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. Additionally, team songs are played when each team runs out onto the field prior to the beginning of the match.

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 "The Pride of South Australia" "US Marines' Hymn" 1991 Bill Sanders
Brisbane Lions "The Pride of Brisbane Town" "La Marseillaise" 1955 Fitzroy players
Carlton "We are the Navy Blues" "Lily of Laguna" c. 1930 Carlton players
Collingwood "Good Old Collingwood Forever" "Goodbye, Dolly Gray" 1906 Tom Nelson
Essendon "See the Bombers Fly Up" "(Keep Your) Sunny Side Up" 1959 Kevin Andrews[2]
Fremantle "Freo Way To Go" "Song of the Volga Boatmen" 1995 Ken Walther
Geelong "We Are Geelong" "The Toreador Song" 1963 John K. Watts
Gold Coast "We Are the Suns of the Gold Coast Sky"[3] Original 2010 Rosco Elliott
Greater Western Sydney "There's A Big Big Sound"[4] Original 2012 Harry Angus
Hawthorn "The Mighty Fighting Hawks" "The Yankee Doodle Boy" c. 1956 Chic Lander
Melbourne "It's a Grand Old Flag" "You're a Grand Old Flag" c. 1912 George M Cohen 1906 (second verse by Keith "Bluey" Truscott)
North Melbourne "Join in the Chorus" "Wee Deoch an Doris"[5] 1920s unknown
Port Adelaide "Power to Win"[6] Original 1997 Quentin Eyers and Les Kaczmarek
Richmond "We're from Tiger Land" "Row, Row, Row" 1962 Jack Malcolmson
St Kilda "When the Saints Go Marching In" "When the Saints Go Marching In" c. 1965 unknown
Sydney "The Red and the White" "Notre Dame Victory March" 1950s Larry Spokes
West Coast "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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