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'''Representative matches in Australian rules football''' are matches between representative teams played under the [[Australian rules football|Australian rules]], most notably of the [[British colonisation of Australia|colonies]] and later [[States and territories of Australia|Australian states and territories]]. Senior intercolonial representative matches took place from 1879 to the turn of the 20th century. For most of the 20th century, the absence of a national club competition in Australia meant that interstate matches were regarded as important events.
Interstate matches were, in most cases, sanctioned and coordinated by the (ANFC), which organised every national championship series from the first-ever national carnival, the [[1908 Melbourne Carnival|Jubilee Australasian Football Carnival]] in 1908 with the exception of the last-ever series: the [[1993 State of Origin Championships]], which was run by the [[AFL Commission]]. The series took place on approximately three-yearly intervals between 1908 and 1993; these were usually a fortnight-long tournament staged in a single host city, although some{{spnd}} particularly those played in the 1980s{{spnd}} were based on the results of matches played in different cities throughout the year. Between 1937 and 1988, the player judged the best at each of these carnivals was awarded the [[Tassie Medal]]; and between 1953 and 1988, the selection of [[All Australian Team]]s was based on the player's performance during Australian Football Carnivals, and the team was named after each carnival concluded.
Until June 1977, interstate Australian rules football games were played by teams representing the major football leagues or organisations, with players representing the state or territory they were playing in at the time. From October, 1977 until May, 1999, players were selected for their states under partial or full State of Origin selection rules. Football historian John Devaney has argued that "some of the state of origin contests which took place during the 1980s constituted arguably the finest expositions of the game ever seen".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://australianfootball.com/articles/view/Football%2Bin%2Bthe%2BSilver%2BCity/6|title=Interstate Football|publisher = AustralianFootball.com}}</ref>
Non-state representative matches sanctioned by the AFL feature AFL recognised teams including the [[Indigenous All-Stars (Australian rules football)|Indigenous All-Stars]] (since 1983), [[International Rules Series]] (played under [[International Rules Football|International Rules]] since 1984 featuring [[All-Australian]] selection from 1998-2004 and 2014-2017), [[Australian Football International Cup]] (since 2005), [[AFL National Academy]] (since 2007), [[AFL Oceania]] and [[AFL Asia]] (since 2008) and [[AFL Europe]] (since 2010).
There have been no regular interstate representative matches featuring players from the fully professional [[Australian Football League]] since 1999. Representatives matches continue to be played annually between teams representing the state or territorial leagues at the second tier or below. One senior women's State of Origin match was played in [[2017 AFL Women's season|2017]]. Representative matches are played at underage level as part of the men's and women's Underage National Championships, notably the [[AFL Under-19 Championships]] and [[AFL Women's Under-18 Championships]].
Throughout its pre–State of Origin history, [[Victoria Australian rules football team|Victoria]], as represented by the [[Australian Football League|Victorian Football League]], was the dominant state in representative football, winning 16 of the 19 carnivals up until 1975. Competition was more even during the nine competitions held in the State of Origin selection era, with championships shared among [[Western Australia Australian rules football team|Western Australia]] (4), [[South Australia Australian rules football team|South Australia]] (3) and Victoria (2).
== History ==
=== Intercolony / Interstate competition, 1879–1939 ===
[[File:Intercolonial Football Match 1879.jpg|thumb|Victoria vs South Australia at the East Melbourne Cricket Ground in 1879]]
Victoria, the birthplace of Australian rules and, with contributing factors such as population and finances, dominated the first hundred years of inter[[self-governing colony|colonial]] and interstate football. This was the case in the [[Victoria v South Australia (1879)|first-ever intercolonial representative match]], held on Tuesday, 1 July 1879 (a public holiday), at [[East Melbourne Cricket Ground]]. The final score was Victoria (represented by the [[Victorian Football Association]]) 7.14 to South Australia 0.3. The match was attended by more than 10,000 people.
The third and fourth teams to commence intercolonial competition were New South Wales and Queensland, playing each other in a two-game series in [[Brisbane]] in 1884; the result of the series was a one-all draw. Tasmania played its first game, against Victoria, in 1887. New Zealand (Maori) entered the competition with a draw against New South Wales in Sydney, on 29 June 1889.<ref>[https://www.nswfootballhistory.com.au/game/5943/ New South Wales vs New Zealand] from NSW Australian Football History Society</ref>
Victoria's long-term dominance briefly faltered in the 1890s, when other Colonies recorded their first-ever wins over the Victoria: South Australia in [[Adelaide, South Australia|Adelaide]] in 1890 and 1891 and Tasmania in [[Hobart, Australia|Hobart]] in 1893 (twice). In 1897, the new [[Australian Football League|Victorian Football League]] split from the VFA, and the two selected separate representative teams, further weakening Victoria in intercolonial competition, which became interstate competition following [[Federation of Australia|Federation]] of the six British colonies in Australia, in 1901.
Western Australia played its first two interstate games in 1904, including a win over South Australia in Adelaide. The [[Australian National Football Council|Australasian Football Council]] was established 1906, and it assumed administration for interstate football.
[[File:Queensland vs Tasmania Jubilee carnival 1908.png|thumb|Queensland vs Tasmania at the Jubilee Carnival in 1908]]
The VFL's dominance within Victoria was established by the time an interstate carnival was held for the first time – in Melbourne in 1908 – to celebrate the [[1908 Melbourne Carnival|Golden Jubilee of "Australasian football"]] (as it was known at the time). The widening gap between the three major footballing States/leagues and the others was shown in the organisation of the competition: Victoria (represented by the VFL), South Australia and Western Australia constituted "Section A", and Tasmania, New South Wales, Queensland and New Zealand constituted "Section B". The VFA did not take part and the carnival was New Zealand's last appearance in representative football. Victoria went through the competition undefeated.
The second carnival was played in [[1911 Adelaide Carnival|1911]], in Adelaide, which set the pattern of a carnival every three years. South Australia went undefeated and Victoria won three of their four matches. At the Sydney carnival of 1914, Victoria was once again undefeated. Following the onset of World War I interstate matches went into a five-year hiatus.
[[File:New South Wales defeat Victoria by 15 points from The Daily Telegraph 20th August 1923 pg 10.png|thumb|Action from New South Wales first ever defeat of Victoria by 15 points at the Sydney Cricket Ground in 1923]]
[[File:VIctorian Football League Interstate Team-(1928).jpeg|thumb|Victoria's "Big V" team of 1928.]]
Throughout following decades, standalone interstate matches were held every year, and interstate carnivals were held usually every three years, with a few exceptions.  In most carnivals following World War II, the stronger states competed separately from the minor states; and on many occasions the stronger states and minor states carnivals were held in separate locations or years. At the peak of its popularity, the carnival was known symbolically as "[[the Ashes]]" of Australian rules football.<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=Daily Herald|publication-place=Adelaide, SA|title=Carnival champions – presentation of the Ashes|page=9}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|newspaper=Barrier Daily Truth|publication-place=Broken Hill, NSW|page=6|title=Victoria's football ashes|date=11 August 1947}}</ref> Victoria (VFL) continued its dominance in interstate football by winning 17 of the 20 carnivals held between the period 1908 to 1975, and usually winning the individual matches held every year.
[[File:SLNSW 10109 Australian National Football Council Interstate Carnival Sydney Cricket Ground 1933 Victoria v South Australia.jpg|thumb|Victoria v South Australia at the Australian National Football Council Interstate Carnival Sydney Cricket Ground 1933]]
Some notable moments during this period were, the 1923 Victorian loss to South Australia, which was described as the state's worst ever defeat.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/140822094 |title=07 Jul 1923 - VICTORIANS IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA - Trove |publisher=Trove.nla.gov.au |date=1923-07-07 |accessdate=2022-02-18}}</ref> The 1923 South Australian upset loss to an undermanned Tasmania. The championship-deciding game of the 1924 carnival, between Victoria and Western Australia, was reported as being the roughest on record.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/85007871 |title=20 Jul 1933 - PADDY HEBBARD, SAYS— - Trove |publisher=Trove.nla.gov.au |date=1933-07-20 |accessdate=2022-02-18}}</ref> Also in 1924 South Australia recorded the concepts highest winning score, winning by 268 points to defeat Queensland in Hobart.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/23755928 |title=09 Aug 1924 - Australian Football Carnival.. ROUT OF THE QUEENSLANDERS - Trove |publisher=Trove.nla.gov.au |date=1924-08-09 |accessdate=2022-02-18}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://australianfootball.com/articles/view/Southern+Tasmanians+toss+the+Croweaters/1217|title=Australian Football - Southern Tasmanians toss the Croweaters|website=australianfootball.com}}</ref> In the 1925 calendar year, Canberra played its first match against New South Wales.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fullpointsfooty.net/interstate_match_results_1919_to_1929.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090105202753/http://www.fullpointsfooty.net/interstate_match_results_1919_to_1929.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=2009-01-05|title=Interstate Match Results 1919 to 1928|date=5 January 2009}}</ref> In 1923 & 1925 Victoria lost shock upsets to New South Wales.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/184824587 |title=15 Aug 1925 - Thirteen Points to the Good - Trove |publisher=Trove.nla.gov.au |date=1925-08-15 |accessdate=2022-02-18}}</ref> In 1927, in the Australia National Football Carnival Victoria beat Western Australia 11.10 to 10.12, in what has been described as ''one of the hardest and fiercest games fought in the history of the code''.<ref name="australianfootball1">{{cite web | url=https://australianfootball.com/articles/view/Epic%2Bduels%2Bbetween%2BWA%2Band%2BVictoria/573 | title=Australian Football - Epic+duels+between+WA+and+Victoria }}</ref> In 1928 Victoria and South Australia participated in the first drawn representative match: the visiting Victorians led for most of the match, with South Australia kicking three late goals to give the state the victory by a point; however, after the match, it was discovered that the scoreboard had failed to record one of Victoria's behinds, and the match was declared a draw.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/58554999 |title=16 Jun 1928 - Interstate Football Match Ends in Exciting Draw - Trove |publisher=Trove.nla.gov.au |date=1928-06-16 |accessdate=2022-02-18}}</ref>
===Post World War II (1945 to 1977)===
In the second game between South Australia and Victoria after war, the states participated in the second representative draw, in a high scoring affair with the side locked in at 123 to 123 at full time.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/55938451 |title=29 Jun 1946 - South Aust. Draw After Trailing By 39 Points - Trove |publisher=Trove.nla.gov.au |date=1946-06-29 |accessdate=2022-02-18}}</ref> In 1948, Victoria played Western Australia for the first time in ten years, which Western Australia went on to win by 38 points, in what was described as a memorable victory.<ref name="The West Australian 16 July 1948">''The West Australian'' 16 July 1948</ref>
The [[Australian National Football Council]] expanded in 1949, which saw the Victoria Football Association and the [[Australian Amateur Football Council]] each re-enter teams in carnival and interstate competitions. The Amateurs were frequent winners of the second division carnivals, and the VFA recorded an upset 8-point win against South Australia at the 1950 interstate carnival.<ref name="hardballget.net">{{cite web |url=https://www.hardballget.net/rep-states-vfa-vfl-matches.html |title=VFA-VFL Representative Matches - Hard Ball Get |website=www.hardballget.net |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200623150347/https://www.hardballget.net/rep-states-vfa-vfl-matches.html |archive-date=2020-06-23}}</ref> The VFA overall had mixed results while readmitted back, with some wins over some of the main states, and large losses,<ref name="hardballget.net"/> and established a rivalry with Tasmania against whom it had a number of close results on both sides.<ref name="hardballget.net"/> In 1959, Victoria beat Western Australia by 178 points, with the loss in Western Australia being taken so badly that it had been reported as potentially being the end of interstate football in the state.<ref>''The West Australian'' 16 July 1959</ref> Tasmania finished of the decade strongly, with two surprise carnival upsets over South Australia in 1956 and 1958 and Western Australia in 1958.<ref name="australianfootball.com">{{cite web|url=https://australianfootball.com/articles/view/polly+says+too+much+(1970+tasmania+v+wa)/218|title=Australian Football - polly says too much (1970 tasmania v wa)|website=australianfootball.com}}</ref>
In the first half of the 1960s saw a brief changing of the guard, with South Australia and Western Australia recording several wins over Victoria,<ref name="web.archive.org">{{cite web|url=http://www.fullpointsfooty.net/interstate_match_results_1955_to_1962.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090107011725/http://www.fullpointsfooty.net/interstate_match_results_1955_to_1962.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=2009-01-07|title=Interstate Match Results 1955 to 1962|date=7 January 2009}}</ref> and an upset win by [[Tasmania vs Victoria (1960)|Tasmania over Victoria]] in 1960, considered one of Tasmanian football's greatest moments.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://afltashalloffame.com.au/memorable-games/2005-tasmania-vs-victoria-1960/|title=2005 Memorable Game – Tasmania vs. Victoria, 1960 &#124; AFL Tasmania Hall of Fame}}</ref> Also the 1963 Tasmanian victory over reigning interstate carnival champions Western Australia.<ref name="australianfootball.com"/> Those were Victoria's last losses of the pre-origin selection era, and Victoria went on a 12-year winning streak against Western Australia and an 18-year winning streak against South Australia.<ref name="web.archive.org"/>
[[Neil Kerley]] and [[Graham Cornes]] were of significance in the rivalry between Victoria and South Australia, who played for and coached the South Australia team during this period.<ref name="Adelaide Football Club">{{Citation|last=Adelaide Football Club|title=Graham Cornes on Open Mike |date=19 August 2013 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47k5tSyL1Eg|access-date=2016-07-12}}</ref> Neil Kerley when coaching the South Australian team would engender a hatred for Victoria, telling his players that all Victorian umpires and players cheated.<ref name="Adelaide Football Club"/> Graham Cornes, who was coached by Kerley for South Australia and was later a coach and central figure in the promotion of interstate football in South Australia, later stated that his hatred for Victoria came from Neil Kerley, and in establishing the culture in South Australia of wanting to prove superiority over Victoria.<ref name="Adelaide Football Club"/> In the 1963 game, after Victorian [[Jack Dyer]] was asked what he would do if he was coaching Victoria, and disrespectfully responded ''I'd give them a pep talk and go to the races'', Kerley opened the match by putting down two Victorians with heavy bumps, and South Australia went on to win by seven points.<ref name="auto">{{Citation|last=aflonthetubes|title=Open Mike (2014) – Neil Kerley|date=2014-04-03|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PNSP5NNct8|access-date=2016-07-12}}</ref>
In the first half of the 1970s, there were some important games played: in 1970 Western Australia played Victoria in Melbourne, with the home side winning by six points.<ref name="ReferenceA">{{cite web|url=http://fullpointsfooty.net/interstate_match_results_1963_to_1972.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090129221636/http://fullpointsfooty.net/interstate_match_results_1963_to_1972.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=2009-01-29|title=Interstate Match Results 1963 to 1972|date=29 January 2009}}</ref> The match was notable because of a native born Western Australian player, playing for Victoria, being involved in the winning play.<ref name="The West Australian 15 May 1989">''The West Australian'' 15 May 1989</ref> After the match with the result not taken well in the west, because of the observation that this had been a regular occurrence, it was first started being mentioned that games should be played on State of Origin criteria.<ref name="The West Australian 15 May 1989"/> Likewise in the 1974 game between the states, with the same result occurring, with again a Western Australia player being involved in the winning play, it was reported in the west as being ''the last straw''.<ref>AFL record State of Origin edition 1999</ref> After the game Western Australia began to negotiate for games to be played under State of Origin criteria.<ref name="The West Australian 15 May 1989"/>
Also in 1970 after a decade of surprise upsets, and large disappointing defeats, Tasmania recorded a memorable victory over Western Australia.<ref name="australianfootball.com"/> In the lead up to the match, an over confident Western Australian captain Polly Farmer, announced to the media that ''That his side simply could not countenance anything other than a convincing win, and "If we can't beat Tasmania, we ought to give the game away'',.<ref name="australianfootball.com"/> The Tasmanians stormed home in the final moments to win the game by two points.<ref name="australianfootball.com"/> With the game notable, for thousands screaming onto the ground after the final siren.<ref name="australianfootball.com"/> In 1974 the Northern Territory first participated in the concept, with a win over Queensland.<ref name="ReferenceA"/>
===State of Origin competition, 1977–1988===
[[File:Australian Football State Of Origin Map.png|thumb|Map of Australia with each State/Territory shaded in their main jumper colour]]
By the 1970s, VFL clubs were signing up an increasing number of the best players from other states and Victoria dominated state games. Led by [[Leon Larkin]], marketing manager of the [[Subiaco Football Club]], Western Australia began to campaign for players to be selected according to state-of-origin rules. The [[West Australian Football League|(WAFL)]] negotiated with the [[Victorian Football League|(VFL)]] for two years before agreement was reached on the format. In the first such game, at [[Subiaco Oval]] in [[Perth]], on 8 October 1977, [[Western Australia Australian rules football team|Western Australia]] defeated [[Victoria Australian rules football team|Victoria]], 23.13 (151) to 8.9 (57), a huge reversal of the results in most previous games. In the words of football historian John Devaney:
:"''A [[Western Australia Australian rules football team|Western Australian team]] composed entirely of home-based players had, on 25 June, taken on a [[Victoria Australian rules football team|Victorian team]] containing many of the same players who would return to Perth three and a half months later for the state of origin clash. The respective scores of the two matches offered a persuasive argument, if such were needed, of the extent to which the VFL had denuded the WAFL of its elite talent:''
:*''On 25 June 1977 [[Victoria Australian rules football team|Victoria 23.16 (154)]] defeated [[Western Australia Australian rules football team|Western Australia 13.13 (91)]] – a margin of 63 points''
:*''On 8 October 1977 [[Western Australia Australian rules football team|Western Australia 23.13 (151)]] defeated [[Victoria Australian rules football team|Victoria 8.9 (57)]] – a margin of 94 points, representing an overall turn around of 157 points''
:''[[Western Australia Australian rules football team|Western Australia's]] previous biggest winning margin against a Victorian state team had been a mere 38 points in 1948.<br /> Almost overnight, an inferiority complex was dismantled: Victoria, it seemed, was not intrinsically superior, only wealthier.''"<ref>{{cite web|url=http://australianfootball.com/clubs/bio/West%20Coast/15|title=WestCoast – Part One: 1881 to 1985|first=John|last=Devaney}}</ref>
Games involving each of the other states soon followed. [[Western Australia Australian rules football team|Western Australia]] and [[South Australia Australian rules football team|South Australia]] began to win more games against [[Victoria Australian rules football team|Victoria]].
