Collingwood Football Club
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The Collingwood Football Club, nicknamed The Magpies, is an Australian rules football
Australian rules football
Australian rules football, officially known as Australian football, also called football, Aussie rules or footy is a sport played between two teams of 22 players on either...

 club which plays in the Australian Football League
Australian Football League
The Australian Football League is both the governing body and the major professional competition in the sport of Australian rules football...

 (AFL). Formed in 1892, the club traditionally represented the inner-Melbourne suburb of Collingwood
Collingwood, Victoria
Collingwood is an inner city suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 3 km north-east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Yarra...

; however it has now moved its training and administration base to Gosch's Paddock and the Melbourne Sports and Entertainment Centre, at Olympic Park in Melbourne
Melbourne city centre
Melbourne City Centre is an area of Melbourne in Victoria, Australia. It is not to be confused with the larger local government area of the City of Melbourne...

. In 2000, Collingwood moved its home games from its traditional suburban home ground, Victoria Park
Victoria Park, Melbourne
Victoria Park is a sports venue in Abbotsford a suburb of Melbourne in Victoria, Australia. Built for the purpose of both Australian rules football and cricket, the stadium is oval shaped....

, to the much larger Melbourne Cricket Ground
Melbourne Cricket Ground
The Melbourne Cricket Ground is an Australian sports stadium located in Yarra Park, Melbourne and is home to the Melbourne Cricket Club. It is the tenth largest stadium in the world, the largest in Australia, the largest stadium for playing cricket, and holds the world record for the highest light...

.

Collingwood is the most supported club in the AFL and one of the most supported clubs in any sport in Australia. It has consistently attracted much higher than average crowds to its home games than other clubs in the league. In 1970, 121,696 spectators watched Collingwood and contest the Grand Final
1970 VFL Grand Final
The 1970 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Carlton Football Club and Collingwood Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 26 September 1970. It was the 74th annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to determine...

, the record attendance for a football game of any code in Australia
Football in Australia
Football in Australia can refer to several different variations of football as there are regional variations of the use of the word "Football" in Australia....

. Collingwood currently have the most members of any club in the AFL, with 71,516 as of July 2011. The total home crowd for Collingwood in 2010 was 695,816 at an average of 63,256.

Collingwood's home guernsey
Guernsey (clothing)
A guernsey, or gansey, is a seaman's knitted woollen sweater, similar to a jersey, which originated in the Channel Island of the same name.-Origins:...

 consists of black and white stripes, matching the colours of an Australian magpie
Australian Magpie
The Australian Magpie is a medium-sized black and white passerine bird native to Australia and southern New Guinea. A member of the Artamidae, it is closely related to the butcherbirds...

.

Throughout its history, the club has developed a number of rivalries with cross-town and interstate clubs. Traditional Melbourne suburban rivalries with Essendon
Essendon Football Club
The Essendon Football Club, nicknamed The Bombers, is an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League...

, Richmond
Richmond Football Club
The Richmond Football Club, nicknamed The Tigers, is an Australian rules football club which competes in the Australian Football League. Richmond shares healthy rivalries with Carlton, Collingwood and Essendon. After winning five premierships between 1967 and 1980, the club hit the depths in 1990,...

 and Carlton
Carlton Football Club
The Carlton Football Club is a professional Australian rules football club based in Melbourne, Victoria. The club competes in the Australian Football League, and was one of the eight founding members of that competition in 1897...

 remain fierce. Collingwood has gained interstate rivals, particularly Port Adelaide
Port Adelaide Football Club
The Port Adelaide Football Club is an Australian rules football club based in Alberton, South Australia, which plays in the Australian Football League and the South Australian National Football League...

 and Brisbane
Brisbane
Brisbane is the capital and most populous city in the Australian state of Queensland and the third most populous city in Australia. Brisbane's metropolitan area has a population of over 2 million, and the South East Queensland urban conurbation, centred around Brisbane, encompasses a population of...

, but has retained the reputation in the national competition as the "team everybody loves to hate".

Collingwood have played in a record 43 grand finals (including replays), winning 15, drawing two and losing 26.

The club also currently fields a seconds team
Reserve team
Large professional sports clubs often have far more players under contract than could possibly play in a match. As a result, many of these clubs create second teams composed of players who need playing time, but have little hope of playing on the first team. The players on this second team are...

 in the Victorian Football League
Victorian Football League
The Victorian Football League which evolved from the former Victorian Football Association , taking its new name as from the 1996 season, is the premier Australian rules football league in Victoria The Victorian Football League (VFL) which evolved from the former Victorian Football Association...

.

Formation and early years

The Collingwood Football Club was established in February 1892. Collingwood played its first game in the Victorian Football Association (VFA) against on 7 May 1892. The club won the VFA Premiership in 1896.

In 1897, Collingwood, along with fellow VFA clubs Fitzroy
Fitzroy Football Club
The Fitzroy Football Club, formerly nicknamed The Lions, is an Australian rules football club formed in 1883 to represent the inner Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy, Victoria and was a foundation member club of the Victorian Football League on its inception in 1897...

, Melbourne
Melbourne Football Club
The Melbourne Football Club, nicknamed The Demons, is an Australian rules football club playing in the Australian Football League , based in Melbourne, Victoria....

, St Kilda, Carlton
Carlton Football Club
The Carlton Football Club is a professional Australian rules football club based in Melbourne, Victoria. The club competes in the Australian Football League, and was one of the eight founding members of that competition in 1897...

, Essendon
Essendon Football Club
The Essendon Football Club, nicknamed The Bombers, is an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League...

, South Melbourne
Sydney Swans
The Sydney Swans Football Club is an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League . 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...

 and Geelong
Geelong Football Club
The Geelong Football Club, nicknamed The Cats, is a professional Australian rules football club, named after and based in the city of Geelong, playing in the Australian Football League . The club has been the VFL/AFL premiers nine times, with a record equalling 3 in the AFL era. Geelong has also...

 split from the VFA and formed the Victorian Football League
Australian Football League
The Australian Football League is both the governing body and the major professional competition in the sport of Australian rules football...

 (VFL). Collingwood won its first premiership in 1902, defeating by 33 points.

1920s and 1930s: Four consecutive premierships

Collingwood were the most successful of the 1920s and 1930s, appearing in 13 out of a possible 20 Grand Finals during the period. Collingwood were premiers six times during this time, including four consecutive premierships between 1927
1927 VFL season
Results and statistics for the Victorian Football League season of 1927.-Premiership season:In 1927, the VFL competition consisted of twelve teams of 18 on-the-field players each, with no "reserves", although any of the 18 players who had left the playing field for any reason could later resume...

 and 1930
1930 VFL season
Results and statistics for the Victorian Football League season of 1930.-Premiership season:In 1930, the VFL competition consisted of twelve teams of 18 on-the-field players each, plus one substitute player, known as the 19th man...

, a VFL/AFL record, and two consecutive premierships in 1935
1935 VFL season
Results and statistics for the Victorian Football League season of 1935.-Premiership season:In 1935, the VFL competition consisted of twelve teams of 18 on-the-field players each, plus one substitute player, known as the 19th man...

 and 1936
1936 VFL season
Results and statistics for the Victorian Football League season of 1936.-Premiership season:In 1936, the VFL competition consisted of twelve teams of 18 on-the-field players each, plus one substitute player, known as the 19th man...

. The club's coach during this period was Jock McHale
Jock McHale
James Francis "Jock" McHale, was an Australian rules football player and coach for the Collingwood Football Club in the Victorian Football League in a marathon career that extended from 1903 to 1949....

, who served as coach from 1912 to 1949, a VFL/AFL record. Collingwood also had three Brownlow Medal
Brownlow Medal
The Chas Brownlow Trophy, better known as the Brownlow Medal , is awarded to the "fairest and best" player in the Australian Football League during the regular season as determined by votes cast by the officiating field umpires after each game...

lists during the period, with Syd Coventry
Syd Coventry
-St Kilda:Originally from Diamond Creek, Victoria, Coventry journeyed across the Bass Strait after the First World War to work in the mines at Queenstown, Tasmania, taking with him a reputation as a fine footballer...

 winning in 1927
1927 VFL season
Results and statistics for the Victorian Football League season of 1927.-Premiership season:In 1927, the VFL competition consisted of twelve teams of 18 on-the-field players each, with no "reserves", although any of the 18 players who had left the playing field for any reason could later resume...

, Albert Collier
Albert Collier
Albert "Leeter" Collier was an Australian rules footballer in the Victorian Football League.-Playing career:...

 in 1929
1929 VFL season
Results and statistics for the Victorian Football League season of 1929.-Premiership season:In 1929, the VFL competition consisted of twelve teams of 18 on-the-field players each, with no "reserves", although any of the 18 players who had left the playing field for any reason could later resume...

 and Harry Collier
Harry Collier
Harry Collier was an Australian rules footballer in the Victorian Football League.-Playing career:Originally from Ivanhoe, Victoria, Collier played for the Collingwood Football Club, debuting in 1926...

 in 1930
1930 VFL season
Results and statistics for the Victorian Football League season of 1930.-Premiership season:In 1930, the VFL competition consisted of twelve teams of 18 on-the-field players each, plus one substitute player, known as the 19th man...


1950s: Melbourne rivalry

In the 1950s, rival club Melbourne
Melbourne Football Club
The Melbourne Football Club, nicknamed The Demons, is an Australian rules football club playing in the Australian Football League , based in Melbourne, Victoria....

 enjoyed an era of unprecedented success, winning five premierships in six years (the last coming in 1960, and having been runner up in 1954). Collingwood lost two Grand Finals to Melbourne in this decade, but bounced back to win premierships in 1953 and 1958. Collingwood's 1958 premiership is much cherished by the club as it prevented Melbourne from equalling Collingwood's record four premierships in a row.

The 1958 premiership was however to be Collingwood's last for 32 years, as the club was to suffer a string of Grand Final defeats in coming decades.

1960–89: "Colliwobbles"

A string of eight Grand Final losses, often by narrow margins, between 1960 and 1981 gave rise to a perception that the club was prone to "choking", a phenomenon wittily dubbed "Colliwobbles". Whether this perception is accurate remains a subject of debate; however, the club's record in recent years has been much improved, having won two and drawn one of its last six Grand Finals.

