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The Australian Football League has implemented a salary cap on its clubs since 1987, when Brisbane and West Coast were admitted, as part of its equalization policy designed to neutralize the ability of the richest and most successful clubs, Carlton, Collingwood and Hawthorn, to perennially dominate the competition. The cap was set at A$1.25 million for 1987–1989 as per VFL agreement, with the salary floor set at 90% of the cap or $1.125 million; the salary floor was increased to 92.5% of the cap in 2001, and to 95% of the cap for 2013 onwards due to increased revenues. The salary cap, known officially as ''Total Player Payments'', is A$10,070,000 for the 2014 season with a salary floor of $9,566,500 except for , whose salary cap is $10,500,000 with a floor of $9,996,500. Both the salary cap and salary floor has increased substantially since the competition was re-branded as the AFL in 1990 to assist in stemming the dominance new interstate high membership clubs Adelaide and the West Coast Eagles. Certain payments are excluded from the cap, and concessions are available for some players, in particular "veteran" players (those over the age of 30 and/or who have completed 10 seasons with their current club) and "nominated" rookie list players, who are discounted by 30% or 50% for purposes of the cap, depending on the number of these players at each club. The AFL Players Association negotiates for players with the AFL on the topic of average salary. ==Success of the cap== The VFL/AFL's salary cap has been quite successful in terms of parity: since the cap was introduced in 1987, each of the 16 teams (this excludes the expansion teams from the Gold Coast and Greater Western Sydney) has played in a Preliminary Final, 14 teams have played in a Grand Final, and eleven teams have won the premiership. Another major statistic in regards to the success of the VFL/AFL's cap is that the three richest and most successful clubs, Carlton, Collingwood and Essendon, who won 42 of the premierships between them from 76 Grand Finals 〔This figure includes the drawn and replayed 1948 and 1977 Grand Finals, while in 1897 and 1924 Essendon won both the round-robin outright, meaning that no Grand Final was required〕 in the 91 seasons between 1897 and 1987 (83.5% of all Grand Finals for a 46.2% premiership success rate; this includes Carlton's premiership in 1987, the first year of the cap), have only won five of the premierships between them from ten Grand Finals 〔This figure includes the drawn and replayed 2010 Grand Final〕 between 1988 and 2014 (35.7% of all Grand Finals for an 17.9% premiership success rate). Of note in this regard is that Sydney have been in the finals in 17 of the 20 seasons (a finals success rate of 85%) since 1995, playing in five Grand Finals and winning the premiership in 2005 and 2012, having previously not won a premiership since 1933, having not played in a Grand Final since 1945 (both as South Melbourne), and mostly struggling in the 50 seasons between 1946 and 1995, making the finals on just four occasions in that time (a finals success rate of just 8%). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「AFL salary cap」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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