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Doesn't seem really fair to kick a side when it's down but I couldn't find any references to rl being played in China.
It seems a bit silly to mention rl in China at all but it's there just in case someone finds some reference.
I mention China as this is going to be potentially huge in the future.
(see the posts on the main board for more recent developments in AFL investment in China)

The sport has been played in the People's Republic of China since the 1990s. There are a number of senior clubs, including in the bigger cities of Beijing, Shanghai and Tianjin, as well as Auskick programs in other cities such as Suzhou, Jiangsu province.

Regional clubs and programsBeijingAustralian rules was first played in Beijing in 2004, with the foundation of the Beijing Bombers.

The Bombers play an annual China Cup series against the Shanghai Tigers, as well as starting a 3-team metro league known as the Beijing AFL in 2009.

GuangzhouThe Guangzhou Scorpions were formed in 2010, playing matches against the Hong Kong Dragons and Macau Lightning.[1]

Hong KongThe Hong Kong Dragons were formed in 1990, and have been one of Asia's most successful Australian rules football clubs since this time. The Dragons play against other Asian teams regularly and have competed at all Asian Australian Football Championships to date.

A second team in the Pokfulam region of Hong Kong was in existence in 2010, playing as the Pokfulam Vikings and conducting some matches against the Dragons.[2]

The Dragons also coordinate an Auskick juniors program.

MacauAustralian football began in Macau in 2009, with the introduction of Auskick and matches at the International School of Macau. The Macau Lightning senior team debuted in 2010, with matches against the Hong Kong Dragons and Pokfulam Vikings.[3] They made their first Asian Championships appearance in Shanghai in October 2010, but failed to win any matches at the tournament.[4]

ShanghaiA club was established in Shanghai under the name of the Shanghai Tigers in 2002. The Tigers have a playing list consisting mainly of expatriate Australians, with some British, American and South African players as well.

SuzhouThe city of Suzhou does not currently have any senior clubs, although in 2007, 18 schools had introduced the sport into their curriculum.[5]

TianjinThe sister city relationship between Tianjin and Melbourne saw the beginnings of football development in 2005.[6] By 2007, a development organisation called the AFL China had been formed, with Tianjin Normal University having two Australian football teams at its main campuses.[7]

The Tianjin program is sponsored by the Melbourne Football Club and the Melbourne City Council, through links formed by former Melbourne Lord Mayor John So.

XinjiangA junior program called the Gobi Desert AFL existed at a primary school in Hami, Xinjiang in the 1990s, but this has now disappeared.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian ... l_in_China
1.^ Dragons finish season on a high from hk-dragons.com
2.^ First Hong Kong-Macau local derby this weekend from worldfootynews.com
3.^ First Hong Kong-Macau local derby this weekend from worldfootynews.com
4.^ No surprises as Dubai again crowned Asian Champions from worldfootynews.com
5.^ Dees see China investment already bearing fruit from worldfootynews.com
6.^ Melbourne link to China development
7.^ Beijing defeat Shanghai and Tianjin found second team in big week for Chinese footy
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And Tianjin is getting it's own purpose built AFL ground (see the main board for details).
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Exciting times ahead in China. Exciting times indeed.

Oh and congrats on another point prove in cos. You're on fire of late. =D>
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Oh is he what! The NRL slugs are getting squashed!
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So we have Australian Football greater than rl in Canada, China, Denmark, Germany, India, Japan and the USA by the looks - ready to move on ?
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Yep!
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parafeel and all if you restricted yourself to my threads you wouldn't have a problem.
In response to parafeel's drive for the number of AFCs - here they are.
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Australian rules football in China

Regional clubs and programs
2.1 Beijing
2.2 Guangzhou
2.3 Hong Kong
2.4 Macau
2.5 Shanghai
2.6 Suzhou
2.7 Tianjin
2.8 Xinjiang


History
The sport has been played in the People's Republic of China since the 1990s. There are a number of senior clubs, including in the bigger cities of Beijing, Shanghai and Tianjin, as well as Auskick programs in other cities such as Suzhou, Jiangsu province.

Regional clubs and programs
Beijing
Australian rules was first played in Beijing in 2004, with the foundation of the Beijing Bombers.

