The Sydney Swans are an Australian rules football club based in Sydney, New South Wales. The men's team competes in the Australian Football League, and the women's team in the AFL Women's. The Swans also field a reserves men's team in the Victorian Football League. The Sydney Swans Academy, consisting of the club's best junior development signings, contests Division 2 of the men's and women's underage national championships and the Talent League. The club's origins trace back to 21 March 1873, when a meeting was held at the Clarendon Hotel in South Melbourne to establish a junior football club, to be called the South Melbourne Football Club. The club commenced playing in 1874 at its home ground, Lakeside Oval in Albert Park. Playing as South Melbourne, it participated in the Victorian Football Association competition from 1878 before joining the breakaway Victorian Football League as a founding member in 1897. Read more
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