They'll be threaded through Jayden Hunt's boots on Sunday as Melbourne takes on GWS at the MCG. A nod to equality in sport, the laces symbolise the Demon ...

Geelong has continued to streak away at the top of the AFL ladder with Collingwood on their heels with a big gap to the edge of the top eight.

Ugly crowd incidents are hardly a new phenomenon, but what we saw on the weekend feels as if it's powered by something else.

A documentary that details the way in which Sydney Swans great Adam Goodes was driven out of the game is set to raise some uncomfortable issues for the ...

Indigenous leader and AFL great Michael Long has announced another walk to Canberra.

North Melbourne on Sunday afternoon confirmed in a press conference fronted by chairman Ben Buckley and Scott that the senior coach has agreed to mutually ...

Rolling report: Lions beat Swans, Manly beat Bulldogs, plus the latest rugby, tennis and more. Join Jonathan Howcroft for updates.

St Kilda's Paddy McCartin has opened up on the brutal side effects caused by his persistent concussions, saying the most recent incident has made him “a shell ...

The term “wildcard round” is just jargon. Wildcard berths are used in America where in some leagues, teams who didn't finish atop their division at the end of the ...

The Sunday Footy Show has apologised for a disparaging remark about Jewish people made by former Richmond hard man Mal Brown.

Welcome to AFL Sunday. expand for key updates. Bolton under massive pressure. The 2019 AFL season will be live and on demand on Kayo Sports for just $25 ...

Rolling report: Join Richard Parkin for coverage of the day's AFL, NRL, Super Netball and Super Rugby action.

Welcome to our live coverage of AFL Saturday. expand for key updates. 18 hours agoThe heartfelt loss of 'Scotty'. The round continued with North Melbourne ...

Crows power forward Josh Jenkins has revealed the regular sideline abuse of players has forced him to ask his wife Hannah not to attend his games.

Melbourne takes on the high-flying GWS at the MCG. Later, St Kilda hosts bottom-placed Carlton and Fremantle welcomes Brisbane to the west. Follow all the ...

“Plus, I don't hear about any past player reunions,” the former Central District key forward grins. “They haven't invited me for a tour of the facilities, nothing — and ...

Calling all coaches – it's the danger zone It's never an easy time to be the coach of a struggling AFL team, but it's probably even worse when a mentor It's never ...

AFL boss Gillon McLachlan has described as 'pretty practical' the umpiring of Sydney co-captain Dane Rampe's goalpost climb in Friday's dramatic Essendon ...

Club bosses will have a private screening of an upcoming documentary about Adam Goodes as the AFL braces itself for the fallout once it is released publicly.

Rolling report: Relive all the day's exciting action from the NRL, AFL and Super Netball.

Sydney expect John Longmire to not only stay at the club next year but to coach the Swans beyond 2020 after his current contract expires. The Swans' ...

Former St Kilda and Essendon star Brendon Goddard has taken aim at players that taunt vulnerable opponents, labelling the act “cheap” and “cowardice”.

In late February Jack Steven stood up in front of his St Kilda teammates and told them he was taking time away from the club to deal with mental health issues.

In what has been described an incredible move, St Kilda Football Club is offering a calming room at its home stadium where special needs children can watch ...

That Australian rules football supporters booed Adam Goodes out of the game reflects shamefully on the AFL. That key administrators and the board of ...

Eddie McGuire says he is sad and gratified at the same time as the program he helped forge joins its NRL cousin on the Channel Nine scrap heap after 25 years ...

Fallen AFL star Ben Cousins has met with players and officials of his former club Richmond at a training session before the Tigers' Round 8 clash with Fremantle ...

Questions over sports funding have resurfaced ahead of the 2019 federal election with AFL receiving twice as much in financial pledges from both major parties ...

So as advertisements for pre-finals knockouts go, it wasn't a corker. 1st v 6th should be a little closer than this, but the Nix will argue it was a second string side ...

So, that's almost everything in bed - with just the late AFL fixture from the West rolling over. Freo have kicked five of the last six through David Mundy and ...

St Kilda star Jack Steven will take another extended AFL break to manage his mental health, with the club unsure when he will return.

Just when you thought they'd suffered enough pain, Blues supporters were forced to endure another heart-stopper against archrivals Collingwood on Saturday ...