1990–present

The 1990 Premiership team, coached by Leigh Matthews
Leigh Matthews
Leigh Raymond "Lethal Leigh" Matthews AM is a former player and coach of Australian rules football. He played for Hawthorn in the Victorian Football League from 1969 to 1985, coached Collingwood from 1986–1995, and coached the Brisbane Lions from 1999 to 2008...

 and captained by Tony Shaw
Tony Shaw
Anthony 'Tony' Shaw is a former Australian rules footballer, coach and media personality.-Playing career:Shaw was recruited to Collingwood from Reservoir-Lakeside to make his debut in 1977 alongside brother Ray...

, had a one-sided grand final win against Essendon
Essendon Football Club
The Essendon Football Club, nicknamed The Bombers, is an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League...

, the Magpies recording a 48 point victory and ending a 32 year premiership drought which included eight grand final
AFL Grand Final
The AFL Grand Final is an annual Australian rules football match, traditionally held on the final Saturday in September at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne, Australia to determine the Australian Football League premiership champions for that year...

 losses and one draw.

After this, however, the club lapsed into a state of decline; their status as a potential powerhouse at the beginning of the decade was reduced with each passing season and the club ultimately received a second wooden spoon in 1999. Within a few years, with a change of coach, playing list and club president, Collingwood reached and lost consecutive grand finals in a close contest in 2002 and a "blow out" in 2003, both to the Brisbane Lions.

Following those Grand Final losses, Collingwood struggled for the next two years, finishing 13th in 2004 and second-last in 2005; the latter meant Collingwood was eligible for a priority pick which the club used to recruit Dale Thomas
Dale Thomas (footballer)
Dale Robert Jordan Thomas is a professional Australian rules football player currently with the Collingwood Football Club in the Australian Football League.-Early life:...

. Collingwood made a return to the finals in 2006, but were defeated by the Western Bulldogs
Western Bulldogs
The Western Bulldogs are an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League . The club is based at the Whitten Oval in West Footscray, an inner-western suburb of Melbourne...

 by over 40 points. 2006 also saw Collingwood become the only Victorian team to lose to Essendon
Essendon Football Club
The Essendon Football Club, nicknamed The Bombers, is an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League...

 during its horror 2006 season. The 2007 season saw them finish 6th on the ladder at season's conclusion, and in the finals they knocked out the grand finalists of the past two years, Sydney
Sydney Swans
The Sydney Swans Football Club is an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League . 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...

, in the elimination final and then West Coast
West Coast Eagles
The West Coast Eagles are an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League. The club is based in Perth, Western Australia. The club was founded in 1986 and played its first games in the 1987 season. Its current home ground is Subiaco Oval...

 in an overtime thriller at Subiaco Oval
Subiaco Oval
Subiaco Oval , known colloquially as Subi, is the highest capacity sports stadium in Perth, Western Australia...

 in the semi-final. Having earned a preliminary final against , the Pies challenged the Cats almost the entire match, only to fall short by less than a kick. Geelong went on to win the premiership that year
2007 AFL Grand Final
The 2007 AFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Geelong Football Club and the Port Adelaide Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 29 September 2007. It was the 111th annual Grand Final of the VFL/AFL, staged to determine the...

, by a record 119 points against Port Adelaide.

Collingwood finished 8th in 2008
2008 AFL season
-Round 1 :-Round 2:-Round 3 :-Round 4:-Round 5:-Round 6 :-Round 7:-AFL Hall of Fame Tribute Match:-Round 8:...

 and were assigned an away final against at AAMI Stadium. After at one point trailing in the match, the Pies went on to end Adelaide's season and earn a semi-final meeting against . Having defeated the Saints in both their regular season meetings, the Pies lost convincingly, ending their 2008 season. The 2009 season
2009 AFL season
-Round 1 :-Round 2:-Round 3 :-Round 4:-Round 5 :-Round 6:-Round 7:-Round 8:-Round 9 :-Round 10:...

 saw Collingwood finish inside the top four for the first time since 2003, but in the qualifying final were beaten by minor premiers St Kilda convincingly. Having won a second chance, the Pies struggled against Adelaide for the second year in a row before John Anthony kicked the match-winning goal with a minute left to send them into another preliminary final meeting with Geelong. But the season ended abruptly for the Magpies, with a loss of 86 points to the Cats, who went on to win another premiership
2009 AFL Grand Final
The 2009 AFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the St Kilda Football Club and the Geelong Football Club at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on 26 September 2009...

 at the expense of the Saints.

In 2010, Collingwood's finished as minor premiers, and after wins in the qualifying and preliminary finals, reached the first Grand Final
2010 AFL Grand Final
The 2010 AFL Grand Final is either of two Australian rules football contests between the Collingwood Football Club and the St Kilda Football Club. Together they are considered the 114th annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League/Australian Football League, and were staged to determine the...

 against . The match finished as a draw, forcing the first Grand Final Replay
Grand Final Replay
A Grand Final Replay is a method of deciding the winner of a competition when a Grand Final is drawn. It is commonly used in football codes, particularly in Australian rules football, and most notably in the Australian Football League, where it has been used three times, most recently in...

 in 33 years. Collingwood won the replay by 56 points, a club record.

Collingwood's title defending 2011 season has seen them win the Pre-Season Premiership, another Minor Premiership and 20 home and away games. The most successful Regular season the club has ever had. Star Midfeilder Dane Swan
Dane Swan
Dane Swan is an Australian rules footballer for Collingwood in the Australian Football League.Since 2007 Swan has emerged as one of the AFL's elite midfielders, winner of the prestigious Brownlow Medal in 2011 with a record tally of 34 votes...

 became the 9th player to win the Brownlow Medal for the club.

Collingwood qualified for its 43rd Grand Final appearance after defeating Hawthorn by 3 points on 23rd September 2011. However, Collingwood were beaten by in the 2011 AFL Grand Final
2011 AFL Grand Final
The 2011 Australian Football League Grand Final was an Australian rules football match, played to determine the premiers of the 2011 season. It was contested between the Collingwood Football Club and the Geelong Football Club....

, losing by 38 points.

Guernsey

Teams of the Collingwood Football Club have, throughout the club's history, worn guernseys of black and white vertical stripes. The current incarnation of the guernsey is mostly black, with white stripes on the front and lower half of the back, and white numbers. The main clash guernsey is the reverse of this: mostly white, with black stripes and black numbers. A secondary clash guernsey, introduced in 2011 and used only in matches against , is black with only two white stripes on each side instead of three.

Traditionally, Collingwood has worn a mostly white guernsey with black stripes. The club switched to the mostly black guernsey with white stripes in 2001.

Song

"Good Old Collingwood Forever" is the team song of the Collingwood Football Club. It is sung to the tune of "Goodbye Dolly Gray"
Goodbye, Dolly Gray
"Goodbye, Dolly Gray" is a music hall song by Will D. Cobb and Paul Barnes . Popularised as a Boer War anthem, it was written during the earlier Spanish-American War....

, a popular Boer War
Boer War
The Boer Wars were two wars fought between the British Empire and the two independent Boer republics, the Oranje Vrijstaat and the Republiek van Transvaal ....

 and First World War song.

The current version of the song played at the ground was recorded in 1972 by the Fable Singers.

Rivalries

Carlton is considered to be the club's most bitter arch-rival (for full details see Carlton–Collingwood AFL rivalry
Carlton–Collingwood AFL rivalry
-In The beginning :In 1864, the Carlton Football Club was born. In 1877, they were one of the founding clubs of the Victorian Football Association...

), with Essendon close behind. Rivalries with Richmond
Richmond Football Club
The Richmond Football Club, nicknamed The Tigers, is an Australian rules football club which competes in the Australian Football League. Richmond shares healthy rivalries with Carlton, Collingwood and Essendon. After winning five premierships between 1967 and 1980, the club hit the depths in 1990,...

 and Melbourne
Melbourne Football Club
The Melbourne Football Club, nicknamed The Demons, is an Australian rules football club playing in the Australian Football League , based in Melbourne, Victoria....

 have faded to a degree in recent years because teams have not enjoyed on-field success at the same time; these rivalries also remain strong however. Collingwood's two opponents in the themed Rivalry Rounds staged to date have been Carlton (2005–2006, 2009) and Richmond (2007–2008). In recent times, rivalries have been sparked with the new interstate clubs, including Port Adelaide
Port Adelaide Football Club
The Port Adelaide Football Club is an Australian rules football club based in Alberton, South Australia, which plays in the Australian Football League and the South Australian National Football League...

, and the Brisbane Lions
Brisbane Lions
The Brisbane Lions is an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League . The club is based in Brisbane, Queensland. The club was formed from the merger of the Brisbane Bears and the Fitzroy Lions in 1996...

.

The rivalry between Collingwood and Melbourne was at its peak between 1955 and 1964, when the two played off in the grand final on five occasions. This included the 1958 Grand Final where Collingwood’s victory prevented Melbourne from equalling Collingwood’s record of four premierships in succession (1927—1930).

Collingwood's rivalry with Essendon has become more significant since 1995, when the first ANZAC Day clash took place. The clash is often closely fought regardless of the teams’ ladder positions. After the 2011 match, Collingwood have won this contest 9 times and Essendon 7 times, with the first match being drawn.

The rivalry with Port Adelaide stems from the Power being known as the Magpies in their local SANFL
South Australian National Football League
The South Australian National Football League is an Australian rules football league based in the Australian state of South Australia. It is also the governing body for the sport of Australian rules football in South Australia....

 competition before switching to the Power when entering the League in 1997. Feelings were heightened when Port midfielder Kane Cornes
Kane Cornes
Kane Graham Cornes in an Australian rules football player who plays for Port Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League.-Early life:...

 'flipped the bird' at Nick Davis
Nick Davis (footballer)
Nick Davis is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Collingwood Football Club and the Sydney Swans in the AFL.- Collingwood:...

 following the Power's five point victory over the Magpies at AAMI Stadium
AAMI Stadium
Football Park is an Australian rules football stadium located in West Lakes, a western suburb of Adelaide, South Australia...

 in Round 9, 2002, only moments after Anthony Rocca
Anthony Rocca
Anthony Rocca is a former Australian rules footballer who has played with the Sydney Swans and Collingwood in the Australian Football League...

 had missed the opportunity to tie the scores. Jarrod Molloy
Jarrod Molloy
Jarrod Molloy was an Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League.A key position player, Molloy was trialled in both attack and defence as his career wore on, with most success enjoyed near the goalmouth....

 and Brodie Holland
Brodie Holland
Brodie Holland is a former professional Australian rules footballer best known for his playing days at the Collingwood Football Club in the Australian Football League....

 remonstrated with Cornes after the match, with a feeling of hostility lingering after the two sides had left the field. Collingwood unexpectedly beat the Power in the Qualifying Final that season, also at AAMI stadium. Collingwood again defeated Port Adelaide in the 2003 Preliminary Final at the MCG. This added to the ‘choking’ phenomenon directed at the Power. The off-field battle over Port's desire to wear black and white stripes which was a major talking point between 2002 and 2007, added to the rivalry. A resolution was reached in favour of Collingwood.

