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Footystats (TM) is a compilation of the history and statistics of the game of Australian Football with its focus on the Australian Football League (AFL) competition since 1897.

The unique game of Australian Football has its roots in 1858 and is the second oldest codified game of football, second only to rugby.

Australia's national game is the only code of football in the world where one achieves maximum scoring points only by kicking the ball.

The AFL (formerly the VFL, 1897-1989) is a national competition of 16 clubs, Adelaide (first competed 1991), Brisbane (1987), Carlton (formed 1864), Collingwood (1892), Essendon (1872), Fremantle (first competed 1995), Geelong (1858), Hawthorn (1902), North Melbourne (formed as Hotham in 1869), Melbourne (1858, the world's oldest Professional Football Club of any code), Port Adelaide (first competed in the AFL in 1997 but formed 1870 and played in the SANFL), Richmond (1885), St Kilda (1873), Sydney (formerly South Melbourne, formed 1874), West Coast (first competed 1987) and Western Bulldogs (formerly Footscray, formed 1883), and draws coast-to-coast attendances of more than Six Million each winter season between March and September.

"Footystats Diary" an internet publication reaching adherents of the Australian game has been published daily since 1997 from which links are provided to the statistical resources maintained by Footystats.