Guernsey (Australian rules football)

The first footballers often wore cricket whites during matches with teams distinguished by wearing coloured ribbons and caps.

By the 1870s, footballers started to wear more rugged and robust woollen navy jumpers called Guernseys which traced their origins to the Channel Islands off the coast of France.

By the 1910s and 1920s, modern knitting and dying techniques had made it easier to produce woollen jumpers in varying patterns and colours.

[6] In the late 1990s, collars were removed from football guernseys and manufacturers began making the clothing by using modern polyester fabrics using sublimated dying techniques.

Every year since 2014, AFL clubs have designed a special guernsey in honour of the annual Indigenous Round/Sir Doug Nicholls Round.