A full interstate carnival under state-of-origin selection was held with success in October 1979 in Perth. A second carnival was held the following October in Adelaide, but it was a financial disaster for the organisers, with only 28,245 people attending the four games. Following this series, the VFL decided to not participate in any future carnivals, which put the future of the carnival concept in doubt.<ref>{{cite book|last=Poat|first=Peter|title=Football Register|publisher=Westralian Publishers and Associates|location=Morley, Western Australia|year=1981|edition=19th|pages=212–213}}</ref>
Between 1983 and 1987 there was a new format introduced, with only [[Victoria Australian rules football team|Victoria]], [[South Australia Australian rules football team|South Australia]] and [[Western Australia Australian rules football team|Western Australia]] competing, where each team would play each other once during the year, rather than in a standalone carnival, and with a points system and percentage used to declare the winner. Through this period, State of Origin football continued to be popular.<ref>Victorian Football League record round 17 1985</ref> However, after 1986, the concept began to wane in popularity in Western Australia, with the entrance of [[West Coast Eagles|West Coast]] into the expanded Victorian Football League in 1987.<ref name="The West Australian 15 May 1989"/> When the [[1988 Adelaide Bicentennial Carnival]] ran at a loss, the carnival concept was considered near finished.<ref>''The West Australian'' 7 March 1988</ref>
===1990s: decline and end===
With sponsorship from Carlton and United Breweries and the support of South Australia, the Commission organised for a blockbuster match in 1989, the first between South Australia and Victoria at the Melbourne Cricket Ground since 1971.<ref name="sideshow">{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article122268475 |title=Sideshow spectacular for South Australian visitors |newspaper=[[The Canberra Times]] |volume=63 |issue=19,601 |location=Australian Capital Territory, Australia |date=8 June 1989 |accessdate=17 June 2022 |page=30 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> A record State of Origin crowd of 91,960 at the match (significantly exceeding the VFL's prediction of 70,000) signalled a strong return.<ref>The Sunday Times 2 July 1989</ref> The minor-states carnival continued in 1989, although the Northern Territory withdrew due to financial reasons and because the carnival was played outside its conventional summer season timing.<ref name="sideshow" /> The AFL later gained formal affiliations with these states and territories signalling the end of the NFL's involvement in interstate football. The AFL Commission, taking over the role from the NFL in 1991 ruled out the minor states including Queensland and New South Wales from again playing the major states under State of Origin rules.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article122362902 |title=Salmon and Brans ruled out |newspaper=[[The Canberra Times]] |volume=65 |issue=20,487 |location=Australian Capital Territory, Australia |date=16 May 1991 |accessdate=20 June 2022 |page=28 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> ''Ad hoc'' matches continued to be scheduled between 1989 and 1992 without a carnival. With the expansion of the [[Australian Football League]] into Queensland and Western Australia in 1987 and South Australia in 1991, the top Victorian players were now playing football matches in those states every second week as part of club matches, and a major part of the representative football's appeal disappeared.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article122371340 |title=Klug guilty of striking, suspended for two games SPORT |newspaper=[[The Canberra Times]] |volume=65 |issue=20,550 |location=Australian Capital Territory, Australia |date=18 July 1991 |accessdate=17 June 2022 |page=26 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>
The last interstate series recognised as a carnival was played in [[1993 State of Origin Championships|1993]]; as a once-off, the AFL season was shortened from 22 rounds to 20 to accommodate the carnival, and two new composite teams QLD/NT and NSW/ACT were introduced.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article127231346 |title=AFL considers a two-week format for State of Origin |newspaper=[[The Canberra Times]] |volume=67 |issue=21,238 |location=Australian Capital Territory, Australia |date=8 June 1993 |accessdate=17 June 2022 |page=20 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> However, from 1992 until 1994, unusual timeslots and high ticket prices made the games inaccessible to many spectators.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article118214910 |title=SPORT |newspaper=[[The Canberra Times]] |volume=69 |issue=21,593 |location=Australian Capital Territory, Australia |date=30 May 1994 |accessdate=17 June 2022 |page=24 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref><ref name="shorten">{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article132382614 |title=Origin match timed badly, AFL admits |newspaper=[[The Canberra Times]] |volume=66 |issue=20,864 |location=Australian Capital Territory, Australia |date=28 May 1992 |accessdate=17 June 2022 |page=24 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> In 1994, [[Graham Cornes]] criticised the Commission for its poor promotion of State of Origin in comparison with its [[Rugby League State of Origin|rugby league equivalent]], while also noting the negative impact that the nationalisation of the AFL had on interstate football's prestige.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article118209193 |title=SPORT |newspaper=[[The Canberra Times]] |volume=69 |issue=21,566 |location=Australian Capital Territory, Australia |date=3 May 1994 |accessdate=17 June 2022 |page=27 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>
In the AFL Commission's five-year plan released in August 1994, the Commission announced further plans to reinvigorate State of Origin, attempting to establish a competition to rival Rugby League's equivalent; this included setting aside a free week in the fixture, and introducing a new composite team to be known as the Allies to represent all states outside Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia and be more competitive against them.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article127517923 |title=AFL introduces 'Allies' to beef up State Of Origin concept |newspaper=[[The Canberra Times]] |volume=70 |issue=21,881 |location=Australian Capital Territory, Australia |date=15 March 1995 |accessdate=17 June 2022 |page=34 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> Before a large crowd in 1995, between the Victoria and South Australia game at the Melbourne Cricket Ground<ref>{{cite web | url=https://mcg.org.au/things-to-do/tell-us-your-moment/mr-football | title=Mr Football's final lap }}</ref> Ted Whitten, promoter of Victoria and State of Origin, was terminally ill with prostate cancer, and was paraded around the ground prior to the match, with [[Mariah Carey]]'s [[Hero (Mariah Carey song)|Hero]] being played over the PA system, for his service to the concept and the game, in a moment which has been voted as the most memorable moment in the game's history.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.theage.com.au/sport/soccer/intense-state-rivalry-dates-back-to-colonial-past-20070217-ge48uz.html | title=Intense state rivalry dates back to colonial past | date=17 February 2007 }}</ref> However, [[Tom Hafey]] noted an increase in clubs discouraging players from playing due to risk of injury, and an increasing reluctance from players themselves.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article196431814 |title=Talking Football |newspaper=[[Victor Harbor Times]] |volume=91 |issue=4,413 |location=South Australia |date=31 May 1996 |accessdate=17 June 2022 |page=26 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>
There were two state of origin matches were played on a free weekend in the AFL season each year between 1995 and 1998, and they featured the same four teams: the Allies, Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia – but aside from 1997 when a Victoria and South Australia game got a large crowd, low crowds and an annual $800,000 cost to stage the series persisted.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://footystats.freeservers.com/Special/1998review.html |accessdate=18 June 2022 |publisher=Footy Stats |title=1998 Review |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150629130659/http://footystats.freeservers.com/Special/1998review.html |archive-date=29 June 2015 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Only one match was played in 1999, with Victoria 17.19 (121) defeating South Australia 10.7 (67) before a crowd of 26,063 in rainy conditions; it would prove to be the last state of origin game. The match dropped from the 2000 season because the season's compressed schedule – which saw it played a month earlier than usual to accommodate the [[2000 Summer Olympics]] in Sydney – did not allow for the week's break;<ref>{{cite web |url=http://footystats.freeservers.com/Special/1999review.html |title=1999 Review |accessdate=18 June 2022 |publisher=Footy Stats |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303232831/http://footystats.freeservers.com/Special/1999review.html |archive-date=3 March 2016 |url-status=dead}}</ref> but state of origin never returned to the calendar thereafter.
===21st century===
There have been two once-off representative matches played during the 21st century, each between Victoria and a single composite team representing the rest of Australia under state of origin selection rules. The first was the [[AFL Hall of Fame Tribute Match]], held on a free weekend in 2008 as part of that season's celebration of the 150th anniversary of the [[Origins of Australian rules football#Experimental matches|birth of Australian rules football]]. The second was the [[State of Origin for Bushfire Relief Match]], a benefit match played during the 2020 preseason to raise funds for the recovery after the [[2019–20 Australian bushfire season]].
==Importance==
At its peak, interstate matches were among the most important events on the annual football calendar in South Australia, Western Australia and Tasmania. The crowds drawn to interstate matches in those states regularly dwarfed home-and-away crowds, and at times throughout history would match or exceed grand final attendances. In Perth, interstate matches at the [[1921 Perth Carnival|1921 carnival]], during the [[1929 WAFL season|1929 season]], and at the [[1937 Perth Carnival|1937 carnival]] successively set records as Western Australia's highest-ever sports crowd; the crowd of 40,000 drawn to that 1937 match was more than 10,000 higher than any previous Western Australian crowd<ref name="day3">{{cite news|newspaper=The West Australian|publication-place=Perth, WA|title=Football carnival|page=15|date=16 August 1937}}</ref> and almost double the record club grand final crowd at that time. Likewise in Tasmania, carnival fixtures in [[1924 Hobart Carnival|1924]],<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=The West Australian|publication-place=Perth, WA|title=Large Hobart crowd|date=1 October 1946|page=5}}</ref> [[1947 Hobart Carnival|1947]]<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=The Mercury|title=Victoria wins carnival premiership|date=11 August 1947|page=17|publication-place=Hobart, TAS}}</ref> and [[1966 Hobart Carnival|1966]] each set new Tasmanian state football attendance records,<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=The Sun News-Pictorial|publication-place=Melbourne|page=31|first=Kevin|last=Hogan|date=13 June 1966|title=Battle for VFA}}</ref> and the 1966 carnival crowd of 23,764 remains the third-highest football attendance in Tasmania's history. State of Origin matches in the 1980s in South Australia and Western Australia regularly drew crowds between 30,000 and 50,000, on par with grand finals in those states during that era; and interstate matches in Tasmania consistently drew crowds which either exceeded or were second only to the Tasmanian league's grand final attendances.<ref name="baum">{{cite news|newspaper=The Sun News-Pictorial|publication-place=Melbourne|title=Fans united on Big V day|page=85|first=Greg|last=Baum|date=3 July 1989}}</ref>
Interstate football was less popular in Victoria than it was in the other states. One match in Victoria in 1989 against South Australia set the national interstate football record crowd of 91,960, with 10,000 people turned away at the gate,<ref name="baum"/> and other large crowds at interstate games in Victoria were between 60,000 and 70,000,<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=The Sun News=Pictorial|publication-place=Melbourne|title=Blockbuster|date=1 July 1989|author1=Tony de Bolfo|first2=Justin|last2=Brasier|page=84}}</ref> on par with some large home-and-away games but lower than a typical finals attendance. But, at its lowest, interstate games in Victoria during the 1930s could sometimes fail to draw 10,000 spectators – less than the average home-and-away crowd – at a time when state record crowds were drawn to the matches elsewhere.<ref name="rohan">{{cite news|newspaper=The Sporting Globe|publication-place=Melbourne|title=A big football problem|date=7 August 1935|pages=1, 8|author=J. M. Rohan}}</ref> Eventually, due to these lower levels of public interest, less interstate football came to be played in Victoria: for the majority of the 1980s, when State of Origin football was at its peak, the Victorian team did not play a single match at home.<ref name="baum" /> The primary reason for the difference in popularity between Victoria and the other states was the Victorian team's historical dominance in interstate football. Particularly during the pre–State of Origin era, the Victorian team was always expected to win and regularly won easily; therefore, Victorian spectators were disinclined to attend matches because there was little importance on offer for victory and a high chance of a one-sided contest.<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=The Sun News-Pictorial|publication-place=Melbourne|title=Good meat – but no salt|date=7 July 1958|first=Kevin|last=Hogan|page=44}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|newspaper=The Sporting Globe|publication-place=Melbourne|title=Thankful for no Interstate Match|date=22 April 1936|page=8|author=P. J. Millard}}</ref> The record crowd of 91,960 in Melbourne in 1989 came after South Australia had beaten Victoria three years in a row, demonstrating that Victorian fans were willing to embrace interstate football when the rivalry and contests were closely fought.<ref name="baum" /> Additionally, differences in supporter culture between the states meant that club football and club parochialism had much greater importance in Victoria than in the other states.<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=The Sporting Globe|publication-place=Melbourne|title=Is break in League programme justified?|page=8|date=22 August 1934}}</ref>
Amongst the competing states, the rivalry with Victoria was the strongest. Victoria's long-term dominance of interstate football created a culture of disdain towards it; as a result, the most popular games always involved Victoria, and beating Victoria was considered the pinnacle of interstate football in South Australia and Western Australia.<ref name="wafootball.com.au">{{cite web |url=https://wafootball.com.au/news/8428/cornes-leads-sanfl-with-pride-in-jumper-at-forefront |title=Cornes leads SANFL with pride in jumper at forefront &#124; WA Football News |access-date=2015-07-08 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150709090301/https://wafootball.com.au/news/8428/cornes-leads-sanfl-with-pride-in-jumper-at-forefront |archive-date=9 July 2015}}</ref> South Australia's rivalry towards Victoria was characterised during the 1980s with the slogan "Kick a Vic".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UdW7wZUTag|title=1988 State of Origin South Australia 15.12.102 d Victoria 6.6.42|via=www.youtube.com}}{{cbignore}}{{Dead Youtube links|date=February 2022}}</ref>
Players from all states, including Victoria, viewed selection and participation in interstate football with great importance. [[Ted Whitten]], who was widely noted for his involvement in and passion for the Victorian team described how "the players would walk on broken glass to wear the Victorian jumper".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/afl/fanforce/index.php/heraldsun/comments/top_ten_greatest_state_of_origin_moments |title=Top ten greatest State of Origin Moments &#124; Herald Sun Fan Force Blog |access-date=2016-03-01 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080919174657/http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/afl/fanforce/index.php/heraldsun/comments/top_ten_greatest_state_of_origin_moments |archive-date=19 September 2008}}</ref> [[Graham Cornes]], well known for his involvement in the South Australian team, always spoke equally proudly of the experience of representing his state.<ref name="wafootball.com.au"/> [[John Platten]], a highly decorated player, described a drought-breaking victory playing for South Australia, over Victoria, as one of his proudest football moments.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/sport/afl/there-still-pride-in-the-sa-jumper/story-e6freckc-1226639710079 |title=There's still pride in the South Australian jumper &#124; the Advertiser |access-date=2015-07-08 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130912175147/http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/sport/afl/there-still-pride-in-the-sa-jumper/story-e6freckc-1226639710079 |archive-date=12 September 2013}}</ref> Comments from other players included:
* [[Matthew Lloyd]] (Victoria) – ''immense pride – you feel like you walk a bit taller when you pull on the Big V''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cedric.slv.vic.gov.au/view/action/nmets.do?DOCCHOICE=2196709.xml&dvs=1467371053409~917&locale=en_AU&search_terms=&adjacency=&VIEWER_URL=/view/action/nmets.do?&DELIVERY_RULE_ID=4&divType=&usePid1=true&usePid2=true|title=Digitised Resource Viewer|website=cedric.slv.vic.gov.au|access-date=2016-07-01}}</ref>
* [[Stephen O'Reilly (footballer)|Stephen O'Reilly]] (Western Australia) – ''State of Origin football is the pinnacle for AFL players''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cedric.slv.vic.gov.au/view/action/nmets.do?DOCCHOICE=2074496.xml&dvs=1469505798061~547&locale=en_AU&search_terms=&adjacency=&VIEWER_URL=/view/action/nmets.do?&DELIVERY_RULE_ID=4&divType=&usePid1=true&usePid2=true|title=Digitised Resource Viewer|website=cedric.slv.vic.gov.au|access-date=2016-07-26}}</ref>
* [[Andrew McKay]] (South Australia) – ''I never dreamt of playing VFL/AFL as a child, but I always dreamt of playing for my state''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cedric.slv.vic.gov.au/view/action/nmets.do?DOCCHOICE=2074496.xml&dvs=1469425974731~317&locale=en_AU&search_terms=&adjacency=&VIEWER_URL=/view/action/nmets.do?&DELIVERY_RULE_ID=4&divType=&usePid1=true&usePid2=true|title=Attention!|website=cedric.slv.vic.gov.au|access-date=2016-07-25}}</ref>
* [[Graham Cornes]] (South Australia) – ''pulling the South Australian jumper on is like a dream come true''.<ref>{{Citation|last=Adelaide Football Club|title=Graham Cornes on Open Mike |date=19 August 2013 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47k5tSyL1Eg|access-date=2016-03-03}}</ref>
* [[Tony Lockett]] (Victoria), who commented after he won the [[E. J. Whitten Medal]] – ''this will probably go down as one of the happiest days of my life, and I'll treasure it forever''.<ref>{{Citation|last=SAfootballarchive|title=1995 State of Origin Victoria 18.12.120 d South Australia 8.9.57 (Ted Whitten Farewell game)|date=2012-03-06|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsIhZVUOj_Y|access-date=2016-03-01}}{{cbignore}}{{Dead Youtube links|date=February 2022}}</ref>
==Selection criteria==
The State of Origin eligibility rules varied from game to game, and matches during the 1980s were sometimes played under partial, rather than full, State of Origin rules. This was in large part so that neutral leagues were not disrupted by a stand-alone game between two other states; ''e.g.'' VFL clubs would not lose access to interstate origin players on the weekend of a game between South Australia and Western Australia. For example, in the stand-alone 1982 match between South Australia and Victoria, a quota of up to six VFL players of South Australian origin, and no more than one from any VFL club, could play for South Australia; but otherwise, all SANFL and VFL players were eligible to play for South Australia and Victoria respectively – indeed Victoria fielded five VFL players of Western Australian origin in that match, including their captain, [[Mike Fitzpatrick (footballer)|Mike Fitzpatrick]].<ref name="Flower">{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=PC5VAAAAIBAJ&sjid=nJQDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3277%2C235397|title=Flower in Doubt|date=17 May 1982|first=Ron|last=Carter|work=The Age|page=26}} In addition to Fitzpatrick, the other Western Australians named to play for Victoria were [[Ross Glendinning]], [[Ken Hunter]], [[Robert Wiley]] and [[Tony Buhagiar]].</ref><ref name="VicvsSA">{{cite news|newspaper=The Sun News-Pictorial|edition=Final|date=11 May 1982|publication-place=Melbourne|first=Jack|last=Dunn|title=Eight new boys get the Big V|page=74}}</ref> [[Jason Dunstall]] and [[Terry Daniher]], who were born in and recruited from Queensland and [[New South Wales]] respectively, both played several partial-origin matches for Victoria; and in a partial-origin match against Victoria in 1990. New South Wales was allowed to be represented by players of New South Welsh origin and any player who had played for the [[Sydney Swans]]<ref>{{cite news|title=Pride restored – Tasmania v Victoria, 1990|first=John|last=Devaney|url=http://australianfootball.com/articles/view/30+years+on+-+1990+State+of+Orgin:+Tasmania+v+Victoria/49}}</ref> and Queensland was allowed to be represented by players of Queensland origin and any player who had played for the [[Brisbane Bears]]/[[Brisbane Lions|Lions]]. Changes made in 1990 set a player's state of origin based on his registered state at age 15.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article122248637 |title=Times Sport |newspaper=[[The Canberra Times]] |volume=64 |issue=20,127 |location=Australian Capital Territory, Australia |date=21 May 1990 |accessdate=17 June 2022 |page=23 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>
[[Roger Merrett]] has played for and captained both Victoria (1984) and Queensland (1991).
