The Essendon Football Club, nicknamed the Bombers or colloquially the Dons, is a professional Australian rules football club that plays in the Australian Football League. It was formed by the McCracken family in their Ascot Vale home in 1872, played its first recorded game in 1873, and from 1878 until 1896 competed in the Victorian Football Association, where it won four consecutive premierships between 1891 and 1894. In 1896 it joined seven other clubs to form the breakaway Victorian Football League and won the inaugural premiership in 1897. Essendon has won 16 VFL and AFL premierships, tied with Carlton and Collingwood for the most of any club. It had golden eras under Dick Reynolds in the 1940s and 1950s and under Kevin Sheedy from the 1980s to the early 2000s, and it plays the annual Anzac Day clash with Collingwood and Dreamtime at the G with Richmond.
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is a professional Australian rules football club that plays in the Australian Football League (AFL)
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Formed by the McCracken family in their Ascot Vale home in 1872
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having won 16 VFL/AFL premierships
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is a professional Australian rules football club that plays in the Australian Football League (AFL)
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that plays in the Australian Football League (AFL)
View the SourceAdam Cooney (Wikipedia)
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Western Bulldogs and Essendon Football Club
Gavin Wanganeen (Wikipedia)
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played for the Essendon Football Club and Port Adelaide Football Club
James Hird (Wikipedia)
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senior coach of the Essendon Football Club
Dick Reynolds (Wikipedia)
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played for the Essendon Football Club
Jobe Watson (Wikipedia)
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played for the Essendon Football Club
Dustin Fletcher (Wikipedia)
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played for the Essendon Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL)
Matthew Lloyd (Wikipedia)
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played for the Essendon Football Club
John Coleman (Wikipedia)
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played for and coached the Essendon Football Club
Paul Salmon (Wikipedia)
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played in the Australian Football League for Essendon and Hawthorn
Graham Moss (Wikipedia)
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played for the Essendon Football Club
Michael Long (Wikipedia)
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with the Essendon Football Club
Neale Daniher (Wikipedia)
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played with the Essendon Football Club
Terry Daniher (Wikipedia)
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best known for his career with Essendon
Simon Madden (Wikipedia)
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played his entire 19-season career with the Essendon Football Club
Merv Neagle (Wikipedia)
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represented Essendon and Sydney
Noel Allanson (Wikipedia)
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played with Essendon in the Victorian Football League
Tim Watson (Wikipedia)
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made his VFL debut in 1977 for Essendon
Bill Hutchison (Wikipedia)
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with the Essendon Football Club
Brendon Goddard (Wikipedia)
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then with Essendon from 2013 to 2018
Corrie Gardner (Wikipedia)
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played Australian rules football for Essendon Football Club and Melbourne Football Club
Ted McDonald (Wikipedia)
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being an Australian rules footballer who played with Launceston Football Club, Essendon Football Club, and Fitzroy Football Club
Todd Goldstein (Wikipedia)
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played for North Melbourne and Essendon in the Australian Football League (AFL)
Marc Bullen (Wikipedia)
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is a former Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League for the Essendon Football Club
Will Setterfield (Wikipedia)
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plays for the Essendon Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL)
Jye Menzie (Wikipedia)
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He previously played professionally for the Essendon Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL)
Paddy Ryder (Wikipedia)
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played for the Essendon, Port Adelaide and St Kilda Football Clubs in the Australian Football League (AFL)
Tom Bellchambers (Wikipedia)
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played for the Essendon Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL)
Archie Roberts (Wikipedia)
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with the Essendon Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL)
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