MELBOURNE, Australia — More than 78,000 people attended an Australian rules football match in Melbourne on Sunday night in what is believed to be the world’s biggest crowd at a sporting event ...

The Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) could host crowds of 85,000 for Australian Rules football matches this weekend after authorities raised an attendance cap at the stadium on Friday.

The Australian rules football season began Thursday in an ... There were 100,014 fewer fans in the stands at MCG on Thursday as the AFL kicked off its season with a closed-door match between the ...

The Demons beat the Bulldogs 21.14 (140) to 10.6 (66) in the Australian Football League championship match played in front of 61,118 spectators at a sold-out stadium in Perth, Western Australia.

Australian rules is a contact game played by teams of 18 on an oval-shaped field and is similar in some respects to Ireland’s Gaelic football, with players permitted to handle and kick the ball.

At a recent Collingwood match, ... Nine years ago, Mason Cox was an Oklahoma State basketball walk-on who attended an Australian rules football tryout — and he never looked back.

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Aussie rules football will kick off again on June 11, with the second round of the Australian Football League to be played almost three months after the competition ...

In 1996, the Australian Football Hall of Fame named him a Legend of Australian rules football, the sport’s highest award. He was also named to the Team of the Century.

The emergence of a 100-year-old film of an Australian Rules match in London inspires a book about champion footballers who fought in World War I.