Richmond Football Club (VFL)
| Richmond Football Club | ||||
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| Names | ||||
| Full name | Richmond Football Club | |||
| Nickname(s) | Tigers, Tiges | |||
| 2017 season | ||||
| After finals | 1st | |||
| Home-and-away season | 3rd | |||
| Leading goalkicker | Jack Riewoldt (54) | |||
| Jack Dyer Medal | 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 (11): 1920, 1921, 1932, 1934, 1943, 1967, 1969, 1973, 1974, 1980, 2017 VFA (2): 1902, 1905 |
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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 a professional Australian rules football club playing in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's premier competition. Between its inception in Richmond, Melbourne in 1885 and 1907, the club competed in the Victorian Football Association (VFA), winning two premierships. Richmond joined the Victorian Football League (now known as the AFL) in 1908 and has since won eleven premierships, most recently in 2017.
Richmond's headquarters and training facilities are located at its original home ground, the Punt Road Oval, which sits adjacent to the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG), the club's playing home since 1965. Richmond traditionally wears a black guernsey with a yellow sash. Its anthem "We're from Tigerland" is widely recognised for its "yellow and black" refrain and is often voted as the most popular club song in the AFL. Richmond has a long-standing rivalry with cross-town Carlton, and the two teams compete each year in the opening match of the AFL season.
The club is coached by Damien Hardwick and its current captain is Trent Cotchin. Four Richmond players have been inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame as "Legends" of the sport: Kevin Bartlett, Jack Dyer, Royce Hart and Ian Stewart.
A short-lived football club named Richmond was established in 1860 with Tom Wills, one of the founders of Australian rules football, serving as its inaugural secretary and captain. Wills' cousin H. C. A. Harrison captained Richmond briefly in the early 1860s before moving to Geelong. This club has no continuity to the present club. A number of teams formed in Richmond during the game's rapid expansion in the 1870s and early 1880s. However, all played at a junior level and it was considered an anomaly that Richmond, one of Melbourne's most prominent suburbs, did not boast a senior side. 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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