Acton Football Club

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The Acton Football Club is a defunct Australian Rules Football club that played in the ACT AFL from 1924 to 1973. The club wore black and white colours, similar to the Swan Districts Football Club. Acton merged with Queanbeyan in 1952 but separated in 1958. In 1974, Acton was replaced in the ACTAFL by West Canberra, which not only adopted Acton's black and white colours, but also recruited the vast majority of its players.

AFL Canberra

AFL Canberra is the governing body for Australian rules football in the Australian Capital Territory.

Swan Districts Football Club

The Swan Districts Football Club, nicknamed the Swans, is an Australian rules football club playing in the West Australian Football League (WAFL). The club is based at Bassendean Oval, in Bassendean, an eastern suburb of Perth, Western Australia. The club was formed in 1932, and joined the then-Western Australian National Football League (WANFL) in 1934, acting as a successor to the Midland Junction Football Club, which had disbanded during World War I, in the Perth Hills region.

West Canberra Football Club is a defunct Australian Rules Football club that played in the ACT AFL from 1974 – 1987. The club's guernsey was black & white, and the team was nicknamed the Magpies. The club merged with the Belconnen Football Club to form the Belconnen Magpies Football Club. West Canberra never won an ACT AFL premiership.

Premierships

Acton won two ACT AFL premierships as a stand-alone club in 1924 and 1927, and three as a combined Queanbeyan-Acton team in 1953, 1954 and 1956.

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