The Melbourne Football Club, nicknamed the Demons and commonly known as the Dees, is a professional Australian rules football club that competes in the Australian Football League and plays its home matches at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. Established in 1858, it is the oldest Australian rules football club and is widely recognised as the world's oldest professional club of any football code. In May 1859 Melbourne members drafted the first laws of the game, which laid the foundation for the modern rules. The club was a foundation member of the Victorian Football Association in 1877 and of the Victorian Football League in 1896. Melbourne has won 13 VFL and AFL premierships, ten of them between 1939 and 1964, and it ended a 57-year drought with its 13th flag in 2021. It was a foundation member of the AFL Women's league in 2017.
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is a professional Australian rules football club
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Established in 1858
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Melbourne has won 13 VFL/AFL premierships
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is a professional Australian rules football club. The club competes in the Australian Football League (AFL)
Competed In: Australian Football League, Lead, competition
The club competes in the Australian Football League (AFL)
View the SourceJim Stynes (Wikipedia)
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the Melbourne Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL)
Shane Woewodin (Wikipedia)
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played 200 games with the Melbourne and Collingwood Football Clubs
Ron Barassi (Wikipedia)
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Barassi left Melbourne for a lucrative contract at Carlton
Garry Lyon (Wikipedia)
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captain of the Melbourne Football Club
David Neitz (Wikipedia)
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longest-serving captain in the history of the Melbourne Football Club
Max Walker (Wikipedia)
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He spent six seasons with Melbourne, playing 85 games as a ruckman and defender
Robert Flower (Wikipedia)
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an Australian rules footballer with Melbourne Football Club
Ron Barassi Sr. (Wikipedia)
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played for the Melbourne Football Club
Gerard Healy (Wikipedia)
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Beginning his career with the Melbourne Football Club in 1979
Tayla Harris (Wikipedia)
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Australian rules football with the Melbourne Football Club in the AFL Women's (AFLW)
Corrie Gardner (Wikipedia)
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played Australian rules football for Essendon Football Club and Melbourne Football Club
Keith Truscott (Wikipedia)
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Australian rules footballer with the Melbourne Football Club
Max Gawn (Wikipedia)
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plays for the Melbourne Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL)
Clayton Oliver (Wikipedia)
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He previously played for the Melbourne Football Club from 2016 to 2025.
Christian Petracca (Wikipedia)
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He previously played for the Melbourne Football Club from 2015 to 2025.
Darren Jolly (Wikipedia)
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played for the Melbourne Football Club, the Sydney Swans and the Collingwood Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL)
Declan Keilty (Wikipedia)
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played for the Melbourne Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL)
Jeremy Howe (Wikipedia)
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He previously played for the Melbourne Football Club from 2011 to 2015
Sam Blease (Wikipedia)
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played for the Melbourne Football Club and Geelong Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL)
Brian Stynes (Wikipedia)
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Australian rules football for Melbourne
Ken Albiston (Wikipedia)
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Ken played six seasons with Richmond before moving to Melbourne.
Bláithín Mackin (Wikipedia)
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who plays for Melbourne in the AFL Women's
Jesse Hogan (Wikipedia)
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he was drafted by Melbourne with the second selection in the 2012 mini-draft
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