Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Football in Australia)

This guideline documents an English Wikipedia naming convention.

Editors should generally follow it, though exceptions may apply. Substantive edits to this page should reflect consensus. When in doubt, discuss first on this guideline's talk page.

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Due to the large variety of codes of football played in Australia, conflicts sometimes arise when naming them in articles. The following is a guideline for use of the word "football" in Australian articles.

Terms for football codes

The four main football codes should be referred to as:

Other less popular codes, which should also be disambiguated using the below rules:

Special cases

Australia national football team is a redirect to Australia men's national soccer team, with a disambiguation header pointing to Australia national football team (disambiguation). This is because the other codes either:

are token representative sides which do not play in international competition – All-Australian team
do not refer to themselves or major international competitions as "football" teams – Australia national rugby union team (see category) and Australia national rugby league team (see category)
are minor codes and do not warrant primary disambiguation as per regular Wikipedia policy – Australia national American football team and Australia international rules football team