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A Sydney Swans come an Australian Football League (AFL) club based within Sydney. It play virtually all front yard games at a Sydney Cricket Ground, with 'blockbuster' games played at Telstra Stadium (the previous Olympic Stadium at Homebush). It is a 2005 AFL Premiers, after defeating a West Coast Eagles at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on 24 September 2005 by four points.

History
A inauguration date of the club is officially June 19, 1874, but it simply adopted a title South Melbourne Football Club four weeks late, in July 15. Within 1880 it merged sustaining an Albert Park club, & by 1890 experienced replaced a original blue & white by owning a at present familiar red & white of Albert Park. Nicknamed "The Bloods" (short for Blood-Stained Angels, inside information to the colours), it played in the Victorian Football Association until 1896 when it was the creation club of the Victorian Football League. A club was depending at Flow of any stream Ovoid & won 3 VFL premierships around 1909, 1918 and 1933. It struggled for money, players & fans until a early 1980s when it was presented with the guide between moving to Sydney, a possibly tremendous as yet untapped market for Australian system football, & oblivion.

A Swans moved to Sydney inside 1982 as part of the VFL's tries to broaden its appeal which culminated around its extension into a national competition, the AFL. Within 1985 the VFL created one of the mussy deals ever associated by having football & about brought an prevent to the Sydney Swans.

In 31 July 1985, for what was thought to be $6.Three million, Dr Geoffrey Edelsten "bought" the Swans. Actually it was $2.9 million around cash using funding & more payments cover 5 years. Edelsten resigned when chairwoman within less than dozen months. By 1988 the licence was sold back to the VFL for ten dollars. Losses were in the hundreds to thousands. a class action of fiscal angel including Mike Willessee, Basil Sellers, Peter Weinert & Craig Kimberley purchased a licence & bankrolled a club until 1993, while the AFL stepped within.

Sustaining material pecuniary & management trend lines from either a AFL, a club survived, & using streaming video player draft concessions in the early Nineties, has fielded a competitory team throughout the retiring decade & has attracted sensible crowds. (Around 1996 they lost a grand final to North Melbourne, which had been their 1st appearance around the grand final since 1945.) a game was played before of 93,102 at the MCG.

Since 1995, a Swans own processed a finals inside both year except 2000 & 2002. the culmination of a recent profits is a 2005 premiership against a West Coast Eagles played ahead of 91,898 at the Microgram ingesting the flag to Sydney first & breaking a 72 month drought for the club.

Big Crowds
Sydney Swans at home crowds tend to exist as big on the average than for Sydney's traditional football code, Rugby League.

As a consequence a initial relocation & launch inside Sydney, a team began swimming at a SCG before of crowds withwithin excess of 20,000, similar to the regular attendances in Melbourne. Nevertheless, at days attendances dropped beneath 10,000 whenever a team was performing badly. When you took a mid-1990s, a team's increased fight saw a select few crowds around excess of 30,000.

The newly habitat around Stadium Australia provided increased capacity over a SCG. A Swans foremost game played at a arena within spherical Niner, 2002 attracted 54,169 spectators. A Sydney Swans v Collingwood match at Bowl Australia in Saturday 23 August 2003 placed an attendance record for a big crowd to view an AFL game outside of Victoria by owning 72,393 spectators (close capacity) attending & was the big residence & away AFL crowd at any Sports stadium for 2003. a preliminary final against the Brisbane Lions at Arena Australia within 2003 attracted 71,019 population.

While Bowl Australia was unavailable for the 2005 preliminary final against Geelong drew a capacity crowd of 39,079 at the SCG. the record crowd for an AFL fixture at that venue is 46,168, as well for a Sydney five Geelong game around 1997.

Rivalries
A Swans part an extended & storied contention by using St Kilda that dates back to the days once South Melbourne played at Lake Oval on the other side of Melbourne's Albert Park, not far from either St Kilda's old home ground at Junction Oval. To this day a Swans & a Saints play for a Flow of any stream Trophy annually when you took the personal-&-away year.

a Swans too part a contention by having the Brisbane Lions, a contention that is section of a on-going contention between the Australian states of New South Wales and Queensland that stretches across footy codes & politics. Since a mid Nineties them sides stand played for the Alan Schwab Shield, named fallowing a late AFL administrator world health organization worked to establish them sides inside rugby football league territory. Notwithstanding the very prize at stake is the pride of their adoptive states, & the match between these deuce sides while played within Sydney is considered a "blockbuster", which means that a match is played at Telstra Stadium rather than the SCG.

