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The Melbourne AFL team is known as the Demons.
Yes. There are many Arena Football teams in Australia.
The oldest of the VFL/AFL teams is Melbourne which was founded in 1859.
Collingwood
Each team in the AFL (Australian Football League) plays 22 regular-season games every year. There are 18 teams in the AFL, so the total regular-season games played in the league is 396. The AFL also has one pre-season game called the NAB Cup, the playoffs (featuring the best 8 teams) and the AFL Grand Final.
west coast 1987, Brisbane 1987, Adelaide 1991, fremantle 1995, port 1997 swans were already a Melbourne team but moved to sydney sometime in the 80s
no ... The most successful AFL teams are Essendon and Carlton, each with 16 Premierships
No they did not.
Pittsburg, Baltimore and Cleveland
The AFL and NFL merged before the start of the 1970 season.
In terms of the prime AFL competition, there are currently 17 as of 2011. However, in 2012, it is expected that there will be 18. As for worldwide AFL competitions and teams, I doubt that any source in the world would know it, especially as this figure changes annually, especially, in countries other than Australia.