''League Teams'' (formerly known as AFL Teams) was a weekly Australian sports television series based on the

Australian Football League The Australian Football League (AFL) is the pre-eminent professional sports, professional competition of Australian rules football. It was originally named the Victorian Football League (VFL) and was founded in 1896 as a breakaway competition ...

(AFL) that airs on

Fox Footy Fox Footy (stylised as FOX FOOTY) is an Australian rules football subscription television channel dedicated to screening Australian rules football matches and related programming. It is owned by Fox Sports Australia operated out of its Melbou ...

. It was shown on Thursdays at 6:30pm, to coincide with that round's team announcements. Hosted by

Dermott Brereton Dermott Hugh Brereton (born 19 August 1964) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Hawthorn Football Club, Sydney Swans and Collingwood Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). Born to Irish immigrant parents, ...

, it also featured members of the Fox Footy's commentary team every week during the AFL season. A predecessor show with the same name and same general format was screened by

HSV-7 HSV is a television station in Melbourne, Australia. It is part of the Seven Network, one of the three main commercial television networks in Australia, its first and oldest station. It launched in time for the 1956 Summer Olympic Games in Melbou ...

in Melbourne in the 1960s and 1970s. It featured a panel of three well known former players,

Lou Richards Lewis Thomas Charles "Lou" Richards (15 March 1923 – 8 May 2017) was an Australian rules footballer who played 250 games for the Collingwood Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL) between 1941 and 1955. He captained the team f ...

Jack Dyer John Raymond Dyer Sr. OAM (15 November 1913 – 23 August 2003), nicknamed Captain Blood, was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Richmond Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL) between 1931 and 1949. One of the ga ...

and Bob Davis. It was shown late on Thursday nights during the football season.League Teams
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History

The show was launched on the original iteration of

Fox Footy Channel The Fox Footy Channel was a channel exclusively dedicated to Australian rules football. It was owned by Foxtel and operated out of their Melbourne-based studios. From 2002 to 2006 it was available on Foxtel, Austar, Optus Television, Trans ...

in 2002, and was hosted by

Jason Dunstall Jason Hadfield Dunstall (born 14 August 1964) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Hawthorn Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). Dunstall is arguably the greatest Australian rules footballer to come from ...

. The show's panellists were

Luke Darcy Luke Darcy (born 12 July 1975) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with the Western Bulldogs in the Australian Football League (AFL) and now works for the Seven Network and Triple M covering the AFL and the Olympics. Early life L ...

, former and player

John Barnes John Charles Bryan Barnes (born 7 November 1963) is a former professional football player and manager. Often considered one of the greatest England players of all time and one of Liverpool's greatest ever players, Barnes currently works as an ...

, and former player

Wayne Schwass Wayne Schwass (born 27 November 1968) is a former professional Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League. He is notable as being the first New Zealand–born AFL player known to be of Māori heritage. He holds the record for ...

. The show finished at the end of the 2006 season when Fox Footy Channel ceased operations, and it moved to parent channel

Fox Sports Fox Sports is the brand name for a number of sports channels, broadcast divisions, programming, and other media around the world. The name originates from Fox Broadcasting Company in the United States, which in turn derives its name from Fox Fi ...

. It continued there until 2012, when

was launched and the show returned to an AFL-dedicated channel. From 2007 to 2010, it was hosted by former footballer Brian Taylor. He was replaced by

following the 2011 season, after Taylor's departure to the

Seven Network Seven Network (stylised 7Network, and commonly known as Channel Seven or simply Seven) is an Australian commercial free-to-air Television broadcasting in Australia, television network. It is owned by Seven West Media, Seven West Media Limited, ...

. The show had changed format 2017 when Paul Roos joined Brereton on the show with the format changed to a “match committee” style. The show was axed in 2018 and was replaced by ''The Weekend Lowdown'', which was hosted by Sarah Olle, with most of those who appeared on ''League Teams'' except Brereton and Roos appearing on the show.

Host

(2002–2006) * Brian Taylor (2007–2011) *

(2012–2017) * Paul Roos (2017)

Panellists

* Brad Johnson * Alastair Lynch * Ben Dixon *

* Tony Shaw *

Barry Hall Barry Andrew Hall (born 8 February 1977) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the St Kilda Football Club, Sydney Swans and Western Bulldogs in the Australian Football League (AFL). He is considered to be one of ...

David Parkin David Alexander Parkin (born 12 September 1942) is a former Australian rules footballer and coach who played for the Hawthorn Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL) and for the Subiaco Football Club in the Western Australian Natio ...

Cameron Mooney Cameron Mooney (born 26 September 1979) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with the North Melbourne and Geelong Football Clubs in the Australian Football League (AFL). A forward, standing at 197 cm (6 ft 6 in) Mooney is renowned ...

Liam Pickering Liam Michael Pickering (born 9 September 1968) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the North Melbourne Football Club and the Geelong Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). His father, Michael Pi ...

* Paul Roos

References

External links

* Fox Sports (Australian TV network) original programming Fox Footy original programming 2002 Australian television series debuts 2010s Australian television series Australian rules football television series {{Sport-tv-prog-stub

History

Host

Panellists

See also

References

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