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AFL confirms matches played Overseas for Premierships Points are on agenda

  • Wednesday, December 01 2010 @ 08:45 am ACDT
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AFL chief Andrew Demetriou has confirmed that the League Commission is seriously investigating playing AFL regular season matches outside Australia for the first time.

The announcement was made at the AFL industry conference held on the Gold Coast in mid-November.

Cities mentioned by Mr Demetriou as potential hosts were Mumbai, Los Angeles and Shanghai, with mention also made of plans by Melbourne FC to repeat their Shanghai exhibition match experiment after the 2011 AFL season.

For more on this story, see AFL flags playing premiership matches overseas on afl.com.au or AFL wants to go global from Melbourne's Herald Sun newspaper.