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 Germany, we would love to hear from you. Please contact us via info@aflinternational.com.
AUSTRALIA & GERMANY
Germans have been in Australia since the commencement of European settlement in 1788. At least 73 Germans arrived in Australia as convicts.
Germans comprised a significant and enduring part of the settlement in South Australia, and German missionaries were among the first Europeans to settle in what is now Moreton Bay in south-east Queensland.
The first significant group of 517 migrants were Lutherans pursuing religious freedom and settled in South Australia in late 1838. Along with other Germans who arrived that year, they were considered by themselves and the British as founding pioneers. The 1850s gold rush in Victoria also drew large numbers of fortune-seeking adventurers from Germany with about 10,000 German migrants working the goldfields by 1861.
According to the 2016 census, over 102,000 Australian residents were born in Germany, while almost one million Australians claim German ancestry. Australia has long been a popular destination for German tourists and students.
AFL PLAYERS
David Schwarz | Nick Riewoldt | Jack Riewoldt | Otto Buck | Herman Dohrmann | Jordan Doering | Harry Frei | Carl Keller | Harry Lampe | Alex Ruscuklic | Paul Schmidt | Charlie Schunke | Conrad ten Brink | Dean Terlich | Heinz Tonn
Germany shares borders with more European countries than any other country on the continent. Its neighbours are Denmark in the north, Poland and the Czech Republic in the east, Austria and Switzerland in the south, France and Luxembourg in the south-west and Belgium and the Netherlands in the north-west. It is the seventh largest country by area in Europe.
Germany is Europe’s most industrialized and populous country. Famed for its technological achievements, it has also produced some of Europe’s most celebrated composers, philosophers and poets.
Achieving national unity later than other European nations, Germany quickly caught up economically and militarily, before defeats in World War I and II left the country shattered, and divided between Europe’s Cold War blocs.
Germany rebounded to become the continent’s economic giant, and a prime mover of European cooperation. With the end of the Cold War, the two parts of the country were once again united, although the economy of the former east continues to lag behind that of the former west.
