Barassi Line
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The Barassi Line is an imaginary line in Australia which approximately divides areas where Australian rules football is the most popular football code from those where rugby is more widely followed, p
The Barassi Line, as proposed by Ian Turner in 1978. The line divides regions where Australian rules football (southwest) and rugby league (northeast) dominate. Solid dots mark cities with at least one top-level club defying the divide; hollow dots indicate former clubs.
Statue of Australian rules football star Ron Barassi Jr., namesake of the Barassi Line
Manuka Oval, home of the code in the ACT. During the 2010s, the Greater Western Sydney Giants drew higher average attendances here than at their primary home ground, Giants Stadium in Sydney.
Banner at the inaugural Sydney Derby between Greater Western Sydney and Sydney in 2012, heralding the Australian Football League's 'giant leap' in New South Wales.
Ron Barassi Sr.
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Ronald James Barassi was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Melbourne Football Club in the Victorian Football League. He was the father of Hall of Famer Ron Barassi Jr.
Barassi Line
…figures, media coverage, and participation rates tend to favour the locally dominant code. While the term was coined by historian Ian Turner in his 1978 Ron Barassi Memorial Lecture, the divide emerged much earlier, in the 1880s, and became firmly established by the early 20th century. Roughly speaking, the line…
Barassi circa 1940
Barassi playing for Melbourne in 1939