Richmond Football Club
| Richmond Football Club | ||||
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| Names | ||||
| Full name | Richmond Football Club | |||
| Nickname(s) | Tigers, Tiges | |||
| 2016 season | ||||
| Home-and-away season | 13th | |||
| Leading goalkicker | Jack Riewoldt (48 goals) | |||
| Best and fairest | Dustin Martin | |||
| Club details | ||||
| Founded | 1885 | |||
| Colours | Yellow Black | |||
| Competition | Australian Football League | |||
| President | Peggy O'Neal | |||
| Coach | Damien Hardwick | |||
| Captain(s) | Trent Cotchin | |||
| Premierships |
VFL/AFL (10): 1920, 1921, 1932, 1934, 1943, 1967, 1969, 1973, 1974, 1980 VFA (2): 1902, 1905 Championship of Australia (3): 1969, 1973, 1974 |
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| Ground(s) | Melbourne Cricket Ground (capacity: 100,024) | |||
| Training ground(s) | Punt Road Oval | |||
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| Other information | ||||
| Official website | richmondfc.com.au | |||
The Richmond Football Club, nicknamed the Tigers, is an Australian rules football club playing in the Australian Football League (AFL).
The club has won ten premierships since joining the competition in 1908, its most recent win coming in 1980. The club is currently ranked sixth in the competition for premierships won.
Since the club's inception in 1885, its training and administration has been based at the Punt Road Oval, a few hundred metres to the east of its current day playing home, the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG). Prior to 1965 the club played home games at Punt Road Oval.
Based in a traditionally working-class area, Richmond has long-standing rivalries with cross-town Melbourne-based clubs, Collingwood, Carlton and Essendon.
The club has been home to four AFL Hall of Fame Legends: Ian Stewart, Kevin Bartlett, Royce Hart and Jack Dyer.
A team of footballers playing as Richmond is mentioned by the newspapers in the first years of Australian football, circa 1860.Tom Wills, one of the game's founders, was the club's inaugural secretary and captain, and Wills' cousin H. C. A. Harrison captained Richmond briefly in the early 1860s before moving to Geelong. This loosely organised group has no continuity to the present club. A number of teams formed in the Richmond area during the game's rapid expansion of the 1870s and early 1880s. However, all played at a junior level and it was considered an anomaly that Richmond, one of Melbourne's biggest locales, did not boast a senior team. The wait ended when the Richmond Football Club was officially formed at the Royal Hotel in Richmond on 20 February 1885. A successful application for immediate admission to the Victorian Football Association (VFA) followed. The club shared the Punt Road Oval with the Richmond Cricket Club, one of the strongest cricket clubs in Australia which had been playing on the ground since 1856.
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