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Fitzroy Football Club was formed in 1883. It was part of the foundation members of what has now expanded into the AFL.
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Fitzroy (Maroons) win their first premiership. At this time they are in the VFA, Victorian Football Association.
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Fitzroy win their first VFL premiership after it seperated from the VFA.
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Fitzroy FC won their last premiership in what was then the VFL.
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Fitzroy recorded their highest score and highest winning margin beating Melbourne by 190 points. Fitzroy kicked 36 goals and 22 points (238 points)
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Bernie "Superboot" Quinlan, Fitzroys star forward, wins the Brownlow medal.
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48,884 thousand people attended the MCG to watch Fitzroy's last game in Melbourne at the Melbourne Cricket Ground
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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.
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The Brisbane Lions won their first premiership (and the first "AFL" club premiership) defeating Essendon by 26 points at the MCG.
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Brisbane Lions won Back-to-Back premierships in 2002 when they defeated Collingwood by 9 points.
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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.
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The Fitzroy FC resumed play under a slightly different banner to the original team and started playing in the Victorian Amateurs Football Association.
