What is the worst team in AFL history?

[RUNVS]

As the title suggests what is the worst team in AFL (not VFL) history? Here are the teams which have finished last in each season from 1991 onwards.

Year - Team - Wins - Percentage
1991 - Brisbane Lions - 3 - 69.53%
1992 - Sydney Swans - 3 - 74.13%
1993 - Sydney Swans - 1 - 63.32%
1994 - Sydney Swans - 4 - 78.07%
1995 - Fitzroy Lions - 2 - 58.17%
1996 - Fitzroy Lions - 1 - 49.47%
1997 - Melbourne Demons - 4 - 60.81%
1998 - Brisbane Lions - 5 - 75.83%
1999 - Collingwood Magpies - 4 - 84.82%
2000 - St Kilda Saints - 2 - 70.51%
2001 - Fremantle Dockers - 2 - 72.02%
2002 - Carlton Blues - 3 - 73.13%
2003 - Western Bulldogs - 3 - 74.79%
2004 - Richmond Togers - 4 - 69.24%
2005 - Carlton Blues - 4 - 75.51%
2006 - Carlton Blues - 1 - 74.16%
2007 - Richmond Tigers - 3 - 77.18%
2008 - Melbourne Demons - 3 - 62.61%

 

[Geelong2k9]

the 1995/96 teams were the worst.....they just died a slow and painful death.....no personnel at hand....

 

[rickyp]

either fitzroy or 06 blues

 

[Dan26]

Apparently Essendon of 2008 if you listen to BigFooty.

 

[Dan26]

either fitzroy or 06 blues

Carlton of '06 won 3.5 games.

For what it's worth, Sydney of 1993 and Fitzroy of '06 were the two worst.

 

[Optimax]

As the title suggests what is the worst team in AFL (not VFL) history? Here are the teams which have finished last in each season from 1991 onwards.

Year - Team - Wins - Percentage
1991 - Brisbane Lions - 3 - 69.53%
1992 - Sydney Swans - 3 - 74.13%
1993 - Sydney Swans - 1 - 63.32%
1994 - Sydney Swans - 4 - 78.07%
1995 - Fitzroy Lions - 2 - 58.17%
1996 - Fitzroy Lions - 1 - 49.47%
1997 - Melbourne Demons - 4 - 60.81%
1998 - Brisbane Lions - 5 - 75.83%
1999 - Collingwood Magpies - 4 - 84.82%
2000 - St Kilda Saints - 2 - 70.51%
2001 - Fremantle Dockers - 2 - 72.02%
2002 - Carlton Blues - 3 - 73.13%
2003 - Western Bulldogs - 3 - 74.79%
2004 - Richmond Togers - 4 - 69.24%
2005 - Carlton Blues - 4 - 75.51%
2006 - Carlton Blues - 1 - 74.16%
2007 - Richmond Tigers - 3 - 77.18%
2008 - Melbourne Demons - 3 - 62.61%

Our percentage was bloody good for 4 wins.

But worst team would be 95/96 no one really wanted to be there, or evenb sydney 92/93/94

 

[red+black]

I thought Carlton of 2003 were pretty bad. So bad, they couldn't even win the spoon.

Easily the worst team to finish 2nd last that I can remember.

 

[estibador]

Pretty hard to top the 96 Lions. Poor bastards played like the equivalent of a man moping around on death row all year. A percentage of 49 tells a story all on its own.

Though of course we somehow still managed to lose to them.

 

[hawks_time]

Freo always manages the impossible

 

[Messenger]

Anyone who remembers watching Fitzroy '96 live knows there is no contest.

 

[Hollow Knight]

1991 should be Bears not Lions.

 

[Pessimistic]

As the title suggests what is the worst team in AFL (not VFL) history? Here are the teams which have finished last in each season from 1991 onwards.

