History of the AFL
The history of AFL/VFL footy
The man that made up footy was named Tom Wills. He went to school in England and after school he went back to Australia. He made it up for cricketers to stay fit in winter and to have something to play in winter not just to train for cricket in winter. He decided to make a competition with football. He was talking with his friends and he thought that the competition would have to have teams. The first game ever played was Scotch College vs. Melbourne grammar. The VFL actually started at 1889 but if you check on all of the games, the first VFL game will say 1897 and in the first year of footy there were only 8 teams. The teams were Carlton, Fitzroy, Collingwood, Essendon, South Melbourne, St Kilda, Geelong and Melbourne. Suddenly the years went by and new teams were created. All of the new teams were interstate. Footscray turned into to the Western Bulldogs and South Melbourne turned into Sydney. But Fitzroy changed to the Brisbane Bears and in 1989 they changed the VFL to the AFL due to some of the teams because they were from interstate. There were now 9 teams and if you go to 1997 there were 16 teams. From 1997 to 2013 there has been two new teams and their names are the Gold Coast Suns and the Greater Western Sydney Giants or known as GWS Giants in the AFL.