AJAX Football Club
Encyclopedia
AJAX
Full name Ajax Amateur Football Club
Colours Black, red & white
Founded 30 January 1957
League VAFA
Ground Princes Park, South Caulfield
Official website http://www.ajfc.com.au/index.asp

The AJAX Amateur Football Club is notable as Australia's first and only fully Jewish club in the sport of Australian rules football
Australian rules football
Australian rules football, officially known as Australian football, also called football, Aussie rules or footy is a sport played between two teams of 22 players on either...

.

The club is located in Melbourne
Melbourne
Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...

, Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

 and was established by the Melbourne Jewish community in 1957. The junior club was founded in 1974.

The fields open-age teams in the Victorian Amateur Football Association
Victorian Amateur Football Association
The Victorian Amateur Football Association is an Australian rules football league in Victoria, Australia consisting purely of amateur players. Unlike the Victorian Football League and the VFL/AFL, the VAFA has always been strictly a purely amateur league and has affiliations with both AFL Victoria...

 and junior under-age teams in the Moorabbin Saints Junior Football League.

External links

The source of this article is wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.  The text of this article is licensed under the GFDL.
 
x
OK