Year - Team - Wins - Percentage
1991 - Brisbane Lions - 3 - 69.53%
1992 - Sydney Swans - 3 - 74.13%
1993 - Sydney Swans - 1 - 63.32%
1994 - Sydney Swans - 4 - 78.07%
1995 - Fitzroy Lions - 2 - 58.17%
1996 - Fitzroy Lions - 1 - 49.47%
1997 - Melbourne Demons - 4 - 60.81%
1998 - Brisbane Lions - 5 - 75.83%
1999 - Collingwood Magpies - 4 - 84.82%
2000 - St Kilda Saints - 2 - 70.51%
2001 - Fremantle Dockers - 2 - 72.02%
2002 - Carlton Blues - 3 - 73.13%
2003 - Western Bulldogs - 3 - 74.79%
2004 - Richmond Togers - 4 - 69.24%
2005 - Carlton Blues - 4 - 75.51%
2006 - Carlton Blues - 1 - 74.16%
2007 - Richmond Tigers - 3 - 77.18%
2008 - Melbourne Demons - 3 - 62.61%

Hang on, I thought the Swans never bottomed out !

Roos played for 3 of those teams

 

[RUNVS]

Hang on, I thought the Swans never bottomed out !

Roos played for 3 of those teams

Which is probably why he is trying to avoid bottoming out now as he knows how bad it feels to be involved with a team which plays that poorly.

 

[red+black]

Is it better to bottom out and win a flag one day, or be Melbourne over the last 44 years?

Just unfortunate that they met juggernauts in '88 and '00. Howevere they were their own worst enemy in '87 and '02.

 

[windyhill]

Apparently Essendon of 2008 if you listen to BigFooty.

Correct, I was expecting to see Essendon figure many times in this list. Amazing.

 

[AndyLucimitis]

I thought Carlton of 2003 were pretty bad. So bad, they couldn't even win the spoon.

Easily the worst team to finish 2nd last that I can remember.

I can't remember teams having as many 100+ point losses as Carlton in the period between 2002-2007.

I know everyone will laugh at this, but really, the only thing that made us any better than the 1996 Fitzroy was that we had a Brendan Fevola - at elast a forward who kick a bag of goals.

 

[Corpuscles]

Hang on, I thought the Swans never bottomed out !

Roos played for 3 of those teams

No you thunk it... he only played for none of those listed!

Joined Swans in 95


If Monty Python ever did a send up of footy....then send up of:


Swans 93 V Fitzroy 96..... might be the only game some Roy boys would laugh after the game!!!

Swans 93.... even if fitted with skirts couldn't beat the local netball team and would prolly think marbles on the corner was also too tough!

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Hang on, I thought the Swans never bottomed out !

Roos played for 3 of those teams

No Roos left Fitzroy after the 1994 season debuting with Sydney in 1995. Therefore, he avoided those wooden spoons.

 

[Armitage2Riewoldt]

Haha! We're not the worst team in AFL history.

Finally not coming last in something.

*high fives all round*

 

[SOSForever]

That 2002 Season was pretty awful, Corey McKernan played like shite, and still won the Best and Fairest...

 

[Pie in the Sky]

Fitzroy of '96 hands down, was a sad, sad sight to see a once great team wither away. Swans of '93 were pretty bad too.

 

[Geelong2k9]

Hang on, I thought the Swans never bottomed out !

Roos played for 3 of those teams

he never actually played for those teams when they spooned.....

 

[emuboy]

he never actually played for those teams when they spooned.....

Darren Holmes played for all five of these teams (Swans in 1992, 1993 & 1994; Fitzroy in 1995 & 1996).

I agree with some of the earlier posters; some of the worst teams actually avoided the wooden spoon. Carlton's 2003 team & the West Coast sides of 2001 & 2008 did not finish last but deserved to given their effort, or the lack of it, during the year.

 

[SOSForever]

Surely University should come into consideration, i know we are talking VFL at the time, though between 1911 - 1914, they won 2 of 72, and 4 straight wooden spoons...

 

[red+black]

Surely University should come into consideration, i know we are talking VFL at the time, though between 1911 - 1914, they won 2 of 72, and 4 straight wooden spoons...

i might be wrong, but i think those two wins were against fremantle