An Australian Football League team song is traditionally sung by members of the winning team after an AFL game. It is played when each team runs out onto the field prior to the beginning of the match, and played for the winning team at the end of the match.
The first team song was the Collingwood song "Good Old Collingwood Forever", written by player Tom Nelson in 1906 to the tune of "Goodbye, Dolly Gray", an American music hall song.[1] Other clubs have continued to rewrite other songs' lyrics to suit their team, with four of the 18 team songs having both original lyrics and music.
| Club Name | Song Name | Basis | First Used | Writer/Composer | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| "The Pride of South Australia" | "US Marines Corps Hymn" | 1994 | Club version by William Sanders (based on 1867 composition by Jacques Offenbach) | ||
| "The Pride of Brisbane Town" | "La Marseillaise" | 1997 | Club version (Based on Fitzroy club version by Bill Stephen from 1952 which was based on 1792 composition by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle)[2] | ||
| "We are the Navy Blues" | "Lily of Laguna" | Club version by Ernie Walton (based on 1889 composition by Leslie Stuart) | |||
| "Good Ol'Collingwood Forever" | "Goodbye, Dolly Gray" | 1906 | Club version by Tom Nelson (based on 1897 composition by Paul Barnes and Will D. Cobb) | ||
| "See the Bombers Fly Up" | "(Keep Your) Sunny Side Up" | 1929 | Club version by Kevin Andrews[3] [4] (based on 1929 composition by B. G. DeSylva, Lew Brown and Ray Henderson) | ||
| "Freo Way To Go" | "Song of the Volga Boatmen" | 1995 | Club version by Ken Walther (Derivative sections later removed) | ||
| "We Are Geelong" | "The Toreador Song" | 1963 | Club version by John K. Watts (based on an 1875 composition by Georges Bizet to a libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy) | ||
| "We Are the Suns of the Gold Coast Sky"[5] | Original | 2010 | Rosco Elliott | ||
| "There's A Big Big Sound"[6] | Original | 2012 | Harry Angus | ||
| "The Mighty Fighting Hawks" (also known as "We're A Happy Team at Hawthorn") | "The Yankee Doodle Boy" | Club version by Chic Lander (based on 1911 composition by George M. Cohan) | |||
| "It's a Grand Old Flag" | "You're a Grand Old Flag" | Club lyrics (second verse) by Keith "Bluey" Truscott (based on 1906 composition by George M. Cohan) | |||
| "Join in the Chorus" | "Just a wee Deoch an Doris"[7] | Club lyrics unknown (based on 1911 composition by Sir Harry Lauder) | |||
| "Power to Win"[8] | Original | 1997 | Quentin Eyers and Les Kaczmarek | ||
| "We're from Tiger Land" | "Row, Row, Row" | 1962 | Club version by Jack Malcolmson (based on 1912 composition by William Jerome and James Monaco (Row, Row, Row lyrics © Peermusic Publishing sung by Bing Crosby)) | ||
| "When the Saints Go Marching In" | Club version "When the Saints Go Marching In" | unknown | |||
| "The Red and the White" | "Notre Dame Victory March" | 1961 | Club lyrics by Larry Spokes (based on 1908 composition by Michael J. Shea and John F. Shea) | ||
| "We're Flying High" | Original | 2020 | Current version by Ian Berney in 2020 (based on 1987 composition by Kevin Peek) | ||
| "Sons of the West" | "Sons of the Sea" | Club version origins unknown (based on 1897 composition by Felix McGlennon) |