the start of the afl season was on 6 october 2017.
the start of the afl season was on 6 october 2017.
when is the start of the afl season?
6 october 2017
2018 afl season









































the 2018 australian football league season was the 122nd season of the elite australian rules football competition and the 29th under the name 'australian football league', having switched from 'victorian football league' after 1989. there were 18 teams competing in the league, the same as the previous six seasons. the first game was played on thursday, 22 march, and the season concluded with the 2018 afl grand final on saturday, 29 september between and . defeated by five points, winning their fourth premiership.









































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2018 afl season
as of the conclusion of the 2015 afl season, none of the seven af2 franchises which moved into the afl remain in the league. the oklahoma city yard dawgz ceased operations after the 2010 season. in the 2011 season, the alabama vipers relocated to suburban atlanta and assumed the identity and history of the former georgia force; however, the franchise folded after the 2012 season, while the bossier-shreveport battle wings moved to new orleans and became a continuation of the voodoo, and the team ceased operations at the conclusion of the 2015 afl regular season. in the same year, the milwaukee iron rebranded itself as the mustangs, adopting the name of a previous milwaukee team. tulsa relocated to san antonio before the start of the 2012 season, retaining the talons' name and history, and the team suspended operations after the 2014 season. milwaukee suspended operations for the 2013 season, and the team relocated to portland, oregon for the 2014 season, becoming the portland thunder, later renamed the steel before ultimately folding after the 2016 afl season. after the 2014 afl season, the iowa barnstormers changed leagues from the afl to the indoor football league. after the conclusion of the 2015 afl season, the last af2 team remaining in the afl, the spokane shock, joined the barnstormers in the ifl.
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