Melbourne Football Club

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.