The Geelong Football Club, nicknamed the Geelong Cats, is a professional Australian rules football club based in Geelong, Victoria. The club competes in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's premier competition.
The Australian Football League (AFL) is the pre-eminent and only fully professional men's competition of Australian rules football. Through the AFL Commission, the AFL also serves as the sport's governing body, and is responsible for controlling the laws of the game. Originally known as the Victorian Football League (VFL), it was founded in 1896 as a breakaway competition from the Victorian Football Association (VFA), with its inaugural season commencing the following year. The VFL, aiming to become a national competition, began expanding beyond Victoria to other Australian states in the 1980s, and changed its name to the AFL in 1990.
Ronald Branton is a former Australian rules football player who played in the VFL between 1953 and 1962 for the Richmond Football Club.
The 1923 Victorian Football League season was the 27th season of the elite Australian rules football competition.
Anthony 'Tony' Sullivan is a former Australian rules footballer who played for Melbourne in the VFL during the 1970s.
Harry Sullivan was an Australian rules footballer, who played in the Victorian Football League, (VFL).
Chris O'Sullivan is a former Australian rules footballer who played with the Brisbane Bears in the Victorian/Australian Football League (VFL/AFL).
Joseph Sullivan was an Australian rules footballer who played with Carlton in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Paul Holdsworth is a former Australian rules footballer who played six games for the Sydney in the Victorian Football League (VFL) in 1989. He was recruited from the Clarence Football Club in the Tasmanian Football League (TFL) with the 22nd selection in the 1988 VFL Draft.
Dennis O'Sullivan was an Australian rules footballer who played with Carlton in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Jack Sullivan was an Australian rules footballer who played with Carlton in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
David Sullivan is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Hawthorn and Essendon in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Philip Gerard Sullivan was an Australian rules footballer who played with Hawthorn in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Gene Sullivan was a former Australian rules footballer who played with St Kilda and Footscray in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Jack Sullivan was an Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Jack O'Sullivan(the Bosco) was an Australian rules footballer who played with North Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL). He won the Wangaratta Gift in 1927 and 1929.
Clarence Archibald Sullivan was an Australian rules footballer who played with St Kilda in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Bayley Fritsch is a professional Australian rules footballer playing for the Melbourne Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). A forward, 1.88 metres tall and weighing 81 kilograms (179 lb), Fritsch has the ability to play as both a high marking and small crumbing forward. Considered a late bloomer, he missed out on selection with the Eastern Ranges in the TAC Cup as a junior. After winning the league rising star in the Eastern Football League, he joined the Casey Scorpions in the Victorian Football League (VFL) where he spent three seasons. The 2017 VFL season saw him win the Fothergill–Round Medal, play for Victoria in the state representative match, be named in the VFL Team of the Year, and finish runner-up in the league leading goalkicker and Casey's best and fairest award. His season saw him drafted by the Melbourne Football Club in the second round of the 2017 AFL draft and he made his AFL debut in the opening round of the 2018 AFL season.
The 2020 Victorian Football League season, which was to have been the 139th season of the Victorian Football Association/Victorian Football League Australian rules football competition, was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.