Heritage Round was an annual round of matches in the Australian Football League in which all the teams wore throwback guernseys from the past.
The first Heritage Round was in 2003 and the last was in 2007.[1][2]
.jpg) Fremantle wearing East Fremantle's guernsey against Sydney wearing South Melbourne's guernsey in 2007. | |
| Sport | Australian rules football |
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| Founded | 2003 |
| First season | 2003 |
| Ceased | 2008. Heritage guernseys continue to be worn at discretion of clubs. |
| Country | Australia |
| Related competitions | AFL |
Throwback uniforms continue to be worn by clubs on special occasions, but there is no longer a round specifically themed in this manner.
Origin
editThe concept of the Heritage Round originated from the Centenary Celebration Round, which took place in 1996, the centenary year of the VFL/AFL.
1996 Centenary Round
editIn recognition of the VFL/AFL reaching its 100th season the eight original teams of the VFL played each other in round 7, 100 years after the first round of matches in the inaugural season.
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| Wednesday, 8 May (8:10 pm) | Essendon 22.11 (143) | def. | Geelong 17.12 (114) | Melbourne Cricket Ground (crowd: 75,632) | |
| Friday, 10 May (8:10 pm) | Collingwood 14.11 (95) | def. by | St Kilda 18.10 (118) | Melbourne Cricket Ground (crowd: 71,663) | |
| Saturday, 11 May (2:10 pm) | Carlton 18.17 (125) | def. | Fitzroy 8.14 (63) | Optus Oval (crowd: 16,176) | |
| Saturday, 11 May (2:10 pm) | Melbourne 5.8 (38) | def. by | Sydney 12.10 (82) | Melbourne Cricket Ground (crowd: 23,660) | |
1996 Centenary uniforms
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Heritage Round (2003-2007)
edit2003 Heritage Round
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The first Heritage Round in 2003 saw heritage guernseys worn by all teams except two. It was seen in a very positive and nostalgic light, especially as Brisbane Lions wore the 1968 to 1973 Fitzroy guernsey which was maroon and navy blue as worn during the days of black and white television. Sydney wore their 1933 to 1986 guernsey, worn during their time when based in South Melbourne.
St Kilda's guernsey got such a positive reaction that it became their clash Guernsey from 2004 until 2006.
Port Adelaide wore its SANFL Magpies "Prison Bar" guernsey from 1914 when the club defeat Carlton to win the 1914 Championship of Australia.
| 2003 Round 19 (Heritage Round) | |||||
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| Friday, 8 August (7:40 pm) | Melbourne 6.9 (45) | def. by | Geelong 11.18 (84) | Melbourne Cricket Ground (crowd: 22,508) | |
| Saturday, 9 August (2:10 pm) | Collingwood 8.14 (62) | def. by | Brisbane Lions 15.11 (101) | Melbourne Cricket Ground (crowd: 61,868) | |
| Saturday, 9 August (1:40 pm) | West Coast 10.7 (67) | def. by | Adelaide 13.13 (91) | Subiaco Oval (crowd: 39,681) | |
| Saturday, 9 August (7:10 pm) | Sydney 14.9 (93) | def. by | Hawthorn 17.8 (110) | Sydney Cricket Ground (crowd: 33,473) | |
| Saturday, 9 August (7:10 pm) | Richmond 7.8 (50) | def. by | St Kilda 20.10 (130) | Telstra Dome (crowd: 41,514) | |
| Sunday, 10 August (12:40 pm) | Port Adelaide 18.17 (125) | def. | Carlton 12.9 (81) | AAMI Stadium (crowd: 31,083) | |
| Sunday, 10 August (2:10 pm) | Essendon 22.15 (147) | def. | Western Bulldogs 12.8 (80) | Telstra Dome (crowd: 36,138) | |
| Sunday, 10 August (2:10 pm) | Kangaroos 15.8 (98) | def. by | Fremantle 15.9 (99) | Melbourne Cricket Ground (crowd: 18,486) | |
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2003 Heritage Uniforms
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  Western Bulldogs 1935 Footscray guernsey |
2004 Heritage Round
editThe second Heritage Round in 2004 saw all 16 clubs wear a heritage guernsey. It was also the first year which the field and goal Umpires wore uniforms from the past as well. All the umpires wore white uniforms (the traditional colour the umpires wore before changing to coloured uniforms) and the goal umpires wore their traditional long coats and White brimmed hats.
