Afl Premiership 2005 Pc Code In Regions

This article explores aspects and issues surrounding the game, as well as the players, and society.

Australian Rules is a sport rich in tradition and Australian cultural references, especially surrounding the rituals of gameday for players, officials, and supporters.

In some of the southern states, it is the most popular sport of all sports.

Afl Premiership 2005 Pc Code In Regions

It is less popular in New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory and Queensland, although there has traditionally been support for the code in regions within those states, such as parts of southern New South Wales including the Riverina and parts of Queensland such as Cairns and the Gold Coast.

The AFL teams from Brisbane and Sydney attracted a strong increase in crowds and television audiences when they won four premierships between them from 20012005 (and appeared in Grand Finals between 2001 and 2006 inclusive), though crowds and TV ratings have both declined as both teams performances (in particular the Brisbane Lions who have suffered a decline since losing the 2004 AFL Grand Final ) in subsequent years dropped.

Demographic and migration trends have affected all football codes in recent years, but most significantly Australian football in Queensland.

Indigenous Australians are well represented in professional AFL players: while only 2.4 of the population is of indigenous origin, 10 of AFL players identify themselves this way.

In 2007, the average attendance of 38,113 made the AFL the second best attended domestic club league in the world, after only the NFL in the United States.

It is one of the largest sporting stadiums in the world and was the venue for the record Australian rules football attendance of 121,696 at the 1970 VFL Grand Final, between Carlton and Collingwood - which game was also historic, in that it heralded the dawning of a new style of football - still largely in use today, wherein handballing was introduced more to commence the attack from the back line.

Redevelopment since then to a mainly seated stadium has reduced the current capacity to approximately 100,000.

Although crowds for state leagues have suffered in recent years, they continue to draw support, particularly for finals matches.

The South Australian SANFL drew an attendance of 309,874 in 2006 and the Western Australian WAFL drew an official attendance of 207,154.

Other leagues, such as the Victorian VFL Northern Territory Football League and the popular country league Ovens Murray also charge admission and draw notable crowds (but with no available attendance figures).

The AFL Grand Final is one of the most watched sporting events on television in Australia.

Australian rules football has achieved a 1 rating in the sports category in both 2004 and 2005.

The SANFL is the most popular of these regional competitions measuring a total of 1,415,000 television viewers in 2007.

Despite a large number of complaints, ABC2 withdrew all of these broadcasts in early 2008.

However in 2010 the ABC began replaying these matches nationwide, online via the new ABC iView catch-up TV service.

In 2012, the ABC commenced screening replays of the previous weekends VFL, SANFL, WAFL matches in the early hours of the morning during the week from 3.00AM - 5.30AM (local time in each state) nationwide on the ABC1 channel.

Since 2005, some AFL matches have been shown in the pacific rim region for the first time through the Australia Network.

The AFL Grand Final is broadcast to many countries and attracts many million viewers worldwide.

This audience has grown to approximately 30 million viewers from 72 countries.

A poll taken between April 2002 and March 2004 showed that 7,496,000 North Americans compared to 7,004,000 Australians watch Australian Rules Football at least occasionally on television.

In almost every league, there is a team which everyone loves to hate, like Collingwood, Port Adelaide and even the Southport Sharks.

The AFL in particular encourages the building of such rivalries, as a method of increasing publicity for the league, to the point of designating one round each year as Rivalry Round where many of these match-ups are held on the one weekend.

Whilst some rivalries, such as between teams from adjacent areas are still strong, the designation of an entire round of fixtures as Rivalry Round is often criticised due to some arbitrary matchups, or ignoring stronger, more recent rivalries.

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