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 Lithuania, we would love to hear from you. Please contact us via info@aflinternational.com.
AUSTRALIA & LITHUANIA
Only small numbers of Lithuanians arrived in Australia before 1947. Many Lithuanians and other Eastern Europeans fled the Red Army in 1944 and became Displaced Persons in refugee camps in Western Europe. From 1947 they were able to emigrate to countries such as Australia under the sponsorship of the International Refugee Organization.
Resident Australian population born in Lithuania (2016 census) – 2,609
Australian residents of Lithuanian descent (2016 census) – 16,290
AFL PLAYERS
Adam Ramanaskaus
Lithuania is a country in Northern Europe, the southernmost of the three Baltic states. Situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, it shares borders with Latvia to the north, Belarus to the southeast, Poland, and the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad to the southwest.
Across the Baltic Sea to the west lies Sweden and Denmark.
The largest and most populous of the Baltic states, it is larger than Belgium, Denmark, Latvia, the Netherlands, or Switzerland. Its capital and largest city is Vilnius.
During Soviet rule, Lithuanians relied on Catholic tradition and memories of independence to preserve their national identity, a skill mastered through centuries of foreign domination.
Not much more than a decade after it regained its independence during the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1990, Lithuania joined the EU in 2004.
