Carlton Football Club

Carlton Football Club
Names
Full name	Carlton Football Club Limited[1]
Nickname(s)	Blues Blue Baggers Baggers Old Navy Blues
Motto	Mens sana in corpore sano (a healthy mind in a healthy body)
2024 season
After finals	8th
Home-and-away season	8th
Leading goalkicker	Charlie Curnow (57 goals)
Club details
Founded	1864; 160 years ago (1864)[citation needed][disputed – discuss]
Colours	Navy blue, white
Competition	AFL: Senior men AFLW: Senior women VFL: Reserves men VFLW: Reserves women
President	Luke Sayers
CEO	Brian Cook
Coach	AFL: Michael Voss AFLW: Mathew Buck
Captain(s)	AFL: Patrick Cripps AFLW: Kerryn Peterson
Premierships	VFL/AFL (16) 1906 1907 1908 1914 1915 1938 1945 1947 1968 1970 1972 1979 1981 1982 1987 1995 VFA (2) 1877 1887 Victorian (4) 1871 1873 1874 1875
Ground(s)	AFL: Marvel Stadium (56,347) & Melbourne Cricket Ground (100,024) AFLW & VFL & VFLW: Ikon Park (12,000)
Former ground(s)	Princes Park (1897–2005)
Training ground(s)	Princes Park (Ikon Park)
Uniforms
Home Away Clash
Other information
Official website	carltonfc.com.au
Current season

The Carlton Football Club, nicknamed the Blues, is a professional Australian rules football club based at Princes Park in Carlton North, an inner suburb of Melbourne in Victoria, Australia. The club competes in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's premier competition.

Founded in the 1860s, the club began playing out of parklands historically part of Carlton not far from its current base. It quickly became one of the major football clubs in the city. It was a foundation member of the Victorian Football Association (VFA), winning the inaugural premiership in 1877. In 1896, Carlton joined the breakaway Victorian Football League (since renamed the AFL), and alongside rivals Collingwood, Essendon, and Richmond. It is regarded as one of the league's historical "Big Four" clubs, having won sixteen VFL/AFL premierships, equal with Collingwood and Essendon as the most of any AFL club. The club's AFL Women's team had competed since in the league's inaugural 2017 AFLW season.

It currently plays its home matches at Docklands Stadium and the Melbourne Cricket Ground. Princes Park is the its traditional home ground of the club and is home to its women's team. Carlton also has reserves sides in the Victorian Football League and VFL Women's.