The North Melbourne Football Club, nicknamed the Kangaroos, are an Australian rules football club that competes in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's premier competition. Founded in the suburb of North Melbourne in 1869, it is based at its traditional home ground, Arden Street Oval, and plays its home matches at both the nearby Docklands Stadium and Blundstone Arena in Hobart, Tasmania.
The Carlton Football Club, nicknamed the Blues, is a professional Australian rules football club based in the inner-Melbourne suburb of Carlton North, Victoria. Founded in 1864, the club competes in the Australian Football League, and was one of the competition's eight inaugural member clubs in 1896.
Wayne "The Dominator" Johnston is a former Australian rules footballer. Johnston played 209 games and kicked 283 goals for the Carlton Football Club, in a career spanning 1979–1990. He was inducted into the Carlton Football Club Hall of Fame in 1991. In 2018, Johnston was inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame.
Wayne Schwass is a former Australian rules football player in the VFL/AFL who debuted in 1988.
Luke Blackwell is an Australian rules footballer. He formerly played for Carlton in the Australian Football League (AFL), and for Claremont in the West Australian Football League (WAFL) where he was the winner of the 2011 Sandover Medal.
Jordan Scott Bannister is a former Australian rules football player and umpire, who played for Carlton and Essendon and umpired in the Australian Football League.
Kenneth John Sheldon is a former Australian rules footballer in the Victorian Football League. He is the father of the Brisbane Lions' player Sam Sheldon.
Tim McGrath is a former Australian rules footballer for the North Melbourne Football Club from 1989 to 1991, and the Geelong Football Club from 1992 to 2002, in the Australian Football League (AFL), which was known as the Victorian Football League (VFL) when McGrath made his debut for North Melbourne in 1989.
The 1996 AFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the North Melbourne Football Club and the Sydney Swans, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 28 September 1996. It was the 100th annual Grand Final of the Australian Football League, staged to determine the premiers for the 1996 AFL season. The match, attended by 93,102 people, was won by North Melbourne by a margin of 43 points, marking that club's third premiership victory. North Melbourne were awarded a gold premiership cup instead of the usual silver in honour of the centenary grand final.
Wayne Campbell is a retired Australian rules football player and administrator for the Richmond Football Club in the AFL. He also had assistant coaching roles at the Western Bulldogs for two years.
Wayne "Moose" Henwood is a former Australian rules footballer who played for Sydney and Melbourne in the Victorian/Australia Football League (VFL/AFL).
Anthony G. Symonds is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Hawthorn in the Victorian Football League (VFL) and Glenelg in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL).
Majak Daw is an Australian rules footballer who currently plays for the Melbourne Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). Daw and his family in Australia are refugees from the civil wars in Sudan. Daw became the first Sudanese Australian to be drafted to an AFL club when he was contracted to North Melbourne in the 2009 AFL Draft. Daw's drafting gained international attention; it was reported by the BBC and the Voice of America. He made his first appearance for North Melbourne in a NAB Cup match on 20 February 2011.
Wayne Deledio is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Carlton in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Deledio later played for Brunswick in the Victorian Football Association.
Wayne Primmer is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon in the Victorian Football League (VFL) and West Torrens in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL).
Wayne John Hernaman is a former Australian rules footballer who played twenty games for Richmond in the Australian Football League (AFL) between 1993 and 1994. He was recruited from the South Fremantle Football Club in the West Australian Football League (WAFL) with the 7th selection in the 1992 AFL Draft.
Wayne Peters is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Richmond in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Wayne Carroll is a former Australian rules footballer who played with South Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Ian Foreman was an Australian rules footballer who played with Footscray in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Jake Riccardi is an Australian rules footballer who plays for the Greater Western Sydney Giants in the Australian Football League (AFL). He was recruited by the Greater Western Sydney Giants with the 51st draft pick in the 2019 AFL draft.