==State of Origin in popular media==
[[Greg Champion]] wrote a song, "Don't Let The Big V Down", about the traditional navy blue jumper with a large white ''V'' used to represent Victoria in state games. The song is about a young man who is about to play his first state game and is approached by another man, who is [[Ted Whitten]], and tells him to not let the Big V down.
Champion also wrote another song, "Came From Adelaide", about two people watching a game between South Australia and Victoria. One of them turns to the other and says that the [[South Australia Australian rules football team|Croweaters]] cannot play. The other replies that this is not true and that the South Australians are great.
==Team Uniforms==
{|
|{{Australian rules football kit box
|pattern_b= |pattern_sh= _orangesides|pattern_so= _orangetop|body= 71BCFF|shorts= 000000|socks= 000000|title= Allies}}
|{{Australian rules football kit box
|pattern_b= |pattern_sh= _goldsides|pattern_so= |body= FFFFFF|shorts= FFFFFF|socks= FFFFFF|title= All Stars}}
|{{Australian rules football kit box
|pattern_b= |pattern_sh= _yellowsides|pattern_so= _goldtop|body = 285D50|shorts = 000000|socks = 285D50|title= Amateurs}}
|{{Australian rules football kit box
|pattern_b= _gold_v_top|pattern_sh= _yellowsides|pattern_so= _goldtop|body= 133B9F|shorts= 1E1E1E|socks= 133B9F|title= Canberra/ACT}}
|{{Australian rules football kit box
|pattern_b= _bluesides|pattern_sh= _bluesides|pattern_so= _goldtop|body= FFFFFF|shorts= FFFFFF|socks= FFFFFF|title= Dream Team}}
|-
|{{Australian rules football kit box
|pattern_b= |pattern_sh= _whitesides|pattern_so= _navytop|body= 71BCFF|shorts= 0D1D42|socks= 71BCFF|title= New South Wales}}
|{{Australian rules football kit box
|pattern_b= _blue_v_top|pattern_sh= _whitesides|pattern_so= _navytop|body= 71BCFF|shorts= 0D1D42|socks= 71BCFF|title= NSW/ACT}}
|{{Australian rules football kit box
|pattern_b= 000000|pattern_sh= _whitesides|pattern_so= _whitetop|body= 000000|shorts= 000000|socks= 000000|title= New Zealand}}
|{{Australian rules football kit box
|pattern_b= _gold_v_top|pattern_sh= _whitesides|pattern_so= |body= FFFFFF|shorts= 000000|socks= 000000|title= Northern Territory}}
|{{Australian rules football kit box
|pattern_b= |pattern_sh= _whitesides|pattern_so= _whitetop|body= 860038|shorts= 860038|socks= 860038|title= Queensland}}
|-
|{{Australian rules football kit box
|pattern_b= _goldv_large|pattern_sh= _blacksides|pattern_so= |body= 860038|shorts= FFFFFF|socks= 860038|title= Queensland/N.T.}}
|{{Australian rules football kit box
|pattern_b= _bluev_large|pattern_sh= _yellowsides|pattern_so= _bluetop|body= FF0000|shorts= 133B9F|socks= FF0000|title= South Australia}}
|{{Australian rules football kit box
|pattern_b= _tasmania|pattern_sh= _whitesides|pattern_so= _redtop|body = 285D50|shorts = 000000|socks = 285D50|title= Tasmania}}
|{{Australian rules football kit box
|pattern_b= _bigV|pattern_sh= _navysides|pattern_so = |body = 0E1E2D|shorts = FFFFFF|socks= 0E1E2D|title= Victoria}}
|{{Australian rules football kit box
|pattern_b= _blackrightsash|pattern_sh= _goldsides|pattern_so= _hoops_black|body= FFD700|shorts= 000000|socks= FED102|title= West Australia}}
|}
==Team colours==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Team
! Icon/s
|-
! {{rh}} | Allies (Men)
| [[File:SoO_-_Allies.png|center|40x40px]]
|-
! {{rh}} | Allies (Women)
| [[File:Murray Bushrangers Football Club colours.jpg|center|40x40px]]
|-
! {{rh}} | All Stars
| [[File:AllStars2020footballjumper.jpg|center|40x40px]]
|-
! {{rh}} | Amateurs
| [[File:SoO_-_AA.png|center|40x40px]]
|-
! {{rh}} | Australian Capital Territory/Canberra
| [[File:Cranbourne_Eagles_Colours.png|center|40x40px]]
|-
| {{rh}} | Dream Team
| [[File:Solid_white_bordered.svg|center|40x40px]]
|-
| {{rh}} | Indigenous All Stars
| [[File:Western_magic_icon.png|center|40x40px]]
|-
! {{rh}} | New South Wales
| [[File:Swanpool_Football_Club_colours.jpg|center|40x40px]]
|-
! {{rh}} | New South Wales/Australian Capital Territory (1993)
| [[File:Swanpool_Football_Club_colours.jpg|center|40x40px]]
|-
! {{rh}} | New South Wales/Australian Capital Territory
| [[File:NSWACTRams.png|center|40x40px]]
|-
! {{rh}} | New Zealand
| [[File:Birmingham_Bushrangers_Australian_Football_Club_colours.jpg|center|40x40px]]
|-
! {{rh}} | Northern Territory
| [[File:SoO_-_NT.png|center|40x40px]]
|-
! {{rh}} | Queensland
| [[File:QueenslandScorpions.png|center|40x40px]]
|-
! {{rh}} | Queensland/Northern Territory (1993)
| [[File:University_Cougars_Australian_Football_Club_colours.jpg|center|40x40px]]
|-
! {{rh}} | South Australia
| [[File:Safootballjumper.jpg|center|40x40px]]
|-
! {{rh}} | Tasmania
| [[File:Tasmania state logo.png|center|40x40px]]
|-
! {{rh}} | Victoria (VFL) (1988)
| [[File:SoO_-_VIC.png|center|40x40px]]
|-
! {{rh}} | Victoria (VFA) (1988)
| [[File:SoO_-_VFA.png|center|40x40px]]
|-
! {{rh}} | Victoria
| [[File:SoO_-_VIC.png|center|40x40px]]
|-
! {{rh}} | Western Australia
| [[File:Tampa_Bay_Tiger_Sharks_Australian_Football_Club_colours.jpg|center|40x40px]]
|}
==Team representation==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Team
! Representation
|-
! {{rh}} | Allies (Men)
| Composite Team
|-
! {{rh}} | Allies (Women)
| Composite Team
|-
! {{rh}} | All Stars
| Composite Team
|-
! {{rh}} | Amateurs
| Composite Team
|-
! {{rh}} | Australian Capital Territory/Canberra
| Territory Team
|-
| {{rh}} | Dream Team
| Composite Team
|-
| {{rh}} | Indigenous All Stars
| Composite Team
|-
! {{rh}} | New South Wales
| State Team
|-
! {{rh}} | New South Wales/Australian Capital Territory
| Combined Team
|-
! {{rh}} | New Zealand
| Nation/National Team
|-
! {{rh}} | Northern Territory
| Territory Team
|-
! {{rh}} | Queensland
| State Team
|-
! {{rh}} | Queensland/Northern Territory
| Combined Team
|-
! {{rh}} | South Australia
| State Team
|-
! {{rh}} | Tasmania
| State Team
|-
! {{rh}} | Victoria (VFL) (1988)
| State Team
|-
! {{rh}} | Victoria (VFA) (1988)
| State Team
|-
! {{rh}} | Victoria
| State Team
|-
! {{rh}} | Western Australia
| State Team
|}
==Teams and games played==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Team
! First Game
! Last Game
|-
! {{rh}} | Allies (Men)
| 1995
| 1998
|-
! {{rh}} | Allies (Women)
| 2017
| 2017
|-
! {{rh}} | All Stars
| 2020
| 2020
|-
! {{rh}} | Amateurs
| 1988
| 1988
|-
! {{rh}} | Australian Capital Territory/Canberra
| 1925
| 1988
|-
| {{rh}} | Dream Team
| 2008
| 2008
|-
| {{rh}} | Indigenous
| 1983
|
|-
! {{rh}} | New South Wales
| 1881
| 1992
|-
! {{rh}} | New South Wales/Australian Capital Territory
| 1993
| 1993
|-
! {{rh}} | New Zealand
| 1889
| 1908
|-
! {{rh}} | Northern Territory
| 1988
| 1988
|-
! {{rh}} | Queensland
| 1884
| 1992
|-
! {{rh}} | Queensland/Northern Territory
| 1993
| 1993
|-
! {{rh}} | South Australia
| 1879
| 1999
|-
! {{rh}} | Tasmania
| 1887
| 1993
|-
! {{rh}} | Victoria (VFL)
| 1897
| 2020
|-
! {{rh}} | Victoria (VFA)
| 1879
| 1988
|-
! {{rh}} | Western Australia
| 1904
| 1998
|}
==Teams, awards and medals==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Team
! Award/Medal
|-
! {{rh}} | Allies (Men)
| [[Alex Jesaulenko]] [[Alex Jesaulenko Medal|Medal]]
|-
! {{rh}} | Allies (Women)
|
|-
! {{rh}} | All Stars
|
|-
! {{rh}} | Amateurs
|
|-
! {{rh}} | Australian Capital Territory/Canberra
|
|-
| {{rh}} | Dream Team
|
|-
| {{rh}} | Indigenous All Stars
|
|-
! {{rh}} | New South Wales
|
|-
! {{rh}} | New South Wales/Australian Capital Territory
|
|-
! {{rh}} | New Zealand
|
|-
! {{rh}} | Northern Territory
|
|-
! {{rh}} | Queensland
|
|-
! {{rh}} | Queensland/Northern Territory
|
|-
! {{rh}} | South Australia
| [[Fos Williams]] [[Fos Williams Medal|Medal]]
|-
! {{rh}} | Tasmania
| Lefroy Medal
|-
! {{rh}} | Victoria (VFL)
| [[Ted Whitten|E. J. Whitten]] [[E. J. Whitten Medal|Medal]]
|-
! {{rh}} | Victoria (VFA)
|
|-
! {{rh}} | Western Australia
| [[Simpson Medal]] (1948–1991), [[Graham Moss]] [[Graham Moss Medal|Medal]] (1995–1998)
|}
===Australian National Football Carnival teams (1908–1993)===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! rowspan=02|Year & Carnival Name
|-
| colspan=10|'''Competing Australian National Football Carnival Teams'''
|-
! colspan=11|'''Australian National Football Carnival Matches played under State of Residence rules'''
|-
| [[1908 Melbourne Carnival|1908 Jubilee Australasian Football Carnival]] || [[Australian rules football in New South Wales|New South Wales]] || [[Australian rules football in New Zealand|New Zealand]] || [[Australian rules football in Queensland|Queensland]] || [[Australian rules football in South Australia|South Australia]] || [[Australian rules football in Tasmania|Tasmania]] || [[Australian rules football in Victoria|Victoria]]|| [[Australian rules football in Western Australia|Western Australia]] || || ||
|-
| [[1911 Adelaide Carnival]] || [[Australian rules football in New South Wales|New South Wales]] || [[Australian rules football in South Australia|South Australia]] || [[Australian rules football in Tasmania|Tasmania]] || [[Australian rules football in Victoria|Victoria]]|| [[Australian rules football in Western Australia|Western Australia]] || || || || ||
|-
| [[1914 Sydney Carnival|1914 Sydney Football Carnival]] || [[Australian rules football in New South Wales|New South Wales]] || [[Australian rules football in Queensland|Queensland]] || [[Australian rules football in South Australia|South Australia]] || [[Australian rules football in Tasmania|Tasmania]] || [[Australian rules football in Victoria|Victoria]]|| [[Australian rules football in Western Australia|Western Australia]] || || || ||
|-
| [[1921 Perth Carnival|1921 Perth Football Carnival]] || [[Australian rules football in South Australia|South Australia]] || [[Australian rules football in Victoria|Victoria]]|| [[Australian rules football in Western Australia|Western Australia]] || || || || || || ||
|-
| [[1924 Hobart Carnival|1924 Hobart Football Carnival]] || [[Australian rules football in South Australia|South Australia]] || [[Australian rules football in Victoria|Victoria]]|| [[Australian rules football in Western Australia|Western Australia]] || || || || || || ||
|-
| [[1927 Melbourne Carnival|1927 Melbourne Football Carnival]] || [[Australian rules football in New South Wales|New South Wales]] || [[Australian rules football in Queensland|Queensland]] || [[Australian rules football in South Australia|South Australia]] || [[Australian rules football in Tasmania|Tasmania]] || [[Australian rules football in Victoria|Victoria]] || [[Australian rules football in Western Australia|Western Australia]] || || || ||
|-
| [[1930 Adelaide Carnival|1930 Adelaide Football Carnival]] || [[Australian rules football in New South Wales|New South Wales]] || [[Australian rules football in Queensland|Queensland]] || [[Australian rules football in South Australia|South Australia]] || [[Australian rules football in Tasmania|Tasmania]] || [[Australian rules football in Victoria|Victoria]] || [[Australian rules football in Western Australia|Western Australia]] || || || ||
|-
| [[1933 Sydney Carnival|1933 Sydney Football Carnival]] || [[Australian rules football in New South Wales|New South Wales]] || [[Australian rules football in Queensland|Queensland]] || [[Australian rules football in South Australia|South Australia]] || [[Australian rules football in Tasmania|Tasmania]] || [[Australian rules football in Victoria|Victoria]] || [[Australian rules football in Western Australia|Western Australia]] || || || ||
|-
| [[1937 Perth Carnival|1937 Perth Football Carnival]] || [[Australian rules football in South Australia|South Australia]] || [[Australian rules football in Tasmania|Tasmania]] || [[Australian rules football in Victoria|Victoria]] || [[Australian rules football in Western Australia|Western Australia]] || || || || || ||
|-
| [[1947 Hobart Carnival|1947 Hobart Football Carnival]] || [[Australian rules football in the Australian Capital Territory|Canberra]] || [[Australian rules football in New South Wales|New South Wales]] || [[Australian rules football in Queensland|Queensland]] || [[Australian rules football in South Australia|South Australia]] || [[Australian rules football in Tasmania|Tasmania]] || [[Australian rules football in Victoria|Victoria]] || [[Australian rules football in Western Australia|Western Australia]] || || ||
|-
| [[1950 Brisbane Carnival|1950 Brisbane Football Carnival]] || [[Australian Amateur Football Council|Amateurs]] || [[Australian rules football in the Australian Capital Territory|Canberra]] || [[Australian rules football in New South Wales|New South Wales]] || [[Australian rules football in Queensland|Queensland]] || [[Australian rules football in South Australia|South Australia]] || [[Australian rules football in Tasmania|Tasmania]] || [[Australian rules football in Victoria|Victoria (VFA)]] || [[Australian rules football in Victoria|Victoria (VFL)]] || [[Australian rules football in Western Australia|Western Australia]] ||
|-
| [[1953 Adelaide Carnival|1953 Adelaide Football Carnival]] || [[Australian rules football in South Australia|South Australia]] || [[Australian rules football in Tasmania|Tasmania]] || [[Australian rules football in Victoria|Victoria (VFA)]] || [[Australian rules football in Victoria|Victoria (VFL)]] || [[Australian rules football in Western Australia|Western Australia]] || || || || ||
|-
| [[1956 Perth Carnival|1956 Perth Football Carnival]] || [[Australian rules football in South Australia|South Australia]] || [[Australian rules football in Tasmania|Tasmania]] || [[Australian rules football in Victoria|Victoria (VFA)]] || [[Australian rules football in Victoria|Victoria (VFL)]] || [[Australian rules football in Western Australia|Western Australia]] || || || || ||
|-
| [[1958 Melbourne Carnival|1958 Centenary Carnival]] || [[Australian Amateur Football Council|Amateurs]] || [[Australian rules football in the Australian Capital Territory|Canberra]] || [[Australian rules football in New South Wales|New South Wales]] || [[Australian rules football in Queensland|Queensland]] || [[Australian rules football in South Australia|South Australia]] || [[Australian rules football in Tasmania|Tasmania]] || [[Australian rules football in Victoria|Victoria (VFA)]] || [[Australian rules football in Victoria|Victoria (VFL)]] || [[Australian rules football in Western Australia|Western Australia]] ||
|-
| [[1960 Minor States Carnival]] || [[Australian Amateur Football Council|Amateurs]] || [[Australian rules football in the Australian Capital Territory|Canberra]] || [[Australian rules football in New South Wales|New South Wales]] || [[Australian rules football in Queensland|Queensland]] || [[Australian rules football in South Australia|South Australia]] || [[Australian rules football in Tasmania|Tasmania]] || [[Australian rules football in Victoria|Victoria (VFA)]] || [[Australian rules football in Western Australia|Western Australia]] || ||
|-
