Geelong Football Club

The Geelong Football Club is an Australian football team from Geelong, Victoria, which plays in the Australian Football League ( AFL). Your nickname is The Cats.

History

The Geelong Football Club is a professional football club, which is named after his home town of Geelong. The club was founded in 1859 and is one of the oldest football club in the Australian Football League. The club participated in the first football competition in Australia and won it in the second season in 1863. The club was one in 1877, the founders of the Victorian Football Association (VFA ) and 1897, the Victorian Football League ( VFL) in 1897. During 2007, the club won the Grand Final with a record of 119 points ahead of the team from Port Adelaide. The following year, the victory went to another team but in 2009 they sat down again in the final against St Kilda. In 2011, they won the Grand Final, this time against the team from Collingwood.

By 2011, the club has won nine championships in the AFL: 1925, 1931, 1937, 1951, 1952, 1963, 2007, 2009 and 2011.

Stadium and club colors

The home ground of the club is the " Kardinia Park ", the club plays but also on the " Melbourne Cricket Ground" and " Docklands Stadium ". The traditional colors of the club are white with dark blue stripes. The jersey is made shirts with horizontal strips arranged in dark blue and white. The pants are white and the socks also curled blue-white. The team song is called "We Are Geelong ". The nickname " the Cats " was used after a series of defeats in 1923. The association commissioned a local cartoonist who should design a logo with a black cat as a lucky charm for them.