2014 USAFL Season Preview: North Central Region
This is part three of the six part USAFL Season Preview Series as we preview the North Central Regional.North Central RegionalThe Midwest regional has the 2nd most teams of all the regions (7) and...
View Article2014 USAFL Season Preview: South Central Region
This is the continuation of the six part series on the 2014 USAFL Season Preview as we preview the South Central Region.South Central RegionThe South Central region has the claim this year as having...
View ArticleMason Cox squeezes in his AFL trial
When you are over 211cm tall you probably have plenty of squeeze in moments. Be it airline seats, doorways or beds things shorter mortals take for granted take some adjusting to fit as best as...
View ArticleAFL Ontario returns this weekend
This weekend footy returns to central Canada as the 2014 AFL Ontario season begins. AFL Ontario (AFLO) is the largest Australian Rules football league in the world outside of Australia, and it has a...
View ArticleHawks v Cockerels battle for French premiership glory.
Maybe it’s fate, karma, coincidence. Or maybe it’s just two excellent teams dominating for the last two years, but the Toulouse Hawks and Paris Cockerels get the chance to lock horns in the CNFA grand...
View ArticlePNG Flames (womens) squad for IC 2014
AFL Papua New Guinea has already established a solid pedigree in International Footy not only in the South Pacific region but also against all comers in the International Cup. And not just the men. The...
View ArticleSolomons duo daring in Darling Downs
Francis Ramo and Peter Nuku jetted off earlier this year bound for Queensland (Australia) for a season of footy. As reported in the Solomon Star They were selected for the opportunity on the basis of...
View ArticleSister Cities International Day in IC14 year.
The year 2014 presents itself as a great opportunity for international teams, and their players, to embrace and be embraced by Australian Rules football clubs across the world. Whilst there are...
View ArticleCollingwood coup as Cox chooses
Texan Mason Cox has returned to the US after his whirlwind tour to Australia to trial before a number of AFL clubs. Port Adelaide revealed earlier this week that they were not interested in taking...
View ArticleVanuatu's Kilip Andrew settles in for Olinda Ferny Creek
In 2013 the Olinda Ferny Creek footy team from the Dandenongs region east of Melbourne travelled to Vanuatu post season for the perfect end of season trip after slogging it out in the Yarra Valley...
View ArticleAustrians take their football seriously.
Two years ago I visited the Styrian Downunder Dogs in the town of Bad Radkersburg on the border with Slovenia where they were conducting a Friday night to Sunday pre-season camp.It impressed me that...
View ArticleAussie Rules the World : The Movie
Aussie Rules the World is a new movie to be released in Australia on July 21st. It covers the issues of Aussie rules looking outside to the world for a place beyond it's home shores. International...
View ArticleHelping Aussie Rules to get a small foothold in Galway
The following story comes from the Connacht Tribune newspaper in Galway. It is written by Steve Glennon in his Talking Sport column and looks at the efforts of the Galway Magpies in Ireland to develop...
View ArticleMozzies shaping up for IC14
After last week announcing the AFL PNG Flames Womens squad for the AFL International Cup 2014 - now it's the turn of the men with the AFL PNG Mosquitoes squad taking shame - now in their final month of...
View ArticleInternational Broadcast Schedule AFL 2014 Round 12
This week's international broadcast networks and airing times are tabulated below. Screening times and networks are provided in good faith but are subject to change so you should check your local...
View ArticleSamurai IC14 Squad Announced
The Samurai IC14 Squad for AFL Japan was named today 3rd June 2014.Twenty six Top League East players and two players currently playing in Australia have been named to play for the Samurai along with a...
View ArticleKenguru Footy on the hop again in Norway
Australian Rules football is well and truly under way in Norway for 2014, with the second round of the Kenguru Cup being played last weekend. Again the competition was made of the two Oslo based teams...
View ArticleSite upgrade
Please note that worldfootynews.com has been undergoing a significant software upgrade over the last few days. This should be complete by around Thursday 12th June.The only major change that should be...
View ArticleWellington AFL Game Doubt?
Questions are being raised about the future of AFL matches being hosted by Wellington.Fewer than half of the 13,285 people who attended Wellington's AFL Anzac Day fixture paid face value for a ticket...
View ArticleAFL Fiji name extended squad men's squad
AFL Fiji have named their extended squad that will be representing the country in the men's division at the 2014 International Cup. It has been a long and trialling time for the players that have been...
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