Australian rules football is not just the NFL played down under. Also referred to as "Aussie rules" or "footy," this highly physical game is one of Australia's most popular sports, and was originally ...

The 2026 Australian Rules Football season begins this week with five opening round matches taking place all over Australia. The season opener on March 5 sees the Sydney Swans face off against Carlton ...

The AFL season will be screened across Asia by ABC Australia this season. Here's a guide to some of the unusual terminology you can expect from commentators.

Australian Rules football has started games with a centre bounce for more than 130 years, but from next season it will be ditched because umpires are finding it too hard to master the skill. The ...

Spread across a manicured football field in groups of 10 or so, the children dart back and forth like the parts of a complex machine. In one group, they mark balls thrown in the air by Aussie Rules ...

MELBOURNE, Australia — At first, Mason Cox was sure the email that changed his life was a prank. Cox’s basketball career at Oklahoma State had just ended when a member of the school’s sports ...

The AFL community is mourning the passing of a giant of the game - the great Bill Dempsey, one of Darwin’s most famous ...

The governing body for Australian rules football was aware of players undertaking screening for illicit substances to avoid detection in game-related doping tests and its chief executive on Wednesday ...