Australian Rules football (Aussie Rules) is the number one spectator sport in Australia,with some games bringing in in excess of 100,000 fans - even Bayern Munich dreams of numbers like that. The AFLG started as the fourth European league. The first Australian Football club in Germany, the Frankfurt Redbacks, has been around since 1995 and has played several games against the Munich Roos, as well as international sides from the British, Swedish and Danish competitions.

The German media has reacted positively to the game, with the Frankfurter Rundschau having covered all of the home games of the Redbacks for some time now. Several other papers, including Bild, die Neue Presse (The New Press) and the Münchner Tageszeitung (The Munich Daily News) also report Aussie Rules in Germany. Meanwhile radio and TV have also picked up on Australian Rules. HR XXL compiles regular radio reports about footy (one of the nicknames Australians give their sport) and TV stations DSF (Deutsches Sport Fernsehen - German Sports Television) and Sat1 have also reported on the sport.

And here we are.
The Australian Football League Germany (AFLG) came into being in 1999 as a promotional body for the sport, culture and lifestyle of the fifth continent. There is nothing standing in the way of the development and marketing of a Germany-wide league, and the league has the capacity to cater to the needs of fans, sponsors and other organisations. Our main goal is to expand our competition to six teams by 2004 and to secure regular press coverage in television, radio and in print media. With this website we're making the first step towards the achievement of those aims.

We welcome financial support or sponsoring of any sort for our league, just as any other league in it's infancy would. Help us to increase the popularity of this fast and exciting sport in Germany. The road to the the attainment of this goal will be a long one, but we are convinced that, with your help, we can make Australian Rules Football a part of the German sporting environment.

If this introduction has whetted your appetite to become involved in the AFLG we would love to hear from you. All enquiries should be referred to Mr. Malte Schudlich, who is responsible for sponsoring and marketing.

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