Melbourne Football Club
| Melbourne Football Club | ||||
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| Names | ||||
| Full name | Melbourne Football Club Limited | |||
| Nickname(s) | AFL: Demons, Dees Indigenous rounds: Narrm | |||
| Former nickname(s) | Redlegs, Fuchsias (prior to 1933) | |||
| 2025 season | ||||
| After finals | 14th | |||
| Home-and-away season | 14th | |||
| Leading goalkicker | Kysaiah Pickett (40 goals) | |||
| Club details | ||||
| Founded | 1858 | |||
| Colours | Navy Blue Red | |||
| Competition | AFL: Men AFLW: Women | |||
| President | Steven Smith | |||
| CEO | Paul Guerra | |||
| Coach | AFL: Steven King AFLW: TBC | |||
| Captain(s) | AFL: Max Gawn AFLW: Kate Hore | |||
| Premierships | VFL/AFL (13) AFLW (1) 2022 (S7) Reserves (12) ' Victorian (3) | |||
| Ground | AFL: Melbourne Cricket Ground (100,024) AFLW: Casey Fields (9,000) | |||
| Training ground | AFL/AFLW: Gosch's Paddock, Casey Fields | |||
| Uniforms | ||||
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| Other information | ||||
| Official website | melbournefc.com.au | |||
The Melbourne Football Club, nicknamed the Demons or colloquially the Dees, is a professional Australian rules football club based in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It competes in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's premier competition and plays its home games at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG).
Melbourne is the world's oldest professional club of any football code. A loosely organised Melbourne side began playing in the winter of 1858. The following year, the club was officially established and four members codified "The Rules of the Melbourne Football Club"—the basis of Australian rules football. The club was a dominant force in the early years of the game and a foundation member of the Victorian Football Association (VFA) in 1877 and the Victorian Football League (VFL) in 1896, now the national AFL. Melbourne has won 13 VFL/AFL premierships, the latest in 2021. The club was a foundation team of the AFL Women's league (AFLW), and won its first AFLW premiership in 2022 season 7.
The football club has been a sporting section of the Melbourne Cricket Club (MCC) since 2009, having previously been associated with the MCC between 1889 and 1980.