The first signs of a Collingwood/Brisbane rivalry originated in 1999, when Brisbane comprehensively beat the
Magpies in the last ever AFL match at Victoria Park
Victoria Park, Melbourne
Victoria Park is a sports venue in Abbotsford a suburb of Melbourne in Victoria, Australia. Built for the purpose of both Australian rules football and cricket, the stadium is oval shaped....

. In Round 8 2002 Collingwood beat Brisbane by three points in a tense match in front of 46,279 people at Colonial Stadium. This victory over the reigning premier took the Magpies to equal top of the league table
(2nd on percentage) with Brisbane. The rivalry grew with the 2002 Grand Final when Brisbane beat Collingwood by nine points. The rivalry grew again in 2003
when the two clubs clashed on four occasions. The Lions defeated the Magpies at The Gabba in Round 4 before thrashing them in Heritage Round—
Round 19 at the MCG. Collingwood then defeated Brisbane in the Qualifying Final with Alan Didak
Alan Didak
Alan Didak is a professional Australian rules footballer of Croatian descent playing for the Collingwood Football Club in the Australian Football League.- Early life :...

 ensuring victory late in the final quarter, with two goals
from the boundary line. The rivalry peaked in the 2003 Grand Final with Brisbane easily defeating Collingwood to win the premiership. In 2004's Grand Final,
Brisbane, playing against Port Adelaide, had the chance to equal Collingwood's record of four premierships in a row. This caused many Collingwood fans to
temporarily ignore the Port Adelaide rivalry and hope for a Power victory.

Games between Collingwood and Geelong have become highly anticipated since 2007. In Round 15 Geelong beat Collingwood by 16 points in a high-quality match. In the Preliminary final Collingwood surprised many when they came within 5 points of the eventual premiers. In 2008 Collingwood thrashed Geelong by 86 points—20.14 (134)- 7.6 (48) causing Geelong’s only loss of the year. In 2009, the sides again met in the preliminary final, but despite high hopes the Cats, who would again win the premiership, won by 73 points in front of another massive crowd of 87,258. In 2010, the two sides emerged as the favourites for the flag and twice met in front of blockbuster crowds at the MCG when they were placed 1st and 2nd on the ladder—with the results evenly split. They again met in a Preliminary final, this time a resounding win to Collingwood by 41 points. In 2011, both teams were undefeated going in to their round 8 blockbuster at the 'G. Geelong won by 3 points, after a controversial advantage was not paid to Magpie Scott Pendlebury in the dying minutes. Pendlebury kicked a goal and would have put the Pies in front, but the free kick was contentiously called back and Geelong managed to whisk the ball away. In the round 24 match, Geelong thumped the Magpies by a record margin of 96 points, which was also Collingwood's biggest ever loss at the MCG. The 2011 Grand Final against the Cats concluded with a 38 point loss for the Pies.

Membership

Collingwood Football Club Membership 1984—2010
Year Members Ladder Finishing position
1984 16,313 3rd
1985 16,857 7th
1986 13,971 6th
1987 9,500 12th
1988 11,985 4th
1989 13,620 5th
1990 14,808 1st
1991 18,469 7th
1992 18,921 5th
1993 21,882 8th
1994 20,843 8th
1995 22,543 10th
1996 20,752 11th
1997 22,761 10th
1998 27,099 14th
1999 32,358 16th
2000 28,932 15th
2001 31,455 9th
2002 32,549 2nd
2003 40,445 2nd
2004 41,128 13th
2005 38,612 15th
2006 38,038 7th
2007 38,587 4th
2008 42,498 6th
2009 45,972 4th
2010 57,617 1st
2011 71,271* 1st

In 2011 Collingwood reached 70,000 members for the first time creating a new AFL record, beating the previous AFL record of 58,249 set by Collingwood in 2010,.

The club's membership base leads to large crowd pulling power which has caused the AFL to be accused of favouring Collingwood when scheduling to maximise the league's attendance figures. However the AFL states that this is due to other clubs requesting home games at the MCG against Collingwood.

Off field

Collingwood was one of the last clubs to abandon its traditional stadium, the famous inner-city Victoria Park
Victoria Park, Melbourne
Victoria Park is a sports venue in Abbotsford a suburb of Melbourne in Victoria, Australia. Built for the purpose of both Australian rules football and cricket, the stadium is oval shaped....

. Collingwood now plays home games at the MCG
Melbourne Cricket Ground
The Melbourne Cricket Ground is an Australian sports stadium located in Yarra Park, Melbourne and is home to the Melbourne Cricket Club. It is the tenth largest stadium in the world, the largest in Australia, the largest stadium for playing cricket, and holds the world record for the highest light...

. It now also has its headquarters situated in the former Glasshouse Entertainment Centre. This building is also shared with the Victorian Institute of Sport
Victorian Institute of Sport
The Victorian Institute of Sport is the government-funded sporting institute of the Australian state of Victoria. It runs a number of programs for sports training. The headquarters are located in Melbourne. The inaugural executive director of the institute was Frank Pyke....

 (VIS). Due to a sponsorship deal, this facility is known as 'The Westpac Centre'.

Collingwood continues to be financially viable through the loyal support of its huge following and numerous sponsors. After finishing 2nd in 2002 and 2003 the team fell to 13th and 15th (out of 16) in 2004 and 2005 respectively. This trend has plagued the club since the glory days of pre-World War II VFL football. Since 1958, the club has won only two VFL/AFL Premiership (the inaugural AFL Premiership in 1990, and in 2010). Despite this, the club still has won more individual games, more finals and made more grand final appearances than any other club.

On 9 March 2007, former Collingwood and Fitzroy defender Gary Pert was appointed the Magpies' CEO, seven weeks after Greg Swann departed for Carlton. In accepting the key Magpie post, Pert quit as a club director and as managing director of Channel 9 in Melbourne. In a press conference, it was stated that Collingwood has budgeted to turnover about $50 million this year. McGuire hopes the new administration will soon double that figure. "A finance administration review has come up with how we are going to turn Collingwood in to its next phase of its life", McGuire said. "What do we do to make ourselves go from a $45 million a year turnover business to a $100 million turnover business? "They sound like big figures but in 1999 we turned over $13 million, so that is where we are heading as a football club."

Sponsorship

The Collingwood guernsey is the most valuable sports sponsorship in Australia. Collingwood has different guernsey sponsors for Home and Away matches, generating an estimated $6.3 Million worth of media exposure for the primary sponsor and $5.7 for the secondary sponsor. These sponsorships are ranked 1 and 2 in Australia.

Collingwood VFL team

Since 2008, Collingwood has fielded its own reserves team
Reserve team
Large professional sports clubs often have far more players under contract than could possibly play in a match. As a result, many of these clubs create second teams composed of players who need playing time, but have little hope of playing on the first team. The players on this second team are...

 in the senior grade of the Victorian Football League
Victorian Football League
The Victorian Football League which evolved from the former Victorian Football Association , taking its new name as from the 1996 season, is the premier Australian rules football league in Victoria The Victorian Football League (VFL) which evolved from the former Victorian Football Association...

. The team currently plays at Victoria Park, and uses the AFL team's clash guernsey as its primary guernsey. Collingwood previously participated in the VFL/AFL reserves and its equivalents from 1919 until the reserves grade was wound up at the end of 1999. In 2000, the club fielded a reserves team in the VFL, and then from 2001-2007 it had a reserves affiliation
Australian Football League reserves affiliations
The Australian Football League stages the highest-level senior Australian rules football competition in the country. However, since the late 1980s, when the former Victorian Football League expanded interstate to become the modern Australian Football League, there has not been a league-wide...

 with the VFL's Williamstown Football Club
Williamstown Football Club
The Williamstown Football Club, nicknamed The Seagulls, is an Australian rules football club based in Melbourne and are currently playing in the Victorian Football League...

.

Club honours

Seniors

Premierships:(16)
  • VFA: (1)
1896
  • VFL/AFL : (15)
1902
1902 VFL Grand Final
The 1902 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Collingwood Football Club and Essendon Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 20 September 1902. It was the 5th annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to determine...

 1903
1903 VFL Grand Final
The 1903 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Collingwood Football Club and Fitzroy Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 12 September 1903. It was the 6th annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to determine...

 1910
1910 VFL Grand Final
The 1910 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Collingwood Football Club and Carlton Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 1 October 1910. It was the 13th annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to determine the...

 1917
1917 VFL Grand Final
The 1917 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Collingwood Football Club and Fitzroy Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 22 September 1917. It was the 20th annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to determine...

 1919
1919 VFL Grand Final
The 1919 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Collingwood Football Club and Richmond Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 11 October 1919. It was the 22nd annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to determine...

 1927
1927 VFL Grand Final
The 1927 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Collingwood Football Club and Richmond Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 1 October 1927...

 1928
1928 VFL Grand Final
The 1928 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Collingwood Football Club and Richmond Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 29 September 1928. It was the 32nd annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to determine...

 1929
1929 VFL Grand Final
The 1929 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Collingwood Football Club and Richmond Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 28 September 1929. It was the 33rd annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to determine...

 1930
1930 VFL Grand Final
The 1930 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Collingwood Football Club and Geelong Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 11 October 1930. It was the 34th annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to determine...

 1935
1935 VFL Grand Final
The 1935 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Collingwood Football Club and South Melbourne Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 5 October 1935. It was the 39th annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to...

 1936
1936 VFL Grand Final
The 1936 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Collingwood Football Club and South Melbourne Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 2 October 1936. It was the 40th annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to...

 1953
1953 VFL Grand Final
The 1953 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Geelong Football Club and Collingwood Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on 27 September 1953. It was the 57th annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to determine the premiers...

