The Essendon Football Club, nicknamed the Bombers, is a professional Australian rules football club based in the northern Melbourne suburb of Melbourne Airport that plays in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's premier competition. Founded in 1872 in the nearby suburb of Essendon, the club participated in the Victorian Football Association from 1878 until 1896, when it joined seven other clubs in forming the breakaway Victorian Football League. Headquartered at Windy Hill for much of the 20th century, the club moved to The Hangar in Melbourne Airport in 2013, and currently plays its home games at either Docklands Stadium or the Melbourne Cricket Ground. Dyson Heppell is the current club captain.
James Albert Hird is a former professional Australian rules football player and the former senior coach of the Essendon Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).
Matthew James Lloyd is a former professional Australian rules footballer, who played for the Essendon Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).
Timothy Michael Watson is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Essendon Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). After retiring from the game, he has continued working in the Australian football industry as a coach, sports journalist and media personality.
Scott Lucas is a former Australian rules footballer for the Essendon Football Club in the Australian Football League, and is noted as the other major forward for the Bombers along with Matthew Lloyd. Together, Lloyd and Lucas were affectionately dubbed the "twin towers" due to their height in the Bomber forward line.
Gary James Ayres is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Hawthorn Football Club. He is currently the senior coach for the Port Melbourne Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Ayres' playing career is honored by the existence of the Gary Ayres Award, an annual award given to the player judged best-afield by the AFL Coaches Association throughout each AFL finals series.
Aaron Henneman is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon in the Australian Football League (AFL). Henneman joined YVMDFL club Silvan in 2007 after being delisted by Essendon the year before. Joining ex Essendon teammates at Silvan including Gary Moorcroft, Ben Haynes and Marc Bullen. Henneman played a starring role at CHB in the Cats premiership the same year. Has been playing a starring forward role in recent times for the Oakleigh football club despite a tough time with recent shoulder injuries.
John Barnes is a retired Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League.
Marc Bullen is a former Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League for the Essendon Football Club.
Angus Monfries is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Essendon Football Club and Port Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). Monfries played as a forward pocket or half forward.
Gary Moorcroft is a former Australian rules football player for Essendon and Melbourne in the Australian Football League (AFL).
Darren Bewick is a former Australian rules footballer who won two premierships with the Essendon Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). Bewick's game breaking pace & goal sense inside the attacking 50 was legendary amongst Bomber fans.
The 1993 Australian Football League season was the 97th season of the elite Australian rules football competition and the 4th under the name 'Australian Football League', having switched from 'Victorian Football League' after 1989.
The 1985 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Essendon Football Club and Hawthorn Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 28 September 1985. It was the 89th annual grand final of the Victorian Football League, staged to determine the premiers for the 1985 VFL season. The match, attended by 100,042 spectators, was won by Essendon by a margin of 78 points, marking that club's 14th premiership victory.
Michael Hurley is a professional Australian rules footballer with the Essendon Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).
Ben Haynes is an Australian rules footballer who played in the Australian Football League (AFL) for Richmond and Essendon Football Clubs and in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) for West Adelaide Football Club.He also played for Melton south panthers.
Barry Young is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Richmond, Essendon and Hawthorn in the Victorian/Australian Football League (VFL/AFL).
The 2013 Australian Football League season was the 117th season of the elite Australian rules football competition and the 24th under the name 'Australian Football League', having switched from 'Victorian Football League' after 1989.
Gary Barrow is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Footscray in the Australian Football League (AFL).
Gary Fitzpatrick is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Recruited from Moonee Ponds in the Essendon District Football League, Fitzpatrick left Essendon in 1976 to play with Brunswick in the Victorian Football Association (VFA). After a single season there, he moved to Queensland and played with Mayne and Banyo, the latter of which he captain-coached.