Furry Australian Football League

The Furry Australian Football League (FAFL) is the highest-level of furry professional competition in the sport of Australian rules football. Through the FAFL Commission (Formally known as the National Furry Football Commission [NFFC]), the FAFL also serves as the sport's governing body, and is responsible for controlling the Laws of the Game. The league was founded in 1974 with 8 teams competing in the league. This number would stay the same until the introduction of the Darwin Storm in 2016.

1974: A new odyssey begins
The league was founded in 1974 after a report by the NFFC stated that for Australian Football to last in the long term, There needed to be an establishment of a national league. The NFFC would step in and control the national league with teams being founded in Queensland, New South Wales & Victoria & Big State-League teams being taken from South Australia, Western Australia, Tasmania, Victoria & New South Wales.

It would be a hard road for the NFFC with them trying to find teams that were willing to join the new national league but by Christmas 1974, The NFFC had found their 8 teams to bring in a new era of Australian Football.