 1958
1958 VFL Grand Final
The 1958 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Melbourne Football Club and Collingwood Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on 20 September 1958. It was the 62nd annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to determine the...

 1990
1990 AFL Grand Final
The 1990 AFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Collingwood Football Club and the Essendon Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 6 October 1990. It was the 94th annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League/Australian Football...

 2010
2010 AFL Grand Final
The 2010 AFL Grand Final is either of two Australian rules football contests between the Collingwood Football Club and the St Kilda Football Club. Together they are considered the 114th annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League/Australian Football League, and were staged to determine the...

  • Pre-Season/Night Series Premierships: (2)
1979 2011
2011 NAB Cup
-Quarter-finals:-Semi-finals:-Grand Final:-NAB Challenge:Teams that are eliminated from the NAB Cup are scheduled to play against each other, mostly at regional venues, to provide all teams warm-up games for the main season and expose regional audiences to AFL level football.On 16 December 2010,...

  • Lightning Premierships: (2)
1941 1951
  • Minor premierships: (19 record)
1902 1903 1905 1915 1917 1919 1922 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1966 1969 1970 1973 1977 2010 2011
  • McClelland Trophy
    McClelland Trophy
    The McClelland Trophy is an Australian rules football trophy, currently awarded to the minor premiers in the Australian Football League each year...

    : (8)
1959
1959 VFL season
Results and statistics for the Victorian Football League season of 1959.-Premiership season:In 1959, the VFL competition consisted of twelve teams of 18 on-the-field players each, plus two substitute players, known as the 19th man and the 20th man...

 1960
1960 VFL season
Results and statistics for the Victorian Football League season of 1960.-Premiership season:In 1960, the VFL competition consisted of twelve teams of 18 on-the-field players each, plus two substitute players, known as the 19th man and the 20th man...

 1964
1964 VFL season
Results and statistics for the Victorian Football League season of 1964.-Premiership season:In 1964, the VFL competition consisted of twelve teams of 18 on-the-field players each, plus two substitute players, known as the 19th man and the 20th man...

 1965
1965 VFL season
Results and statistics for the Victorian Football League season of 1965.-Premiership season:In 1965, the VFL competition consisted of twelve teams of 18 on-the-field players each, plus two substitute players, known as the 19th man and the 20th man...

 1966
1966 VFL season
Results and statistics for the Victorian Football League season of 1966.-Premiership season:In 1966, the VFL competition consisted of twelve teams of 18 on-the-field players each, plus two substitute players, known as the 19th man and the 20th man...

 1970
1970 VFL season
-Premiership season:In 1970, the VFL competition consisted of twelve teams of 18 on-the-field players each, plus two substitute players, known as the 19th man and the 20th man...

  • Runners-up: (26 record)
1901
1901 VFL Grand Final
The 1901 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Essendon Football Club and Collingwood Football Club, held at the Lake Oval in Melbourne on 7 September 1901. It was the 4th annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to determine the premiers for...

 1905
1905 VFL Grand Final
The 1905 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Fitzroy Football Club and Collingwood Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 30 September 1905. It was the 8th annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to determine...

 1911
1911 VFL Grand Final
The 1911 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Essendon Football Club and Collingwood Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 23 September 1911. It was the 14th annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to determine...

 1915
1915 VFL Grand Final
The 1915 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Collingwood Football Club and Carlton Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 18 September 1915. It was the 18th annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to determine...

 1918
1918 VFL Grand Final
The 1918 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the South Melbourne Football Club and Collingwood Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 7 September 1918. It was the 21st annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to...

 1920
1920 VFL Grand Final
The 1920 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Richmond Football Club and Collingwood Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 2 October 1920. It was the 23rd annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to determine...

 1922
1922 VFL Grand Final
The 1922 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Fitzroy Football Club and Collingwood Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 21 October 1922. It was the 25th annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to determine...

 1925
1925 VFL Grand Final
The 1925 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Geelong Football Club and Collingwood Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 10 October 1925. It was the 29th annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to determine...

 1926
1926 VFL Grand Final
The 1926 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Melbourne Football Club and Collingwood Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 9 October 1926. It was the 30th annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to determine...

 1937
1937 VFL Grand Final
The 1937 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Geelong Football Club and Collingwood Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 25 September 1937. It was the 41st annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to determine...

 1938
1938 VFL Grand Final
The 1938 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Carlton Football Club and Collingwood Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 24 September 1938. It was the 42nd annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to determine...

 1939
1939 VFL Grand Final
The 1939 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Melbourne Football Club and Collingwood Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 30 September 1939. It was the 43rd annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to...

 1952
1952 VFL Grand Final
The 1952 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Geelong Football Club and Collingwood Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on 27 September 1952. It was the 56th annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to determine the premiers...

 1955
1955 VFL Grand Final
The 1955 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Melbourne Football Club and Collingwood Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on 17 September 1955. It was the 59th annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to determine the...

 1956
1956 VFL Grand Final
The 1956 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Melbourne Football Club and Collingwood Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on 15 September 1956. It was the 60th annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to determine the...

 1960
1960 VFL Grand Final
The 1960 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Melbourne Football Club and Collingwood Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 25 September of 1960 in extremely wet conditions due to persistent rain during the previous week...

 1964
1964 VFL Grand Final
The 1964 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Collingwood Football Club and Melbourne Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 19 September 1964. It was the 68th annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to...

 1966
1966 VFL Grand Final
The 1966 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Collingwood Football Club and St Kilda Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 24 September 1966. It was the 70th annual grand final of the Victorian Football League , staged to...

 1970
1970 VFL Grand Final
The 1970 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Carlton Football Club and Collingwood Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 26 September 1970. It was the 74th annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to determine...

 1977
1977 VFL Grand Final
The 1977 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the North Melbourne Football Club and the Collingwood Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 24 September 1977...

 1979
1979 VFL Grand Final
The 1979 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Carlton Football Club and Collingwood Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 29 September 1979. It was the 83rd annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to...

 1980
1980 VFL Grand Final
The 1980 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Richmond Football Club and Collingwood Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 27 September 1980. It was the 84th annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to...

 1981
1981 VFL Grand Final
The 1981 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Carlton Football Club and Collingwood Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 26 September 1981. It was the 85th annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to...

 2002
2002 AFL Grand Final
The 2002 AFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Brisbane Lions and the Collingwood Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 28 September 2002. It was the 106th annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League/Australian Football...

 2003
2003 AFL Grand Final
The 2003 AFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Brisbane Lions and the Collingwood Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 27 September 2003...

, 2011
2011 AFL Grand Final
The 2011 Australian Football League Grand Final was an Australian rules football match, played to determine the premiers of the 2011 season. It was contested between the Collingwood Football Club and the Geelong Football Club....

  • Drawn Grand Finals: (2)
2010
2010 AFL Grand Final
The 2010 AFL Grand Final is either of two Australian rules football contests between the Collingwood Football Club and the St Kilda Football Club. Together they are considered the 114th annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League/Australian Football League, and were staged to determine the...

1977
1977 VFL Grand Final
The 1977 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the North Melbourne Football Club and the Collingwood Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 24 September 1977...

  • Undefeated in the Home and Away season:
1929
1929 VFL season
Results and statistics for the Victorian Football League season of 1929.-Premiership season:In 1929, the VFL competition consisted of twelve teams of 18 on-the-field players each, with no "reserves", although any of the 18 players who had left the playing field for any reason could later resume...

 *18 Rounds
  • Wooden Spoons
    Wooden spoon (award)
    A wooden spoon is a mock or real award, usually given to an individual or team which has come last in a competition, but sometimes also to runners-up. Examples range from the academic to sporting and more frivolous events...

    : (2)
1976
1976 VFL season
Results and statistics for the Victorian Football League season of 1976.-Premiership season:In 1976, the VFL competition consisted of twelve teams of 18 on-the-field players each, plus two substitute players, known as the 19th man and the 20th man...

 1999

Records—other levels

Premierships
  • Reserves: (7)
1919 1920 1922 1925 1940 1965 1976

  • Under 19s: (4)
1960 1965 1974 1986

Team of the Century

Collingwood announced its team of the century on 14 June 1997, celebrating 100 years since the beginning of the VFL
Australian Football League
The Australian Football League is both the governing body and the major professional competition in the sport of Australian rules football...

. Gavin Brown was added as the 4th interchange player in 2002, as when the team was named in 1997, only three interchange players were permitted on a team.

Captains

This list comprises every captain of the club. This list doesn't include deputy captains filling in due to an injury to the named captain, but does include captains named after a player retires or steps down during the season.
  • Bill Strickland
    Bill Strickland (footballer)
    William 'Bill' Strickland was an Australian rules footballer who played for Collingwood in the inaugural VFL season.Strickland was a centreman and started his career with Brunswick before joining VFA side Carlton in 1885...

     1897
  • Bill Proudfoot
    Bill Proudfoot
    William 'Bill' Proudfoot was an Australian rules footballer who played for Collingwood in the VFL.A solidly built fullback, Proudfoot was a member of Collingwood's inaugural VFA side in 1892. He became the first ever Collingwood player to represent Victoria when selected to play against South...

     1898–99, 1901
  • Dick Condon
    Dick Condon
    Richard 'Dick' Condon was a highly controversial, exceptionally brilliant champion Australian rules footballer who played in the Victorian Football Association and the Victorian Football League from 1894 to 1909....

     1899–1900
  • Lardie Tulloch
    Lardie Tulloch
    Lawrence Gideon "Lardie" Tulloch was an Australian rules footballer who played for Collingwood in the early years of the Victorian Football League ....

     1902–04
  • Charlie H. Pannam
    Charlie H. Pannam
    Charles 'Charlie' Pannam was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Collingwood Football Club in the Victorian Football Association between 1894 and 1896 then in the Victorian Football League between 1897 and 1906. He then played for the Richmond Football Club in the VFA in 1907 then...

     1905
  • Alf Dummett
    Alf Dummett
    Alfred Edward Gay "Rosie" Dummett was an Australian rules footballer who played for Collingwood in the VFL during the early 1900s.Dummett, a defender, was recruited locally to Collingwood....

     1906
  • Arthur Leach
    Arthur Leach
    Arthur T. Leach was an Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon and Collingwood during the early years of the VFL....