Brisbane Lions chose to wear the Brisbane Bears guernsey worn from 1992 until 1996, West Coast wore wore a replica of their 1987 gold and blue guernsey and Adelaide wore a manufactured guernsey based on a 1991 original with the SANFL logo on the back and AFC monogram on the front. Port Adelaide wore a magenta and blue guernsey based on their original guernsey from 1877 to 1901, prior to its famous black and white "Prison Bar" guernsey.
| 2004 Round 18 (Heritage Round) | |||||
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| Friday, 30 July (8:10 pm) | Adelaide 5.19 (49) | def. | Kangaroos 5.12 (42) | AAMI Stadium (crowd: 37,562) | |
| Saturday, 31 July (2:10 pm) | Collingwood 15.13 (103) | def. | Richmond 14.14 (98) | MCG (crowd: 39,933) | |
| Saturday, 31 July (2:10 pm) | Carlton 9.9 (63) | def. by | Fremantle 16.15 (111) | Optus Oval (crowd: 17,092) | |
| Saturday, 31 July (7:10 pm) | Essendon 18.11 (119) | def. | Port Adelaide 11.13 (79) | Telstra Dome (crowd: 35,711) | |
| Saturday, 31 July (7:10 pm) | Sydney 12.11 (83) | def. | Brisbane Lions 7.9 (51) | SCG (crowd: 34,926) | |
| Sunday, 1 August (1:10 pm) | Geelong 15.11 (101) | def. | St Kilda 15.4 (94) | Skilled Stadium (crowd: 21,673) | |
| Sunday, 1 August (2:10 pm) | Melbourne 15.17 (107) | def. | Hawthorn 9.9 (63) | MCG (crowd: 28,392) | |
| Sunday, 1 August (2:10 pm) | West Coast 15.16 (106) | def. | Western Bulldogs 8.9 (57) | Subiaco Oval (crowd: 36,028) | |
2004 Heritage Uniforms
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2005 Heritage Round
editThe third Heritage Round was held in 2005. The field umpires wore replica uniforms from an old fashioned period (with colours brought back) that were impractical in modern day.[clarification needed]
St Kilda wore a guernsey worn during the First World War in which white was replaced with gold so they were not to be seen as a supporter of Germany. Hawthorn's guernsey was not brown and gold, but red, white, and blue from its 1902 guernsey worn when they were a junior club. Adelaide wore a 1930s South Australia state guernsey with an AFC insignia replacing SA, where Port Adelaide Football Club wore a white guernsey with light blue hoops based on their first guernsey in the SANFL.
| 2005 Round 20 (Heritage Round) | |||||
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| Friday, 12 August (6:40 pm) | West Coast 19.14 (128) | def. | Fremantle 12.8 (80) | Subiaco Oval (crowd: 40,720) | |
| Saturday, 13 August (2:10 pm) | Geelong 15.9 (99) | def. by | Melbourne 14.16 (100) | Skilled Stadium (crowd: 20,148) | |
| Saturday, 13 August (2:10 pm) | Kangaroos 13.7 (85) | def. by | St Kilda 16.12 (108) | Telstra Dome (crowd: 39,777) | |
| Saturday, 13 August (7:10 pm) | Collingwood 14.10 (94) | def. by | Carlton 19.15 (129) | MCG (crowd: 48,287) | |
| Saturday, 13 August (7:10 pm) | Port Adelaide 12.9 (81) | def. by | Adelaide 13.10 (88) | AAMI Stadium (crowd: 45,199) | |
| Sunday, 14 August (1:10 pm) | Sydney 19.10 (124) | def. | Brisbane Lions 6.4 (40) | Telstra Stadium (crowd: 43,512) | |
| Sunday, 14 August (2:10 pm) | Hawthorn 17.15 (117) | def. | Essendon 16.8 (104) | MCG (crowd: 32,053) | |
| Sunday, 14 August (2:10 pm) | Richmond 16.11 (107) | def. by | Western Bulldogs 18.11 (119) | Telstra Dome (crowd: 33,482) | |
2005 Heritage Uniforms
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2006 Heritage Round
editThe fourth Heritage Round in 2006 was themed around football in the 1980s. This achieved very heavy media coverage, with both The AFL Footy Show and Before the Game taking on 1980s themes and both dressing up in clothes from the 1980s. The AFL even release a compilation CD of songs recorded during the 1980s.
