Victorian Football League, Victorian Football Association (VFA), winning the inaugural premiership in 1877 VFA season, 1877. In 1896, Carlton joined the breakaway Victorian Football League (since renamed the AFL), and alongside rivals , and is regarded as one of the league's historical "Big Four" clubs, with 16 VFL/AFL premierships (a joint record with Collingwood and Essendon). The club's AFL Women's team has compete ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Carlton may refer to: People and fictional characters * Carlton (name), a list of people and fictional characters with the given name or surname * Carlton, a pen name used by Joseph Caldwell (1773–1835), American educator, Presbyterian minister, mathematician and astronomer Places Australia * Carlton, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney * Carlton, Tasmania, a locality in Tasmania * Carlton, Victoria, a suburb of Melbourne Canada * Carlton, Edmonton, Alberta, a neighbourhood * Carlton, Saskatchewan, a hamlet * Fort Carlton, a Hudson's Bay Company fur trading post built in 1810, near present-day Carlton, Saskatchewan * Carlton Trail, a historic trail near Fort Carlton * Carlton Street, Toronto, Ontario England * Carlton, Bedfordshire, a village * Carlton, Cambridgeshire, a village * Carlton, County Durham, a village and civil parish * Carlton, Leicestershire, a village * Carlton Scroop, Lincolnshire * Carlton, Nottinghamshire, a suburb to the east of Nottingham ** Car ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Cook (football Administrator)
Brian Carlyle Cook (born 14 November 1955) is a Scottish-born Australian businessman and former Australian rules football player and coach who is the current chief executive officer (CEO) of the Carlton Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). Cook played for a number of different clubs in several Australian states and territories, including the Box Hill Football Club in the Victorian Football Association (VFA), the Melbourne Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL) and the and Subiaco Football Clubs in the Western Australian National Football League (WANFL), and later captain-coached the Ainslie Football Club in the Australian Capital Territory Football League (ACTFL). After his retirement from coaching, Cook occupied positions with the Australian Sports Commission and the West Australian Football Commission, before being appointed CEO of the West Coast Eagles in 1990. He quit this position in 1998 to take up the same role with Geelong ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1875 Victorian Football Season
The 1875 Victorian football season was the sixth senior season of Australian rules football in the colony of Victoria. was the premier metropolitan club for the fourth time, while was the premier provincial club. Metropolitan Seven metropolitan clubs participated in senior football during the 1875 season: , , Carlton Imperial, , , and (a combined and Melbourne University team). The 1875 edition of ''The Footballer'' listed as many as 34 junior clubs that played matches throughout the season: Adeplhian, Abbotsford United, Albion Union, Alma, , Carlton Rifles, Cambridge Union, Clifton, East St Kilda, Elwood, Esplanade, , Excelsior, Fawkner Park, Hawthorn, Hotham United, Jolimont, Richmond, Richmond Standard, Sands and McDougall, St Kilda Alma, , South Melbourne Imperial, South-park, Southern Rifles, Southern, Star of Richmond, Vaucluse, Victoria Parade, , West Richmond, , and Windsor. Season As had been the case for several years, Carlton and Melbourne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1874 Victorian Football Season
The 1874 Victorian football season was the fifth senior season of Australian rules football in the colony of Victoria. was the premier club for the third time. Clubs A number of football clubs were formed in Victoria for the 1874 season, including , which was incorporated on 19 June 1874. It was first known as "Cecil Football Club", but adopted the name "South Melbourne Football Club" four weeks later on 15 July. New clubs Metropolitan Five metropolitan clubs participated in senior football during the 1874 season: , , , and . North Melbourne and St Kilda were newly elevated from junior ranks to senior ranks for this season, while – which was a senior club in 1873 but only played a minimal number of games – instead played in the Second Twenty competition. Carlton, which was undefeated during the season, was considered the premier club, with Melbourne runners-up (mostly by virtue of Carlton winning all four matches it played against Melbourne during the year). Melbourne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1873 Victorian Football Season