     1906–08
  • Eddie Drohan
    Eddie Drohan
    Edward 'Eddie' Drohan was an Australian rules footballer who played with Fitzroy and Collingwood in the Victorian Football League before becoming a coach....

     1908
  • Robert Nash
    Robert Nash (Australian rules footballer)
    Robert Henry "Bob" Nash was a former leading Australian rules footballer who captained Collingwood Football Club in the Victorian Football League and captain coached Footscray Football Club in the Victorian Football Association...

     1908–09
  • George Angus
    George Angus
    George Angus was an Australian rules footballer who played for and coached Collingwood in the VFL during the early 1900s.Angus was a late comer to the game, making his Collingwood debut at the age of 27 in 1902 having previously fought in the Boer War. He was a member of back to back premiership...

     1910–11
  • Jock McHale
    Jock McHale
    James Francis "Jock" McHale, was an Australian rules football player and coach for the Collingwood Football Club in the Victorian Football League in a marathon career that extended from 1903 to 1949....

     1912–13
  • Dan Minogue
    Dan Minogue
    Daniel 'Dan' Minogue was an Australian rules footballer in the Victorian Football League.Minogue was considered a courageous, or perhaps reckless, centre half-back as epitomised when he sustained a broken collarbone playing for Collingwood Football Club in the first minute of the 1911 Grand Final...

     1914–16
  • Percy Wilson
    Percy Wilson
    Percy Wilson was an Australian rules footballer who played with Collingwood and Melbourne in the Victorian Football League during the early 1900s....

     1917–18
  • Con McCarthy
    Con McCarthy
    John Cornelius McCarthy was an Australian rules footballer who played with Collingwood and Footscray in the VFL. He was known during his career as Con McCarthy....

     1919
  • Dick Lee
    Dick Lee (footballer)
    Walter Henry "Dick" Lee was an Australian rules footballer in the Victorian Football League ....

     1920–21
  • Tom Drummond
    Tom Drummond
    Tom Drummond was an Australian rules footballer who played with Collingwood and South Melbourne in the VFL....

     1922
  • Harry Curtis
    Harry Curtis (footballer)
    Harry Curtis was an Australian rules footballer who played for Carlton and Collingwood in the VFL.Curtis started his career as a ruckman at Carlton, the club his older brother Charlie had played for. He could only manage two senior appearances in the 1913 season and the following year debuted for...

     1923
  • Charlie Tyson
    Charlie Tyson
    Charlie Tyson was an Australian rules footballer who played with Collingwood and North Melbourne in the VFL during the 1920s....

     1924–26
  • Syd Coventry
    Syd Coventry
    -St Kilda:Originally from Diamond Creek, Victoria, Coventry journeyed across the Bass Strait after the First World War to work in the mines at Queenstown, Tasmania, taking with him a reputation as a fine footballer...

     1927–34
  • Harry Collier
    Harry Collier
    Harry Collier was an Australian rules footballer in the Victorian Football League.-Playing career:Originally from Ivanhoe, Victoria, Collier played for the Collingwood Football Club, debuting in 1926...

     1935–39
  • Jack Regan
    Jack Regan
    Jack Regan was an Australian rules footballer, who played 196 games with the Collingwood Football Club.Regan was known as The Prince of Fullbacks. He was regarded by many as the greatest fullback of all time but, controversially, was denied a position in the Australian Football League's Team of...

     1940–41, 1943
  • Phonse Kyne
    Phonse Kyne
    Alphonsius E. "Phonse" Kyne was an Australian rules footballer who played for and coached Collingwood in the Victorian Football League. He is an inductee of the Australian Football Hall of Fame and a member of the official Collingwood Team of the Century...

     1942, 1946–49


  • Pat Fricker
    Pat Fricker
    Pat Fricker was an Australian rules footballer and former captain of the Collingwood Football Club in the Victorian Football League ....

     1944
  • Alby Pannam
    Alby Pannam
    Albert 'Alby' Pannam was an Australian rules footballer who played in the VFL between 1933 and 1943 and then again in 1945 for the Collingwood Football Club. He then was captain/coach for the Richmond Football Club Seconds side from 1946 to 1952, leading them to the premiership in 1946...

     1945
  • Gordon Hocking
    Gordon Hocking
    Gordon Hocking was an Australian rules footballer who played for Collingwood in the VFL.Hocking was primarily a knock ruckman but could also play most positions around the ground. He made his debut at Collingwood in 1938 and was a losing Grand Finalist in his first two seasons...

     1950–51
  • Lou Richards
    Lou Richards
    Lewis Thomas Charles "Lou" Richards is a retired Australian rules footballer, who played 250 games with the Collingwood Football Club in the Victorian Football League between 1941 and 1955...

     1952–55
  • Neil Mann 1955–56
  • Bill Twomey, Jr. 1957
  • Frank Tuck
    Frank Tuck
    Frank Tuck is a former Australian rules footballer, who played in the Victorian Football League .After VFL football he coached Corowa Football Club in the Ovens and Murray Football League then he bought a butcher business in Birchip, Victoria.-External links:*-References:*...

     1958–59
  • Murray Weideman
    Murray Weideman
    Murray Weideman is a former Australian rules footballer in the Victorian Football League .-Playing career:Weideman is probably best remembered today as Collingwood's 'enforcer' of the late 1950s and early 1960s, loved by the club's supporters, and loathed by those of the opposition.He made his VFL...

     1960–63
  • Ray Gabelich
    Ray Gabelich
    Ray Gabelich was an Australian rules footballer who played with Collingwood in the Victorian Football League .He came to Collingwood from Western Australia as a centre half-forward in 1954 too late to be listed...

     1964–65
  • John Henderson 1965
  • Des Tuddenham
    Des Tuddenham
    Desmond Vincent Tuddenham is a former Australian rules footballer who played during the 1960s and 1970s. He was a half forward flanker....

     1966–69, 1976
  • Terry Waters
    Terry Waters
    Terry Waters is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Collingwood in the VFL.Waters was a versatile player who was originally used as a forward before moving into defense later on in his career...

     1970–71
  • Wayne Richardson
    Wayne Richardson
    Wayne Richardson is a former Australian rules footballer in the Victorian Football League.Collingwood Football Club snared Wayne Richardson from South Fremantle Football Club in 1965 before he had made his senior debut and, not surprisingly, the West Australian side was extremely reluctant to...

     1971–75
  • Max Richardson
    Max Richardson
    Max Richardson is a former Australian rules footballer who played for Collingwood Football Club during the 1970s before finishing his career at Fitzroy Football Club....

     1977
  • Len Thompson
    Len Thompson
    Len Thompson was an Australian rules footballer, who played for most of his career at Collingwood.-Collingwood:...

     1978
  • Ray Shaw 1979–80
  • Peter Moore 1981–82
  • Mark Williams
    Mark M. Williams
    Mark "Choco" Williams is a former Australian rules footballer who coached the Port Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League from 1999 to 2010...

     1983–86
  • Tony Shaw
    Tony Shaw
    Anthony 'Tony' Shaw is a former Australian rules footballer, coach and media personality.-Playing career:Shaw was recruited to Collingwood from Reservoir-Lakeside to make his debut in 1977 alongside brother Ray...

     1987–93
  • Gavin Brown 1994–98
  • Nathan Buckley
    Nathan Buckley
    Nathan Charles Buckley is a former professional Australian rules football player, commentator and coach, best known for his time as captain of the Collingwood Football Club in the Australian Football League ....

     1999–2007
  • Scott Burns
    Scott Burns
    Scott Burns is a former Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League.-Football career:Originally from Norwood Football Club in the South Australian National Football League, Burns was drafted by the Collingwood Football Club with the 90th selection in the 1992 National Draft...

     2008
  • Nick Maxwell
    Nick Maxwell
    Nick Maxwell is an Australian rules football player and current captain of the Collingwood Football Club in the Australian Football League .- Early life :...

     2009–


Current playing list

Squad changes for 2012
In
  • Peter Yagmoor (traded from Gold Coast Suns)
  • Jamie Elliott (traded from Greater Western Syndey Giants)
  • Martin Clarke (traded from Greater Western Syndey Giants)
  • Jarrod Witts (elevated from NSW scholarship program)
  • Caolan Mooney (International Rookie - from Ireland)
  • Michael Hartley (put onto rookie list from NSW scholarship program)

Out
  • Brad Dick (delisted)
  • Daniel Farmer (delisted)
  • Leon Davis (retired)
  • Leigh Brown (retired)
  • John McCarthy
    John McCarthy (Australian footballer)
    John McCarthy is an Australian rules footballer who played for Collingwood Football Club in the AFL between 2008 and 2011.Drafted with the 31st selection in the 2007 National Draft, McCarthy is a midfielder....

     (delisted)
  • Trent Stubbs (delisted)
  • Tom Hunter (retired)
  • Declan Reilly (delisted)
  • Tom Gordon (delisted)
  • Jack Perham (delisted)
  • Jye Bolton (delisted)
  • Scott Reed (delisted)

Current coaching staff

  • Senior coach: Nathan Buckley
    Nathan Buckley
    Nathan Charles Buckley is a former professional Australian rules football player, commentator and coach, best known for his time as captain of the Collingwood Football Club in the Australian Football League ....

  • Assistant coaches:
    • Robert Harvey
      Robert Harvey (footballer)
      Robert Jeffrey Harvey is a former Australian rules football player for the St Kilda Football Club in the Australian Football League...

    • Matthew Lappin
      Matthew Lappin
      Matthew Lappin is a retired Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League . He was an assistant coach with the Carlton Football Club from 2007–2010, deciding not to renew his contract for 2011....

    • Max Hudghton
      Max Hudghton
      Max Kenneth Hudghton is a former Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League....

    • Ben Hart
      Ben Hart
      Benjamin "Ben" Hart is a retired Australian rules footballer, who played with the Adelaide Crows in the Australian Football League...

  • Development coach: Craig McRae
    Craig McRae
    Craig McRae is a former Australian rules footballer.Originally from South Australian National Football League club Glenelg, McRae was drafted by AFL club Brisbane as the 22nd pick in the 1994 draft and had an immediate impact, kicking two goals in his first game in 1995, and played every game of...

  • Football/Coaching strategist: Rodney Eade
    Rodney Eade
    Rodney "Rocket" Eade is a former Australian rules footballer and the former coach of the Sydney Swans and Western Bulldogs in the Australian Football League...

