About the USAFL

The United States Australian Football League (USAFL) was founded in Septemeber, 1997 at the first US National Championships in Louisville, Kentucky.

The USAFL is the sole representative of Australian Football within the United States.

The USAFL is a grassroots, amateur sports organization dedicated to the development of and participation in Australian football. The organization is focused on the promotion and awareness of Australian football and Aussie culture and has created a sense of community among USAFL clubs and club members. The league also works to foster womens and junior programs across the United States.

The USAFL promotes participation by emphasizing awareness and a sense of community within its members and by setting standards by which member clubs agree to abide.

The USAFL is working hard towards growing the game and in it's 10th year (2007) set itself a number of goals to achieve during it's second decade.

Some of these include:

• Growing membership to more than 10,000 registered players and 30,000 development players.
• Full time USAFL office and staff.
• The first Australian Football grounds.
• Two fully sponsored representative teams, the men's American Revolution and women's American Freedom teams.
• To be self-supporting with sponsors, grants and merchandise.
• Increase in scholarships to Australia
• Implement US Footy Kids programs in schools across the U.S.
• Weekly televised games on regular cable channel