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.
Team Setup[]
2000-2004[]
Default Squad[]
| Position | Team Setup | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Backs | Mark Johnson (#14) | Dustin Fletcher (#31) | Danny Jacobs (#21) |
| Half-Backs | Dean Solomon (#7) | Sean Wellman (#6) | Mark McVeigh (#10) |
| Centres/Wingmans | Chris Heffernan (#26) | Joe Misiti (#24) | Blake Caracella (#33) |
| Half-Forwards | Mark Mercuri (#2) | Scott Lucas (#25) | James Hird (#5) |
| Forwards | Steven Alessio (#13) | Matthew J. Lloyd (#18) | Gary Moorcroft (#29) |
| Followers | John Barnes (#22) | Justin Blumfield (#32) | Jason Johnson (#14) |
| Interchange | Paul Barnard (#16) | Darren Bewick (#8) | Mark Bolton (#23) |
| Michael Long (#13) | Adam Ramanauskas (#9) | Dean Rioil (#43) | |
| Substitutes | Aaron Henneman (#3) | David Hille (#19) | Paul Salmon (#4) |
Reserves []
| Players | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Matthew Allan | Mark Alvey | Marcu Bullen | James Davies | ||
| James Davies | Robert Forster-Knight | Ken Hall | Shane Harvey | Scott Howard | |
| Sam Hunt | Marcus Kenny | Daniel McAlister | Cory McGrath | Justin Murphy | |
| Jay Nash | Simon O'Keefe | Joel Reynolds | Ted Richards | Brent Stanton | |
| Peter Summers | Jobe Watson | Andrew Welsh | Adrian Wilson | Jason Winderlich | Jason Winderlich |
Club Song[]
- See the Bombers fly up, up!
- To win the premiership flag,
- Our boys who play this grand old game,
- Are always striving for glory and fame!
- See the bombers fly up, up,
- The other teams they don't fear,
- They all try their best,
- But they can't get near,
- As the bombers fly up!