Footy 9s is an exciting new sport that is coming to Europe!
Footy 9s is played on rectangular fields, allowing the sport to be played on any soccer or rugby field.
There are 3 great formats to choose from – Men’s Footy, Women’s Footy and Touch Footy.
Get Involved
If you are keen to be involved with the development of the sport in Finland, we would love to hear from you. Please contact us via info@aflinternational.com.
AUSTRALIA & FINLAND
The first Finn to visit Australia was naturalist and draughtsman Herman Dietrich Spöring, who arrived in 1770 with James Cook’s first voyage on the HMS Endeavour.
The first group of Finnish immigrants in Australia came to work in the gold mines of Victoria in the 1850s. The 1920s and 1950s saw the main migration waves from Finland to Australia. In the 2016 census, 24,145 people in Australia claimed Finnish ancestry.
Notable Australians with Finnish ancestry include Greg Norman (Finnish grandfather) and Shane Jacobson (Finnish great-grandfather).
The Republic of Finland is the most sparsely populated country in the European Union with a population of 5.4 million spread over 338,145 square kilometres.
The Åland Islands, off the south-western coast, are an autonomous, demilitarized administrative province of Finland.
Under the Finnish Constitution, Finland is a bilingual country with Finnish and Swedish as official languages. The capital of Finland is Helsinki.
In the far north, the sun does not set for around 10 weeks during the ‘White Nights’ of summer, while in winter it does not rise above the horizon for nearly 8 weeks.
Hundreds of years of Swedish rule were followed by a further century of Russian control before independence in 1917, and Finland displays distinctive elements of the Scandinavian and Russian legacy.
