Australian rules football, officially known as Australian football, or simply called Aussie rules, football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of eighteen players on an oval field, often a modified cricket ground. Points are scored by kicking the oval ball between the middle goal posts or between a goal and behind post.
Port Adelaide Football Club is a professional Australian rules football club based in Alberton, South Australia. The club's senior team plays in the Australian Football League (AFL), where they are nicknamed the Power, whilst its reserves team competes in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL), where they are nicknamed the Magpies. Port Adelaide are the oldest professional sporting club in South Australia and the fifth-oldest club in the AFL. Since the club's founding on 12 May 1870, the club has won 36 South Australian league premierships, including six in a row, these records are unequaled in the SANFL or AFL. The club also won the Champions of Australia competition on a record four occasions. After successfully winning an AFL licence in 1994 the club began competing in the Australian Football League in 1997 as the only pre-existing non-Victorian club—and has subsequently added the 2004 AFL premiership to its achievements.
David "Neita" Neitz, nicknamed Neita, is a retired Australian rules footballer. The strongly built centre half back who became a full forward was the longest-serving captain in the history of the Melbourne Football Club and the first Melbourne player to achieve the 300-game milestone. He is considered one of the greatest ever players to come out of the island state of Tasmania.
David Rodan is a Fijian retired professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Richmond Tigers, Port Adelaide Power and the Melbourne Demons.
David Alex Parkin, OAM is a former Australian rules footballer and four-time premiership coach.
David Teague is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for North Melbourne and Carlton in the Australian Football League and is the senior coach of the Carlton Football Club.
David Mundy is an Australian rules footballer who plays for the Fremantle Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He plays as a half back flanker or midfielder and began his football career at Murray Bushrangers in the TAC Cup. He was the captain of Fremantle during the 2016 season.
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.
David Pittman is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Adelaide Crows in the Australian Football League (AFL).
David Mackay is a professional Australian rules football player who plays for the Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He was drafted by the club at pick 48 in the 2006 National Draft.
David Hale is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the North Melbourne Football Club and Hawthorn Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).
David King is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the North Melbourne Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He debuted for the Kangaroos in 1994 after being recruited from Port Melbourne Football Club at the age of 22. He went on to play 241 games and kicked 145 goals, winning premierships in 1996 and 1999.
David Myers is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Essendon Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).
David Thomas Hynes is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the West Coast Eagles and Fremantle Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL) between 1991 and 1997.
David Ellard is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Carlton Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).
David Zaharakis is a professional Australian rules footballer of Greek heritage, currently playing for the Essendon Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).
David Swallow is an Australian rules footballer playing for the Gold Coast Suns in the Australian Football League (AFL). Swallow won the Gold Coast Suns Club Champion award in 2014, becoming the second player to win the award after Gary Ablett Jr. won the award in the club's first three seasons. He received a nomination for the 2011 AFL Rising Star award in round 14 of the 2011 season. Swallow has served as Gold Coast co-captain since the 2019 season.
The North East Australian Football League (NEAFL) is an Australian rules football league in New South Wales, Queensland and the Australian Capital Territory. The league was formed in November 2010, and its inaugural competition was in 2011. It is a second division league, sitting below the national Australian Football League (AFL) and features the reserves teams of the region's four AFL clubs playing alongside six non-AFL affiliated NEAFL senior teams.
David Wearne is a former Australian rules footballer who played with the Brisbane Bears in the Australian Football League (AFL).
David Cuningham is an Australian rules footballer playing for the Carlton Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He was educated at Melbourne Grammar School. He was drafted by the Carlton Football Club with their fourth selection and twenty-third overall in the 2015 national draft. He made his debut in Round 21, 2016 against Brisbane Lions at the Gabba.
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