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The Essendon Football Club, nicknamed the Bombers, is a professional Australian rules football club. The club plays in the Australian Football League (AFL), the game's premier competition. The club was formed by the McCracken family in their Ascot Vale home "Alisa", and while the exact date is unknown, it is generally accepted to have been in 1872. The club's first recorded game took place on 7 June 1873 against a Carlton Second 20. From 1878 until 1896, the club played in the Victorian Football Association, then joined seven other clubs in October 1896 to form the breakaway Victorian Football League. Headquartered at the Essendon Recreation Ground, known as Windy Hill, from 1922 to 2013, the club moved to The Hangar in near Tullamarine in late 2013 on land owned by the Melbourne Airport. The club currently plays its home games at either Docklands Stadium or the Melbourne Cricket Ground. Zach Merrett is the current club captain.
James Albert Hird is a former professional Australian rules football player and past senior coach of the Essendon Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).
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The 2000 AFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Essendon Football Club and the Melbourne Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 2 September 2000 rather than in its usual last Saturday of September date to avoid conflicting with the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. It was the 104th annual grand final of the Australian Football League, staged to determine the premiers for the 2000 AFL season. The match, attended by 96,249 spectators, was won by Essendon by a margin of 60 points, marking that club's 16th premiership and thereby equalling the record for the most VFL/AFL premierships.
Steven Clark was an Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon, Melbourne and St Kilda in the Australian Football League (AFL), previously Victorian Football League (VFL).
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- ↑ "Premierships". Australian Football League. Archived from the original on 11 September 2009. Retrieved 22 November 2009.
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- ↑ "Sheedy the perfect fit". Yahoo 7. 9 November 2009. Archived from the original on 24 January 2010. Retrieved 22 November 2009.
- ↑ "Simon Madden returns to Windy Hill". Essendon Football Club. 3 December 2008. Archived from the original on 6 January 2009. Retrieved 22 November 2009.
- ↑ Salvado, John (23 September 2009). "Bombers captain Lloyd announces retirement from AFL football". Perth Now. Retrieved 22 November 2009.
- ↑ "Premiership Sides". Essendon Football Club. Archived from the original on 16 December 2009. Retrieved 22 November 2009.
- ↑ "Player Achievements". Essendon Football Club. Archived from the original on 17 September 2009. Retrieved 22 November 2009.
- ↑ "Williams wants Brownlow justice". Fox Sports. 26 September 2009. Retrieved 22 November 2009.