The Sydney Swans Football Club is an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League (AFL). The club is based in Sydney, New South Wales. The club, founded in 1874, was known as the South Melbourne Football Club until it relocated to Sydney in 1982 to become the Sydney Swans. Sydney was the first club in the competition to be based outside of Victoria. The Swans play most home games at the Sydney Cricket Ground, while...
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The Sydney Swans Football Club is an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League (AFL). The club is based in Sydney, New South Wales. The club, founded in 1874, was known as the South Melbourne Football Club until it relocated to Sydney in 1982 to become the Sydney Swans. Sydney was the first club in the competition to be based outside of Victoria. The Swans play most home games at the Sydney Cricket Ground, while local derbies and larger games against teams such as Collingwood are played at ANZ Stadium.
Since 1995, the Sydney Swans are the only club not to have missed the finals in consecutive seasons, and have made the finals more years than any other club in the same time, only missing the finals in 2000, 2002 and 2009.
The teams most recent success comes in 2005 when Sydney Swans won the Grand Final against West Coast Eagles in a tight, low scoring game. The match, attended by 91,898 spectators, was won by a margin of four points. The following...
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