The 1873 Victorian football season was the fourth senior season of Australian rules football in the colony of Victoria. was the premier club for the second time. Clubs A number of football clubs were formed in Victoria in for the 1873 season, including , which was officially established on 2 April 1873. New clubs Metropolitan Four metropolitan clubs participated in senior football during the 1873 season: , , and , although University played too few games and its record is not shown below. Notable for its absence was , which folded in July 1873 after being a powerhouse of the 1860s. Many of its players went to the newly-established and nearby St Kilda Football Club, which was elevated to senior ranks in 1874. Carlton and Melbourne were considered the dominant clubs in the city, so the premier club was decided based entirely on the head-to-head record between the clubs. In their four meetings, Carlton won two matches and the other two were drawn, meaning Carlton was recognis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1871 Victorian Football Season
The 1871 Victorian football season was the second senior season of Australian rules football in the colony of Victoria. was the premier club for first time, and it also won the Challenge Cup. 1871 season Four clubs participated in senior football during the 1871 season: Albert-park, , and South Yarra. Hobson's Bay Railway folded at the conclusion of the 1870 season. The formal practice of senior clubs playing matches ''at odds'' against junior clubs was established during the season. In matches played at odds, the senior team fielded fifteen players and the junior team fielded twenty players. Matches played at odds were quite competitive: the premier club Carlton was unbeaten at even strength against senior clubs, but lost two of five matches played at odds. Three metropolitan junior clubs – Collingwood, Richmond and Carlton United – played against the senior clubs during the year. Senior clubs also played matches against provincial clubs Ballarat (at odds) and (even ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1887 VFA Season
The 1887 VFA season was the eleventh season of the Victorian Football Association (VFA), the highest-level senior Australian rules football competition in Victoria. won the premiership for the second time, after finishing the season with 15 wins from its 18 matches. It was the club's last VFA premiership. Association membership The metropolitan membership of the Association (including Geelong) remained unchanged from the fifteen clubs which contested the premiership in 1886. The three Ballarat-based clubs (Ballarat, Ballarat Imperial and South Ballarat) also remained senior clubs; however, unlike in previous years, they were included in the premiership lists by all of the major sportswriters. 1887 VFA premiership The premiership was won by the Carlton Football Club, which played eighteen matches for the season for fifteen wins, two draws and a loss. The runner-up was , which played twenty-one matches for sixteen wins, three draws and two losses. was ranked third. No of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1877 VFA Season
The 1877 VFA season was the inaugural season of the Victorian Football Association (VFA), the highest-level Australian rules football competition in the colony of Victoria. It was the first season in which football in Victoria was run under a properly constituted administrative body. The VFA was formed with the view to governing the sport via a collective body, made up of delegates representing the clubs. Although the formation was a significant step in the organisation of football, it was effectively an administrative change only, and there was no significant change to the manner in which matches were scheduled and played – or the premiership decided – compared to the unaffiliated 1876 season. won the inaugural VFA premiership after finishing the season with 14 wins from its 21 matches. VFA foundation The Victorian Football Association was established on 17 May 1877 to provide administration of the game in Victoria. It was the second such body to have been formed, after ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1995 AFL Grand Final
The 1995 AFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Geelong Football Club and Carlton Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 30 September 1995. It was the 99th annual grand final of the Australian Football League (formerly the Victorian Football League), staged to determine the premiers for the 1995 AFL season. The match was attended by 93,670 spectators. The 1995 grand final was won by Carlton by a margin of 61 points. It was Carlton's 16th premiership and most recent victory, making it one of the most successful clubs in the league's history. The game also marked Carlton's sixteenth consecutive win and twenty-third win for the year overall, then a record. Background Both clubs were back in the grand final after recent unsuccessful attempts. Carlton had played in the grand final in 1993, which it had lost against Essendon; Geelong was back after having lost the previous year's premiership decider. Geelong had fin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
