Australian Rules Football Competitions in New South Wales - Upper Murray Football League, Ovens & Murray Football League, Foxtel Cup (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 33. Chapters: Auburn Tigers Australian Football Club, Balmain Australian Football Club, Camden Cats Senior Australian Football Club, Campbelltown Football Club, East Sydney Australian Football Club, Greater Western Sydney Football Club, Holroyd-Parramatta Blacktown AFC Goannas, Macquarie University AFC, Manly-Warringah Wolves Football Club, Moorebank Sports Magpies, Nor-West Jets AFC, North Shore Football Club, Pennant Hills Demons AFC, Penrith Australian Football Club, Saints AFC, St George AFC, Sutherland AFC, Sydney Hills Eagles, Sydney Swans, Sydney University Australian National Football Club, University of New South Wales Australian National Football Club, UNSW-Eastern Suburbs Bulldogs, UTS Australian Football Club, Western Suburbs Magpies AFC, Wollongong Lions. Excerpt: The Sydney Swans Football Club is an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League (AFL). The club is based in Sydney, New South Wales. The club, founded in 1874, was known as the South Melbourne Football Club until it relocated to Sydney in 1982 to become the Sydney Swans. Sydney was the first club in the competition to be based outside of Victoria. The Swans play most home games at the Sydney Cricket Ground, while local derbies and larger games against teams such as Collingwood are played at ANZ Stadium. Since 1995, the Sydney Swans are the only club not to have missed the finals in consecutive seasons, and have made the finals more years than any other club in the same time, only missing the finals in 2000, 2002 and 2009. While known as South Melbourne, the club won three premierships in 1909, 1918 and also in 1933, which was to be the last time for 72 years that the Swans would win a premiership. In 2005, however, the Swans finally broke the league's longest premiership drought of any club, by winning the Grand Final against the West Coast Eagles in a tight, low-scoring game by a margin of just four points. The following season the two teams met in the Grand Final once again, but this time Sydney finished as runners-up by a single point. In 2012, the Swans won their fifth premiership by defeating Hawthorn by 10 points in front of 99,683 people at the MCG Old South Melbourne Football Club shield. The motto, "Aut vincere aut mori," is Latin for "either to conquer or to die." All that remains of the Swans' old Lake Oval ground, a single grandstand built in 1926 which for many years stood in a state of disrepair The inauguration date of the club is officially 19 June 1874, but it only adopted the name "South Melbourne Football Club" four weeks later, on 15 July. The club represented the Melbourne suburb of South Melbourne, one of the city's oldest. In 1880 it absorbed the Albert Park club (one of the VFA's foundation senior clubs), and