  • VFL coach: Tarkyn Lockyer
    Tarkyn Lockyer
    Tarkyn Lockyer is a former professional Australian rules football player who played for the Collingwood Football Club in the Australian Football League .- Early life :...


Brownlow Medal
Brownlow Medal
The Chas Brownlow Trophy, better known as the Brownlow Medal , is awarded to the "fairest and best" player in the Australian Football League during the regular season as determined by votes cast by the officiating field umpires after each game...

 winners

  • Syd Coventry
    Syd Coventry
    -St Kilda:Originally from Diamond Creek, Victoria, Coventry journeyed across the Bass Strait after the First World War to work in the mines at Queenstown, Tasmania, taking with him a reputation as a fine footballer...

     (1927
    1927 VFL season
    Results and statistics for the Victorian Football League season of 1927.-Premiership season:In 1927, the VFL competition consisted of twelve teams of 18 on-the-field players each, with no "reserves", although any of the 18 players who had left the playing field for any reason could later resume...

    )
  • Albert Collier
    Albert Collier
    Albert "Leeter" Collier was an Australian rules footballer in the Victorian Football League.-Playing career:...

     (1929
    1929 VFL season
    Results and statistics for the Victorian Football League season of 1929.-Premiership season:In 1929, the VFL competition consisted of twelve teams of 18 on-the-field players each, with no "reserves", although any of the 18 players who had left the playing field for any reason could later resume...

    )
  • Harry Collier
    Harry Collier
    Harry Collier was an Australian rules footballer in the Victorian Football League.-Playing career:Originally from Ivanhoe, Victoria, Collier played for the Collingwood Football Club, debuting in 1926...

     (1930
    1930 VFL season
    Results and statistics for the Victorian Football League season of 1930.-Premiership season:In 1930, the VFL competition consisted of twelve teams of 18 on-the-field players each, plus one substitute player, known as the 19th man...

     tied)
  • Marcus Whelan
    Marcus Whelan
    Marcus Whelan was an Australian rules footballer who played for Collingwood Football Club during the 1930s and 1940s....

     (1939
    1939 VFL season
    Results and statistics for the Victorian Football League season of 1939.-Premiership season:In 1939, the VFL competition consisted of twelve teams of 18 on-the-field players each, plus one substitute player, known as the 19th man...

    )
  • Des Fothergill
    Des Fothergill
    Desmond Hugh Fothergill was an Australian rules footballer who played in the Victorian Football League , and briefly in the Victorian Football Association ....

     (1940
    1940 VFL season
    Results and statistics for the Victorian Football League season of 1940.-Premiership season:In 1940, the VFL competition consisted of twelve teams of 18 on-the-field players each, plus one substitute player, known as the 19th man...

     tied)
  • Len Thompson
    Len Thompson
    Len Thompson was an Australian rules footballer, who played for most of his career at Collingwood.-Collingwood:...

     (1972
    1972 VFL season
    Results and statistics for the Victorian Football League season of 1972.-Premiership season:In 1972, the VFL competition consisted of twelve teams of 18 on-the-field players each, plus two substitute players, known as the 19th man and the 20th man...

    )
  • Peter Moore (1979
    1979 VFL season
    Results and statistics for the Victorian Football League season of 1979.-Grand final:Carlton defeated Collingwood 11.16 to 11.11 , in front of a crowd of 112845 people...

    )
  • Nathan Buckley
    Nathan Buckley
    Nathan Charles Buckley is a former professional Australian rules football player, commentator and coach, best known for his time as captain of the Collingwood Football Club in the Australian Football League ....

     (2003
    2003 AFL season
    Results and statistics for the Australian Football League season of 2003.See List of Australian Football League premiers for a complete list.-National Cup:...

     tied)
  • Dane Swan
    Dane Swan
    Dane Swan is an Australian rules footballer for Collingwood in the Australian Football League.Since 2007 Swan has emerged as one of the AFL's elite midfielders, winner of the prestigious Brownlow Medal in 2011 with a record tally of 34 votes...

     (2011
    2011 AFL season
    The 2011 Australian Football League season was the 115th season of the Australian rules football competition. It was the debut year for , and was scheduled to be the only season to be played with 17 teams...

    )

Champions of the colony

  • Bill Strickland
    Bill Strickland (footballer)
    William 'Bill' Strickland was an Australian rules footballer who played for Collingwood in the inaugural VFL season.Strickland was a centreman and started his career with Brunswick before joining VFA side Carlton in 1885...

     (1896)
  • Dick Condon
    Dick Condon
    Richard 'Dick' Condon was a highly controversial, exceptionally brilliant champion Australian rules footballer who played in the Victorian Football Association and the Victorian Football League from 1894 to 1909....

     (1898)
  • Fred Leach
    Fred Leach
    Fred Leach was an Australian rules footballer who played with Collingwood in the VFL.Leach was a centreman in the losing Grand Final side of 1901, but played at centre half-back in the 1902 premiership team....

     (1900)
  • Ted Rowell (1902)
  • Dick Lee
    Dick Lee (footballer)
    Walter Henry "Dick" Lee was an Australian rules footballer in the Victorian Football League ....

     (1910, 1915)
  • Syd Coventry
    Syd Coventry
    -St Kilda:Originally from Diamond Creek, Victoria, Coventry journeyed across the Bass Strait after the First World War to work in the mines at Queenstown, Tasmania, taking with him a reputation as a fine footballer...

     (1927, 1929)
  • Gordon Coventry
    Gordon Coventry
    Gordon "Nuts" Coventry was an Australian rules footballer who played for Collingwood Football Club in the Victorian Football League . With 1,299 goals over 18 seasons, Coventry remains one of the greatest full forwards the game has ever seen...

     (1933)
  • Harry Collier
    Harry Collier
    Harry Collier was an Australian rules footballer in the Victorian Football League.-Playing career:Originally from Ivanhoe, Victoria, Collier played for the Collingwood Football Club, debuting in 1926...

     (1936)
  • Jack Regan
    Jack Regan
    Jack Regan was an Australian rules footballer, who played 196 games with the Collingwood Football Club.Regan was known as The Prince of Fullbacks. He was regarded by many as the greatest fullback of all time but, controversially, was denied a position in the Australian Football League's Team of...

     (1938)

Leigh Matthews Trophy
Leigh Matthews Trophy
The Leigh Matthews Trophy is an annual award given by the AFL Players Association to the Most Valuable Player in the Australian Football League. It is named in honour of Leigh Matthews, who won the first MVP award in 1982, when the league was still known as the Victorian Football League...

 winners

  • Darren Millane
    Darren Millane
    Darren "Pants" Millane was an Australian rules football player in the VFL/AFL for the Collingwood Football Club between 1984 and 1991.-AFL career:...

     (1990
    1990 AFL season
    Results and statistics for the Australian Football League season of 1990.See List of Australian Football League premiers for a complete list.-Ladder:All teams played 22 games during the home and away season, for a total of 154...

    )
  • Dane Swan
    Dane Swan
    Dane Swan is an Australian rules footballer for Collingwood in the Australian Football League.Since 2007 Swan has emerged as one of the AFL's elite midfielders, winner of the prestigious Brownlow Medal in 2011 with a record tally of 34 votes...

     (2010
    2010 AFL season
    -Premiership season:The draw for the 2010 AFL Premiership Season is not a random selection of matches, but rather is planned by the AFL. It is intended to produce a balanced draw while also providing the fans and television networks with blockbuster games. In a competition with 16 teams and 22...

    )

Coleman Medal
Coleman Medal
The Coleman Medal is awarded yearly to the Australian Football League player who kicks the most goals in regular-season matches in that year...

 winners

  • Ian Brewer
    Ian Brewer
    Ian Brewer was an Australian rules footballer with a distinguished career between 1956 and 1970, in the three major leagues of his era: the Victorian Football League , West Australian National Football League and South Australian National Football League...

     (1958)
  • Peter McKenna
    Peter McKenna
    Peter McKenna is a former Australian rules footballer, who played 180 games and kicked 838 goals with the Collingwood Football Club between 1965 and 1975, where he spent the majority of his career...

     (1972, 1973)
  • Brian Taylor (1986)

Norm Smith Medal
Norm Smith Medal
The Norm Smith Medal is the award given in the AFL Grand Final to the player adjudged by an independent panel of experts to have been the best player in the match.-History:The Norm Smith Medal is named after former Melbourne player and coach, Norm Smith...

 winners

  • Tony Shaw
    Tony Shaw
    Anthony 'Tony' Shaw is a former Australian rules footballer, coach and media personality.-Playing career:Shaw was recruited to Collingwood from Reservoir-Lakeside to make his debut in 1977 alongside brother Ray...

     (1990)
  • Nathan Buckley
    Nathan Buckley
    Nathan Charles Buckley is a former professional Australian rules football player, commentator and coach, best known for his time as captain of the Collingwood Football Club in the Australian Football League ....

     (2002)
  • Scott Pendlebury
    Scott Pendlebury
    Scott Pendlebury is a professional Australian rules football player who plays for the Collingwood Football Club in the Australian Football League .- Early life :...

     (2010)

E.J Whitten Medalists
E. J. Whitten Medal
The E.J. Whitten Medal is awarded to the best Victorian player in a VFL/AFL State of Origin football match. The award is named after the late and great Ted Whitten, also known as Mr. Football, who played for and coached Footscray and known for his role in Victorian football...

  • Gavin Brown (1989,1997)

Mark of the Year
Mark of the Year
The annual Mark of the Year competition is a sporting award that celebrates each season's best mark...

 winners

  • Billy Picken
    Billy Picken
    Billy Picken is a former Australian Australian rules footballer who played for the Collingwood Football Club and the Sydney Swans. Picken arrived at Collingwood in 1974 from Macarthur as a forward but developed into one of the games finest centre-half backs...

     (1976)
  • Peter Daicos
    Peter Daicos
    Peter Daicos is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played his entire 250 game career with the Collingwood Football Club in the VFL/AFL....

     (1980)
  • Chris Tarrant
    Chris Tarrant (footballer)
    Chris Tarrant is an Australian rules footballer who plays for the Collingwood Football Club, and has also played for the Fremantle Football Club. He announced at the end of the 2010 AFL season that he would return to Melbourne for personal reasons and would not extend his contract with Fremantle...

