What is Essendon Football Club?
[[Image:Stewart Crameri Kicking.jpg|thumb|220px| Stewart Crameri, Essendon player, 2009]] The '''Essendon Football Club''', the Bombers, is an [[Australian rules football]] team which plays in the [[Australian Football League]] (AFL). The club began in 1872, and played its first game in 1873 against [[Carlton Football Club|Carlton]].<ref name=hist>{{Cite web|url=http://www.essendonfc.com.au/history/history.asp|title=Essendon Football Club - History - Club History|work=essendonfc.com.au|accessdate=6 October 2010|archive-date=12 September 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090912001345/http://www.essendonfc.com.au/history/history.asp|url-status=dead}}</ref> In 1877, the team joined the [[Victorian Football Association]]. Essendon was one of the original teams in the [[Victorian Football League]] (VFL) which began in 1897. The other teams were [[Collingwood Football Club|Collingwood]], [[Fitzroy Football Club|Fitzroy]], [[Melbourne Football Club|Melbourne]], [[St Kilda Football Club|St Kilda]], Carlton, [[South Melbourne Football Club|South Melbourne]] and [[Geelong Football Club|Geelong]]). Its first home ground was the East Melbourne Cricket Ground, and at the end of the 1921 season the club moved to the Essendon Recreation Reserve, known as Windy Hill.<ref name=hist/> In 2000, the club moved its home ground to Etihad Stadium.<ref name=hist/> == Club song == <poem> ''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!'' </poem> ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== * [http://www.essendonfc.com.au/ Essendon Football Club website] {{sport-stub}} [[Category:Australian rules football clubs in Victoria]]