List of Australian Football League team songs

An Australian Football League team song is traditionally sung by members of the winning team after an AFL game. The first team song was the Collingwood song Good Old Collingwood Forever written by player Tom Nelson in 1906 to the tune of Goodbye, Dolly Gray, an American music hall song.[1] Other clubs have continued to rewrite other songs' lyrics to suit their team, with very few songs having both original lyrics and music.

Club Name Name of Team Song Basis for Team Song First Used as Team Song Writer/Composer
Adelaide Crows The Pride of South Australia US Marines' Hymn 1992 Bill Sanders
Brisbane Lions The Pride of Brisbane Town La Marseillaise 1955 Fitzroy players*
Carlton Blues We are the Navy Blues Lily of Laguna circa 1930 Carlton players
Collingwood Magpies Good Old Collingwood Forever Goodbye, Dolly Gray 1906 Tom Nelson
Essendon Bombers See the Bombers Fly Up (Keep Your) Sunny Side Up 1960s
Fremantle Dockers Freo Way To Go The Song of the Volga Boatmen 1995 Ken Walther
Geelong Cats We Are Geelong The Toreador Song 1963 Geelong players
Gold Coast Suns We Are the Suns of the Gold Coast Sky[2] original 2010 unknown
Hawthorn Hawks The Mighty Fighting Hawks The Yankee Doodle Boy circa 1956 Chick Lander
Melbourne Demons It's a Grand Old Flag You're a Grand Old Flag circa 1912 unknown (second verse by Keith "Bluey" Truscott)
North Melbourne Kangaroos Join in the Chorus Wee Deoch an Doris[3] 1920s unknown
Port Adelaide Power The Power to Win[4] original 1997 Quentin Eyers and Les Kaczmarek
Richmond Tigers We're from Tiger Land Row, Row, Row 1962 Jack Malcolmson
St. Kilda Saints When the Saints Go Marching In When the Saints Go Marching In circa 1965 -
Sydney Swans The Red and the White Notre Dame Victory March 1950s Larry Spokes
West Coast Eagles We're Flying High original 1987 Kevin Peek and Ken Walther
Western Bulldogs Sons of the West** Sons of the Sea 1940s unknown

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