Australian Football makes players run more than any other sport. About 8.5 miles per game!

Australian Football League players are on the field for longer and run further than any other mainstream professional sportsmen in the world. Date reveals that AFL players run an average of 8.5 miles per game.
The English soccer league runs a couple miles less than the AFL players do. AFL fields aren’t uniform, but the dimensions of their arenas vary, which adds to their physical demand. Players actually spend an average of 5 minutes and 25 seconds per match running at over 18 kilometers per hour.
The Australian Football League was founded in 1897 as the Victorian Football League. They began with 8 teams and are responsible for governing the laws of the game. The teams were all located within the Australian state of Victoria.
The name was changed to the Australian Football League in 1990 and currently has 18 teams spread over the five states in Australia.
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