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Australian rules football is the most watched and second most participated code of football in Victoria. Australian rules football originated in Melbourne in the late 1850s and grew quickly to dominate the sport, which it continues to. Victoria has more than double the number of players of any other state in Australia accounting for approximately 42% of all Australian players in 2023 and continues to grow strongly. Soccer is the only football code that is more popular than Australian rules in Victoria, though it has made up much ground lost to soccer over previous decades. Today, they have a similar number of players. The sport is governed by AFL Victoria based in Melbourne. The national governing body, the AFL Commission is also based in Melbourne.
Leonard Victor Smith was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Melbourne Football Club and Fitzroy Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Bradley Gotch is a former Australian rules footballer who played for Fitzroy and St Kilda in the Victorian/Australian Football League (VFL/AFL). He is currently the head coach of West Adelaide Football Club in the SANFL.
Charles Albert Norris was an Australian rules footballer who played with Collingwood and Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Norris remains the oldest player to debut in the VFL/AFL and go on to play 100 games. He was also a country field umpire with the VFL in 1921.
John Deas was an Australian rules footballer who played for the South Melbourne Football Club, Fitzroy Football Club and Essendon Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Jim "Bull" Martin was an Australian rules footballer who played with Carlton, Essendon and Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Walter John Dudley was an Australian sportsman who played first-class cricket with Victoria and Australian rules football for Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Daniel George Gough was an Australian rules footballer who played for Fitzroy and Carlton in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Kenneth Douglas Ross was an Australian rules footballer who played for Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
John Fidge is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Melbourne and the Brisbane Bears in the Victorian Football League (VFL), Glenelg in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) and Frankston in the Victorian Football Association (VFA).
Jim Christou is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Gavan McCarthy is a former Australian rules footballer who played with North Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Paul Gerard Shanahan was an Australian rules footballer who played with Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
William Francis Thorpe was an Australian rules footballer who played with Richmond and Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Walter Rex Byrne was an Australian rules footballer who played with Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Before landing at Fitzroy, Byrne played at Northcote, Mildura, Williamstown and Northcote again. After captain-coaching Mildura for part of 1930, Byrne was transferred back to Melbourne in his job with Victoria Police and joined his brother, Tom Byrne, at Williamstown for the rest of the 1930 season. He played eight games with 'Town, kicking eight goals before returning to Northcote in 1931.
Arthur Richey Newbound was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Fitzroy Football Club and St Kilda Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
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- 1 2 Howard Leigh (19 September 1982), "The Christou brothers, Northcote", VFA Recorder, Blackburn, VIC: Hall's Sporting Publicity, p. 7, 24