| [[1961 Brisbane Carnival|1961 Brisbane Football Carnival]] || [[Australian rules football in South Australia|South Australia]] || [[Australian rules football in Tasmania|Tasmania]] || [[Australian rules football in Victoria|Victoria]] || [[Australian rules football in Western Australia|Western Australia]] || || || || || ||
|-
| [[1966 Hobart Carnival|1966 Hobart Football Carnival]] || [[Australian rules football in South Australia|South Australia]] || [[Australian rules football in Tasmania|Tasmania]] || [[Australian rules football in Victoria|Victoria (VFA)]] || [[Australian rules football in Victoria|Victoria (VFL)]] || [[Australian rules football in Western Australia|Western Australia]] || || || || ||
|-
| [[1968 Minor States Carnival]] || [[Australian Amateur Football Council|Amateurs]] || [[Australian rules football in the Australian Capital Territory|Canberra]] || [[Australian rules football in New South Wales|New South Wales]] || [[Australian rules football in Queensland|Queensland]] || || || || || ||
|-
| [[1969 Adelaide Carnival|1969 Adelaide Football Carnival]] || [[Australian rules football in South Australia|South Australia]] || [[Australian rules football in Tasmania|Tasmania]] || [[Australian rules football in Victoria|Victoria (VFA)]] || [[Australian rules football in Victoria|Victoria (VFL)]] || [[Australian rules football in Western Australia|Western Australia]] || || || || ||
|-
| [[1972 Perth Carnival|1972 Perth Football Carnival]] || [[Australian rules football in South Australia|South Australia]] || [[Australian rules football in Tasmania|Tasmania]] || [[Australian rules football in Victoria|Victoria (VFA)]] || [[Australian rules football in Victoria|Victoria (VFL)]] || [[Australian rules football in Western Australia|Western Australia]] || || || || ||
|-
| [[1974 Minor States Carnival]] || [[Australian Amateur Football Council|Amateurs]] || [[Australian rules football in the Australian Capital Territory|Canberra]] || [[Australian rules football in New South Wales|New South Wales]] || [[Australian rules football in Queensland|Queensland]] || || || || || ||
|-
| [[1975 Knockout Carnival|1975 Knockout Football Carnival]] || [[Australian rules football in South Australia|South Australia]] || [[Australian rules football in Tasmania|Tasmania]] || [[Australian rules football in Victoria|Victoria]] || [[Australian rules football in Western Australia|Western Australia]] || || || || || ||
|-
! colspan=11|'''Australian National Football Carnival Matches played under State of Origin rules'''
|-
| [[1979 Perth State of Origin Carnival|1979 State of Origin Carnival]] || [[Australian Amateur Football Council|Amateurs]] || [[Australian rules football in the Australian Capital Territory|Canberra]] || [[Australian rules football in New South Wales|New South Wales]] || [[Australian rules football in the Northern Territory|North. Territory]] || [[Australian rules football in Queensland|Queensland]] || [[Australian rules football in South Australia|South Australia]] || [[Australian rules football in Tasmania|Tasmania]] || [[Australian rules football in Victoria|Victoria]] || [[Australian rules football in Western Australia|Western Australia]] ||
|-
| [[1980 Adelaide State of Origin Carnival|1980 State of Origin Carnival]] || [[Australian rules football in South Australia|South Australia]] || [[Australian rules football in Tasmania|Tasmania]] || [[Australian rules football in Victoria|Victoria]] || [[Australian rules football in Western Australia|Western Australia]] || || || || || ||
|-
| [[1983 Australian Football Championships]] || [[Australian rules football in South Australia|South Australia]] || [[Australian rules football in Victoria|Victoria]] || [[Australian rules football in Western Australia|Western Australia]] || || || || || || ||
|-
| [[1984 Australian Football Championships]] || [[Australian rules football in South Australia|South Australia]] || [[Australian rules football in Victoria|Victoria]] || [[Australian rules football in Western Australia|Western Australia]] || || || || || || ||
|-
| [[1985 Australian Football Championships]] || [[Australian rules football in South Australia|South Australia]] || [[Australian rules football in Victoria|Victoria]] || [[Australian rules football in Western Australia|Western Australia]] || || || || || || ||
|-
| [[1986 Australian Football Championships]] || [[Australian rules football in South Australia|South Australia]] || [[Australian rules football in Victoria|Victoria]] || [[Australian rules football in Western Australia|Western Australia]] || || || || || || ||
|-
| [[1987 Australian Football Championships]] || [[Australian rules football in South Australia|South Australia]] || [[Australian rules football in Victoria|Victoria]] || [[Australian rules football in Western Australia|Western Australia]] || || || || || || ||
|-
| [[1988 Adelaide Bicentennial Carnival|1988 Bicentennial Carnival]] || [[Australian Amateur Football Council|Amateurs]] || [[Australian rules football in the Australian Capital Territory|Canberra]] || [[Australian rules football in New South Wales|New South Wales]] || [[Australian rules football in the Northern Territory|North. Territory]] || [[Australian rules football in Queensland|Queensland]] || [[Australian rules football in South Australia|South Australia]] || [[Australian rules football in Tasmania|Tasmania]] || [[Australian rules football in Victoria|Victoria (VFA)]] || [[Australian rules football in Victoria|Victoria (VFL)]] || [[Australian rules football in Western Australia|Western Australia]]
|-
| [[1993 State of Origin Championships]] || [[Australian rules football in New South Wales|New South Wales]]/<br />[[Australian rules football in the Australian Capital Territory|ACT]] || [[Australian rules football in Queensland|Queensland]]/<br />[[Australian rules football in the Northern Territory|North. Territory]] || [[Australian rules football in South Australia|South Australia]] || [[Australian rules football in Tasmania|Tasmania]] || [[Australian rules football in Victoria|Victoria]] || [[Australian rules football in Western Australia|Western Australia]] || || || ||
|}
===Rivalries===
====Victoria vs South Australia====
The rivalry between [[Victoria (Australia)|Victoria]] and [[South Australia]] was considered the strongest in state football.<ref>{{Citation|last=aflonthetubes|title=Open Mike (2014) – Neil Kerley|date=2014-04-03|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PNSP5NNct8|access-date=2016-06-30}}</ref> Although there is a bitter rivalry on both sides, the make-up of the rivalry is slightly different:<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cedric.slv.vic.gov.au/view/action/nmets.do?DOCCHOICE=2029386.xml&dvs=1467315108436~759&locale=en_AU&search_terms=&adjacency=&VIEWER_URL=/view/action/nmets.do?&DELIVERY_RULE_ID=4&divType=&usePid1=true&usePid2=true|title=Digitised Resource Viewer|website=cedric.slv.vic.gov.au|access-date=2016-06-30}}</ref> for Victoria, being the most successful state in interstate football, it meant that protecting that reputation was of prominent importance;<ref name="Digitised Resource Viewer">{{cite web|url=http://cedric.slv.vic.gov.au/view/action/nmets.do?DOCCHOICE=2029386.xml&dvs=1467311564782~715&locale=en_AU&search_terms=&adjacency=&VIEWER_URL=/view/action/nmets.do?&DELIVERY_RULE_ID=4&divType=&usePid1=true&usePid2=true|title=Digitised Resource Viewer|website=cedric.slv.vic.gov.au|access-date=2016-06-30}}</ref> for South Australia, the rivalry stemmed from dislike, and the feeling that Victorians did not give the state the respect it deserved.<ref name="Digitised Resource Viewer"/> [[Graham Cornes]], who was heavily involved in South Australian state football, described the football culture in Victoria as insular and having a lack of regard for football outside the state which drove that feeling.<ref>{{Citation|last=AllStarAFL|title=The Cornes Family on Open Mike (31 Aug 2015)|date=2015-08-31|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDK7MQnaZmM|access-date=2016-06-29}}{{cbignore}}{{Dead Youtube links|date=February 2022}}</ref>
Many footballers described beating Victoria as one of the top achievements in South Australian football. [[Neil Kerley]] ranked beating Victoria above his club premierships.<ref>{{Citation|last=aflonthetubes|title=Open Mike (2014) – Neil Kerley|date=2014-04-03|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PNSP5NNct8|access-date=2016-06-29}}</ref> Victorian footballers have commented on the passion and hatred directed towards them in interstate games played in Adelaide. [[Garry Lyon]] described the fans as "hostile and maniacal" and "by the time the games came around they were whipped into a frenzy".<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/no-stopping-the-pick-of-the-vics-20110617-1g83w.html|title=No stopping the pick of the Vics|last=Lyon|first=Garry|date=2011-06-18|newspaper=The Age|access-date=2016-06-30}}</ref> [[Paul Roos (Australian rules footballer)|Paul Roos]] commented about the first state game he played in South Australia that "when walking up the entrance and onto [[Football Park]] was an experience in itself. I quickly realised how much hatred existed towards Victorians and their football."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cedric.slv.vic.gov.au/view/action/nmets.do?DOCCHOICE=2143388.xml&dvs=1467231658544~907&locale=en_AU&search_terms=&adjacency=&VIEWER_URL=/view/action/nmets.do?&DELIVERY_RULE_ID=4&divType=&usePid1=true&usePid2=true|title=Digitised Resource Viewer|website=cedric.slv.vic.gov.au|access-date=2016-06-29}}</ref>
====Victoria vs Western Australia====
There is also an intense rivalry between [[Victoria (Australia)|Victoria]] and [[Western Australia]].<ref name="wafc.com.au">{{cite web|url=http://wafc.com.au/news/8428/cornes-leads-sanfl-with-pride-in-jumper-at-forefront|title=Cornes leads SANFL with pride in jumper at forefront|website=WA Football|access-date=2016-06-30}}</ref><ref name="australianfootball1"/> Western Australia's rivalry likewise stemmed from the feeling in Western Australia that Victoria never gave their state the credit it deserved, despite some of the best players of all time coming from the state.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://australianfootball.com/clubs/stats/West%25252BCoast/15/2016|title=Australian Football – West Coast Football Club – Stats|website=australianfootball.com|access-date=2016-06-30}}</ref> The Victorian and Western Australian rivalry was summarised in the early part of the 20th century as a ''friendly rivalry''.<ref name="autogenerated1"/> In contrast with the Victoria vs South Australia rivalry which is based on hatred.<ref>(book) EJ Ted Whitten, Jim Main & Friends, author Ted Whitten</ref> This was evident in the first match between Victoria and Western Australia in Melbourne in 1904, where, before the game, the home Victorians put on a function for the two sides as a welcome. The function was reported to be well received by both sides.<ref name="autogenerated1">(book) South Australian Football : the past and the present, author C.K. Knuckey</ref> This is in contrast to the previous year's Victoria vs South Australia game in Melbourne, where no such function was held.<ref name="autogenerated1"/> After the rivalry evolved from first to the latter half of the 20th century, when Victoria stated to lure many of Western Australia's best players because of money, the rivalry started to take on dislike from Western Australia's part.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://australianfootball.com/clubs/bio/West%20Coast/15 | title=Australian Football - West Coast Football Club - Bio }}</ref>
Some games widely regarded as some of the best in the history of Australian football were played between Victoria and Western Australia in the 1980s.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.theroar.com.au/2008/03/17/the-greatest-state-of-origin-game-ever-wa-v-victoria-86/|title=The greatest State of Origin game ever, WA v Victoria '86|date=2008-03-16|website=The Roar|access-date=2016-07-01}}</ref> [[Shane Parker (footballer)|Shane Parker]], a former Western Australia player, said of the rivalry: "When I was a kid, the State of Origin games were the greatest ever. It was a really big thing to see the WA side play, particularly against Victoria."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cedric.slv.vic.gov.au/view/action/nmets.do?DOCCHOICE=2074496.xml&dvs=1467314335397~206&locale=en_AU&search_terms=&adjacency=&VIEWER_URL=/view/action/nmets.do?&DELIVERY_RULE_ID=4&divType=&usePid1=true&usePid2=true|title=Digitised Resource Viewer|website=cedric.slv.vic.gov.au|access-date=2016-06-30}}</ref>
====Western Australia vs South Australia====
There was an intense rivalry between [[Western Australia]] and [[South Australia]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cedric.slv.vic.gov.au/view/action/nmets.do?DOCCHOICE=2169977.xml&dvs=1467229502995~929&locale=en_AU&search_terms=&adjacency=&VIEWER_URL=/view/action/nmets.do?&DELIVERY_RULE_ID=4&divType=&usePid1=true&usePid2=true|title=Digitised Resource Viewer|website=cedric.slv.vic.gov.au|access-date=2016-06-29}}</ref> with fans at games between the states always vociferous and parochial.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article127001572|title=SA loses thrilling match|work= The Canberra Times|date=10 Jun 1984|via=Trove|access-date=2016-06-29}}</ref>
====Queensland vs New South Wales====
[[Queensland]] and [[New South Wales]] are the two states where rugby football is most popular, having a rivalry in [[Rugby League]] and [[Rugby Union]] which is reflected in their encounters in Australian rules, having been evenly matched since they first met in the 1880s.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article124007219 |title=THE AUSTRALASIAN GAME OF FOOTBALL. |newspaper=[[Queensland Times, Ipswich Herald And General Advertiser]] |volume=XLVII |issue=7036 |location=Queensland, Australia |date=22 March 1906 |accessdate=27 October 2021 |page=10 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> While Queensland has shied away from competing in carnivals that include the stronger states, the neighbouring states have played, at times, annually. The gap narrowed until the 1970s, after which, on the few occasions they have met, Queensland has once again had the upper hand. State of origin matches between the two states in the 1980s were promoted to capitalise on the popularity of state of origin in Rugby League.
==Results==
===Australian National Football Carnival (1908–1993)===
For most of the 20th century, there was a national football carnival usually held every three to five years. Some of the carnivals the format consisted of qualification matches at the start of the tournament, with the winners playing off in a final. In some other carnivals the format was a round-robin format, with a points system in which the team with most points at the end of the tournament was declared the winner.<br />
The national football carnival was played under the State of Residence rules from 1908 to 1975, and then played under the State of Origin rules from 1979 to 1993.