     (2003)
  • Andrew Krakouer (2011)

Goal of the Year
Goal of the Year (Australia)
The Goal of the Year is a competition for the best goals kicked in the VFL/AFL during that season. It is run in conjunction with the Mark of the Year competition and is currently sponsored by Panasonic. The award is also known as the Phil Manassa Medal....

 winners

  • Peter Daicos
    Peter Daicos
    Peter Daicos is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played his entire 250 game career with the Collingwood Football Club in the VFL/AFL....

     (1990)
  • Mick McGuane (1994)
  • Leon Davis
    Leon Davis (footballer)
    Leon Davis is an Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League.Drafted to Collingwood in 1999 as a small forward, Davis is of Aboriginal heritage. Davis made an early impression at the Pies and played Round 1 in his debut season. He showed that he was capable of turning a match but...

     (2008)

Anzac Day Medal winners

  • Saverio Rocca
    Saverio Rocca
    Saverio "Sav" Giovanni Rocca is a punter for the Washington Redskins of the National Football League and former Australian rules footballer for both and in the Australian Football League. He has also played for the Philadelphia Eagles.He is one of a few players who have converted from...

     (1995, 1998) ^
  • Scott Russell
    Scott Russell (footballer)
    Scott Russell is a former Australian rules footballer who played for Collingwood and Sydney in the Australian Football League. He played all possible 26 games in his debut season in 1990, winning a premiership medalion at the end of the year....

     (1996) ^
  • Damien Monkhorst (1997) ^
  • Chris Tarrant
    Chris Tarrant (footballer)
    Chris Tarrant is an Australian rules footballer who plays for the Collingwood Football Club, and has also played for the Fremantle Football Club. He announced at the end of the 2010 AFL season that he would return to Melbourne for personal reasons and would not extend his contract with Fremantle...

     (2001)
  • Mark McGough
    Mark McGough
    Mark McGough is an Australian rules football player who played with the Collingwood and St Kilda football clubs in the Australian Football League .-AFL career:He was selected by Collingwood in the third round of the 2001 AFL Draft...

     (2002)
  • Ben Johnson (2006)
  • Heath Shaw
    Heath Shaw
    Heath Shaw is an Australian rules footballer playing for Collingwood in the Australian Football League-AFL career:...

     (2007)
  • Paul Medhurst
    Paul Medhurst
    Paul Medhurst is a former professional Australian rules football who played for the Fremantle Football Club and the Collingwood Football Club....

     (2008)
  • Scott Pendlebury
    Scott Pendlebury
    Scott Pendlebury is a professional Australian rules football player who plays for the Collingwood Football Club in the Australian Football League .- Early life :...

     (2010, 2011)


^ Awarded retrospectively in 2011

Jason McCartney Medal
Jason McCartney Medal
The Jason McCartney Medal is a perpetual medal honouring Bali bombing survivor and former Australian Rules Football star Jason McCartney.Since 2003 the Jason McCartney Medal has been presented to the player voted the most courageous performer during clashes between the North Melbourne and...

 winners

  • Anthony Rocca
    Anthony Rocca
    Anthony Rocca is a former Australian rules footballer who has played with the Sydney Swans and Collingwood in the Australian Football League...

     2003
  • Ben Johnson 2004
  • Chris Tarrant
    Chris Tarrant (footballer)
    Chris Tarrant is an Australian rules footballer who plays for the Collingwood Football Club, and has also played for the Fremantle Football Club. He announced at the end of the 2010 AFL season that he would return to Melbourne for personal reasons and would not extend his contract with Fremantle...

     (2006)
  • James Clement
    James Clement
    James Clement is a former professional Australian rules footballer for Collingwood and Fremantle in the Australian Football League...

     (2007)
  • Tarkyn Lockyer
    Tarkyn Lockyer
    Tarkyn Lockyer is a former professional Australian rules football player who played for the Collingwood Football Club in the Australian Football League .- Early life :...

     (2009)

Bob Rose-Charlie Sutton Medal winners

  • Ben Johnson (2008)
  • Dane Swan
    Dane Swan
    Dane Swan is an Australian rules footballer for Collingwood in the Australian Football League.Since 2007 Swan has emerged as one of the AFL's elite midfielders, winner of the prestigious Brownlow Medal in 2011 with a record tally of 34 votes...

     (2009)

All Australians

  • Gavin Brown (1991, 1994)
  • Nathan Buckley
    Nathan Buckley
    Nathan Charles Buckley is a former professional Australian rules football player, commentator and coach, best known for his time as captain of the Collingwood Football Club in the Australian Football League ....

     (1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2003)
  • James Clement
    James Clement
    James Clement is a former professional Australian rules footballer for Collingwood and Fremantle in the Australian Football League...

     (2004, 2005)
  • Travis Cloke
    Travis Cloke
    Travis Cloke is a professional Australian rules footballer playing in the Australian Football League. Cloke was drafted under the father-son rule by Collingwood in the 3rd round of the 2004 AFL Draft...

     (2011)
  • Leon Davis
    Leon Davis (footballer)
    Leon Davis is an Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League.Drafted to Collingwood in 1999 as a small forward, Davis is of Aboriginal heritage. Davis made an early impression at the Pies and played Round 1 in his debut season. He showed that he was capable of turning a match but...

     (2009, 2011)
  • Alan Didak
    Alan Didak
    Alan Didak is a professional Australian rules footballer of Croatian descent playing for the Collingwood Football Club in the Australian Football League.- Early life :...

     (2006, 2010)
  • Tony Francis
    Tony Francis
    Anthony "Tony" Francis is a former Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League.Francis attended Campbelltown High School and first played senior football in the SANFL with the Norwood Football Club, debuting in 1988...

     (1991)
  • Des Healey
    Des Healey
    Des Healey was an Australian rules footballer, who played in the VFL/AFL with the Collingwood Football Club.After spending 3 years in the reserves team, Healey finally broke into the senior side in 1948...

     (1953)
  • Nick Maxwell
    Nick Maxwell
    Nick Maxwell is an Australian rules football player and current captain of the Collingwood Football Club in the Australian Football League .- Early life :...

     (2009)
  • Mick McGuane (1992)
  • Peter McKenna
    Peter McKenna
    Peter McKenna is a former Australian rules footballer, who played 180 games and kicked 838 goals with the Collingwood Football Club between 1965 and 1975, where he spent the majority of his career...

     (1972)
  • Paul Medhurst
    Paul Medhurst
    Paul Medhurst is a former professional Australian rules football who played for the Fremantle Football Club and the Collingwood Football Club....

     (2008)
  • Peter Moore (1979)
  • Harry O'Brien (2010)
  • Scott Pendlebury
    Scott Pendlebury
    Scott Pendlebury is a professional Australian rules football player who plays for the Collingwood Football Club in the Australian Football League .- Early life :...

     (2010, 2011)
  • Geoff Raines
    Geoff Raines
    Geoff Raines was a former Australian rules football player who played in the VFL between 1976 and 1982 for the Richmond Football Club, between 1983 and 1985 for the Collingwood Football Club, in 1986 for the Essendon Football Club and between 1987 and 1989 for the Brisbane Bears Football Club.-...

     (1985)
  • Ben Reid
    Ben Reid
    Ben Reid is an Australian rules footballer for Collingwood in the Australian Football League .- Early life :He is the son of former Footscray and Carlton player, Bruce Reid. His younger brother Sam Reid also plays AFL football for the Sydney Swans.- AFL career :He was taken with Collingwood's...

     (2011)
  • Michael Richardson (1983)
  • Bob Rose
    Bob Rose (footballer)
    Robert "Bob" Rose was an Australian rules footballer and coach in the VFL. He is widely regarded as the greatest player ever to play for Collingwood.-Playing career:...

     (1953)
  • Dane Swan
    Dane Swan
    Dane Swan is an Australian rules footballer for Collingwood in the Australian Football League.Since 2007 Swan has emerged as one of the AFL's elite midfielders, winner of the prestigious Brownlow Medal in 2011 with a record tally of 34 votes...

     (2009, 2010, 2011)
  • Chris Tarrant
    Chris Tarrant (footballer)
    Chris Tarrant is an Australian rules footballer who plays for the Collingwood Football Club, and has also played for the Fremantle Football Club. He announced at the end of the 2010 AFL season that he would return to Melbourne for personal reasons and would not extend his contract with Fremantle...

     (2003)
  • Dale Thomas
    Dale Thomas (footballer)
    Dale Robert Jordan Thomas is a professional Australian rules football player currently with the Collingwood Football Club in the Australian Football League.-Early life:...

     (2011)
  • Len Thompson
    Len Thompson
    Len Thompson was an Australian rules footballer, who played for most of his career at Collingwood.-Collingwood:...

     (1972)
  • Terry Waters
    Terry Waters
    Terry Waters is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Collingwood in the VFL.Waters was a versatile player who was originally used as a forward before moving into defense later on in his career...

     (1969)
  • Ricky Watt
    Ricky Watt
    Ricky Watt is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Collingwood in the VFL during the 1960s.Watt started at Collingwood when he was aged just 16 but due to injuries managed just 17 games in his first four years at the club, including missing all of the 1965 season...

     (1969)

Australian International Rules Representatives

  • Gavin Brown (1990)
  • Nathan Buckley
    Nathan Buckley
    Nathan Charles Buckley is a former professional Australian rules football player, commentator and coach, best known for his time as captain of the Collingwood Football Club in the Australian Football League ....

     (1998), (1999 – captain)
  • James Clement
    James Clement
    James Clement is a former professional Australian rules footballer for Collingwood and Fremantle in the Australian Football League...

     (2002)
  • Alan Didak
    Alan Didak
    Alan Didak is a professional Australian rules footballer of Croatian descent playing for the Collingwood Football Club in the Australian Football League.- Early life :...

     (2004)
  • Scott Pendlebury
    Scott Pendlebury
    Scott Pendlebury is a professional Australian rules football player who plays for the Collingwood Football Club in the Australian Football League .- Early life :...

     (2008)
  • Dale Thomas
    Dale Thomas (footballer)
    Dale Robert Jordan Thomas is a professional Australian rules football player currently with the Collingwood Football Club in the Australian Football League.-Early life:...

     (2008)
  • Dane Swan
    Dane Swan
    Dane Swan is an Australian rules footballer for Collingwood in the Australian Football League.Since 2007 Swan has emerged as one of the AFL's elite midfielders, winner of the prestigious Brownlow Medal in 2011 with a record tally of 34 votes...