State league clubs are extremely nervous as they impatiently wait for the controversial mid-season draft to unfold in Melbourne on Monday night.

Port Adelaide assistant coach Michael Voss weighs into the booing debate, saying it's better for crowds to be passionate than have a sterile environment at ...

Had it been Mitch Robinson and not Gary Ablett who raised an elbow to Sam Wright, the Lion would have received a suspension. That's the view of Hawthorn ...

Time hasn't healed all wounds just yet between Eddie McGuire and the Swans even as Sydney and Collingwood put on a fantastic show of solidarity after their ...

As we settle in for another long and chilly winter, the action on our footy fields has turned white-hot, with Australia's Sporting Magazine here to deliver more ...

Football has never been harder for the 823 professionals that play it at the top level.

Fox Footy experts, including teams from Saturday Stretch, Selection Night and the Fox Footy Podcast, are here to help with their winners for all nine games.

That is the question that will keep a deflated Demons coach Simon Goodwin up tonight. Melbourne has the guts and grit to rattle teams at the coalface, with ...

In the week-to-week world of AFL, it is easy for fans to lose perspective about just how good or bad their sides actually are, with the next crisis often just one ...

Let's call it the curious case of David Mundy — the Fremantle veteran who isn't just defying his age, but thriving.

Stereotypes can be difficult to break down. Particularly when it comes to sport. And, so it seems, with sporting crowds. For most of my lifetime in this country, AFL ...

Sydney edges North Melbourne in a thriller, while Essendon squeeze past Fremantle, Geelong dispatch the Bulldogs, Collingwood defeat St Kilda and the Lions ...

Australia's major sporting codes are introducing *fresh* measures to improve referee retention amid concerns over abuse of junior officials.

Storm coach Craig Bellamy has left the door open to an AFL coaching career once his work in rugby league is done, following a similar path to club legend Billy ...

Cairns City Lions forward Tyron Rainbird produced the best attacking display of the season in his sides thumping 154-point win against North Cairns Tigers on ...

The embargoed and highly sensitive Adam Goodes documentary will be privately shown to all attending AFL club chiefs when they meet in Werribee on ...

While the rise of cross-code athletes in the AFLW, NRL Women's, Women's Big Bash League and W-League have taken some of the limelight from netball in the ...

One of the iconic voices of Australian Rules commentary, Mike Williamson, has died.

Legendary television commentator Mike Williamson, who provided one of the most memorable calls in Australia...

Collingwood president Eddie McGuire is in the hot seat once again as the Magpies president fights to stop Port Adelaide from wearing their original guernseys in ...

Collingwood has signed former Australian Boomer Tom Wilson as a Category B Rookie.

The AFL is sticking fast to its judgment that the umpire made the correct call in assessing that Swans' defender Dane Rampe's goal post climb.

All the ugliness of the smallish yet ruinous element of AFL crowds has again come to the fore. Collingwood coach Nathan Buckley was 100 per cent right when ...

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Collingwood president Eddie McGuire has defended his comments calling on Carlton to poach Alastair Clarkson from Hawthorn if Brendon Bolton gets sacked.

The Adam Goodes documentary is a line in the sand for AFL's indigenous players to rally against racism, an indigenous leader in the sport says. Goodes' bitter ...

The Arena Football League is officially back in the DMV. Here's a look at how the summer schedule shakes out.

A confronting photo of Jarryn Geary's leg from a hospital operating bed shows the true extent of the St Kilda captain's gruesome injury. Geary left hospital earlier ...

Josh Kelly has reportedly signed an unprecedented contract extension with the Giants that could see him locked in at the club for more than 10 years. A series of ...

An AFL review has backed contentious umpiring calls made in the Anzac Day blockbuster, as Hawthorn coach Alastair Clarkson called for umpires to go full-time ...

Roaming Brian always provides plenty of entertainment and the great man was at it again on Friday night as he unearthed some gold in the Port Adelaide ...

As grand as sport can be it is never short of problems that, unattended, have the power to become more a menace than a mischief.

Welcome to AFL Sunday, our live coverage of today's games. expand for key updates. 19 days agoBad Blues suffer Jones blow. North Melbourne got off the ...

The AFL has been urged to take a tougher stance on crowd violence after an intellectually disabled man was bashed after a game at the MCG.

It is five years almost to the day that Gillon McLachlan was appointed to the biggest job in Australian sport, a job to which he had seemed destined for at least ...

