Melbourne University Football Club

Melbourne University Football Club, usually called simply University, is an Australian rules football club based at the University of Melbourne. It was founded in 1859 and is counted among the oldest football clubs in the world; its first recorded match took place in the same month that the Castlemaine Football Club was formed, so University may be the second-oldest club in Australia. Its men's sides, known as the Blacks and the Blues, play in the Victorian Amateur Football Association, and its women's team plays in the VAFA Women's competition. Between 1908 and 1914 University was a member of the Victorian Football League, now the AFL, leaving after its strict policy of amateurism left it uncompetitive in an increasingly professional league.