AFL Britain, also referred to as AFL Great Britain was established in 1989 as the governing body for
Australian rules football in
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest and the Celtic Sea to the southwest. It is separated from continental Europe ...
,
Wales
Wales ( cy, Cymru ) is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is bordered by England to the Wales–England border, east, the Irish Sea to the north and west, the Celtic Sea to the south west and the ...
and
Scotland
Scotland (, ) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Covering the northern third of the island of Great Britain, mainland Scotland has a border with England to the southeast and is otherwise surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean to th ...
. It was formed in 2008, replacing the British Australian Rules Football League (BARFL) as national body.
By 2012, Wales and Scotland had created their own autonomous bodies governing the sport of
Australian rules football and AFL Britain was superseded by
AFL England.
See also
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AFL England
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Australian Rules Football in England
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Australian rules football in Scotland
Australian rules football is played by a six-team league in Scotland, with clubs in Glasgow, Linlithgow, Kirkcaldy, Edinburgh and Newcastle. Current competition has its origins in the 1990s with the founding of the Caledonian Sharks (later G ...
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Australian rules football in the United Kingdom
References
{{GBR sport federations
Sports governing bodies in the United Kingdom
Australian rules football in Great Britain
Brit
Brit, Brits or BRIT may refer to:
People Nicknames
* British people, people of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, its Overseas Territories and the Crown Dependencies, and their descendants
* Brit Hume (born 1943), American TV journalist
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Sports organizations established in 2008