Wednesday 3 December, 2025
Aussie Rules participation hits record 625,000 participants in 2025
Aussie Rules Footy has reaffirmed its place as Australia’s game, with national participation reaching a record-breaking 625,000 participants in 2025.
Breaking the previous all-time record of...
12.11.2025
Gather Round…A Festival of Footy fixture released
The AFL, in partnership with the South Australian Government, is pleased to confirm the fixture for Gather Round…A Festival of Footy, which returns in Round 5 of the 2026 Toyota AFL Premiership Season.
The Round will feature...
04.09.2025
2026 Gather Round locked in for 9 – 12 April
The AFL is pleased to announce that the 2026 ‘Gather Round ... A Festival of Footy’ will take place from Thursday, 9 April through to Sunday, 12 April, with the fixture to be announced later this year.
The 2026 event will coincide with...
AFL announces new radio rights deal
The AFL has announced today a three-year rights extension with radio partners SEN, Southern Cross Austereo, Nine Radio, FIVEaa, K rock, and ABC, which will see more free AFL match coverage than ever before across radio platforms, from 2025-2027.
In a win for...
After footyindustry.com was hacked in january, the whole site was nuked and this index had to be rebuilt. Old links should still work if you them.
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1993 AFL Articles of Association
1993 Crawford Report
2006 Club Funding Presentation
2006 AFL International Plan
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The AFL has released the Total Player Payments for 2024, with the Total Player Payment limit set at $15.8m per club, up from $15.0m in 2023.
Gross player payments increased by 5.5 per cent to $296.3m, up from $280.9m in 2023.
Additional Service Agreement payments for the provision of...
The Gold Coast Suns have reported a comprehensive profit of $5.918m for 2024 on revenue of $63.294m, and with total equity of 0.092m.
Report to be uploaded shortly - or its on ASIC now for $49 if you want to get it yourself.
The Suns operated Carrara on behalf of the AFL. It appears the...
11.12.2024
Gather Round tickets snapped up in record time
The AFL is pleased to announce that more than 195,000 Gather Round…Festival of Footy tickets have sold… with five of the nine games sold out, 20,000 more than this time last year.
Member on sale on Tuesday saw a significant uplift in...
SANFL is investing more than $14 million on the project, with a further $11 million coming from State and Federal funding and $250,000 from the AFL.
https://sanfl.com.au/league/news/construction-starts-on-25-million-sanfl-talent-facility/
Over the course of the Home and away season, the AFLW was attended by 263,308 at an average of 2,660, using 21.63% of available capacity. this includes the 23,085 that attended the Mens finals double header at the MCG in Round 2.This figure is up 1.63% on average, and 11.8% on aggregate with 9...
North Melbourne is reportedly finalising a lucrative agreement with the AFL and Western Australian state government to play home games in Perth over the next three seasons.
In the mooted deal, the Kangaroos will play two ‘home games’ in Perth for each of the next three seasons, helping...
Collingwood is most valuable club brand in Australian sport, Brisbane Broncos top NRL brand ladder
08 October 2024
Collingwood is most valuable AFL club brand at $145 million, well ahead of Carlton at $115 million and Richmond at $101 million
Brisbane Broncos brand is valued at $124 million...
For the first time both AFL Grand Finalists have over 1 million supporters with the Sydney Swans again topping the annual Roy Morgan AFL supporter ladder with 1,337,000 supporters. The Swans are nearly 300,000 ahead of the second-placed Brisbane Lions with 1,049,000 supporters and the league’s...
4.08.24
The most awesome club just got bigger!
More than 128,000 children around Australia have joined the biggest, most awesome club of all in 2024 – NAB AFL Auskick – to break the program’s all-time registered participation record.
Surpassing last year’s record total figure of 126,245...
Football community sets new participation record in 2024
Participation in Australian Rules Football has exceeded more than 528,000 in 2024, breaking the AFL’s all-time registered participation record of 526,000 set last year.
The 2024 total figure includes registered participants across...
Hi guys, going to try and do this every week of the season (starting from last week).
Last Week - Round 6
This Week - Round 7
Sunday Footy Show - 0.03
First Crack - 1.57
Footy Furnance - 6.29
Footy Classified -8.44
AFL Tonight -8.81
AFL 360 -9.92
On the Couch -11:95
Suprised theres not a thread here already.
References
The AFL Illicit Drug Code (2021)
The Australian Football Anti Doping Code (2021)
The AFL Player Collective Bargaining Agreement 2023-2027
Andrew Wilkies Speech to Parliament in Hansard (page 101)
AFL Statement on the Illicit Drug Policy
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The AFL is set to spend $1 billion across the next decade in an effort to fast-track more people signing up to play footy.
In a major push to double the number of registered participants by 2033, the AFL will increase funding into traditional NRL states New South Wales and Queensland, but...
“I think it’s inevitable that the Sydney Swans will be the biggest sporting club in Australia for a whole lot of reasons,” Pridham said.
“All the data suggests that’s what is going to happen, and you can see it happening.
“Not diminishing the huge support for some of the big Melbourne clubs...