North Fitzroy Kangaroos Football Club
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The North Fitzroy Kangaroos was a proposed professional Australian rules football club which was to have formed from the merger between the Fitzroy Football Club and the North Melbourne Football Club, and was to have competed in the Australian Football League from 1997 onwards. The merger was arranged in May 1996 to avert the imminent financial collapse of Fitzroy, but was abandoned within two months of its announcement following clashes of interest from multiple parties. The abandonment resulted in North Melbourne remaining as a stand-alone club as it is today, and the league administrators forcing Fitzroy, then nicknamed as the 'Lions', to relocate to Brisbane and merge with the Brisbane Football Club to form what is now the Brisbane Lions Football Club.[1]
North Fitzroy Kangaroos | |
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Names | |
Full name | North Fitzroy Kangaroos Football Club |
Nickname(s) | North, Fitzroy, Kangaroos, Lions |
Club details | |
Founded | 11 May 1996 |
Dissolved | 4 July 1996 |
Colours | Maroon, Blue and White |
Competition | Australian Football League |
President | Ron Casey |
Ground(s) | Princes Park |
Training ground(s) | Arden Street |