Senior umpires feel they have been let down by the AFL because of the league's refusal to speak up in support of the beleaguered profession after a series of ...

It will go down as one of the most bizarre interviews of the AFL season but Adelaide Crows star Eddie Betts has revealed the truth behind teammate Lachie ...

Laois native Zach Tuohy made an encouraging return to the AFL as he helped the Geelong Cats to a comfortable win over the reigning Premiership champions ...

It was the biggest bombshell we've ever seen on draft night, as Carlton and Adelaide made an eye-catching trade at the 2018 national draft. As Adelaide was on ...

Nine Indigenous athletes will play for Queensland at the U18s National AFL Championships in July. The news comes a fortnight after the release of the latest ...

Greater Western Sydney have claimed a 41-point win in Saturday night's AFL derby after snuffing out a brave effort from the Sydney Swans.

Jack Riewoldt returned to the Richmond line up in the round six rout of Melbourne after overcoming a wrist injury, but unfortunately the star forward sustained an ...

The marching of Jordan Jeffriess-Tapper for umpire abuse late in the third quarter was a possibly a decisive factor in the Swans' 12-point loss to the Nomads at ...

Melbourne's former high draft pick Jimmy Toumpas is among the 150-plus players who have already nominated for the AFL's new version of the mid-season ...

Another huge Saturday of AFL action comes to an end as Fremantle celebrate David Mundy's 300th game in style and Adelaide bring the Saints back down to ...

Michael Long says the upcoming documentary about fellow indigenous AFL great Adam Goodes is another opportunity to change attitudes around race.

Channel 9 has reportedly denied The Footy Show will be sacked before Thursday night's scheduled screening.

Louth captain Kate Flood has signed a professional contract with Ladies AFL side Fremantle, The Democrat has learned. The St. Patrick's player, who is the ...

The former Wallaby is not swapping codes as he nears the end of a rugby career hampered recently by major injuries, but he has never been one to sit idle ...

Gary Ablett is free to take on North Melbourne on Sunday after the AFL tribunal swiftly cleared him of intentionally striking Dylan Shiel.

Geelong coach Chris Scott has defended Cats star Gary Ablett from criticism by AFL 360 co-host Mark Robinson over the dual Brownlow medallist's latest Match ...

Nailbiters, from-the-canvas comebacks, shock upsets - round four was pure football feelings.

The AFL's competition committee will look at restructuring the pre-season amid concern about player injuries.

Deal to run until 2023 takes AFL past Tennis Australia as highest-earning sporting body from sponsorship.

Amid all the doom and gloom 2018 served up plenty to savour.

Aussie cricketer James Faulkner has been slammed by a former AFL player and gay rights advocate for making a "mockery" of coming out. Faulkner sparked a ...

Thursday's opener between Carlton and Richmond is likely to be greeted at AFL House with a certain sense of relief. Geoff Lemon. Wed 20 Mar 2019 13.00 EDT ...

Toyota has announced it will continue its lead sponsorship of the Australian Football League for another four years. At the official launch of the AFL.

The bump is back on the endangered species list after the AFL Commission approved a range of tweaks to the match review and tribunal systems for 2019.

The AFL's endless tinkering with every facet of the sport means that no matter how good the game is, it won't be good enough, writes Richard Hinds.

The Australian Football League (AFL) chief executive, Gillon McLachlan, has travelled to the United States to meet with Amazon, Facebook and Google, ...

AFL trio set to meet tech giants Amazon, Google and Facebook with at least one global streaming *service* looming as a major player in the AFL's next broadcast ...

A new study has highlighted the extent to which alcohol advertising is ingrained within Australia's two major football codes, with concerns raised about the ...

It's a sport normally associated with Australia but on a crowded sports field on the outskirts of Minneapol...

When former male AFL players join the pile-on of their female counterparts, you can see there's still a lot of work to do, writes Kate O'Halloran.

Rolling report: Who will join Carlton in the AFLW grand final, and who will start the AFL season brightly? Find out with Richard Parkin.

After months of predictions and anticipation, round one of the 2019 AFL season came along and promptly ripped it all to shreds. With enough stories to last a ...

St Kilda great Nick Riewoldt has poured fuel on the AFL illicit drug debate, calling for a zero-tolerance approach to fix a situation he has labelled “out of control”.