160 Years of Australian Rules Football (Video Game)/Essendon Bombers

The Essendon Football Club is a professional Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's premier competition. Formed in 1871 as a junior club and playing as a senior club since 1878, Essendon is one of the oldest clubs in the AFL. It is historically associated with Essendon, a suburb in the north-west of Melbourne, Victoria. Since 2013, the club has been headquartered at The Hangar, Melbourne Airport, and plays its home games at either Docklands Stadium or the Melbourne Cricket Ground; throughout most of its history the club's home ground and headquarters was Windy Hill, Essendon. Dyson Heppellis the current team captain.

A founding member club of both the Victorian Football Association, in 1877, and the Victorian Football League (since renamed the AFL), in 1896, Essendon is one of Australia's best-known football clubs. The club claims to have at least one million supporters Australia wide. Essendon has won 16 VFL/AFL premierships which, along with Carlton, is the most of any club in the competition.