Brisbane Lions wore the 1987 to 1990 Brisbane Bears away/clash guernsey, a variant of its original gold and cerise Brisbane Bears guernsey. Adelaide, who were non-existent in the 1980s, wore a modified home guernsey, including a monogrammed crest featuring all the colours of all the teams in the SANFL from the 1980s. Melbourne wore a guernsey with red and royal blue instead of its red and navy blue it used prior to 1974 with the introduction of colour TV. Richmond wore yellow shorts from the 1980s with their 1980s guernsey with printed laces. Essendon wore red shorts as they did in the 1980s when they played Carlton. West Coast wore a replica of their 1988 to 1994 blue and gold guernsey
The AFL prevented Port Adelaide from wearing their 1980s SANFL guernsey.[4]
| 2006 Round 16 (Heritage Round) | |||||
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| Friday, 21 July (8:10 ) | Adelaide 19.10 (124) | def. | Kangaroos 7.10 (52) | AAMI Stadium (crowd: 47,487) | |
| Saturday, 22 July (2:10 pm) | Collingwood 19.13 (127) | def. | West Coast 13.12 (90) | Telstra Dome (crowd: 38,777) | |
| Saturday, 22 July (2:10 pm) | Essendon 16.9 (105) | drew with | Carlton 15.15 (105) | MCG (crowd: 49,181) | |
| Saturday, 22 July (7:10 pm) | Brisbane Lions 11.18 (88) | def. | Hawthorn 11.8 (74) | The Gabba (crowd: 26,738) | |
| Saturday, 22 July (7:10 pm) | Sydney 14.17 (107) | def. | Richmond 7.11 (53) | SCG (crowd: 28,371) | |
| Sunday, 23 July (1:10 pm) | St Kilda 8.16 (64) | def. | Port Adelaide 8.12 (60) | Aurora Stadium (crowd: 16,588) | |
| Sunday, 23 July (2:10 pm) | Geelong 13.12 (90) | def. | Western Bulldogs 13.11 (89) | Telstra Dome (crowd: 39,417) | |
| Sunday, 23 July (2:40 pm) | Fremantle 15.6 (96) | def. | Melbourne 9.13 (67) | Subiaco Oval (crowd: 36,244) | |
2006 Heritage Uniforms
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2007 Heritage Round
editThe fifth Heritage Round in 2007 was based on Football in the 1970s. It took place in July from the 7th to the 9th. Once again it generated media coverage both in News broadcasts and both The Footy Show and Before the Game holding 1970s themed shows.
As West Coast were not established in the 1970s they chose to wear the original Western Australia guernsey from the first State of Origin game played against Victoria. They lost to Brisbane Lions who wore the red and blue Fitzroy guernsey worn from 1975 to 1978. Adelaide wore the same guernsey as what was worn in the 2006 Heritage Round in its defeat against Hawthorn. Port Adelaide's application to the AFL for its 1970s black and white "Prison Bar" was rejected at first, but an agreement was later reached with Collingwood and the AFL for Port Adelaide to wear the guernsey this year but with conditions for further heritage rounds. They lost to the Western Bulldogs who wore an original Footscray guernsey with red shorts. As Essendon and Richmond were both still wearing guernseys with no major change from what was worn in the 1970s, Essendon once again wore red shorts and Richmond wore yellow shorts in their respective matches.
There were two teams that did not wear a heritage guernsey; St Kilda, who instead wore their white clash guernsey, and Collingwood.
Other teams to not wear a heritage guernsey due to extreme similarities to current day versions included Geelong, Carlton (whose monogram was the current version and not the one worn from 1933 to 1997), and Kangaroos.
