Sport in Victoria

The most popular sports played in the state are basketball, Australian rules football, cricket, shooting, soccer, and netball.

In terms of both attendance and media coverage, Australian rules football is the most popular sport in the state.

Ten of the eighteen Australian Football League clubs are based in Victoria, and the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) is held by many to be the spiritual home of the game.

[6] Current Teams The predominantly Australian rules football-dominated state of Victoria didn't play host to much rugby league football, which was traditionally a New South Wales and Queensland-based game during the 20th century.

Some representative games were played in Melbourne to gauge public interest in the sport in the early 1990s and the crowds were encouraging.

Travel back a few years and you find that, in rugby league circles, Melbourne was viewed as a great, succulent peach ready for picking.

Almost 90,000 people had turned up to the MCG in 1994 to watch NSW play Queensland in a State of Origin match.

Then the code imploded.When the newly formed National Rugby League re-emerged in 1998, Melbourne Storm was part of the lineup of clubs.

[9] Melbourne hosted several international matches including: Australia vs England during the 2008 Rugby League World Cup and again in the 2010 Four Nations Series[citation needed], the 2010 ANZAC Test, which attracted a capacity crowd at the newly opened AAMI Park and several games at the 2017 Rugby League World Cup including a quarter final.

The Grand Prix wandered across the country in subsequent decades but today is held as part of the Formula One World Drivers Championship on the streets of inner Melbourne around Albert Park Lake.

Affiliation provides access to netball events, programs and services as well as a pathway to State, National and International representation.

Many famous swimmers are known to have participated in these swims including Olympic Gold medalists Kieren Perkins and Michael Klim.

Rivalling the Open early in the year, the Formula One World Drivers' Championship visits the Albert Park Street Circuit to contest the Australian Grand Prix (which was originally hosted by Adelaide, South Australia).

The MCG was the site of the first ever cricket test match between Australia and England in 1877, and has been the main stadium for the 1956 Summer Olympics and 2006 Commonwealth Games.