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 | | The Melbourne Football Club rules of 1859 are the oldest surviving set of laws for Australian Rules. |
 | | Meanwhile, a rift in the Victorian Football Association (VFA) led to the formation of the Victorian Football League (VFL), which commenced play in 1897 as an eight-team breakaway of the stronger clubs in the VFA competition: Carlton, Collingwood, Essendon, Fitzroy, Geelong, Melbourne, St Kilda and South Melbourne. |
 | | In a move which heralded big changes within the sport, one of the original VFL clubs, South Melbourne Football Club, relocated to the Rugby League stronghold of Sydney in 1982 and became known as the Sydney Swans. |
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