The Bombers play an annual China Cup series against the Shanghai Tigers, as well as starting a 3-team metro league known as the Beijing AFL in 2009.

THE CLUBS

CHAOYANG CATS FC
DONG CHENG DEMONS FC
SANLITUN SAINTS FC

http://www.australianrulesfootball.com. ... aflchinaas

Guangzhou
The Guangzhou Scorpions were formed in 2010, playing matches against the Hong Kong Dragons and Macau Lightning.[1]

Hong Kong
The Hong Kong Dragons were formed in 1990, and have been one of Asia's most successful Australian rules football clubs since this time. The Dragons play against other Asian teams regularly and have competed at all Asian Australian Football Championships to date.

A second team in the Pokfulam region of Hong Kong was in existence in 2010, playing as the Pokfulam Vikings and conducting some matches against the Dragons.[2]

The Dragons also coordinate an Auskick juniors program.

Macau
Australian football began in Macau in 2009, with the introduction of Auskick and matches at the International School of Macau. The Macau Lightning senior team debuted in 2010, with matches against the Hong Kong Dragons and Pokfulam Vikings.[3] They made their first Asian Championships appearance in Shanghai in October 2010, but failed to win any matches at the tournament.[4]

Shanghai
A club was established in Shanghai under the name of the Shanghai Tigers in 2002. The Tigers have a playing list consisting mainly of expatriate Australians, with some British, American and South African players as well.

THE CLUBS

NORTH SHANGHAI CROWS FC
SHANGHAI EAGLES FC
WEST SHANGHAI DOCKERS FC

http://www.australianrulesfootball.com. ... aflchinaas

Suzhou
The city of Suzhou does not currently have any senior clubs, although in 2007, 18 schools had introduced the sport into their curriculum.[5]

there was sudden growth amongst locals in the mid 2000s, including a school-based program for thousands of children in Suzhou (near Shanghai). China attended the 2008 International Cup (the first overseas tournament of the truly locals-only national side), scoring their official first ever win, defeating fellow newcomers India

http://www.worldfootynews.com/staticpag ... hina/print

Tianjin
The sister city relationship between Tianjin and Melbourne saw the beginnings of football development in 2005.[6] By 2007, a development organisation called the AFL China had been formed, with Tianjin Normal University having two Australian football teams at its main campuses.[7]

The Tianjin program is sponsored by the Melbourne Football Club and the Melbourne City Council, through links formed by former Melbourne Lord Mayor John So.

The AFL has helped launch the first purpose built AFL oval in Tianjin as part of its ongoing commitment to grow Australian football in China.

The $1.5 million project is a collaboration between the City of Melbourne, the AFL and the Melbourne Football Club. They attended today’s launch along with the Vice Mayor of Tianjin Madam Zhang Junfang and the Vice Director of the Tianjin Binhai Development Investment Holding Co. Ltd.

AFL International Development Manager Tony Woods attended today’s launch in Tianjin and said the AFL was planning more activity in China, including an AFL Combine and exhibition matches.

“We see China as an important and growing market for the game and this purpose built AFL oval will enable more Chinese people to play and enjoy Australian football and showcase their talent,” he said.

“I want to thank the Vice Mayor of Tianjin Madam Zhang Junfang, the Tianjin Binhai Development Investment Holding Co. Ltd, the Melbourne Football Club and the City of Melbourne for their support to make this project possible.”

The idea for the project originated in 2005 when the then Mayor of Tianjin Dai Xianglong visited Melbourne. Following a tour of the MCG, Mayor Dai invited the Melbourne Football Club to visit Tianjin to introduce Australian football to the city.

In October 2010 the first AFL exhibition match between Melbourne and the Brisbane Lions, the Kaspersky Cup – AFL Shanghai Showdown, was played in Shanghai in front of a crowd of 7000 people and broadcast live on local television. The AFL also launched a Mandarin language website http://www.51afl.com to engage local interest in the game.

During 2011 AFL matches were broadcast weekly into China through the Shanghai Media Group on International Channel Shanghai, including the Toyota AFL Grand Final between Geelong and Collingwood.

China also fielded a team in the 2011 International Cup played in Melbourne and Sydney and a number of players of Chinese background were part of the Southern Dragons Football Club’s historic premiership in the Southern Football League.

