The Australian Football League (AFL) is the pre-eminent and only fully professional men's competition of Australian rules football. Through the AFL Commission, the AFL also serves as the sport's governing body and is responsible for controlling the laws of the game. Originally known as the Victorian Football League (VFL), it was founded in 1896 as a breakaway competition from the Victorian Football Association (VFA), with its inaugural season commencing the following year. The VFL, aiming to become a national competition, began expanding beyond Victoria to other Australian states in the 1980s, and changed its name to the AFL in 1990.
Rod Blake is a former Australian rules football ruckman whose career spanned a thirteen-year period beginning in 1971. He played a total of 176 games in the Victoria Football League (VFL), kicking 113 goals.
Christopher Newman is the coach of the Box Hill Hawks in the Victorian Football League and a former player with the Richmond Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He was drafted at pick 55 in the 2000 national draft from the Dandenong Stingrays in the TAC Cup. Newman grew up in the Melbourne suburb of Narre Warren where his neighbour and childhood friend was former AFL player Brendan Fevola. Newman led Box Hill to a VFL premiership in 2018 and formerly served as an assistant coach at Hawthorn in 2016.
Deniston Clive Marshall is a former Australian rules footballer who represented Claremont in the West Australian National Football League (WANFL) and Geelong in the Victorian Football League (VFL) from the 1950s to the 1970s.
Don W. Scott is a former Australian rules footballer who represented Hawthorn in the Victorian Football League (VFL) during the 1960s and 1970s.
Ronald Clive Hovey was an Australian rules footballer who played with Geelong in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Garry Moss is a former Australian rules footballer who is the current coach of the Perth Football Club in the West Australian Football League (WAFL). He previously played for the Hawthorn Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL) from 2007 to 2010.
Clive Leslie "Pixie" Coles was an Australian rules footballer who played with Geelong and St Kilda in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Clive Alfred Fergie was an Australian rules footballer who played with Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
The 2014 Victorian Football League season is the 133rd season of the Victorian Football Association/Victorian Football League Australian rules football competition. The premiership was won by the Footscray Bulldogs, the reserves team of the Australian Football League's Western Bulldogs which was competing in its first season in the VFL, after it defeated Box Hill by 22 points in the Grand Final on 21 September; it was the first senior VFL premiership won by the Footscray reserves team, and it was the tenth senior VFA/VFL premiership won by the Footscray/Western Bulldogs Football Club overall.
Charlie Newman was a former Australian rules footballer who played with Collingwood and Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Clive Reid was an Australian rules footballer who played with Collingwood in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Clive Brown was a former Australian rules footballer who played with Geelong in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Clive Lawson Yewers was an Australian rules footballer who played with Footscray in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Clive Watson was a former Australian rules footballer who played with Richmond in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Clive Howard Morrison was an Australian rules footballer who played with Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Joseph Clive McCorkell was an Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Clive Wesley Smith was an Australian rules footballer who played with North Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Sam Newman was an Australian rules footballer who played with St Kilda in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Clive Pasquill was an Australian rules footballer who played with South Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).