| Carlton Football Club | ||||
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| Full name | Carlton Football Club Limited[1] | |||
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| Motto | Mens sana in corpore sano (a healthy mind in a healthy body) | |||
| 2024 season | ||||
| After finals | 8th | |||
| Home-and-away season | 8th | |||
| Leading goalkicker | Charlie Curnow (57 goals) | |||
| Club details | ||||
| Founded | 1864 | |||
| Colours | Navy blue, white | |||
| Competition | AFL: Senior men AFLW: Senior women VFL: Reserves men VFLW: Reserves women | |||
| President | Luke Sayers | |||
| CEO | Brian Cook | |||
| Coach | AFL: Michael Voss AFLW: Mathew Buck | |||
| Captain(s) | AFL: Patrick Cripps AFLW: Kerryn Peterson | |||
| Premierships | VFL/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) | |||
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| Official website | carltonfc.com.au | |||
The Carlton Football Club, nicknamed the Blues, is a professional Australian rules football club based at Princes Park in Carlton North, an inner suburb of Melbourne in Victoria, Australia. The club competes in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's premier competition.
Founded in 1864, the club began playing out of parklands historically part of Carlton not far from its current base. It quickly became one of the major football clubs in the city. It 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. It 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. The club's AFL Women's team had competed since in the league's inaugural 2017 AFLW season.
It currently plays its home matches at Docklands Stadium and the Melbourne Cricket Ground. Princes Park is the its traditional home ground of the club and is home to its women's team. Carlton also has reserves sides in the Victorian Football League and VFL Women's.
- ^ "Current details for ABN 95 005 449 909". ABN Lookup. Australian Business Register. November 2014. Retrieved 4 August 2020.