Sydney Swans
The Sydney Swans are a professional Australian rules football club from Sydney, New South Wales, that plays in the Australian Football League (AFL).
Club song
Cheer, cheer the red and the white,
Honour the name by day and by night,
Lift that noble banner high,
Shake down the thunder from the sky
Whether the odds be great or small,
Swans will go in and win overall
While her loyal sons are marching
Onwards to victory.
Sydney Swans Media
The Bloods and the touring British Lions in front of the grandstand at the South Melbourne Cricket Ground in 1888. South Melbourne won 7 goals to 3
South Melbourne played in the first Victorian Grand Final, the 1896 VFA Grand Final
1909 VFL team
Aerial photo of the South Melbourne cricket ground during the 1920s with a SMFC match in progress
Captain Laurie Nash marks on 26 June 1937
South Melbourne Football team in 1951
Chart of yearly ladder positions for Sydney in VFL/AFL
Statue of Paul Kelly at the SCG. Kelly, a New South Welshman, known as "captain courageous" he was one of Sydney's longest serving skippers captaining the side between 1993 and 2002.
Derelict grandstand at Lake Oval. In 2005, the Swans launched a campaign to prevent its demolition of all that remains of its former home and restore it as a club museum.
Brett Kirk, a New South Welshman, captained the side from 2005 to 2010 leading the club to its first premiership in 72 years
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