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! rowspan=02|Year & Carnival Name !! rowspan=02|Carnival Host City/Cities !! colspan="02" |Australian National Football Carnival Winners !! rowspan=02|Tassie Medallist !! rowspan=2|Team
|-
!Carnival Winner (Sect. A) !! Carnival Winner (Sect. B)
|-
! colspan=06|''Matches played under State of Residence rules''
|-
| [[1908 Melbourne Carnival|1908 Jubilee Australasian Football Carnival]] || [[Melbourne]] || [[Victoria Australian rules football team|Victoria]] || [[Tasmania Australian rules football team|Tasmania]] || — ||
|-
| [[1911 Adelaide Carnival]] || [[Adelaide]] || [[South Australia Australian rules football team|South Australia]] || {{n/a}} || — ||
|-
| [[1914 Sydney Carnival|1914 Sydney Football Carnival]] || [[Sydney]] || [[Victoria Australian rules football team|Victoria]] || {{n/a}}|| — ||
|-
| [[1921 Perth Carnival|1921 Perth Football Carnival]] || [[Perth]] || [[Western Australia Australian rules football team|Western Australia]] || {{n/a}}|| — ||
|-
| [[1924 Hobart Carnival|1924 Hobart Football Carnival]] || [[Hobart]] || [[Victoria Australian rules football team|Victoria]] || {{n/a}}|| — ||
|-
| [[1927 Melbourne Carnival|1927 Melbourne Football Carnival]] || [[Melbourne]] || [[Victoria Australian rules football team|Victoria]] || {{n/a}}|| — ||
|-
| [[1930 Adelaide Carnival|1930 Adelaide Football Carnival]] || [[Adelaide]] || [[Victoria Australian rules football team|Victoria]] ||{{n/a}}|| — ||
|-
| [[1933 Sydney Carnival|1933 Sydney Football Carnival]] || [[Sydney]] || [[Victoria Australian rules football team|Victoria]] ||{{n/a}}|| — ||
|-
| [[1937 Perth Carnival|1937 Perth Football Carnival]] || [[Perth]] || [[Victoria Australian rules football team|Victoria]] || {{n/a}} || [[Mick Cronin (footballer)|Mick Cronin]] || (WAFL)
|-
| [[1947 Hobart Carnival|1947 Hobart Football Carnival]] || [[Hobart]] || [[Victoria Australian rules football team|Victoria]] || [[Tasmania Australian rules football team|Tasmania]] || [[Les McClements]]<br />[[Bob Furler]] || (WAFL)<br />(ACTAFL)
|-
| [[1950 Brisbane Carnival|1950 Brisbane Football Carnival]] || [[Brisbane]] || [[Victoria Australian rules football team|Victoria]] (VFL) || [[Australian Amateur Football Council|Amateurs]] || [[Terry Cashion]] || (TANFL)
|-
| [[1953 Adelaide Carnival|1953 Adelaide Football Carnival]] || [[Adelaide]] || [[Victoria Australian rules football team|Victoria]] (VFL) || {{n/a}} || [[Merv McIntosh]] || (WAFL)
|-
| [[1956 Perth Carnival|1956 Perth Football Carnival]] || [[Perth]] || [[Victoria Australian rules football team|Victoria]] (VFL) || {{n/a}} || [[Graham Farmer]] || (WAFL)
|-
| [[1958 Melbourne Carnival|1958 Centenary Carnival]] || [[Melbourne]] || [[Victoria Australian rules football team|Victoria]] (VFL) || [[Australian Amateur Football Council|Amateurs]] || [[Allen Aylett]]<br />[[Ted Whitten]] || (VFL)<br />(VFL)
|-
| [[1960 Minor States Carnival]] || [[Canberra]]/[[Sydney]] || {{n/a}} || [[Victoria Australian rules football team|Victoria]] ([[Victorian Football League|VFA]]) || — ||
|-
| [[1961 Brisbane Carnival|1961 Brisbane Football Carnival]] || [[Brisbane]] || [[Western Australia Australian rules football team|Western Australia]] || {{n/a}} || [[Brian Dixon (Australian footballer)|Brian Dixon]] || (WAFL)
|-
| [[1966 Hobart Carnival|1966 Hobart Football Carnival]] || [[Hobart]] || [[Victoria Australian rules football team|Victoria]] (VFL) || {{n/a}} || [[Barry Cable]] || (WAFL)
|-
| [[1968 Minor States Carnival]] || [[Canberra]] || {{n/a}} || [[Australian Amateur Football Council|Amateurs]] || — ||
|-
| [[1969 Adelaide Carnival|1969 Adelaide Football Carnival]] || [[Adelaide]] || [[Victoria Australian rules football team|Victoria]] || {{n/a}} || [[Peter Eakins]]<br />[[Graham Molloy]] || (WAFL)<br />(SANFL)
|-
| [[1972 Perth Carnival|1972 Perth Football Carnival]] || [[Perth]] || [[Victoria Australian rules football team|Victoria]] || {{n/a}} || [[Ken McAullay]] || (WAFL)
|-
| [[1974 Minor States Carnival]] || [[Sydney]] || {{n/a}} || [[Queensland Australian rules football team|Queensland]] || — ||
|-
| [[1975 Knockout Carnival|1975 Knockout Football Carnival]] || [[Adelaide]]/[[Melbourne]] || [[Victoria Australian rules football team|Victoria]] || {{n/a}} || — ||
|-
! colspan=6|''Matches played under State of Origin rules''
|-
| [[1979 Perth State of Origin Carnival|1979 State of Origin Carnival]] || [[Perth]] || [[Western Australia Australian rules football team|Western Australia]] || [[Australian rules football in Queensland#Representative Sides|Queensland]] || Brian Peake || (WAFL)
|-
| [[1980 Adelaide State of Origin Carnival|1980 State of Origin Carnival]] || [[Adelaide]] || [[Victoria Australian rules football team|Victoria]] || {{n/a}} || [[Graham Cornes]] || (SANFL)
|-
| [[1983 Australian Football Championships]] || [[Adelaide]]/[[Perth]] || [[Western Australia Australian rules football team|Western Australia]] || {{n/a}} || [[Stephen Michael]] || (WAFL)
|-
| [[1984 Australian Football Championships]] || [[Adelaide]]/[[Perth]] || [[Western Australia Australian rules football team|Western Australia]] || {{n/a}} || [[Brad Hardie]] || (WAFL)
|-
| [[1985 Australian Football Championships]] || [[Adelaide]]/[[Perth]] || [[Victoria Australian rules football team|Victoria]] || {{n/a}} || [[Dale Weightman]] || (VFL)
|-
| [[1986 Australian Football Championships]] || [[Adelaide]]/[[Perth]] || [[South Australian state football team|South Australia]] || {{n/a}} || [[Brad Hardie]] || (WAFL)
|-
| [[1987 Australian Football Championships]] || [[Adelaide]]/[[Perth]] || [[Western Australia Australian rules football team|Western Australia]] || {{n/a}}|| [[Mark Naley]] || (SANFL)
|-
| [[1988 Adelaide Bicentennial Carnival|1988 Bicentennial Carnival]] || [[Adelaide]] || [[South Australian state football team|South Australia]] || [[Australian rules football in the Northern Territory#Representative Sides|Northern Territory]] || [[Paul Salmon]] || (VFL)
|-
| [[1993 State of Origin Championships]] || [[Adelaide]]/[[Hobart]]/[[Melbourne]] || [[South Australian state football team|South Australia]] || [[Australian rules football in Queensland#Representative Sides|Queensland]]/<br />[[Australian rules football in the Northern Territory#Representative Sides|North. Territory]] || — ||
|}
===Australian Rules State of Residence Matches (1904–2022)===
The team names in '''bold''' indicate the winning teams.
{{s-start}}
|- style="background:#ccf;"
! style="width:01%;"| Year
! style="width:03%;"| Round
! style="width:06%;"| Home team
! style="width:05%;"| Score
! style="width:06%;"| Away team
! style="width:05%;"| Score
! style="width:05%;"| Ground
! style="width:02%;"| City
! style="width:04%;"| Crowd
! style="width:02%;"| Date
! style="width:04%;"| Time
! style="width:04%;"| Network
|- style="background:#fff;"
| 1995
|
| [[Queensland Australian Football League|QAFL]]
| 9.17 (71)
| '''[[Western Australian Football League|WAFL]]'''
| '''14.14 (98)'''
| [[The Gabba|Gabba]]
| [[Brisbane]]
| 2,200
| 2/07/1995
|
|- style="background:#fff;"
| 1990
|
| '''[[South Australian National Football League|SANFL]]'''
| '''17.19 (121)'''
| [[Western Australian Football League|WAFL]]
| 24.26 (100)
| [[Football Park]]
| [[Adelaide]]
| 21,231
| 8/07/1990
|
|- style="background:#fff;"
| 1988
|
| '''[[South Australian National Football League|SANFL]]'''
| '''17.17 (119)'''
| [[Western Australian Football League|WAFL]]
| 11.13 (79)
| [[Football Park]]
| [[Adelaide]]
| 18,339
| 24/05/1988<ref name="CT-SAWA-1988-2">{{cite news|title=Victory highlights superiority of SA|url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/111975668|access-date=4 March 2016|newspaper=The Canberra Times|date=26 May 1988}}</ref>
|
| [[Network 10|Ten]]
|- style="background:#fff;"
| [[1987 Australian Football Championships|1987]]
|
| [[Western Australian Football League|WAFL]]
| 9.9 (63)
| '''[[South Australian National Football League|SANFL]]'''
| '''18.16 (124)'''
| [[WACA Ground]]
| [[Perth]]
|
|
|
| [[ABC (Australian TV channel)|ABC]]
|- style="background:#fff;"'
| [[1986 Australian Football Championships|1986]]
|
| '''[[Western Australian Football League|WAFL]]'''
| '''18.19 (127)'''
| '''[[South Australian National Football League|SANFL]]'''
| 12.16. (88)
| [[Football Park]]
| [[Adelaide]]<br>{{clarify|date=August 2022}}
|
|
|
|
|- style=''background:#fff;''
| [[1985 Australian Football Championships|1985]]
|
| [[Western Australian Football League|WAFL]]
| 16.15 (111)
| '''[[South Australian National Football League|SANFL]]'''
| '''30.18 (198)'''
| [[Subiaco Oval]]
| [[Perth]]
|
| 15/06/1985
|
|
|- style=''background:#fff;''
| [[1984 Australian Football Championships|1984]]
|
| [[South Australian National Football League|SANFL]]
| 14.13 (97)
| '''[[Western Australian Football League|WAFL]]'''
| '''14.14 (98)'''
| [[Football Park]]
| [[Adelaide]]
| 26,649
|
|
| [[Seven Network|Seven]]
|- style="background:#fff;"
|-
| [[1983 Australian Football Championships|1983]]
|
| '''[[Western Australian Football League|WAFL]]'''
| '''24.14 (134)'''
| [[South Australian National Football League|SANFL]]
| 16.14 (110)
| [[Subiaco Oval]]
| [[Perth]]
|
| 04/06/1983
|
| [[Seven Network|Seven]]
|- style="background:#fff;"
| 1977
|
| [[Western Australian Football League|WAFL]]
| 13.12 (90)
| '''[[Victorian Football League|VFL]]'''
| '''23.16 (154)'''
| [[Subiaco Oval]]
| [[Perth]]
| 44,891
| 25/06/1977
|
| [[Seven Network|Seven]]
{{s-end}}
===Australian Rules State of Origin matches (1977–1999)===
The team names in '''bold''' indicate the winning teams
Key - '''[[1979 Perth State of Origin Carnival]]''':
* S1QPO = Section 1 Qualification Play Off
* S1SF1 = Section 1 Semi Final 1
* S1SF2 = Section 1 Semi Final 2
* S13PP = Section 1 3rd Place Playoff
* S1GF = Section 1 Grand Final
* S2GF = Section 2 Grand Final
Key - '''[[1980 Adelaide State of Origin Carnival]]''':
* SF1 = Semi Final 1
* SF2 = Semi Final 2
* 3PF = 3rd Place Final
* GF = Grand Final
Note - 1980: Double-headers on the 11th of October and on the 13 of October respectively.
Note - 1985: The match between South Australia and Victoria was awarded to South Australia on protest, as a result of Victoria playing with 4 interchange players instead of the permitted 3 interchange players.[3].<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=The Canberra Times|title=League sacks Victoria|date=17 June 1985|page=28}}</ref>
Key - '''[[1988 Adelaide Bicentennial Carnival]]''':
* S1 SF = Section 1 Semi Final
* S1 3PPO = Section 1 3rd Place Play Off
* S1 GF = Section 1 Grand Final
* S2 PS = Section 2 Preliminary Stage
* S2 WSPO = Section 2 Wooden Spoon Play Off
* S2 GF = Section 2 Grand Final
Key - '''[[1993 State of Origin Championships]]''':
* S1 SF1 = Section 1 Semi Final 1
* S1 SF2 = Section 1 Semi Final 2
* S1 GF = Section 1 Grand Final
* S2 GF = Section 2 Grand Final
{{s-start}}
|- style="background:#ccf;"
! style="width:01%;"| Year
! style="width:03%;"| Round
! style="width:06%;"| Home team
! style="width:05%;"| Score
! style="width:06%;"| Away team
! style="width:05%;"| Score
! style="width:05%;"| Ground
! style="width:02%;"| City
! style="width:04%;"| Crowd
! style="width:02%;"| Date
! style="width:04%;"| Time
! style="width:04%;"| Network
|- style="background:#fff;"
| 1999
|
| '''[[Victoria Australian rules football team|Victoria]]'''
| '''17.19 (121)'''
| [[South Australia Australian rules football team|South Australia]]
| 10.7 (67)
| [[Melbourne Cricket Ground|MCG]]
| [[Melbourne]]
| 26,063
| 29/05/1999
| 2:00 PM
| [[Seven Network|Seven]]
|-
| 1998
|
| [[Allies (Australian rules football)|Allies]]
| 14.11 (95)
| '''[[Victoria Australian rules football team|Victoria]]'''
| '''22.16 (148)'''
| [[The Gabba|Gabba]]
| [[Brisbane]]
| 13,977
| 10/07/1998
| 7:00 PM
| [[Seven Network|Seven]]
|- style="background:#fff;"
| 1998
|
| '''[[South Australia Australian rules football team|South Australia]]'''
| '''22.11 (143)'''
| [[Western Australia Australian rules football team|West. Australia]]
| 16.11 (107)
| [[Football Park]]
| [[Adelaide]]
| 18,204
| 11/07/1998
| 4:00 PM
| [[Seven Network|Seven]]
|- style="background:#fff;"
| 1997
|
| [[South Australia Australian rules football team|South Australia]]
| 12.13 (85)
| '''[[Victoria Australian rules football team|Victoria]]'''
| '''13.15 (93)'''
| [[Football Park]]
| [[Adelaide]]
| 40,595
| 21/06/1997
| 8:00 PM
| [[Seven Network|Seven]]
|- style="background:#fff;"
| 1997
|
| [[Western Australia Australian rules football team|West. Australia]]
| 16.12 (108)
| '''[[Allies (Australian rules football)|Allies]]'''
| '''18.8 (116)'''
| [[Subiaco Oval]]
| [[Perth]]
| 16,795
| 20/06/1997
| 6:00 PM
| [[Seven Network|Seven]]
|- style="background:#fff;"
| 1996
|
| '''[[South Australia Australian rules football team|South Australia]]'''
| '''20.6 (126)'''
| [[Western Australia Australian rules football team|West. Australia]]
| 13.13 (91)
| [[Football Park]]
| [[Adelaide]]
| 16,722
| 02/06/1996
| 2:30 PM
| [[Seven Network|Seven]]
|- style="background:#fff;"
| 1996
|
| '''[[Victoria Australian rules football team|Victoria]]'''
| '''20.17 (137)'''
| [[Allies (Australian rules football)|Allies]]
| 11.18 (84)
| [[Melbourne Cricket Ground|MCG]]
| [[Melbourne]]
| 35,612
| 01/06/1996
| 2:10 PM
| [[Seven Network|Seven]]
|- style="background:#fff;"
| 1995
|
| '''[[Victoria Australian rules football team|Victoria]]'''
| '''18.12 (120)'''
| [[South Australia Australian rules football team|South Australia]]
| 8.9 (57)
| [[Melbourne Cricket Ground|MCG]]
| [[Melbourne]]
| 64,186
| 17/06/1995
| 2:00 PM
| [[Seven Network|Seven]]
|- style="background:#fff;"
| 1995
|
| [[Western Australia Australian rules football team|West. Australia]]
| 8.13 (61)
| '''[[Allies (Australian rules football)|Allies]]'''
| '''13.14 (92)'''
| [[Subiaco Oval]]
| [[Perth]]
| 15,722
| 18/06/1995
| 12:00 PM
| [[Seven Network|Seven]]
|- style="background:#fff;"
| 1994
|
| '''[[South Australia Australian rules football team|South Australia]]'''
| '''11.9 (75)'''
| [[Victoria Australian rules football team|Victoria]]
| 10.13 (73)
| [[Football Park]]
| [[Adelaide]]
| 44,598
| 03/05/1994
| 8:00 PM
| [[Seven Network|Seven]]
|- style="background:#fff;"
| [[1993 State of Origin Championships|1993]]
| S1 SF1
| '''[[Victoria Australian rules football team|Victoria]]'''
| '''19.16 (130)'''
| [[New South Wales Australian rules football team|NSW]]/[[Australian rules football in the Australian Capital Territory|Aust. Cap.Territory]]
| 8.17 (65)
| [[Melbourne Cricket Ground|MCG]]
| [[Melbourne]]
| 22,409
| 01/06/1993
| 7:00 PM
| [[Seven Network|Seven]]
|- style="background:#fff;"
| [[1993 State of Origin Championships|1993]]
| S1 SF2
| '''[[South Australia Australian rules football team|South Australia]]'''
| '''19.13 (127)'''
| [[Western Australia Australian rules football team|West. Australia]]
| 14.7 (91)
| [[Football Park]]
| [[Adelaide]]
| 21,487
| 02/06/1993
| 8:00 PM
| [[Seven Network|Seven]]
|- style="background:#fff;"
