Clubs
Mergers
| Original clubs | New club | League | State | Date | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Nullawil |  Calder United Lions | North Central FL | VIC | 20 June 2024 | [3] |
 Wycheproof-Narraport |
The following are the events of Australian rules football for the calendar year 2024, 166 years after the first game was played in 1858. [1] [2]
| Original clubs | New club | League | State | Date | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nullawil | Calder United Lions | North Central FL | VIC | 20 June 2024 | [3] |
| Wycheproof-Narraport |
The Fremantle Football Club, nicknamed the Dockers, is a professional Australian rules football club competing in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's elite competition. The team was founded in 1994 to represent the port city of Fremantle, a stronghold of Australian rules football in Western Australia. The Dockers were the second team from the state to be admitted to the competition, following the West Coast Eagles in 1987. Both Fremantle and the West Coast Eagles are owned by the West Australian Football Commission (WAFC), with a board of directors operating Fremantle on the commission's behalf.
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Marcellin College is a Catholic secondary boys' college in Bulleen, Victoria, Australia.
Neil Elvis "Nicky" Winmar is a former Australian rules footballer, best known for his career for St Kilda and the Western Bulldogs in the Australian Football League (AFL), as well as South Fremantle in the West Australian Football League. An Indigenous Australian man, he was the first Aboriginal footballer to play 200 games in the AFL, and was named in the Indigenous Team of the Century in 2005. He was involved in several incidents of racial vilification during his career, and a photograph of Winmar responding to one such incident during the 1993 season has been described as one of the most memorable images in Australian sporting history.
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Date of Death: 21 January 2024
Key Facts... Died: 5 February 2024 (aged 97)
Police say that Luke Davies and Jesse Baird died between 12am and 5.30pm on Monday
...passed away in the early hours of Tuesday at age 99.
...passed away yesterday at the age of 69
passed away in a Melbourne hospital on Sunday after a battle with lung cancer.
The 67-year-old died on Thursday following a battle with cancer.
Died 2 May 2024 (aged 83)
...McCarthy died at the age of 29 on Thursday night.
died in Launceston General Hospital on Monday 13 May...
...passing of former player and club Hall of Fame member Reg Burgess on Monday night.
...died at the age of 80 on Wednesday evening.