VFL/AFL Premierships
Premiers
1909 (as South Melbourne) -- disappointed Carlton Foursome.Fourteen (38) to Quaternary.Xii (36) 1918 (as South Melbourne) -- discomfited Collingwood 9.Eighter from decatur (62) to Seven.Fifteen (57) 1933 (as South Melbourne) -- thwarted Richmond Niner.Seventeen (71) to Quadruplet.Cinque (Xxix) 2005 -- defeated West Coast Viii.Decade (58) to Vii.Twelve (54)

Runners-up
1899 (as South Melbourne) -- discomfited by Fitzroy Three.Ennead (Twenty-seven) to Tierce.Octad (Xxvi) 1907 (as South Melbourne) -- discomfited by Carlton Vi.Fourteen (Fifty) to Hexad.Ix (45) 1912 (as South Melbourne) -- discomfited by Essendon Five.Xvii (47) to Quaternity.Niner (33) 1914 (as South Melbourne) -- discomfited by Carlton Captain hicks.Niner (45) to Four.Fifteen (39) 1934 (as South Melbourne) -- discomfited by Richmond Nineteen.Xiv (128) to Dozen.Xvii (89) 1935 (as South Melbourne) -- discomfited by Collingwood 11.Xii (78) to Septenary.Sixteen (58) 1936 (as South Melbourne) -- discomfited by Collingwood 11.Xxiii (89) to Ten.Xviii (78) 1945 (as South Melbourne) -- discomfited by Carlton Fifteen.Thirteen (103) to Decade.Xv (76); match is legendary for a brutal violence that earned a Swans the soubriquet "Blood-Soaked Angels". 1996 -- defeated per Kangaroos 19.Xvii (131) to Xiii.X (88); foremost grand final appearance within L years

Honor Roll

|align=center| 1989 |align=center| 7 |align=center|Col Kinnear |align=center| Dennis Carroll |align=center| Mark Bayes |align=center| Bernard Toohey (27) |- |align=center| 1990 |align=center| 13 |align=center| Col Kinnear |align=center| Dennis Carroll |align=center| Stephen Wright |align=center| Jim West (34) |- |align=center| 1991 |align=center| 12 |align=center| Col Kinnear |align=center| Dennis Carroll |align=center| Barry Mitchell |align=center| Jason Love (52) |- |align=center| 1992 |align=center| 15 |align=center| Gary Buckenara |align=center| Dennis Carroll |align=center| Paul Kelly |align=center| Simon Minton-Connell (60) |- |align=center| 1993 |align=center| 15 |align=center| Gary Buckenara, Ron Barassi |align=center| Paul Kelly |align=center| Paul Kelly |align=center| Simon Minton-Connell (41) |- |align=center| 1994 |align=center| 15 |align=center| Ron Barassi |align=center| Paul Kelly |align=center| Daryn Creswell |align=center| Simon Minton-Connell (68) |- |align=center| 1995 |align=center| 12 |align=center| Ron Barassi |align=center| Paul Kelly |align=center| Paul Kelly |align=center| Tony Lockett (110) |- |align=center| 1996 |align=center| 2 |align=center| Rodney Eade |align=center| Paul Kelly |align=center| Paul Kelly |align=center| Tony Lockett (121) |- |align=center| 1997 |align=center| 7 |align=center| Rodney Eade |align=center| Paul Kelly |align=center| Paul Kelly |align=center| Tony Lockett (37) |- |align=center| 1998 |align=center| 5 |align=center| Rodney Eade |align=center| Paul Kelly |align=center| Michael O'Loughlin |align=center| Tony Lockett (109) |- |align=center| 1999 |align=center| 8 |align=center| Rodney Eade |align=center| Paul Kelly |align=center| Wayne Schwass |align=center| Tony Lockett (82) |- |align=center| 2000 |align=center| 10 |align=center| Rodney Eade |align=center| Paul Kelly |align=center| Andrew Schauble |align=center| Michael O'Loughlin (53) |- |align=center| 2001 |align=center| 7 |align=center| Rodney Eade |align=center| Paul Kelly |align=center| Paul Williams |align=center| Michael O'Loughlin (35) |- |align=center| 2002 |align=center| 11 |align=center| Rodney Eade, Paul Roos |align=center| Paul Kelly |align=center| Paul Williams |align=center| Barry Hall (55) |- |align=center| 2003 |align=center| 4 |align=center| Paul Roos |align=center| Stuart Maxfield |align=center| Adam Goodes |align=center| Barry Hall (64) |- |align=center| 2004 |align=center| 5 |align=center| Paul Roos |align=center| Stuart Maxfield |align=center| Barry Hall |align=center| Barry Hall (74) |- |align=center| 2005 |align=center| 1 |align=center| Paul Roos |align=center| Stuart Maxfield² |align=center| Brett Kirk |align=center| Barry Hall (Eighty) |- |align=center| 2006 |align=center| -- |align=center| Paul Roos |align=center| TBA |align=center| TBD |align=center| TBD |}