Fremantle opted to wear a historical East Fremantle guernsey as they were playing the Sydney that round; resulting in the teams taking the field in uniforms almost identical to those of the 1979 WAFL Grand Final- the Fremantle Derby Grand Final between East Fremantle and South Fremantle.
| 2007 Round 14 (Heritage Round) | |||||
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| Friday, 6 July (7:40 pm) | Essendon 12.11 (83) | def. by | Geelong 19.19 (133) | Telstra Dome (crowd: 51,156) | |
| Saturday, 7 July (2:10 pm) | Collingwood 12.17 (89) | def. | St Kilda 12.8 (80) | MCG (crowd: 57,247) | |
| Saturday, 7 July (2:10 pm) | Western Bulldogs 20.13 (133) | def. | Port Adelaide 17.11 (113) | Telstra Dome (crowd: 22,691 ) | |
| Saturday, 7 July (5:40 pm) | West Coast 9.10 (64) | def. by | Brisbane Lions 13.13 (91) | Subiaco Oval (crowd: 40,763) | |
| Saturday, 7 July (7:10 pm) | Adelaide 15.12 (102) | def. | Hawthorn 4.7 (31) | AAMI Stadium (crowd: 34,733) | |
| Sunday, 8 July (1:10 pm) | Sydney 11.23 (89) | def. | Fremantle 9.7 (61) | SCG (crowd: 25,493) | |
| Sunday, 8 July (2:10 pm) | Carlton 14.17 (101) | def. by | Melbourne 19.10 (124) | MCG (crowd: 33,085) | |
| Sunday, 8 July (5:10 pm) | Richmond 11.13 (79) | def. by | Kangaroos 14.20 (104) | Telstra Dome (crowd: 33,583) | |
2007 Heritage Uniforms
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Controversy
editPort Adelaide is the only pre-existing non-Victorian AFL club having joined the national competition in 1997 after having played in the SANFL since 1877.[5] Before joining the AFL Port Adelaide used a Magpie moniker and wore a black and white guernsey with six vertical stripes and one horizontal stripe. This guernsey is similar to Collingwood which wears a black and white guernsey with three stripes of black and white and has been a part of the VFL/AFL since 1897. When Port Adelaide joined the AFL they adopted a new moniker, Power and added two new colours to their palette, teal and silver. During the 2006 Heritage Round which adopted a 1980s theme Port Adelaide was prevented by the AFL from taking part.[6] During the 1980s Port Adelaide won four SANFL premierships (1980, 1981, 1988, 1989) wearing it's Prison Bar' guernsey.[7] The following year Port Adelaide, Collingwood and the AFL came to an agreement that Port Adelaide would be able to use their 'Prison Bar' guernsey in future Heritage Rounds.[8] However, after this agreement was reached the AFL ceased sanctioning official Heritage Rounds.[9] In 2021 Eddie McGuire noted that he knew at the time of signing the agreement with Port Adelaide that Heritage Rounds would ceased to be officially sanctioned by the AFL in the future.[9]
See also
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References
edit- ^ "It's time to bring back AFL Heritage Round" on The Advertiser
- ^ Every AFL club's best, worst guernseys ever worn with horrific colour clashes and classic retro styling by Max Laughton on Fox Sports, 21 Jul 2016
- ^ "Adelaide Jumpers (AFL)". crowshistory.afl.com.au. Retrieved 20 February 2022.
- ^ "Club statement re: heritage guernsey". portadelaidefc.com.au. 1 May 2007. Retrieved 31 January 2022.
- ^ "Port Adelaide Football Club Italian Night". Adelaide Convention Centre. Retrieved 22 February 2022.
- ^ Basso, Tom (4 July 2019). "BRINGING BACK HERITAGE ROUND". The Mongrel Punt. Retrieved 22 February 2022.
- ^ Agius, Matthew (18 September 2017). "Port's Grand Final history". Port Adelaide Football Club. Retrieved 22 February 2022.
- ^ "Port Adelaide to wear black-and-white". Port Adelaide Football Club. 14 May 2007. Retrieved 22 February 2022.
- ^ a b Chris, De Silva (28 April 2021). "Eddie McGuire and Kane Cornes go head-to-head over long-running 'prison bar' jersey saga". Wide World of Sport (Nine). Retrieved 22 February 2022.
External links
edit- Footy Jumpers, website covering the history of AFL/VFL jumpers