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Australian rules football in France is played by eight clubs in Paris, Strasbourg, Bordeaux, Perpignan, Toulouse, Lyon, Montpellier and Cergy in the French "Super league". The Commission Nationale de Football Australien (CNFA) is the official governing body for Australian Football in France. There have been a number of other short-lived clubs in the country in the past and the so the CNFA has created a developmental league consisting of an additional three teams - Pau, Saint Nazaire and Marseille. ==History== Australian rules football was played by Australian armed forces at Poperinge in 1916.〔http://www.pictureaustralia.org/apps/pictureaustralia?action=PADisplay&mode=display&rs=resultset-781993&no=290 P00046.050 Australian War Memorial〕 A match was also recorded as being played in Le Havre.〔Australian War Memorial H85.55/160/134〕 Australian football was first shown in France on Canal+ television in the 1980s. Aussie Rules had been played sporadically in the 1990s by clubs in Paris and Normandy, with the formation of the first club, Houquetot in Normandy. With the support of the Australian embassy, the club became the Montivilliers in 1998 and was nicknamed "Tasmania" in reference to the Australian state. The first game was played against Australians in 1998, but the club disappeared the following year. it wasn't until 2003-04 when the first stable teams began to appear, the first two being the primarily Australian-expat based Paris Cockerels and the mainly French Strasbourg Kangaroos. The first footy match on record between two 100% French teams was played in Strasbourg on 3 December 2005, with the hometown Kangaroos defeating the Senlis Razorbacks 91-17. A promotional match was played in March 2006 between English club Reading Kangaroos and a French national side in front of between 500 and 700 spectators in Perpignan, including a sizeable media presence.〔(World Footy News - French almost pull off an upset against the Reading Roos )〕 Owing to the long distances between clubs, there was no national league as such prior to the inaugural 2009 season. Strasbourg competed in the Australian Football League Germany for 2006, with the Saint Esteve Saints considering joing the Catalan AFL for their 2007 season before going into recess. The first French club championship was held in Paris in 2008, with Paris, Strasbourg, Montpellier and Bordeaux taking part. Now there is not only a national league of Australian Football in France but also a developmental league as well pointing to a decided boom. Each year since 2009 a match has been played at Villers-Bretonneux between an Australian and French football side to commemorate ANZAC Day. This event has increased in stature every year with approximately 8,000 people attending the Dawn service at the Australian memorial. 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「Australian rules football in France」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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