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^{Ii^{: Six cycles into a 2005 year, Stuart Maxfield ended his swimming career due to chronic injury. Six players rotated when captain throughout a rest of the year: Brett Kirk (rounds Vii, Octonary, 19 & 20), Leo Barry (rounds Nine, Tenner, 21 & 22), Barry Hall (rounds Xi, Xii & a entire finals series), Ben Mathews (rounds 13 & 14), Adam Goodes (rounds 15 & 16) & Jude Bolton (rounds 17 & 18).}}}}

Brownlow Medal winners:

South Melbourne
Herbie Matthews (1940) Ron Clegg (1949) Fred Goldsmith (1955) Bob Skilton (1959, 1963 & 1968) Peter Bedford (1970) Graham Teasdale (1977) Sydney
Barry Round (1981) (co-winner) Greg Williams (1986) (co-winner) Gerard Healy (1988) Paul Kelly (1995) Adam Goodes (2003) (co-winner)

Team of the Century

Sydney announced its team of the century in August 8, 2003:

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2005 Finals
Sydney played a AFL Grand Final on 24 September 2005 against a West Coast Eagles defeating them by Little joe points, final score Eighter from decatur.X (58) to West Coast's Seven.Twelve (54). In a endure couple minutes, the Sydney defence held hard, by having Leo Barry marking a ball upright prior to a siren to prevent the Eagles' final desperate shot at goal. A premiership was a Swans' 1st withwithin 72 years & their number 1 since existence depending in Sydney. It was as well the fifth premiership within succession to exist as won by a team outside Victoria.

Around 2005 a Swans come under tremendous public scrutiny, potentially from either AFL commissioner Andrew Demetriou for their unorthodox, "boring" defense-oriented manoeuvre that involved tightly controlling a tempo of a game & starving a opposition of possession (as a matter of fact, septet teams this year got their last possession sum when swimming against the Swans). A coach Paul Roos maintained that playing contested footbtons was a style utilized by all recent premiership winning teams, & felt that it was ironic that a lot criticised strategy proved finally successful.

In Friday, 30 September 2005 a ticker tape parade down Sydney's George Street was held in honour of the Swans' accomplishment, which ended by having the rally at Town Hall, where Sydney Lord Mayor Clover Moore presented a team using the key to the city. A flag of the Swans besides flew in top of the Sydney Harbour Bridge during a week; the equivalent flag was late given to WA premier Geoff Gallop to fly on top of the state law-makers inside Perth when a share of the friendly wager between Gallop & NSW premier Morris Iemma.

See Also
List of former and current Swans' players' entries List of known celebrity supporters of the Sydney Swans

Swans Talk
The unofficial message board for the Swans, also contains competitions.

Sydney Swans Online
Official site. Multimedia, merchandise, player information, membership details, club history, news, results, and statistics.

Red and White Online
Up-to-date news, reviews, articles, player profiles, club information including coaches and history, image galleries and chat.

Sydney Swans Football Club Fans
Message board, photo album, and chat room.