Australian rules football is a football code played on a large oval field between two teams of eighteen players, who score by kicking an oval ball between goalposts, with a distinctive high mark and long kicking game and few restrictions on ball movement compared to other football codes. It was codified in Melbourne in 1858, making it one of the oldest organized football codes in the world, and is administered by the Australian Football League, the sport's dominant professional competition. The sport remains most prominent in Australia, where it draws some of the largest domestic sporting attendances in the country.
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Originating RegionMelbourne, Victoria, Australia 1 International Governing BodyAustralian Football League 1 Connections
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Source Australian rules football - Wikipedia
Held Differently
Gaelic Football, Sports Why this is disputed. A theory since the 1920s that the source itself says lacks archival evidence; Wills's Rugby School experience is the documented influence.
Source Australian rules football - Wikipedia
Played By
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1. Australian rules football - Wikipedia
History, origins in Melbourne
In Melbourne, in 1858, in a move that would help to shape Australian rules football in its formative years, private schools (then termed "public schools" in accordance with nomenclature in England) began organising football games
Governance, national sporting organisation
The AFL is recognised by the Australian Sports Commission as being the National Sporting Organisation for Australian rules.
Infobox, First played field
15 June 1859
Derived From: Gaelic Football, History section
Since the 1920s, it has been suggested that Australian rules football may have been derived from the Irish sport of Gaelic football.
Associated With: Cricket, Lead
often a modified cricket ground
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