27 August

Melbourne's theatre hands played a costume football match at the East Melbourne Cricket Ground, with players billed as Madame Angot, Dick Deadeye, Victor the Wrestler and a certain Ned Kelly.

The match raised just over 74 pounds for the widow and young family of the author Marcus Clarke, and the Opera House side won six goals to one.

Oddities

A local amateur side at Newport agreed to an unsanctioned match against touring Canadian cadets and was soundly beaten 6.0 to 2.0.

Overseas

A charity women's football match was played on Bassendean Oval in Perth in August 1944, though it is unknown whether women's football continued in Western Australia afterwards.

Women's football

The city end scoreboard at the MCG caught fire before Richmond v Carlton, caused by an electrical fault, delaying the start of play by half an hour.

Oddities

Essendon was banned from the 2013 finals, fined $2 million and stripped of first and second round picks in 2013 and 2014, and coach James Hird was suspended for 12 months.

Administration

Sydney played its first ever AFLW match at North Sydney Oval against St Kilda in August 2022, drawing 8,264, then a record crowd for women's football in New South Wales.

Women's football

Port Adelaide's first AFLW match

AFLW · Round 1 · Mineral Resources Park · crowd 1,846

Sydney Swans's first AFLW match

AFLW · Round 1 · North Sydney Oval · crowd 8,264

Essendon's first AFLW match

AFLW · Round 1 · Marvel Stadium · crowd 12,092

Finals Week 1

AFL · Adelaide Oval · crowd 19,712

Semi Final

VFL · MCG · crowd 68,109

Sectional Round 1

VFL · Corio Oval

Sectional Round 1

VFL · Lake Oval

Sectional Round 1

VFL · Junction Oval

Sectional Round 1

VFL · East Melbourne

Sydney won by 113 points

AFL · Round 23 · SCG · crowd 36,570

Geelong won by 111 points

AFL · Round 23 · Simonds Stadium · crowd 24,413

Grand Final

VFL · Waverley Park · crowd 8,652