The Fitzroy Football Club is an Australian rules football club currently competing in the Victorian Amateur Football Association. Formed in 1883 to represent the inner-Melbourne municipality of Fitzro
Brunswick Hotel (now trading as the Old Colonial Inn), where the club was founded in 1883
In 1895 Tom Banks captained Fitzroy to its first and only VFA premiership. He was also one of the first footballers of African descent to play in the VFL.
1901 portrait of Geoff Moriarty, who played in two VFL premierships for Fitzroy before going on to become the club's first official coach in 1911. His son Jack also played for Fitzroy.
Haydn Bunton Sr., three-time Brownlow Medal winner
The Brisbane Bears were a professional Australian rules football club based in Brisbane, Queensland, now known as the Brisbane Lions. Granted a Victorian Football League licence in 1986, it was the fi
Queenslander Michael Voss debuted in 1992 at age 17, becoming the youngest-ever player to play a senior game for the club. He went on to win two Best & Fairests between 1995 and 1996 and the only Bear to win a Brownlow, in the club's last year.
Nathan Buckley caused controversy when he rejected being zone-drafted by Brisbane, seeking instead to play with Collingwood.
The recruitment of former Fitzroy full-back turned spearhead Alastair Lynch saw him became a poster boy for the new-look Bears. However, chronic fatigue saw him largely sidelined until 1996.