| [[1993 State of Origin Championships|1993]]
| S1 GF
| [[Victoria Australian rules football team|Victoria]]
| 14.13 (97)
| '''[[South Australia Australian rules football team|South Australia]]'''
| '''16.13 (109)'''
| [[Melbourne Cricket Ground|MCG]]
| [[Melbourne]]
| 31,792
| 05/06/1993
| 4:40 PM
| [[Seven Network|Seven]]
|- style="background:#fff;"
| [[1993 State of Origin Championships|1993]]
| S2 GF
| [[Tasmania Australian rules football team|Tasmania]]
| 10.13 (73)
| '''[[Queensland Australian rules football team|Queensland]]/<br />[[Australian rules football in the Northern Territory|North. Territory]]'''
| '''16.14 (110)'''
| [[Bellerive Oval]]
| [[Hobart]]
| 9,660
| 06/06/1993
| 12:00 PM
| [[Seven Network|Seven]]
|- style="background:#fff;"
| 1992
|
| '''[[New South Wales Australian rules football team|New South Wales]]'''
| '''22.9 (141)'''
| [[Queensland Australian rules football team|Queensland]]
| 6.12 (48)
| [[Sydney Cricket Ground|SCG]]
| [[Sydney]]
| 7,223
| 12/05/1992
| 7:00 PM
| [[Seven Network|Seven]]
|- style="background:#fff;"
| 1992
|
| '''[[Victoria Australian rules football team|Victoria]]'''
| '''23.19 (157)'''
| [[Western Australia Australian rules football team|West. Australia]]
| 13.12 (90)
| [[Melbourne Cricket Ground|MCG]]
| [[Melbourne]]
| 32,152
| 26/05/1992
| 7:00 PM
| [[Seven Network|Seven]]
|- style="background:#fff;"
| 1992
|
| '''[[South Australia Australian rules football team|South Australia]]'''
| '''19.19 (133)'''
| [[Victoria Australian rules football team|Victoria]]
| 18.12 (120)
| [[Football Park]]
| [[Adelaide]]
| 33,984
| 07/07/1992
| 12:00 PM
| [[Seven Network|Seven]]
|- style="background:#fff;"
| 1991
|
| [[Tasmania Australian rules football team|Tasmania]]
| 14.20 (104)
| '''[[Victoria Australian rules football team|Victoria]]'''
| '''17.14 (116)'''
| [[North Hobart Oval|N. Hobart Oval]]
| [[Hobart]]
| 16,000
| 28/05/1991
| 12:00 PM
| [[Seven Network|Seven]]
|- style="background:#fff;"
| 1991
|
| [[South Australia Australian rules football team|South Australia]]
| 11.4 (70)
| '''[[Victoria Australian rules football team|Victoria]]'''
| '''12.14 (86)'''
| [[Football Park]]
| [[Adelaide]]
| 37,277
| 28/05/1991
| 8:00 PM
| [[Seven Network|Seven]]
|- style="background:#fff;"
| 1991
|
| '''[[Queensland Australian rules football team|Queensland]]'''
| '''23.14 (152)'''
| [[Victoria Australian rules football team|Victoria]]
| 15.8 (108)
| [[The Gabba|Gabba]]
| [[Brisbane]]
| 8,519
| 16/07/1991
| 12:00 PM
| [[Seven Network|Seven]]
|- style="background:#fff;"
| 1991
|
| '''[[Western Australia Australian rules football team|West. Australia]]'''
| '''19.13 (127)'''
| [[Victoria Australian rules football team|Victoria]]
| 7.9 (51)
| [[WACA Ground]]
| [[Perth]]
| 24,397
| 16/07/1991
| 12:00 PM
| [[Seven Network|Seven]]
|- style=''background:#fff;''
| 1991
|
| '''[[Western Australia Australian rules football team|West. Australia]]'''
| '''17.20 (122)'''
| [[South Australia Australian rules football team|South Australia]]
| 11.12 (78)
| [[Subiaco Oval]]
| [[Perth]]
|
|
|
| [[Seven Network|Seven]]
|- style="background:#fff;"
| 1990
|
| '''[[New South Wales Australian rules football team|New South Wales]]'''
| '''13.8 (86)'''
| [[Victoria Australian rules football team|Victoria]]
| 10.16 (76)
| [[Sydney Cricket Ground|SCG]]
| [[Sydney]]
| 13,482
| 22/05/1990
| 8:30 PM
| [[Seven Network|Seven]]
|- style="background:#fff;"
| 1990
|
| '''[[Tasmania Australian rules football team|Tasmania]]'''
| '''20.14 (134)'''
| [[Victoria Australian rules football team|Victoria]]
| 14.17 (101)
| [[North Hobart Oval|N. Hobart Oval]]
| [[Hobart]]
| 18,649
| 24/06/1990
| 12:00 PM
| [[Seven Network|Seven]]
|- style="background:#fff;"
| 1990
|
| [[Western Australia Australian rules football team|West. Australia]]
| 8.12 (60)
| '''[[Victoria Australian rules football team|Victoria]]'''
| '''14.13 (97)'''
| [[WACA Ground]]
| [[Perth]]
| 21,897
| 26/06/1990
| 6:30 PM
| [[Seven Network|Seven]]
|- style=''background:#fff;''
| 1990
|
| '''[[South Australia Australian rules football team|South Australia]]'''
| '''17.19 (122)'''
| [[Western Australia Australian rules football team|West. Australia]]
| 14.16 (100)
| [[Football Park]]
| [[Adelaide]]
|
|
|
| [[Seven Network|Seven]]
|- style="background:#fff;"
| 1989
|
| [[Western Australia Australian rules football team|West. Australia]]
| 10.12 (72)
| '''[[Victoria Australian rules football team|Victoria]]'''
| '''19.12 (126)'''
| [[WACA Ground]]
| [[Perth]]
| 20,993
| 16/05/1989
| 12:00 PM
| [[Seven Network|Seven]]
|- style="background:#fff;"
| 1989
|
| '''[[Victoria Australian rules football team|Victoria]]'''
| '''22.17 (149)'''
| [[South Australia Australian rules football team|South Australia]]
| 9.9 (63)
| [[Melbourne Cricket Ground|MCG]]
| [[Melbourne]]
| 91,960
| 01/07/1989
| 2:10 PM
| [[Seven Network|Seven]]
|- style="background:#fff;"
| 1989
|
| [[Tasmania Australian rules football team|Tasmania]]
| 15.7 (107)
| '''[[Victoria Australian rules football team|Victoria]]'''
| '''25.13 (163)'''
| [[North Hobart Oval|N. Hobart Oval]]
| [[Hobart]]
| 12,342
| 02/07/1989
| 12:00 PM
| [[Seven Network|Seven]]
|- style="background:#fff;"
| [[1988 Adelaide Bicentennial Carnival|1988]]
| S2 PS
| '''[[Australian rules football in the Northern Territory|North. Territory]]'''
| '''19.20 (134)'''
| [[Tasmania Australian rules football team|Tasmania]]
| 10.8 (68)
| [[Football Park]]
| [[Adelaide]]
| –
| 02/03/1988
|
| [[Nine Network|Nine]]
|- style="background:#fff;"
| [[1988 Adelaide Bicentennial Carnival|1988]]
| S2 PS
| '''[[Australian Amateur Football Council|Amateurs]]'''
| '''14.12 (96)'''
| [[Australian rules football in the Australian Capital Territory|Aust. Cap.Territory]]
| 12.11 (83)
| [[Football Park]]
| [[Adelaide]]
| –
| 02/03/1988
|
| [[Nine Network|Nine]]
|- style="background:#fff;"
| [[1988 Adelaide Bicentennial Carnival|1988]]
| S1 SF
| '''[[Victoria Australian rules football team|Victoria (VFL)]]'''
| '''20.13 (133)'''
| [[Western Australia Australian rules football team|West. Australia]]
| 10.13 (73)
| [[Football Park]]
| [[Adelaide]]
| 5,195
| 02/03/1988
|
| [[Nine Network|Nine]]
|- style="background:#fff;"
| [[1988 Adelaide Bicentennial Carnival|1988]]
| S2 PS
| '''[[Victorian Football League|Victoria (VFA)]]'''
| '''17.10 (112)'''
| [[Queensland Australian rules football team|Queensland]]
| 4.11 (35)
| [[Football Park]]
| [[Adelaide]]
| –
| 03/03/1988
|
| [[Nine Network|Nine]]
|- style="background:#fff;"
| [[1988 Adelaide Bicentennial Carnival|1988]]
| S2 PS
| '''[[Australian rules football in the Northern Territory|North. Territory]]'''
| '''11.19 (85)'''
| [[Australian Amateur Football Council|Amateurs]]
| 8.9 (57)
| [[Football Park]]
| [[Adelaide]]
| –
| 03/03/1988
|
| [[Nine Network|Nine]]
|- style="background:#fff;"
| [[1988 Adelaide Bicentennial Carnival|1988]]
| S1 SF
|  '''[[South Australia Australian rules football team|South Australia]]'''
| '''12.8 (80)'''
| [[New South Wales Australian rules football team|New South Wales]]
| 8.11 (59)
| [[Football Park]]
| [[Adelaide]]
| 5,755
| 03/03/1988
|
| [[Nine Network|Nine]]
|- style="background:#fff;"
| [[1988 Adelaide Bicentennial Carnival|1988]]
| S2 SF
| '''[[Victorian Football League|Victoria (VFA)]]'''
| '''18.20 (128)'''
| [[Australian rules football in the Australian Capital Territory|Aust. Cap.Territory]]
| 9.16 (70)
| [[Norwood Oval]]
| [[Adelaide]]
| –
| 04/03/1988
|
| [[Nine Network|Nine]]
|- style="background:#fff;"
| [[1988 Adelaide Bicentennial Carnival|1988]]
| S2 WSPO
| '''[[Tasmania Australian rules football team|Tasmania]]'''
| '''11.16 (82)'''
| [[Queensland Australian rules football team|Queensland]]
| 10.10 (70)
| [[Norwood Oval]]
| [[Adelaide]]
| –
| 04/03/1988
|
| [[Nine Network|Nine]]
|- style="background:#fff;"
| [[1988 Adelaide Bicentennial Carnival|1988]]
| S2 GF
| '''[[Australian rules football in the Northern Territory|North. Territory]]'''
| '''17.10 (112)'''
| [[Victorian Football League|Victoria]]
| 9.13 (63)
| [[Football Park]]
| [[Adelaide]]
| –
| 05/03/1988
|
| [[Nine Network|Nine]]
|- style="background:#fff;"
| [[1988 Adelaide Bicentennial Carnival|1988]]
| S1 3PPO
| '''[[New South Wales Australian rules football team|New South Wales]]'''
| '''10.8 (68)'''
| [[Western Australia Australian rules football team|West. Australia]]
| 9.12 (66)
| [[Football Park]]
| [[Adelaide]]
| –
| 05/03/1988
|
| [[Nine Network|Nine]]
|- style="background:#fff;"
| [[1988 Adelaide Bicentennial Carnival|1988]]
| S1 GF
| '''[[South Australia Australian rules football team|South Australia]]'''
| '''15.12 (102)'''
| [[Victoria Australian rules football team|Victoria (VFL)]]
| 6.6 (42)
| [[Football Park]]
| [[Adelaide]]
| 19,387
| 05/03/1988
|
| [[Nine Network|Nine]]
|- style="background:#fff;"
| 1988
|
| [[Western Australia Australian rules football team|West. Australia]]
| 15.9 (99)
| '''[[Victoria Australian rules football team|Victoria]]'''
| '''21.23 (149)'''
| [[Subiaco Oval]]
| [[Perth]]
| 23,006
| 05/07/1988<ref name="CT-WAVic-1989">{{cite news|title=Whitten fires warning shot at SA after WA win|url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/102030830|access-date=4 March 2016|newspaper=The Canberra Times|date=6 July 1988|page=48}}</ref>
|
|
|- style=''background:#fff;''
| 1988
|
| '''[[Western Australia Australian rules football team|West. Australia]]'''
| '''18.14 (122)'''
| [[South Australia Australian rules football team|South Australia]]
| 17.13 (115)
| [[BC Place]]
| [[Vancouver]]
|
|
|
| [[Nine Network|Nine]]
|- style="background:#fff;"
| [[1987 Australian Football Championships|1987]]
|
| '''[[South Australia Australian rules football team|South Australia]]'''
| '''12.13 (85)'''
| [[Victoria Australian rules football team|Victoria]]
| 11.15 (81)
| [[Football Park]]
| [[Adelaide]]
| 41,605
| 27/05/1987
|
| [[ABC (Australian TV channel)|ABC]]
|- style="background:#fff;"
| [[1987 Australian Football Championships|1987]]
|
| [[Western Australia Australian rules football team|West. Australia]]
| 13.14 (92)
| '''[[Victoria Australian rules football team|Victoria]]'''
| '''16.20 (116)'''
| [[Subiaco Oval]]
| [[Perth]]
| 22,000
| 22/07/1987
|
| [[ABC (Australian TV channel)|ABC]]
|- style="background:#fff;"
| [[1986 Australian Football Championships|1986]]
|
| '''[[South Australia Australian rules football team|South Australia]]'''
| '''18.17 (125)'''
| [[Victoria Australian rules football team|Victoria]]
| 17.13 (115)
| [[Football Park]]
| [[Adelaide]]
| 43,143
| 13/05/1986
|
|
|- style="background:#fff;"
| [[1986 Australian Football Championships|1986]]
|
| '''[[Western Australia Australian rules football team|West. Australia]]'''
| '''21.11 (137)'''
| [[Victoria Australian rules football team|Victoria]]
| 20.14 (134)
| [[Subiaco Oval]]
| [[Perth]]
| 39,863
| 08/07/1986
|
|
|- style="background:#fff;"
| [[1985 Australian Football Championships|1985]]
|
| '''[[South Australia Australian rules football team|South Australia]]'''
| '''11.10 (76)*'''
| [[Victoria Australian rules football team|Victoria]]
| 20.13 (133)
| [[Football Park]]
| [[Adelaide]]
| 44,287
| 14/05/1985
|
|
|- style=''background:#fff:''
| [[1985 Australian Football Championships|1985]]
|
| [[Western Australia Australian rules football team|West. Australia]]
| 9.11 (65)
| '''[[Victoria Australian rules football team|Victoria]]'''
| '''19.16 (130)'''
| [[Subiaco Oval]]
| [[Perth]]
| 38,000
| 16/07/1985
|
|
|- style="background:#fff;"
| [[1984 Australian Football Championships|1984]]
|
| [[South Australia Australian rules football team|South Australia]]
| 16.8 (104)
| '''[[Victoria Australian rules football team|Victoria]]'''
| '''16.12 (108)'''
| [[Football Park]]
| [[Adelaide]]
| 52,719
| 15/05/1984
|
| [[Seven Network|Seven]]
|- style="background:#fff;"
| [[1984 Australian Football Championships|1984]]
|
| '''[[Western Australia Australian rules football team|West. Australia]]'''
| '''21.16 (142)'''
| [[Victoria Australian rules football team|Victoria]]
| 21.12 (138)
| [[Subiaco Oval]]
| [[Perth]]
| 42,500
| 17/07/1984
|
| [[Seven Network|Seven]]
|- style="background:#fff;"
| [[1983 Australian Football Championships|1983]]
|
| '''[[South Australia Australian rules football team|South Australia]]'''
| '''26.16 (172)'''
| [[Victoria Australian rules football team|Victoria]]
| 17.14 (116)
| [[Football Park]]
| [[Adelaide]]
| 42,521
| 16/07/1983
|
| [[Seven Network|Seven]]
|- style="background:#fff;"
| [[1983 Australian Football Championships|1983]]
|
| '''[[Western Australia Australian rules football team|West. Australia]]'''
| '''16.22 (118)'''
| [[Victoria Australian rules football team|Victoria]]
| 16.19 (115)
| [[Subiaco Oval]]
| [[Perth]]
| 44,213
| 12/07/1983
|
| [[Seven Network|Seven]]
|- style="background:#fff;"
| 1982
|
| [[South Australia Australian rules football team|South Australia]]
| 18.19 (127)
| '''[[Victoria Australian rules football team|Victoria]]'''
| '''21.13 (139)'''
| [[Football Park]]
| [[Adelaide]]
| 40,399
| 17/05/1982
|
|
|- style="background:#fff;"
| 1982
|
| [[Western Australia Australian rules football team|West. Australia]]
| 15.11 (101)
| '''[[Victoria Australian rules football team|Victoria]]'''
| '''19.10 (124)'''
| [[Subiaco Oval]]
| [[Perth]]
| 29,182
| 13/07/1982
|
|
|- style=''background:#fff;''
| 1982
|
| '''[[South Australia Australian rules football team|South Australia]]'''
| '''29.23 (197)'''
| [[Western Australia Australian rules football team|West. Australia]]
| 12.9 (81)
| [[Football Park]]
| [[Adelaide]]
| 27,283
|
|
|
|- style=''background:#fff;''
| 1982
|
| '''[[Western Australia Australian rules football team|West. Australia]]'''
| '''21.18 (144)'''
| [[South Australia Australian rules football team|South Australia]]
| 8.5 (53)
| [[Subiaco Oval]]
| [[Perth]]
|
|
|
|
|- style="background:#fff;"
| 1981
|
| '''[[Western Australia Australian rules football team|West. Australia]]'''
| '''16.23 (119)'''
| [[Victoria Australian rules football team|Victoria]]
| 13.12 (90)
| [[Subiaco Oval]]
| [[Perth]]
| 26,000
| 27/04/1981
|
|
|- style="background:#fff;"
| 1981
|
| [[Tasmania Australian rules football team|Tasmania]]
| 16.12 (108)
| '''[[Victoria Australian rules football team|Victoria]]'''
| '''31.20 (206)'''
| [[North Hobart Oval|N. Hobart Oval]]
| [[Hobart]]
| 6,349
| 04/07/1981
|
|
|- style="background:#fff;"
| 1981
|
| [[Queensland Australian rules football team|Queensland]]
| 12.18 (90)
| '''[[Victoria Australian rules football team|Victoria]]'''
| '''32.29 (221)'''
| [[The Gabba|Gabba]]
| [[Brisbane]]
| 9,000
| 12/07/1981
|
|
|- style="background:#fff;"
| 1980
|
| '''[[Victoria Australian rules football team|Victoria]]'''
| '''18.15 (123)'''
| [[Western Australia Australian rules football team|West. Australia]]
| 15.12 (102)
| [[VFL Park]]
| [[Melbourne]]
| 31,467
| 05/07/1980
|
|
|- style="background:#fff;"
| 1980
|
| [[Queensland Australian rules football team|Queensland]]
| 16.10 (106)
| '''[[Victoria Australian rules football team|Victoria]]'''
| '''28.18 (186)'''
