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. It is played when each team runs out onto the field prior to the beginning of the match, and played for the winning team at the end 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. Other clubs have continued to rewrite other songs' lyrics to suit their team, with four of the 18 team songs having both original lyrics and music.
Club name | Name | Basis | First Used | Writer/composer |
"The Pride of South Australia" | "US Marines' Hymn" | 1994 | Bill Sanders | |
"The Pride of Brisbane Town" | "La Marseillaise" | 1997 | Brisbane Football Club | |
"We are the Navy Blues" | "Lily of Laguna" | Carlton player Ernie Walton | ||
"Good Old Collingwood Forever" | "Goodbye, Dolly Gray" | 1906 | Tom Nelson | |
"See the Bombers Fly Up" | " Sunny Side Up" | 1929 | Johnny Hamp | |
"Freo Way To Go" | "Song of the Volga Boatmen" | 1995 | Ken Walther | |
"We Are Geelong" | "The Toreador Song" | 1963 | John K. Watts | |
"We Are the Suns of the Gold Coast Sky" | Original | 2010 | Rosco Elliott | |
"There's A Big Big Sound" | Original | 2012 | Harry Angus | |
"The Mighty Fighting Hawks" | "The Yankee Doodle Boy" | Chic Lander | ||
"It's a Grand Old Flag" | "You're a Grand Old Flag" | George M Cohen 1906 | ||
"Join in the Chorus" | "Wee Deoch an Doris" | Sir Harry Lauder | ||
"Power to Win" | Original | 1997 | Quentin Eyers and Les Kaczmarek | |
"We're from Tiger Land" | "Row, Row, Row" | 1962 | Richmond lyrics by Jack Malcomson. William Jerome / James Monaco | |
"When the Saints Go Marching In" | "When the Saints Go Marching In" | unknown | ||
"The Red and the White" | "Notre Dame Victory March" | 1961 | Larry Spokes | |
"We're Flying High" | Original | 1987 | Kevin Peek and Ken Walther | |
"Sons of the West" | "Sons of the Sea" | unknown |