There’s no official league ladder on this. It’s just historical fact.
First side to 17 premierships?
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There’s no official league ladder on this. It’s just historical fact.
VFL/AFL a continuous competition with teams coming and going. More will come and go too.
I suppose we'll also now say Ian Stewart never won three Brownlow medals?
I don't see why interstate teams get hung up on this: don't hear Hawthorn or North Melbourne arguing that the competition started in 1925.
I suppose we'll also now say Ian Stewart never won three Brownlow medals?
I don't see why interstate teams get hung up on this: don't hear Hawthorn or North Melbourne arguing that the competition started in 1925.
Even if Hawks or Roo fans did, the facts are they were not seen good enough to be in league until then but their clubs existed. So they got whatever flags they got in league's history and they just the facts. If you an Eagles fans you can have some pride in being in league from 1987 and won 3 flags in just over 3 decades and going for a 4th. As they did not exist before then it is not like they had 90 years of a club not good enough to be it. They just did not exist before late 80's so can be proud of how good they been since they existed. It is all relative to how long you existed and been in the league for each club supporter group. For those that been around for much longer, naturally there is some meaning towards each other how many flags over 121 seasons. The race to 17 is on for our clubs. For those in the running it is fun bragging rights. For those not, plenty of other things to find meaning in. For GWS, Gold Coast and Fremantle just winning a first will mean so much. Just as it did for North in 1975 or Saints in 1966 or Eagles in 1992.
I’ve seen plenty of Hawkes fans saying things started in 1961
GWS and Suns didnt join until 2011.
The AFL premiership tally is
Hawthorn 3
Geelong 1
Sydney 1
Western Bulldogs 1
Richmond 1
Everything before that was a different competition.
- Sep 6, 2018
- 685
- 675
- AFL Club
- Collingwood
why 1961 specifically?
Their first flag. It was a joke.
Poll needs to be reset to zero. Check out those Hawthorn votes LOL
Yeah basically they were regularly the worst team in the comp from 1925-1961 and they try not to acknowledge that period when talking about their dominance etc
Rack Watts
Here's MASON
Recipe for wining a GF.
Have your coach doubted the year before, with supporters calling for his head at one stage.
Be a Victorian team.
Have your coach doubted the year before, with supporters calling for his head at one stage.
Be a Victorian team.
Amazing Collingwood had over 50 years of being the club with most premierships before overtaken in early 1980's. Late 1920's was their golden era where they had a real surge to jump ahead of other big clubs. Looks like Carlton, Collingwood, Essendon and Fitzroy the only clubs to ever have a time they had most premierships in the league.
This aged like a bottle of Grange
Sheedy 1982 ?
As opposed to the 100s of thousand whinging interstaters like they are right now?
Got to be honest, after the year you had last year, never in a million years would I have thought you'd be playing in the Granny when this season started. Credit to your boys.
- Dec 18, 2007
- 11,029
- 6,863
- AFL Club
- Essendon
- Other Teams
- Non that play Essendon
By rights the real tally is the number of senior flags won by that club in history that should count.
We can still get to 17 first.
Everyone seems to have a period of time where their next flag seems a million years away.
People will pot us and say we are a decade away, I’m not so sure, we had some good building blocks in place and the wheel can turn very quickly.
Everyone seems to have a period of time where their next flag seems a million years away.
People will pot us and say we are a decade away, I’m not so sure, we had some good building blocks in place and the wheel can turn very quickly.
- Oct 3, 2013
- 13,615
- 33,091
- AFL Club
- Collingwood
- Other Teams
- Chelsea
Correct.
Premiership Tally Leaders
- 1897 = Essendon (1)
- 1898 = Essendon, Fitzroy (1)
- 1899-1900 = Fitzroy (2)
- 1901-1902 = Fitzroy, Essendon (2)
- 1903 = Fitzroy, Essendon, Collingwood (2)
- 1904-1911 = Fitzroy (3, 4)
- 1912 = Fitzroy, Essendon (4)
- 1913-1914 = Fitzroy (5)
- 1915 = Fitzroy, Carlton (5)
- 1916-1928 = Fitzroy (6, 7)
- 1928 = Fitzroy, Collingwood (7)
- 1929-1980 = Collingwood (8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
- 1981 = Collingwood, Carlton (13)
- 1982-1984 = Carlton (14)
- 1985-1986 = Carlton, Essendon (14)
- 1987-1992 = Carlton (15)
- 1993-1994 = Carlton, Essendon (15)
- 1995-1999 = Carlton (16)
- 2000-Present = Carlton, Essendon (16)
Brain Power
Funding Secured
- Sep 5, 2012
- 2,237
- 11,329
- AFL Club
- Hawthorn
- Other Teams
- Chelsea
SACK CLARKO!
- Oct 3, 2013
- 13,615
- 33,091
- AFL Club
- Collingwood
- Other Teams
- Chelsea
4 Teams (1916)
- Fitzroy = 1
- Collingwood = 1
- Fitzroy = 4
- Essendon = 2
- Collingwood = 2
- Carlton = 2
- Melbourne = 1
- South Melbourne = 1
- Richmond = 2
- Essendon = 2
- Carlton = 1
- Collingwood = 1
- Fitzroy = 1
- Essendon = 2
- Carlton = 2
- South Melbourne = 1
- Collingwood = 1
- Fitzroy = 1
- Essendon = 1
- Richmond = 1
- Melbourne = 11
- Carlton = 9
- Collingwood = 8
- Richmond = 7
- Essendon = 7
- Geelong = 6
- Hawthorn = 6
- North Melbourne = 2
- South Melbourne = 1
- Fitzroy = 1
- Footscray = 1
- St Kilda = 1
- Hawthorn = 2
- Carlton = 1
- Collingwood = 1
- West Coast = 2
- Hawthorn = 1
- Essendon = 1
- Brisbane = 3
- Adelaide = 2
- North Melbourne = 2
- Geelong = 2
- Carlton = 1
- Essendon = 1
- Port Adelaide = 1
- Sydney = 1
- West Coast = 1
- Hawthorn = 1
- Collingwood = 1
- Geelong = 1
- Hawthorn = 3
- Sydney = 1
- Western Bulldogs = 1
- Richmond = 1
- Mar 2, 2015
- 19,401
- 35,170
- AFL Club
- Hawthorn
Amazing to think it’s actually 7 to Hawthorn and 3 to West Coast, Brisbane & Geelong since the VFL became a national comp in 1987
- May 23, 2016
- 8,099
- 7,026
- AFL Club
- West Coast
Good graph but you should add Hawthorn. Be cool to see one for all clubs really.
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