Essendon Football Club

Stewart Crameri, Essendon player, 2009

The Essendon Football Club, the Bombers, is an Australian rules football team which plays in the Australian Football League (AFL). The club began in 1872, and played its first game in 1873 against Carlton.[1] In 1877, the team joined the Victorian Football Association.

Essendon was one of the original teams in the Victorian Football League (VFL) which began in 1897. The other teams were Collingwood, Fitzroy, Melbourne, St Kilda, Carlton, South Melbourne and Geelong). Its first home ground was the East Melbourne Cricket Ground, and at the end of the 1921 season the club moved to the Essendon Recreation Reserve, known as Windy Hill.[1] In 2000, the club moved its home ground to Etihad Stadium.[1]

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Essendon Football Club - History - Club History". essendonfc.com.au. Archived from the original on 12 September 2009. Retrieved 6 October 2010.

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