Collingwood

Collingwood Football Club is an Australian rules football team which competes in the Australian Football League (AFL). The club is based in Collingwood, a suburb of Melbourne, and is frequently known by its nickname, the "magpies", which is sometimes shortened to "pies". Collingwood is one of the oldest and most successful sides in AFL history, having claimed 15 premierships since the side's establishment in the late 19th century. Collingwood currently plays its home matches at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. The pies traditionally play in black and white vertical stripes. 

📜 Collingwood History

Founded in early 1892, Collingwood began competing within the Victorian Football Association that same year. In 1897, the club became a founder member of the Victorian Football League (VFL), which served as a direct predecessor to the AFL. The club's first premiership came 5 years later, in 1902, and its second followed the next season, the pies defeating Fitzroy in the 1903 grand final to retain the premiership trophy.

In the 1920s, Collingwood then achieved an Australian rules football feat which is still yet to be matched, when the team won 4 consecutive premierships between 1927 and 1930. The 1935 and 1936 seasons saw 2 further premierships added to the Melbourne side's trophy cabinet, but the club then went 17 years without winning a grand final, finally breaking its duck in 1953. In 1958, Collingwood won another grand final, defeating a Melbourne side which itself could have won 4 grand finals in a row, if it were not for Collingwood's victory.

Another less successful spell then followed, this one lasting 30 years, across which pies fans endured their team losing 8 grand finals. In 1990, however, the club collected its much-anticipated 14th premiership, defeating Essendon in Melbourne. Collingwood's 15th then came in 2010, bringing them within 1 premiership of Carlton and Essendon's joint-record 16 titles.