| [[The Gabba|Gabba]]
| [[Brisbane]]
| 16,000
| 06/07/1980
|
|
|- style="background:#fff;"
| 1980
|
| '''[[Australian rules football in the Australian Capital Territory|Aust. Cap.Territory]]'''
| '''13.17 (95)'''
| [[Victoria Australian rules football team|Victoria]]
| 11.16 (82)
| [[Manuka Oval]]
| [[Canberra]]
| 10,600
| 06/07/1980
|
|
|- style=''background:#fff;''
| 1980
|
| '''[[Western Australia Australian rules football team|West. Australia]]'''
| '''21.30 (156)'''
| [[South Australia Australian rules football team|South Australia]]
| 10.9 (69)
| [[Subiaco Oval]]
| [[Perth]]
|
|
|
|
|- style="background:#fff;"
| [[1980 Adelaide State of Origin Carnival|1980]]
| SF1
| '''[[South Australia Australian rules football team|South Australia]]'''
| '''22.18 (150)'''
| [[Tasmania Australian rules football team|Tasmania]]
| 8.13 (61)
| [[Football Park]]
| [[Adelaide]]
| 10,666
| 11/10/1980
|
| [[Seven Network|Seven]]
|- style="background:#fff;"
| [[1980 Adelaide State of Origin Carnival|1980]]
| SF2
| '''[[Victoria Australian rules football team|Victoria]]'''
| '''14.20 (104)'''
| [[Western Australia Australian rules football team|West. Australia]]
| 9.15 (69)
| [[Football Park]]
| [[Adelaide]]
| 10,666
| 11/10/1980
|
| [[Seven Network|Seven]]
|- style="background:#fff;"
| [[1980 Adelaide State of Origin Carnival|1980]]
| 3PF
| '''[[Western Australia Australian rules football team|West. Australia]]'''
| '''17.23 (125)'''
| [[Tasmania Australian rules football team|Tasmania]]
| 12.18 (90)
| [[Football Park]]
| [[Adelaide]]
| 17,579
| 13/10/1980
|
| [[Seven Network|Seven]]
|- style="background:#fff;"
| [[1980 Adelaide State of Origin Carnival|1980]]
| GF
| '''[[Victoria Australian rules football team|Victoria]]'''
| '''15.12 (102)'''
| [[South Australia Australian rules football team|South Australia]]
| 12.13 (85)
| [[Football Park]]
| [[Adelaide]]
| 17,579
| 13/10/1980
|
| [[Seven Network|Seven]]
|- style="background:#fff;"
| 1979
|
| [[South Australia Australian rules football team|South Australia]]
| 6.13 (49)
| '''[[Victoria Australian rules football team|Victoria]]'''
| '''15.20 (110)'''
| [[Football Park]]
| [[Adelaide]]
| 32,054
| 21/05/1979
|
|
|- style="background:#fff;"
| 1979
|
| [[Tasmania Australian rules football team|Tasmania]]
| 8.14 (62)
| '''[[Victoria Australian rules football team|Victoria]]'''
| '''26.21 (177)'''
| [[North Hobart Oval|N. Hobart Oval]]
| [[Hobart]]
| 12,197
| 18/06/1979
|
| [[Seven Network|Seven]]
|- style="background:#fff;"
| [[1979 Perth State of Origin Carnival|1979]]
| S1 QPO
| '''[[Tasmania Australian rules football team|Tasmania]]'''
| '''17.20 (122)'''
| [[Queensland Australian rules football team|Queensland]]
| 13.12 (90)
| [[Perth Oval]]
| [[Perth]]
| –
| 04/10/1979
|
| [[Seven Network|Seven]]
|- style="background:#fff;"
| [[1979 Perth State of Origin Carnival|1979]]
| S1 SF1
| '''[[Western Australia Australian rules football team|West. Australia]]'''
| '''23.33 (171)'''
| [[Tasmania Australian rules football team|Tasmania]]
| 9.10 (64)
| [[Subiaco Oval]]
| [[Perth]]
| –
| 06/10/1979
|
| [[Seven Network|Seven]]
|- style="background:#fff;"
| [[1979 Perth State of Origin Carnival|1979]]
| S1 SF2
| '''[[Victoria Australian rules football team|Victoria]]'''
| '''25.30 (180)'''
| [[South Australia Australian rules football team|South Australia]]
| 20.15 (135)
| [[Subiaco Oval]]
| [[Perth]]
| 15,186
| 06/10/1979
|
| [[Seven Network|Seven]]
|- style="background:#fff;"
| [[1979 Perth State of Origin Carnival|1979]]
| S2 GF
| '''[[Queensland Australian rules football team|Queensland]]'''
| '''23.13 (151)'''
| [[Australian rules football in the Australian Capital Territory|Aust. Cap.Territory]]
| 18.12 (120)
| [[Leederville Oval]]
| [[Perth]]
| –
| 07/10/1979
|
|
|- style="background:#fff;"
| [[1979 Perth State of Origin Carnival|1979]]
| S1 3PP
| '''[[South Australia Australian rules football team|South Australia]]'''
| '''22.20 (152)'''
| [[Tasmania Australian rules football team|Tasmania]]
| 17.11 (113)
| [[Subiaco Oval]]
| [[Perth]]
| –
| 08/10/1979
|
| [[Seven Network|Seven]]
|- style="background:#fff;"
| [[1979 Perth State of Origin Carnival|1979]]
| S1 GF
| '''[[Western Australia Australian rules football team|West. Australia]]'''
| '''17.21 (123)'''
| [[Victoria Australian rules football team|Victoria]]
| 16.12 (108)
| [[Subiaco Oval]]
| [[Perth]]
| 30,876
| 08/10/1979
|
| [[Seven Network|Seven]]
|- style="background:#fff;"
| 1978
|
| [[Tasmania Australian rules football team|Tasmania]]
| 18.6 (114)
| '''[[Victoria Australian rules football team|Victoria]]'''
| '''25.11 (161)'''
| [[North Hobart Oval|N. Hobart Oval]]
| [[Hobart]]
| 16,776
| 10/06/1978<ref>{{cite news|title=Tasmania loses by 47 points|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-page14557250|access-date=8 February 2016|newspaper=The Canberra Times|date=11 June 1978|page=41}}</ref>
|
|
|- style="background:#fff;"
| 1978
|
| '''[[Victoria Australian rules football team|Victoria]]'''
| '''25.13 (163)'''
| [[Western Australia Australian rules football team|West. Australia]]
| 8.15 (63)
| [[VFL Park]]
| [[Melbourne]]
| 45,192
| 10/06/1978<ref>{{cite news|title=Victoria humiliates WA by 100 points|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-page14557250|access-date=8 February 2016|newspaper=The Canberra Times|date=11 June 1978|page=41}}</ref>
|
|
|- style="background:#fff;"
| 1978
|
| [[Australian rules football in the Australian Capital Territory|Aust. Cap.Territory]]
| 12.11 (83)
| '''[[Victoria Australian rules football team|Victoria]]'''
| '''21.21 (147)'''
| [[Manuka Oval]]
| [[Canberra]]
| 10,300
| 11/06/1978
|
|
|- style="background:#fff;"
| 1978
|
| [[Western Australia Australian rules football team|West. Australia]]
| 14.17 (101)
| '''[[Victoria Australian rules football team|Victoria]]'''
| '''17.13 (115)'''
| [[Subiaco Oval]]
| [[Perth]]
| 30,195
| 07/10/1978
|
| [[Seven Network|Seven]]
|- style="background:#fff;"
| 1977
|
| '''[[Western Australia Australian rules football team|West. Australia]]'''
| '''23.13 (151)'''
| [[Victoria Australian rules football team|Victoria]]
| 8.9 (57)
| [[Subiaco Oval]]
| [[Perth]]
| 25,467
| 08/10/1977
|
| [[Seven Network|Seven]]
{{s-end}}
===AFL Women's State of Origin (2017)===
After the success of the [[2017 AFL Women's season|inaugural AFL Women's season]] the AFL announced in mid-July that a State of Origin representative match would be held for AFL Women's players during the AFL season pre-finals bye.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Laughton|first1=Max|title=State of Origin to return to footy with stand-alone women's match pitting Victoria against rest of Australia|url=https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/womens-afl/state-of-origin-to-return-to-footy-with-standalone-womens-match-pitting-victoria-against-rest-of-australia/news-story/ccffb639eb36dfbab7c680e6177bf7d9|access-date=25 July 2017|work=Fox Sports|publisher=News Corp Australia|date=15 July 2017}}</ref> A team of players born in Victoria played a single exhibition match against Allies ''(a team of players from the rest of Australia)'' at [[Etihad Stadium (Melbourne)|Etihad Stadium]] on the evening of Saturday 2 September.<ref>{{cite news|title=Big names locked in for AFLW state of origin|url=http://www.afl.com.au/news/2017-07-25/big-names-locked-in-for-aflw-state-of-origin|access-date=25 July 2017|publisher=AFL|date=25 July 2017}}</ref>
{{AFLGameDetailed
|title        = AFLW State of Origin
|date         = Saturday, 2 September (7:40&nbsp;pm)
|home team    = Victoria
|home Q1      = 0.2.2 (14)
|home Q2      = 0.8.5 (53)
|home Q3      = 0.11.7 (73)
|home final   = 0.17.11 (113)
|home goals   = '''Super goals:''' Nil<br />[[Jasmine Garner|Garner]] 5, [[Ellie Blackburn|Blackburn]] 3, [[Kaitlyn Ashmore|Ashmore]] 2, [[Alicia Eva|Eva]], [[Jaimee Lambert|Lambert]], [[Karen Paxman|Paxman]], [[Emma Kearney (sportswoman)|Kearney]], [[Daisy Pearce|Pearce]], [[Sarah D'Arcy|D'Arcy]], [[Moana Hope|Hope]]
|home best    = [[Daisy Pearce|Pearce]], [[Karen Paxman|Paxman]], [[Kara Donnellan|Donnellan]], [[Jasmine Garner|Garner]], [[Alicia Eva|Eva]], [[Emma Kearney (sportswoman)|Kearney]], [[Ellie Blackburn|Blackburn]]
|home injuries= [[Jaimee Lambert|Lambert]] (hip)
|home reports = Nil
|winner       = H
|away team    = Allies
|away Q1      = 0.1.1 (7)
|away Q2      = 0.2.2 (14)
|away Q3      = 0.2.2 (14)
|away final   = 0.2.4 (16)
|away goals   = '''Super goals:''' Nil<br />[[Tayla Harris|Harris]], [[Jess Wuetschner|Wuetschner]]
|away best    = [[Emma King (footballer)|King]], [[Emily Bates|Bates]], [[Ebony Antonio|Antonio]], [[Katie Brennan|Brennan]], [[Ebony Marinoff|Marinoff]]
|away injuries= [[Tayla Harris|Harris]] (knee), [[Emma Zielke|Zielke]] (ribs), [[Chelsea Randall|Randall]] (thigh), [[Kirby Bentley|Bentley]] (knee)
|away reports = Nil
|venue        = [[Etihad Stadium (Melbourne)|Etihad Stadium]]
|crowd        = 9,400<ref>{{cite news|last1=Cavanagh|first1=Chris|title=Big V hands Allies State of Origin lesson|url=http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/aflw/victoria-crush-the-allies-in-afl-womens-state-of-origin-clash-at-etihad-stadium/news-story/8391d118dd931796bc12bb58b5bfc5a5|access-date=25 September 2017|work=Herald Sun|publisher=News Corp|date=2 September 2017}}</ref>
|report       = [http://www.afl.com.au/news/2017-09-02/aflw-daisy-stands-tall-in-big-v-domination Report]
|umpires      = Bryce, Cheever, Rodger
|BOG award = Best on ground
|BOG winner = [[Daisy Pearce]]
|broadcast    = [[Network Seven]], [[Fox Footy]]
|notes        =
}}
===AFL Hall of Fame Tribute Match (2008)===
{{AFLGameDetailed
|title        = [[AFL Hall of Fame Tribute Match]]
|date         = Saturday, 10 May 2008 7:40&nbsp;pm
|home team    = Victoria
|home Q1      = 3.6 (24)
|home Q2      = 9.8 (62)
|home Q3      = 14.9 (93)
|home final   = 21.11 (137)
|home goals   = [[Brendan Fevola|Fevola]] 6 <br /> [[Jonathan Brown (Australian footballer)|J Brown]], [[Steve Johnson (Australian footballer)|Johnson]], [[Brent Harvey|Harvey]] 3 <br /> [[Ryan O'Keefe|O'Keefe]], [[Robert Murphy (footballer)|Murphy]], [[Campbell Brown (footballer)|C Brown]], [[Paul Chapman (footballer, born 1981)|Chapman]], [[Daniel Bradshaw|Bradshaw]], [[Nathan Foley (footballer)|Foley]] 1
|home best    = [[Brendan Fevola|Fevola]], [[Nathan Foley (footballer)|Foley]], [[Scott Pendlebury|Pendlebury]], [[Adam Goodes|Goodes]], [[Brent Harvey|Harvey]]
|home injuries= [[Josh Fraser|Fraser]] (knee)
|home reports =
|winner       = H
|away team    = Dream Team
|away Q1      = 5.4 (34)
|away Q2      = 8.6 (54)
|away Q3      = 15.8 (98)
|away final   = 18.12 (120)
|away goals   = [[Lance Franklin|Franklin]] 4 <br /> [[Leon Davis (footballer)|Davis]] 3 <br /> [[Daniel Motlop|Motlop]], [[Brett Burton|Burton]], [[Simon Goodwin|Goodwin]] 2 <br /> [[Matthew Richardson (Australian rules footballer)|Richardson]], [[Brett Kirk|Kirk]], [[Shaun Burgoyne|S Burgoyne]], [[Cameron Mooney|Mooney]], [[Mathew Stokes|Stokes]] 1
|away best    = [[Peter Burgoyne|P Burgoyne]], [[Andrew McLeod|McLeod]], [[Shaun Burgoyne|S Burgoyne]], [[Graham Johncock|Johncock]]
|away injuries= [[Daniel Kerr|Kerr]] (lower leg)
|away reports =
|venue        = [[Melbourne Cricket Ground|MCG]]
|crowd        = 69,294
|report       =
|umpires      = [[Michael Vozzo|Vozzo]], [[Hayden Kennedy|Kennedy]], [[Brett Rosebury|Rosebury]], [[Shane McInerney|McInerney]]
|BOG award    = [[Allen Aylett]] Medal
|BOG winner   = [[Brendan Fevola]] ([[Victoria Australian rules football team|Victoria]])
|notes        =
}}
===AFL State of Origin for Bushfire Relief Match (2020)===
{{AFLGameDetailed
|title        = [[State of Origin for Bushfire Relief Match]]
|date         = Friday, 28 February 2020 7:50&nbsp;pm
|home team    = Victoria
|home Q1      = 4.1 (25)
|home Q2      = 10.2 (62)
|home Q3      = 15.7 (97)
|home final   = 24.10 (154)
|home goals   = [[Tom Papley|Papley]] 5 <br /> [[Josh Kelly (Australian footballer)|Kelly]], [[Toby Greene|Greene]] 4 <br /> [[Dustin Martin|Martin]], [[Andrew Gaff|Gaff]], [[Marcus Bontempelli|Bontempelli]], [[Jade Gresham|Gresham]] 2 <br /> [[Patrick Dangerfield|Dangerfield]], [[Jeremy Cameron|J Cameron]], [[Tom Lynch (Australian footballer, born 1992)|Lynch]] 1
|home best    = [[Josh Kelly (Australian footballer)|Kelly]], [[Dustin Martin|Martin]], [[Toby Greene|Greene]], [[Tom Papley|Papley]], [[Scott Pendlebury|Pendlebury]], [[Nick Haynes|Haynes]], [[Trent Cotchin|Cotchin]], [[Patrick Dangerfield|Dangerfield]]
|home injuries=
|home reports =
|winner       = H
|away team    = All-Stars
|away Q1      = 4.7 (31)
|away Q2      = 9.14 (68)
|away Q3      = 15.16 (106)
|away final   = 15.18 (108)
|away goals   = [[Charlie Cameron (footballer, born 1994)|C Cameron]] 3 <br /> [[Stephen Coniglio|Coniglio]], [[Luke Breust|Breust]], [[Jack Riewoldt|Riewoldt]], [[Isaac Smith (footballer)|Smith]] 2 <br /> [[Lachie Neale|Neale]], [[Lachie Weller|Weller]], [[Michael Walters|Walters]], [[Bradley Hill (footballer)|Hill]] 1
|away best    = [[Stephen Coniglio|Coniglio]], [[Charlie Cameron (footballer, born 1994)|C Cameron]], [[Callum Mills|Mills]], [[Patrick Cripps|Cripps]], [[Lachie Neale|Neale]], [[Jason Johannisen|Johannisen]]
|away injuries=
|away reports =
|venue        = [[Docklands Stadium|Marvel Stadium]]
|crowd        = 51,052
|report       = [https://www.afl.com.au/news/379147/goals-rain-for-bushfire-relief-as-vics-storm-home-over-all-stars Report]
|umpires      = [[Leigh Fisher|Fisher]], [[Andrew Stephens|Stephens]], [[Mathew Nicholls|Nicholls]], [[Nathan Williamson|Williamson]]
|BOG award    = Best on Ground Medal
|BOG winner   = [[Dustin Martin]] ([[Victoria Australian rules football team|Victoria]])
|notes        =
}}
==Other interstate matches==
===State league representative matches (1990–present)===
With the advent of interstate teams into the expanding VFL and its eventual re-badging and change to a national league in 1990, the state leagues undertook steps to ensure that representative football would not be reserved solely for those players in the Australian Football League. State League Representative matches would allow those players participating in competitions that would be, in later years, categorised as second-tier leagues, to be selected for interstate duties. For the most part during the ensuing years between the inception of State League and the end of Origin, it was the South Australian and Western Australian leagues championing the concept with the two leagues facing off many times. The other state leagues did take part in the concept, but on a far more limited basis. The Queensland, ACT and Tasmanian competitions featured on several occasions, the New South Wales league made scattered appearances while the Northern Territory was far less featured on the interstate stage mainly due to their domestic league being played in a different part of the year. Meetings between those competitions and the SANFL or WAFL were a rare occurrence.
