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Fitzroy Forms
Fitzroy Football Club was formed in 1883. It was part of the foundation members of what has now expanded into the AFL. -
Fitzroys First Premiership
Fitzroy (Maroons) win their first premiership. At this time they are in the VFA, Victorian Football Association. -
First VFL premiership
Fitzroy win their first VFL premiership after it seperated from the VFA. -
Fitzroy's last premiership
Fitzroy FC won their last premiership in what was then the VFL. -
Highest score/winning margin
Fitzroy recorded their highest score and highest winning margin beating Melbourne by 190 points. Fitzroy kicked 36 goals and 22 points (238 points) -
Quinlan wins Brownlow medal
Bernie "Superboot" Quinlan, Fitzroys star forward, wins the Brownlow medal. -
Fitzroy's last game in Melbourne
48,884 thousand people attended the MCG to watch Fitzroy's last game in Melbourne at the Melbourne Cricket Ground -
The Merge
The Fitzroy Lions and Brisbane Bears merged at the end of the 1996 season; due to financial pressure on the Fitzroy Football club with debt over $1 million dollars. They formed the Brisbane Lions. -
Brisbane Lions wins premiership
The Brisbane Lions won their first premiership (and the first "AFL" club premiership) defeating Essendon by 26 points at the MCG.
91,482 spectators at the MCG -
Brisbane Win Again
Brisbane Lions won Back-to-Back premierships in 2002 when they defeated Collingwood by 9 points. -
Back-to-back-to-back
In 2003, the Lions clinched a small part of history by achieving the difficult task of winning 3 premierships in a row. They defeated Collingwood for the second year in a row, beating them by 50 points. -
Playing club resumed in the VAFA.
The Fitzroy FC resumed play under a slightly different banner to the original team and started playing in the Victorian Amateurs Football Association.
