What is Collingwood Football Club?
[[Image:Bob Rose.jpg|thumb|220px| Bob Rose, Collingwood player in the 1950s]] '''Collingwood Football Club''', the Magpies, is a club which plays [[Australian rules football]] in the [[Australian Football League|AFL]]. It comes from [[Collingwood, Victoria|Collingwood]], a suburb of [[Melbourne]] in [[Victoria (Australia)|Victoria]]. In the AFL/VFL, it has won 16 premierships, which is a joint league record with [[Essendon Football Club|Essendon]] and [[Carlton Football Club|Carlton]]. == History == The Collingwood Football Club was formed in February 1892. Collingwood played its first game in the [[Victorian Football Association]] on 7 May 1892, against [[Carlton Football Club|Carlton]]. In 1902, Collingwood won its first premiership against the [[Essendon Football Club]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.collingwoodfc.com.au/Season2007/News/NewsArticle/tabid/5586/Default.aspx?newsId=33987|title=1902 Premiership: The first year of the Magpie - Official AFL Website of the Collingwood Football Club|work=collingwoodfc.com.au|accessdate=6 October 2010|archive-date=25 December 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101225164109/http://www.collingwoodfc.com.au/Season2007/News/NewsArticle/tabid/5586/Default.aspx?newsId=33987|url-status=dead}}</ref> The [[Victorian Football League]] (VFL) formed in 1897. Collingwood was one of the original teams (along with [[Fitzroy Football Club|Fitzroy]], [[Melbourne Football Club|Melbourne]], [[St Kilda Football Club|St Kilda]], Carlton, [[Essendon Football Club|Essendon]], [[South Melbourne Football Club|South Melbourne]] and [[Geelong Football Club|Geelong]]). In the early years of the VFL, Collingwood was the most successful team; it won 11 premierships in the first 40 years. They won the most recent AFL premiership against [[Brisbane Lions|Brisbane]] in [[2023 AFL Grand Final|2023]]. == Club song == <poem> ''Good old Collingwood forever,'' ''They know how to play the game.'' ''Side by side, they stick together,'' ''To uphold the Magpies name.'' ''See, the barrackers