Carlton Football Club

Carlton Football Club
Names
Full nameCarlton Football Club Limited[1]
Nickname(s)
  • Blues
  • Blue Baggers
  • Baggers
  • Old Navy Blues
MottoMens sana in corpore sano (a healthy mind in a healthy body)
2024 season
After finals8th
Home-and-away season8th
Leading goalkickerCharlie Curnow (57 goals)
Club details
Founded1864; 160 years ago (1864)
ColoursNavy blue, white
   
CompetitionAFL: Senior men
AFLW: Senior women
VFL: Reserves men
VFLW: Reserves women
PresidentLuke Sayers
CEOBrian Cook
CoachAFL: Michael Voss
AFLW: Mathew Buck
Captain(s)AFL: Patrick Cripps
AFLW: Kerryn Peterson
PremiershipsVFL/AFL (16) VFA (2) Victorian (4)
Ground(s)AFL: Marvel Stadium (56,347) & Melbourne Cricket Ground (100,024)
AFLW & VFL & VFLW: Ikon Park (12,000)
Former ground(s)Princes Park (1897–2005)
Training ground(s)Princes Park (Ikon Park)
Uniforms
Home
Away
Clash
Other information
Official websitecarltonfc.com.au
Current season

The Carlton Football Club, nicknamed the Blues, is a professional Australian rules football club that competes in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's top professional competition.

Founded in 1864, in Carlton, an inner suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Carlton quickly became a dominant club in early Australian rules football competitions, and was a foundation member of the Victorian Football Association (VFA), winning the inaugural premiership in 1877. In 1896, Carlton joined the breakaway Victorian Football League (since renamed the AFL), and alongside rivals Collingwood, Essendon, and Richmond, is regarded as one of the league's historical "Big Four" clubs, having won sixteen VFL/AFL premierships, equal with Collingwood and Essendon as the most of any AFL club.

Carlton's headquarters and training facilities are located in Carlton North at Princes Park, its traditional home ground, and it currently plays its home matches at Docklands Stadium and the Melbourne Cricket Ground. Since 2017, Carlton has fielded a team in the AFL Women's, its best result thus far being a grand final loss in 2019. Carlton also has reserves sides in the Victorian Football League and VFL Women's.

  1. ^ "Current details for ABN 95 005 449 909". ABN Lookup. Australian Business Register. November 2014. Retrieved 4 August 2020.