The North Melbourne Football Club, nicknamed the Kangaroos or colloquially the Roos, is a professional Australian rules football club whose men's team competes in the Australian Football League and whose women's team plays in the AFL Women's competition. It was informally founded in the suburb of North Melbourne in 1858 during the scratch-match era, and its official foundation date of 1869 makes it the fourth-oldest club in the competition. The club has been based at Arden Street Oval since 1882, and its men's team plays home matches at Marvel Stadium in Docklands and at Bellerive Oval in Hobart. Its motto is victoria amat curam, Latin for victory demands dedication, and it is unofficially known as the Shinboners. The Kangaroos have won four VFL and AFL premierships, in 1975, 1977, 1996 and 1999, and two AFL Women's premierships, in 2024 and 2025.
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is a professional Australian rules football club
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official foundaton date of 1869
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The Kangaroos have won four VFL/AFL premierships
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is a professional Australian rules football club. The men's team competes in the Australian Football League (AFL)
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The men's team competes in the Australian Football League (AFL)
View the SourceMalcolm Blight (Wikipedia)
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played for and coached the North Melbourne Football Club
Wayne Carey (Wikipedia)
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is a former Australian rules footballer who played with the North Melbourne Football Club and Adelaide Football Club
Brent Harvey (Wikipedia)
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played for the North Melbourne Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL)
Corey McKernan (Wikipedia)
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played for the North Melbourne Kangaroos
Russell Ebert (Wikipedia)
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25 games for North Melbourne
Gary Dempsey (Wikipedia)
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North Melbourne Football Club in the Victorian Football League
Ross Glendinning (Wikipedia)
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the North Melbourne Football Club and the West Coast Eagles
Jess Duffin (Wikipedia)
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Duffin has played Australian rules football for Collingwood, North Melbourne, and Hawthorn in the AFL Women's competition
Todd Goldstein (Wikipedia)
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played for North Melbourne and Essendon in the Australian Football League (AFL)
Jack Ziebell (Wikipedia)
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played for the North Melbourne Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL)
Caleb Daniel (Wikipedia)
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plays for the North Melbourne Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL)
Farren Ray (Wikipedia)
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played for the Western Bulldogs, St Kilda Football Club and North Melbourne Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL)
Declan Mountford (Wikipedia)
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played for the North Melbourne Football Club and the West Coast Eagles Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL)
Daniel Nielson (Wikipedia)
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played for the North Melbourne Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL)
Curtis Taylor (Wikipedia)
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He previously played for North Melbourne Football Club in Australian Football League (AFL).
Barry Cable (Wikipedia)
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Cable left Perth at the end of the 1969 season to join the North Melbourne Football Club in the VFL.
Erika O'Shea (Wikipedia)
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plays for the North Melbourne Football Club
Ailish Considine (Wikipedia)
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Ailish Considine (born 9 July 1992) is an Irish former Australian rules footballer who played for Adelaide and North Melbourne in the AFL Women's.
Glenn Archer (Wikipedia)
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is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played his entire career with the North Melbourne Football Club
Anthony Stevens (Wikipedia)
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is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the North Melbourne Kangaroos
Vikki Wall (Wikipedia)
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AFL Women’s for North Melbourne Football Club
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