Championship of Australia

Championship of Australia

North Adelaide playing Hawthorn for the 1971 Championship of Australia at Adelaide Oval.
Organising body	Australian National Football Council (1972-1975)
Founded	1888; 136 years ago (1888)
Abolished	1976; 48 years ago (1976)
Region	Australia
Number of teams	2-4
Related competitions	VFL, SANFL, WAFL, TFL
Last champions	North Melbourne (1975)
Most successful club(s)	Port Adelaide (4 titles)

The Championship of Australia was an Australian rules football tournament which was contested between football clubs from the Victorian and South Australian football leagues for most of its history, with clubs from the Western Australian and Tasmanian football leagues only being included in the final four iterations. The Championship took place four times in the 19th century and then from 1907 to 1914 — with the exception of 1912 — and every year from 1968 to 1975. All but two of the Championships were played in Adelaide, and all of them occurred after the respective league seasons had ended.^[1] The 1975 Championship of Australia was the last edition of the competition, with the 1976 NFL Championship replacing the format, albeit for only one year with VFL clubs.