What is AFL? Australian Rules Football Explained | UPDATED 2024 

I'm from Mexico and I have to say I just fell in love with it. I'll need to watch some matches snd do some research to pick a team. Cheers to Australia for keeping it real!

You are a great advocate for the game and explain everything about it really clearly for new folk. Great video.

I love this game. As an American I get the game because I have watched it since childhood. What I don't know is, how the draft works? How free agency works? And other basic, player based powers happen.

Absolutely love this reimagining of the "What is AFL" video. Very well done.

Thank you for including aboriginal people much appreciated ❤️

really hope this converts some people over to our wonderful sport!

Very beautifully described.. growing up with it you're kinda unaware how it would seem confusing to others outside Australia watching it for the first time, but you summed it up very well 👍

That was wonderful ..You really nailed it .. I know that if our game got proper exposure overseas it'd soon rival soccer . I do like rugby union ...Don't dislike soccer...not a big fan of rugby league and just can't fathom american football but Aussie Rules rules them all I reckon ...Thanks again for a fantastic and enthusiastic summary of the great game..

So happy someone finally updated this. The old AFL explained left a lot to be desired. It just didn’t explain enough. Thanks

I used to be a carlton supporter,but eagles since 87,but still cheer them on when not playing us.

Good job, mate!! Well done.... 'Up there, Cazaly!" forever

Beautifully done cobber. I hope you follow the boys at windy hill

Well done, buddy! Excellent intro to the greatest game in the world - Go the Cats! ..... You beauty!

Back in the late 70' and early 80's while in the Canadian army we found AFL on Canadian Sport Channel in the barracks. We loved it and on the weekends we would go out on the pitch and play. We weren't quite sure of all the rules not having a rule book (no internet). We would come back muddy and bloody. Then and go for a 35 cent draft at the mess, laughing our heads off. We were all about hockey, but shit what a game too bad we didn't have this sport in Canada It would be cool to watch an actual game some day!

This is a great sport I love Australian Rules Football.! When I was a kid we played American football without pads much like AFL.

How wonderful! Thank you for this explanation…I love watching this sport. I have a nephew who plays for the AFL, USA team. It’s so different and fun to watch from any angle. The rules are fairly uncomplicated and the game moves so fast. These players are true athletes. It’s so exciting! When I get Australia, I’m getting tickets to watch some Australian Football, for sure! Great video!

Well done Dan. Can I suggest you do a video or mention how you first came to see or hear about Australian Football? Was that in Britain? How does the AFL crowd experience compare to an English soccer or rugby crowd? I am always amazed at how much you do know about the game, the tactics, making heat maps etc. I lived over there during 1973 and 74 and there was a footy league in the south of London. The Wimbledon Hawks or Wildcats? Can't remember. In those days the only newspaper than carried the VFL scores was the Daily Mail on a Monday. I couldn't believe the Mail's 73 grand final result that I went into Australia House in London later in the week to read the Melbourne Sun, however the result didn't change. I remember a relative complaining about me using the word footy. He said, "You Aussies are always shortening words" He is married to an Australian. Now you hear "footy" used in British TV shows. Anyway, keep up the good work with Blues Abroad.

Was deployed on the USS John F. Kennedy in 1982 and we pulled into Fremantle for a few days, and a number of us were given free tickets to a special event game and I absolutely fell in love with the game.

Thanks for the detailed and passionate explanation of Aussie rules eh! I came looking for a specific answer and found several others as well. I saw a Suns game on an Oz visit a bunch of years ago, I had no idea what was happening, but it was entertaining and amazing! I hope to get back down under to see more beaches, breaks, and AFL soon. Until then I'll record and watch games on PVR, and work to make a return trip happen! 🇨🇦 🇦🇺

Overall, did a good job explaining a pretty confusing sport for newcomers. Cheers! Now I wanna see a few USA reaction vids to this.

Good job mate.

Well explained mate.

It’s Australian rules football. AFL means Australian football league. That’s like calling soccer FFA

Bro this is the best explanation ive seen lol.

Very well composed.

about the Football (Footy) Codes all of Australian Rules Football, Rugby League Football, Rugby Union Football & finally Soccer (Football), which are, For those who DISLIKE &/or HATE any Football (Footy) Code/s with a real passion would &/or will say these, (1 One) Australian Rules Football, is referred as Aerial Ping Pong Football, (2 Two) Rugby League Football, is referred as Thugby League Football, (3 Three) Rugby Union Football, is referred as Thugby Union, &/or Rugby Yawnnion, (4 Four) Football (Soccer), is referred as Wog Ball and also both Fairies &/or Queenies Game. (NOTE) Aerial Ping-Pong A jocular (and frequently derisive) name for Australian Rules Football (or Aussie Rules as it is popularly called). The term derives from the fact that the play in this game is characterised by frequent exchanges of long and high kicks. The term is used largely by people from States both of Queensland & New South Wales in which Rugby League Football and NOT Aussie Rules (Footy) Football as &/or is the major football code. This interstate and code rivalry is often found in evidence for the term, including the early evidence from the 1940s. 1947 West Australian (Perth) 22 April: In 1941 he enlisted in the A.I.F. and joined a unit which fostered rugby football. Renfrey did not join in the &oq;mud bath&cq; and did not play 'aerial ping-pong', as the rugby exponents in the army termed the Australian game, until 1946. 1973 J. Dunn, How to Play Football: Sydneysiders like to call Australian Rules 'Aerial Ping-Pong'. But on the other hand, for those and including myself who actually do LIKE &/or LOVE any Football (Footy) Code/s with a real passion would &/or will say these, which are, (1 One) Australian Rules Football, is referred as the real Australian Football (Footy) Code of Australia, (2 Two) Rugby League Football, is referred as the Greatest Game of All, (3 Three) Rugby Union Football, is referred the Game that they do Play in Heaven, (4 Four) Football (Soccer), is referred as the Beautiful Game & the World Game & also the Real Football Code of course.

Well done, fellow ginger top. Signed Bluebells from Kingsbury.

Now I miss the footy even more

I watched a game yesterday and I liked it

Loved the video. I would have explained the awards part again. You made it sound like the brownlow was apart of the grandfinal and not something they accumulate points for per match during the season. Otherwise well done. The old version does my head in every time someone 'reacts' to it.

Very entertaining ,Good job.

Well done.

Yes, I enjoy this sport. I'm a Brisbane Lions supporter.

Love this for ppl that don’t know the game hated the American version previously great job Pom

Cricket is still the best sport in the world, but I really, really love Aussie football!

Aussie here, you know your stuff

Excellent job explaining the game there mate.. Which team do you follow Hopefully the Mighty Hawks

They have to bounce it every 10 metres. It's the kicks that need to travel 15 metres or more for a mark to be paid

Nice

So i can tackle from the legs?

Hard Yakka!

Forward pressurre

GO ESSENDON

I hope our game doesn't get exported..... It'll be corrupted and attacked by the 'Safety Police' who don't even know the game.

Bro you said your from England originally and called football the s word

This video should be flagged as terrorist propaganda. It's Federal Law that no other "football" code is to be promoted or even mentioned in the Southern Hemisphere during the State of Origin series. This isn't a joke, I don't want to have to tell King Wally.

NRL is still better though