Melbourne Football Club

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The Melbourne Football Club, nicknamed the Demons and commonly known as the Dees, is a professional Australian rules football club. The club competes in the Australian Football League (AFL), the highest level of Australian rules football and plays its home matches at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG). Established in 1858, Melbourne is the oldest Australian rules football club and is widely recognised as the world's oldest professional club of any football code. The club played a central role in the development of Australian rules football: in May 1859, Melbourne members drafted the first laws of the game which layed the foundation for the modern game's rules. Melbourne was subsequently a foundation member of the Victorian Football Association (VFA) in 1877 and in 1896, the Victorian Football League (VFL) which was renamed the AFL in 1990. Melbourne has won 13 VFL/AFL premierships, placing it among the more successful clubs in the competition's history. Its most succcessful period came...

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