The chief executive of the Melbourne Football Club, Cameron Schwab said it had experienced first-hand the excitement of the introduction of AFL into China.

“We look forward to supporting and being part of the AFL’s plans to further grow the game there with our own initiatives, including the creation of the Tianjin Demons to compete in the growing AFL China League,” he said.
http://www.whatsontianjin.com/health199.html
Xinjiang
A junior program called the Gobi Desert AFL existed at a primary school in Hami, Xinjiang in the 1990s, but this has now disappeared.




Australian rules finds its way to a remote western Chinese town, writes John Schauble in Beijing.

April 2 2002.

It seems about as likely as bringing ice hockey to Uluru. But for dedicated Australian football fan Kevin Jacobs, the dream of introducing footy to the far-western Chinese province of Xinjiang is about to become reality.

Jacobs has been given the go-ahead by a school on the outskirts of Hami, a remote town near the Mongolian border, to start an Australian football competition he hopes will eventually take the town by storm.

Jacobs, 27, hails originally from the South Australian town of Coonalpyn, near Murray Bridge. When his wife, Jodie, took on a job teaching English two months ago at a school on the Tuha Oil Base, he came along to look after their two children, Emma, aged 9, and Ryan, aged 3.







One reason for introducing Australian football is to help the students improve their English, albeit the peculiar English of Aussie rules. "The principal is very keen on the idea," said Jacobs, who describes himself as "never famous" in South Australia's country leagues. "I have always loved footy."

Since arriving on the oil base two months ago, Jacobs has contacted several AFL clubs looking for help. So far, the AFL has promised practice balls and an instructional video, while the Kangaroos, Brisbane Lions and Sydney Swans have variously promised to send balls, posters, stickers and rule books.

"So far the response has been good. Not all clubs are able to help but those that can are and the clubs all have wished us luck," Jacobs said. "I am setting up a web site to show our progress and photos of the games and training."

The plan is to start two teams among students aged between 13 and 16, with the possible expansion to a league of four or five teams. In the long term, he hopes teams might be able to compete in the Jim Stynes Trophy junior competition.

The project also has the support of the Asian Australian Football League, a group of expatriate fans who play an irregular competition across Asia. League supremo Julian Clark says he hopes to get a regular team established in China, possibly in Shanghai.

Simply explaining the game is Jacobs' biggest challenge. Children on the base are Han Chinese rather than the majority local Uighurs. Xinjiang, which borders eight central Asian republics, is predominantly Muslim and subject to infrequent outbreaks of separatist violence. Beijing has seized on the United States-led war against terrorism as a vehicle to suppress dissident activity in the remote west.

Hami is most famous across China for, of all things, melons. The delicious fruit are shaped like an Australian football. It seems inevitable that at least one team will be called the Hami Melons. "I prefer the Hami Mummies," said Jacobs, referring to the discovery locally of 3000-year-old mummified remains.

The push to introduce Australian rules to China comes as AFL club Hawthorn is seeking converts from Melbourne's ethnic Chinese community. They have prepared a brochure in Mandarin to make a pitch to up to 200,000 Australians of Chinese origin who have never been actively involved in the sport.

The Gobi Desert AFL is indeed still up an running see http://au.groups.yahoo.com/group/GobiDesertAFL/

International Competition
A representative team mainly consisting of expat Australians in China has competed under the names China Blues and China Reds in International fixtures and Asian AFL Championships. The first national representative team composed entirely of Chinese nationals appeared as the China Red Demons at the 2008 Australian Football International Cup.

International Cup
2002: Did not compete
2005: Did not compete
2008: 15th
2011: competed

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian ... l_in_China

At least 14 AFCs not counting the junior programs.
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WTF @ Kevin Sheedy!! Who did that? That's a riot!! :D

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The AFL continues to put in place opportunities for athletes around the world to be exposed to Aussie Rules and for their abilities to be tested in the style of the new "combines". This is part of a wider AFL plan to one day see star players emerge from international markets, thus helping promote the game in both those markets and amongst immigrant communities in Australia.

The latest piece in that puzzle is an academy in Guangzhou, China. Opening on July 9, with a total of 30 athletes to be selected for the two-week program, the AFL will select two players to attend the annual draft combine at Etihad Stadium that follows the AFL Grand Final.

http://www.worldfootynews.com/index.php
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