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 Latvia, we would love to hear from you. Please contact us via info@aflinternational.com.
AUSTRALIA & LATVIA
Few Latvians arrived in Australia before 1947. Between 1947 and 1952, 19,700 Latvian refugees arrived in Australia as displaced persons under the supervision of the International Refugee Organisation. The first voyage under Arthur Calwell’s Displaced Persons immigration program, that of the ship General Stuart Heintzelman in 1947, was specially chosen to be all from Baltic nations. Of the 843 immigrants on the Heintzelman, 264 were Latvian.
Resident Australian population born in Latvia (2016 census) – 3,756
Australian residents of Latvian descent (2016 census) – 20,514
AFL PLAYERS
Peter Agrums | Mark Blicavs | Arnold Briedis | Andrejs Everitt | Peter Everitt
Situated in north-eastern Europe with a coastline along the Baltic Sea, Latvia is geographically the middle of the three former Soviet Baltic republics.
It is bordered to the north by Estonia (343 km), to the south by Lithuania (588 km), to the east by the Russian Federation (276 km), and to the southeast by Belarus (141 km). Across the Baltic Sea to the west lies Sweden.
Latvia is traditionally seen as a small country. In terms of its population it certainly deserves this designation. Geographically, however, Latvia encompasses 64,589 square kilometers, a size surpassing that of better-known European states such as Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and Denmark.
Latvia has language links with Lithuania to the south and historical ties with Estonia to the north.