The Victorian Football Association eventually made some appearances of their own at state league level from 1994, but also did not have games against South Australia or Western Australia for a few years. Eventually, after a restructure of that competition in 1996 which saw them adopt the name of the VFL, they faced the SANFL on the MCG in the curtain raiser to what would be the swansong of State of Origin football in 1999. From this day onwards, interstate football would become the domain of the leagues that underpin the AFL. In the years following, the participation of the "non-traditional" football states was not as high as that of South Australia, Western Australia and Victoria. Queensland and the Australian Capital Territory continued to play a part, while Tasmania's football system was split in half between north and south, as well as the state team being replaced by a club—Tasmanian Devils—which entered the VFL in 2001. The "Big 3" in the SANFL, WAFL and VFL entered into an agreement in 2003 to adopt a program where they would play each other in a rotational system over three years, which saw one state either sit out interstate football for one season or require that league to find alternative opposition.
Towards the end of the 2000s, the AFL by this time had control of the football administrations across the eastern states and the Northern Territory. Tasmania withdrew from the VFL and relaunched the statewide Tasmanian State League competition in 2009, then in 2011 the AFL created the North East Australian Football League out of established state league teams from New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory, Queensland and the Northern Territory as well as reserves sides from the four AFL clubs in those regions. With this, the representative football calendar would virtually encompass all of Australia. At first the NEAFL's conference system would allow two representative sides with Queensland and the Northern Territory making up the Northern conference team and the New South Wales and Australian Capital Territory combination forming the Eastern conference side. A couple of years later, the NEAFL would be represented by a single team. How this arrangement fits into the individual state league schedules is still being worked on, but it has largely not disrupted the existing arrangements undertaken by the traditional football states. In fact, what would normally have been a "bye" year for the SANFL, WAFL or VFL allows them to instead play the NEAFL or the TSL.
Under this arrangement, the leagues of New South Wales (AFL Sydney), the Australian Capital Territory (AFL Canberra) and Queensland (QAFL) were effectivelly relegated to third-tier status behind the NEAFL and, as a result, any representative matches involving opposition outside of these territories have involved amateur-level leagues.
The state league representative matches, like State of Origin matches, also have individual best on ground medals:
* Queensland and Northern Territory (NEAFL North): [[Zane Taylor Medal]]
* South Australia (SANFL): [[Fos Williams Medal]]
* Victoria (VFA/VFL): [[Frank Johnson Medal]]
* Western Australia (WAFL): [[Simpson Medal]]
* Tasmania (TSL): [[Lefroy Medal]]
====Results====
{{AFLGameHeader|title=1991 Football Season}}
{{AFLGame|11 June 1991|[[West Australian Football League|WAFL]]|17.20. (122)|H|[[South Australian National Football League|SANFL]]|11.12 (78)|[[Subiaco Oval]]|20,011| <ref>{{cite journal|title=Retzlaff dazzles to be medal man|journal=Westside Football|date=13 June 1991|page=13}}</ref>}}
{{AFLGameFooter|notes=
{{AFLGameBye| VIC: [[Victorian Football Association|VFA]], NT: [[Northern Territory Football League|NTFL]], QLD: [[Queensland Australian Football League|QFL]], NSW: [[Sydney AFL|NSWFL]], TAS: [[Tasmanian Football League|TFL]], ACT: [[AFL Canberra|ACTFL]].}}
}}
'''Bold''' text indicates the home team.
{| class="wikitable"
! Year !! Result !! Venue
|-
| 1991
| '''[[West Australian Football League|WAFL]]'''17.20 (122) def. [[South Australian National Football League|SANFL]] 11.12 (78)
| [[subiaco Oval]]
|-
| 1992
| '''[[South Australian National Football League|SANFL]]''' 9.18 (72) def. [[West Australian Football League|WAFL]] 9.12 (66)
| [[Football Park]]
|-
| 1993
| '''[[West Australian Football League|WAFL]]''' 15.20 (110) def. [[South Australian National Football League|SANFL]] 13.8 (86)
| [[WACA Ground]]
|-
|
| '''[[Tasmanian Football League|TFL]]''' 11.8 (74) def. [[AFL Queensland|QFL]] 9.10 (64)
| [[Bellerive Oval]]
|-
| 1994
| [[AFL Northern Territory|NTFL]] 15.13(103) def. '''[[Victorian Football Association|VFA]]''' 12.8 (80)
| Melbourne
|-
|
| [[West Australian Football League|WAFL]] 10.14 (74) def. '''[[South Australian National Football League|SANFL]]''' 7.18 (60)
| [[Football Park]]
|-
|
| '''[[AFL Queensland|QFL]]''' 18.18 (126) def. [[Tasmanian Football League|TFL]] 10.10 (70)
| [[Brisbane]]
|-
| 1995
| [[AFL Northern Territory|NTFL]] 11.11 (77) def. '''[[AFL Canberra|ACTFL]]''' 9.16 (70)
| [[Canberra]]
|-
|
| '''[[Tasmanian Football League|TFL]]''' 14.15 (99) def. [[South Australian National Football League|SANFL]] 12.12 (84)
| [[North Hobart Oval]]
|-
|
| [[West Australian Football League|WAFL]] 14.14 (98) def. '''[[AFL Queensland|QFL]]''' 8.17 (65)
| [[Brisbane]]
|-
|
| '''[[Victorian Football Association|VFA]]''' 16.15 (111) def. [[Sydney AFL|NSWFL]] 2.7 (19)
| Melbourne
|-
| 1996
| '''[[Victorian Football League|VFL]]''' 15.18 (108) def. [[Tasmanian Football League|TFL]] 13.8 (86)
| Melbourne
|-
|
| [[South Australian National Football League|SANFL]] 15.20 (110) def. '''[[West Australian Football League|WAFL]]''' 6.9 (45)
| [[Subiaco Oval]]
|-
| 1997
| [[South Australian National Football League|SANFL]] 13.17 (95) def. '''[[AFL Canberra|ACTFL]]''' 8.5 (53)
| [[Canberra]]
|-
|
| [[Victorian Football League|VFL]] 11.25 (91) def. '''[[AFL Canberra|ACTFL]]''' 10.6 (66)
| [[Canberra]]
|-
|
|'''[[Tasmanian Football League|TFL]]''' 19.6 (120) def. [[West Australian Football League|WAFL]] 10.13 (73)
| [[North Hobart Oval]]
|-
| 1998
| '''[[South Australian National Football League|SANFL]]''' 17.13 (115) def. [[West Australian Football League|WAFL]] 10.10 (70)
| [[Football Park]]
|-
|
| '''[[Tasmanian Football League|TFL]]''' 13.10 (88) def. [[Victorian Football League|VFL]] 6.17 (53)
| [[North Hobart Oval]]
|-
| 1999
| [[South Australian National Football League|SANFL]] 12.11 (83) def. '''[[Victorian Football League|VFL]]''' 8.11 (59)
| [[MCG]]
|-
|
| [[AFL Canberra|ACTFL]] 9.11 (65) def. '''[[Sydney AFL|NSWFL]]''' 9.6 (60)
| Sydney
|-
|
| '''[[West Australian Football League|WAFL]]''' 20.12 (132) def. [[Tasmanian Football League|TFL]] 10.14 (74)
| [[Kalgoorlie]]
|-
| 2000
| '''[[South Australian National Football League|SANFL]]''' 15.17 (107) def. [[West Australian Football League|WAFL]] 8.17 (65)
| [[Adelaide Oval]]
|-
| 2001
| '''[[South Australian National Football League|SANFL]]''' 20.14 (134) def. [[Victorian Football League|VFL]] 14.12 (96)
| [[Adelaide Oval]]
|-
| 2002
| [[Victorian Football League|VFL]] 18.17 (125) def. '''[[South Australian National Football League|SANFL]]''' 10.9 (69)
| [[Adelaide Oval]]
|-
|
| '''[[West Australian Football League|WAFL]]''' 24.15 (159) def. [[AFL Queensland|QFL]] 6.12 (48)
| [[Fremantle Oval]]
|-
| 2003
| [[South Australian National Football League|SANFL]] 17.16 (118) def. '''[[West Australian Football League|WAFL]]''' 8.10 (58)
| [[Fremantle Oval]]
|-
|
| '''[[AFL Queensland|QFL]]''' 10.9 (69) def. [[AFL Canberra|ACTFL]] 5.13 (43)
| [[The Gabba|Brisbane Cricket Ground]]
|-
| 2004
| [[Victorian Football League|VFL]] 10.9 (69) def. '''[[West Australian Football League|WAFL]]''' 8.10 (58)
| [[Leederville Oval]]
|-
|
| [[AFL Queensland|QFL]] 10.11 (71) def. '''[[AFL Canberra|ACTFL]]''' 8.9 (57)
| [[Manuka Oval]]
|-
| 2005
| [[South Australian National Football League|SANFL]] 20.8 (128) def. '''[[Victorian Football League|VFL]]''' 18.16 (124)
| [[TEAC Oval]]
|-
|
| [[West Australian Football League|WAFL]] 18.21 (129) def. '''[[AFL Queensland|QFL]]''' 11.5 (71)
| [[Carrara Oval]]
|-
|
| [[AFL Queensland|QFL]] 18.14 (122) def. '''[[AFL Canberra|ACTFL]]''' 12.12 (84)
| [[The Gabba|Brisbane Cricket Ground]]
|-
| 2006
| '''[[South Australian National Football League|SANFL]]''' 14.14 (98) def. [[West Australian Football League|WAFL]] 12.9 (81)
| [[Adelaide Oval]]
|-
| 2007
| '''[[Victorian Football League|VFL]]''' 25.11 (161) def. [[West Australian Football League|WAFL]] 5.12 (42)
| [[TEAC Oval]]
|-
|
| '''[[AFL Canberra|ACTFL]]''' 16.11 (107) def. [[Sydney AFL|NSWFL]] 14.9 (93)
| [[Manuka Oval]]
|-
|
| [[AFL Queensland|QFL]] 13.7 (85) def. '''[[AFL Tasmania|TAS]]''' 10.14 (74)
| [[York Park]]
|-
| 2008
| '''[[South Australian National Football League|SANFL]]''' 25.11 (161) def. [[Victorian Football League|VFL]] 14.12 (96)
| [[Adelaide Oval]]
|-
|
| [[West Australian Football League|WAFL]] 24.20 (164) def. '''[[AFL Queensland|QFL]]''' 14.7 (91)
| [[Tony Ireland Stadium]]
|-
| 2009
| '''[[West Australian Football League|WAFL]]''' 12.10 (82) def. [[South Australian National Football League|SANFL]] 12.9 (81)
| [[Leederville Oval]]
|-
|
| '''[[Tasmanian Football League|TFL]]''' 20.9 (129) def. [[AFL Queensland|QFL]] 11.14 (80)
| [[Bellerive Oval]]
|-
| 2010
| [[Victorian Football League|VFL]] 20.11 (131) def. '''[[West Australian Football League|WAFL]]''' 11.11 (77)
| [[Leederville Oval]]
|-
|
| '''[[AFL Queensland|QFL]]''' 23.26 (164) def. [[Tasmanian Football League|TFL]] 13.7 (85)
| [[Fankhauser Reserve]]
|-
| 2011
| '''[[West Australian Football League|WAFL]]''' 16.17 (113) def. [[North East Australian Football League|NEAFL North]] 16.11 (107)
| [[Rushton Park]]
|-
| 2012
| '''[[South Australian National Football League|SANFL]]''' 15.11 (101) def. [[West Australian Football League|WAFL]] 13.9 (87)
| [[Glenelg Oval]]
|-
|
| [[Victorian Football League|VFL]] 20.17 (137) def. '''[[Tasmanian Football League|TFL]]''' 3.11 (29)
| [[Bellerive Oval]]
|-
|
| '''[[North East Australian Football League|NEAFL North]]''' 31.15 (201) def. [[North East Australian Football League|NEAFL East]] 8.8 (56)
| [[Fankhauser Reserve]]
|-
| 2013
| '''[[South Australian National Football League|SANFL]]''' 21.14 (140) def. [[North East Australian Football League|NEAFL North]] 9.4 (58)
| [[Richmond Oval (South Australia)|Richmond Oval]]
|-
|
| '''[[West Australian Football League|WAFL]]''' 17.16 (118) def. [[Victorian Football League|VFL]] 15.11 (101)
| [[Jubilee Oval, Northam WA|Jubilee Oval]]
|-
|
| [[Tasmanian Football League|TFL]] 15.11 (101) def. '''[[North East Australian Football League|NEAFL East]]''' 8.13 (61)
| [[Sydney Showground Stadium|Skoda Stadium]]
|-
| 2014
| [[West Australian Football League|WAFL]] 19.18 (132) def. '''[[North East Australian Football League|NEAFL]]''' 6.11 (47)
| [[Blacktown ISP Oval]]
|-
|
| [[South Australian National Football League|SANFL]] 18.10 (118) def. '''[[Victorian Football League|VFL]]''' 14.12 (96)
| [[North Port Oval]]
|-
|
| '''[[Tasmanian State League|TFL]]''' 18.12 (120) def. [[North East Australian Football League|NEAFL]] 11.13 (79)
| [[Bellerive Oval]]
|-
| 2015
| '''[[West Australian Football League|WAFL]]''' 18.13 (121) def. [[South Australian National Football League|SANFL]] 11.10 (76)
| [[Lathlain Park]]
|-
|
| '''[[North East Australian Football League|NEAFL]]''' 11.11 (77) def. [[Tasmanian Football League|TFL]] 8.9 (57)
| [[Moreton Bay Central Sports Complex]]
|-
| 2016
| '''[[South Australian National Football League|SANFL]]''' 16.10 (106) def. [[Victorian Football League|VFL]] 13.9 (87)<ref name="2016SAVic">{{cite news|last1=Partland|first1=Warren|title=Painful lessons from WA loss fuelled SA triumph over Vics, says coach Graham Cornes|url=http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/sport/afl/local-footy-sa/sanfl/painful-lessons-from-wa-loss-fuelled-sa-triumph-over-vics-says-coach-graham-cornes/news-story/03e0d813da31ba2cfa38225e3bf7ddbb|access-date=29 May 2016|newspaper=The Advertiser|publisher=News Limited|date=29 May 2016}}</ref>
| [[Adelaide Oval]]
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|
| '''[[West Australian Football League|WAFL]]''' 25.14 (164) def. [[Tasmanian Football League|TFL]] 4.6 (30)<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.themercury.com.au/sport/afl/wafl-hands-tasmania-a-hiding-in-perth/news-story/4dee06495d0862e65ed88eae1f057802|title =WAFL hands Tasmania a hiding in Perth |first = Simeon|last=Thomas-Wilson|work=Sunday Tasmanian}}</ref>
| [[Bassendean Oval]]
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| 2017
| [[West Australian Football League|WAFL]] 20.14 (134) def. '''[[Victorian Football League|VFL]]''' 10.11 (71)<ref>{{cite news|last1=Townsend|first1=John|title=WA creates history with win over Vics|url=https://thewest.com.au/sport/wafl/wa-breaks-drought-with-63-point-win-over-victoria-in-melbourne-ng-b88489364z|access-date=12 May 2018|work=The West Australian|date=27 May 2017}}</ref>
| [[North Port Oval]]
|-
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| [[North East Australian Football League|NEAFL]] 8.7 (55) def. '''[[Tasmanian Football League|TFL]]''' 5.8 (38)
| [[Bellerive Oval|Blundstone Arena]]
|-
| 2018
| '''[[West Australian Football League|WAFL]]''' 15.12 (102) def. '''[[South Australian National Football League|SANFL]]''' 11.10 (76)<ref>{{cite news|last1=Townsend|first1=John|title=Black Swans break 24-year drought in Adelaide|url=https://thewest.com.au/sport/wafl/wafl-v-sanfl-black-swans-break-24-year-drought-in-adelaide-ng-b88834271z|access-date=12 May 2018|work=The West Australian|date=12 May 2018}}</ref>
| [[Adelaide Oval]]
|}
===Intrastate representative football===
=== E. J. Whitten Legends Game (1996–present) ===
{{Main|E. J. Whitten Legends Game}}
Following the death of [[Ted Whitten]]—who is regarded as one of the finest-ever players of Australian rules—from [[prostate cancer]] in 1995, his son [[Ted Whitten Jr]] organised an interstate charity match between teams of retired players to raise money for research into the disease. The only two teams which have taken part in these games are Victoria and the ''All-Stars'' (similar to the AFL's "Allies"), who represent the rest of Australia. The first [[E. J. Whitten Legends Game]] was played at [[Whitten Oval]] in 1996, and it has become an annual event. The games have often attracted crowds of over 10,000, and this has resulted in it being moved from the [[Whitten Oval]] to [[Optus Oval]], to [[Adelaide Oval]] (South Australia) and finally to [[Etihad Stadium (Melbourne)|Etihad Stadium]].
== References ==
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== External links ==
* [http://australianfootball.com AustralianFootball.com, "Interstate Football"]
* [http://www.convictcreations.com/football/stateoforigin.htm Convict Creations State of Origin]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20061106185917/http://stats.afl.com.au/public/home.shtml AFL Statistics]
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