Geelong Football Club
The Geelong Football Club is a professional Australian rules football club based in Geelong, Victoria. The club formed in 1859, making it the second oldest club in the AFL after Melbourne. Geelong also field teams in other competitions; a reserves men’s team in the Victorian Football League and a senior women’s team. The Cats play most of their home games at Kardinia Park and play the remainder at Melbourne Cricket Ground.
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The Geelong Football Club is a professional Australian rules football club based in Geelong, Victoria. The club formed in 1859, making it the second oldest club in the AFL after Melbourne and one of the oldest football clubs in the world. Geelong also field teams in other competitions; a reserves men’s team in the Victorian Football League and a senior women’s team. The Cats play most of their home games at Kardinia Park and play the remainder at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. The team’s official team song and anthem is “We Are Geelong”. Geelong’s traditional navy blue and white hooped guernsey has been worn since the club’s inception in the mid-1800s. The design is said to represent the white seagulls and blue water of Corio Bay.
The song currently used by the club was recorded by the Fable Singers in April 1972. The rivalry between Hawthorn and Geelong is defined by two Grand Finals: those of 1989 and 2008. In the 1989 Grand Final, Geelong played the man, resulting in major injuries for several Hawks players, Mark Yeates knocking out Dermott Brereton at the opening bounce. The curse was broken in a preliminary final in 2013, after Paul Chapman played his final match for Geelong the previous week. In 2016 Geelong again defeated Hawthorn in the qualifying final. In 20 matches between 2008 and 2017, 12 were decided by less than 10 points, with Geelong winning in 11 of those 12 close games.
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