     (2010)
  • Tyson Goldsack
    Tyson Goldsack
    Tyson Goldsack is a professional Australian rules football player currently playing with the Collingwood Football Club in the Australian Football League.- Early life :...

     (2010)

Match records

  • Highest score: R17, 1980 (WP) – Collingwood 32.11 (211) v St Kilda 16.11 (107)
  • Lowest score: R6, 1897 (VP) – Collingwood 0.8 (8) v South Melbourne
    Sydney Swans
    The Sydney Swans Football Club is an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League . 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...

     2.15 (27)
  • Lowest score since 1919: Grand Final
    1960 VFL Grand Final
    The 1960 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Melbourne Football Club and Collingwood Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 25 September of 1960 in extremely wet conditions due to persistent rain during the previous week...

    , 1960 (MCG) 2.2 (14) v Melbourne
    Melbourne Football Club
    The Melbourne Football Club, nicknamed The Demons, is an Australian rules football club playing in the Australian Football League , based in Melbourne, Victoria....

     8.14 (62)
  • Highest losing score: R16, 1937 (VP) – Collingwood 21.16 (142) v Melbourne
    Melbourne Football Club
    The Melbourne Football Club, nicknamed The Demons, is an Australian rules football club playing in the Australian Football League , based in Melbourne, Victoria....

     22.21 (153)
  • Lowest winning score: R9, 1899 (VP) – Collingwood 3.3 (21) v Melbourne
    Melbourne Football Club
    The Melbourne Football Club, nicknamed The Demons, is an Australian rules football club playing in the Australian Football League , based in Melbourne, Victoria....

     1.7 (13)
  • Lowest winning score since 1919: Grand Final
    1927 VFL Grand Final
    The 1927 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Collingwood Football Club and Richmond Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 1 October 1927...

    , 1927 (MCG) – 2.13 (25) v Richmond
    Richmond Football Club
    The Richmond Football Club, nicknamed The Tigers, is an Australian rules football club which competes in the Australian Football League. Richmond shares healthy rivalries with Carlton, Collingwood and Essendon. After winning five premierships between 1967 and 1980, the club hit the depths in 1990,...

     1.7 (13)
  • Biggest winning margin: 178 points; R4, 1979 (VP) – Collingwood 31.21 (207) v St Kilda 3.11 (29)
  • Biggest losing margin: 138 points; R3, 1942 (PR) – Collingwood 5.7 (37) v Richmond
    Richmond Football Club
    The Richmond Football Club, nicknamed The Tigers, is an Australian rules football club which competes in the Australian Football League. Richmond shares healthy rivalries with Carlton, Collingwood and Essendon. After winning five premierships between 1967 and 1980, the club hit the depths in 1990,...

     25.25 (175)
  • Record attendance (home and away game): R10, 1959 (MCG) – 99,346 v Melbourne
    Melbourne Football Club
    The Melbourne Football Club, nicknamed The Demons, is an Australian rules football club playing in the Australian Football League , based in Melbourne, Victoria....

  • Record attendance (finals match): Grand Final
    1970 VFL Grand Final
    The 1970 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Carlton Football Club and Collingwood Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 26 September 1970. It was the 74th annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to determine...

    , 1970 (MCG) – 121,696 v Carlton
    Carlton Football Club
    The Carlton Football Club is a professional Australian rules football club based in Melbourne, Victoria. The club competes in the Australian Football League, and was one of the eight founding members of that competition in 1897...


Records set by players

  • Most matches: Tony Shaw
    Tony Shaw
    Anthony 'Tony' Shaw is a former Australian rules footballer, coach and media personality.-Playing career:Shaw was recruited to Collingwood from Reservoir-Lakeside to make his debut in 1977 alongside brother Ray...

     – 313 (1977–1994)
  • Most consecutive matches: Jock McHale
    Jock McHale
    James Francis "Jock" McHale, was an Australian rules football player and coach for the Collingwood Football Club in the Victorian Football League in a marathon career that extended from 1903 to 1949....

     – 191 (1906–1917) – VFL record until 1943
  • Most goals kicked in a match: Gordon Coventry
    Gordon Coventry
    Gordon "Nuts" Coventry was an Australian rules footballer who played for Collingwood Football Club in the Victorian Football League . With 1,299 goals over 18 seasons, Coventry remains one of the greatest full forwards the game has ever seen...

     – 17 goals 4 behinds (R12, 1930, VP)
  • Most Best & Fairests: Nathan Buckley
    Nathan Buckley
    Nathan Charles Buckley is a former professional Australian rules football player, commentator and coach, best known for his time as captain of the Collingwood Football Club in the Australian Football League ....

     – 6 (1994, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2003)
  • Most matches as coach: Jock McHale – 714 (1912–1949)
  • Most matches as captain/acting captain: Nathan Buckley
    Nathan Buckley
    Nathan Charles Buckley is a former professional Australian rules football player, commentator and coach, best known for his time as captain of the Collingwood Football Club in the Australian Football League ....

     – 162 (1999–2006)
  • Most goals in a season: Peter McKenna
    Peter McKenna
    Peter McKenna is a former Australian rules footballer, who played 180 games and kicked 838 goals with the Collingwood Football Club between 1965 and 1975, where he spent the majority of his career...

     – 143 (1970)
  • Most goals by a single person: Gordon Coventry – 1299 (1920–1937) – VFL/AFL record until 1999

In popular culture

  • David Williamson
    David Williamson
    David Keith Williamson AO is one of Australia's best-known playwrights. He has also written screenplays and teleplays.-Biography:...

    's 1977 stage play, The Club
    The Club (play)
    The Club is a satirical play by Australian playwright David Williamson, that follows the fortunes of a football club over the course of a season. It explores the clashes between "human loyalty versus materialistic gain". It was inspired by the backroom dealings and antics of the Victorian Football...

    , was inspired by the backroom dealings and antics of the Collingwood Football Club; although Collingwood is never mentioned by name. The 1980 film version of the play – directed by Bruce Beresford
    Bruce Beresford
    Bruce Beresford is an Australian film director who has made more than 30 feature films over a 40-year career.-Early life:...

     and starring John Howard
    John Howard (Australian actor)
    John Howard is an Australian stage and screen actor. Howard is best known for his appearances in the film The Club, and the television series SeaChange, Always Greener, All Saints and Packed To The Rafters.-Film:Howard's first role was in 1978's My Boys Are Good Boys, in a minor role...

    , Jack Thompson
    Jack Thompson (actor)
    Jack Thompson, AM is an Australian actor and one of the major figures of Australian cinema. He was educated at University of Queensland, before embarking on his acting career. In 2002, he was made an honorary member of the Australian Cinematographers Society...

    , Graham Kennedy
    Graham Kennedy
    Graham Cyril Kennedy, AO was an Australian radio, television and film performer, often called Gra Gra and The King of Australian television.-Childhood:...

     and Frank Wilson
    Frank Wilson (Australian actor)
    Frank Edward Wilson was an Australian film, stage and television actor; musical comedy singer and director; and television game show and variety host.-Early life:...

     – is set at Collingwood and featured Collingwood players in speaking and non-speaking roles. The film was almost entirely shot on location at Victoria Park, both inside and on the actual oval.

  • Judd Apatow
    Judd Apatow
    Judd Apatow is an American film producer, director, and screenwriter. He is well known for his work in comedy films, especially for films he has been involved with throughout the latter half of the 2000s. He is the founder of Apatow Productions, a film production company that also developed the...

    's 2009 film, Funny People
    Funny People
    Funny People is a 2009 American comedy-drama film written, co-produced and directed by Judd Apatow, and starring Adam Sandler, Seth Rogen, and Leslie Mann. The film was released on 31 July 2009 in North America, and on 28 August 2009 in the United Kingdom. Funny People uses considerably more...

    , starring Adam Sandler
    Adam Sandler
    Adam Richard Sandler is an American actor, comedian, screenwriter, musician, and film producer.After becoming a Saturday Night Live cast member, Sandler went on to star in several Hollywood feature films that grossed over $100 million at the box office...

     and Seth Rogen
    Seth Rogen
    Seth Rogen is a Canadian stand-up comedian, actor, producer, screenwriter, and voice artist. Rogen began his career doing stand-up comedy during his teen years, winning the Vancouver Amateur Comedy Contest in 1998. While still living in his native Vancouver, he landed a small part in Freaks and...

    , featured a scene with Australian actor Eric Bana
    Eric Bana
    Eric Bana is an Australian film and television actor. He began his career as a comedian in the sketch comedy series Full Frontal before gaining critical recognition in the biopic Chopper...

     trying to explain the rules of Australian rules football. During this scene Bana's character, a St Kilda supporter, voices his dislike for Collingwood while watching a televised game.

  • Adam Elliot
    Adam Elliot
    Adam Elliot is an independent stop-motion animation writer and director based in Melbourne, Australia. His five films have collectively participated in over six-hundred film festivals and have received over one hundred awards, including an Oscar for Harvie Krumpet and the Annecy Cristal for Mary...

    's 2009 clay-animated film, Mary and Max
    Mary and Max
    Mary and Max is a 2009 Australian clay-animated black comedy-drama film written and directed by Adam Elliot and produced by Melanie Coombs. The voice cast included Philip Seymour Hoffman, Toni Collette, Eric Bana, Bethany Whitmore, with narration by Barry Humphries. The film premiered on the...

    , features a scene with a school-yard bully, named Bernie Clifford, who wears a 1970s VFL style Collingwood guernsey. A Collingwood garden gnome can also be seen in the film.

See also

  • History of the Collingwood Football Club
    History of the Collingwood Football Club
    The Collingwood Football Club is an Australian rules football club involved, and playing in the Australian Football League.Like many Victorian AFL clubs, Collingwood has an extensive and detailed history extending back 117 years, it initially represented the inner Melbourne suburb of Collingwood,...


List of Collingwood players
  • List of Collingwood Football Club coaches
  • Sport in Australia
    Sport in Australia
    Australia has a long sporting history dating back to the mid 1800s. By the 1920s, a number of sports were being played by both men and women, including cricket, badminton, judo, swimming, tennis, netball, lacrosse, golf, hockey and various codes of football....

  • Sport in Victoria
    Sport in Victoria
    The state of Victoria, Australia, is known for its sporting culture. The Victorian capital, Melbourne is often referred to as the sporting capital of the world....


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