The AFL Franchise Page Finally Read Its Own Record Book
The franchises page graduates from a name tag and a trophy count to the full career ledger — all-time records, seasons served, career points, and a rack of title pills for every club — sorted into proper American League and National League sections. Twenty-three years of receipts, one page.
The Full Story
For a league that has been settling scores since 2003, the AFL franchises page was strangely shy about it: an icon, a name, a division pill, and — if you'd actually won something — a lone trophy emoji doing all the talking. Meanwhile TheLeague's franchise page has spent months strutting around with career records and a badge shelf. The beat desk kept both tabs open and the comparison was not kind.
No longer. Every card now carries the club's all-time record with winning percentage, seasons served, and career points — computed from every standings feed back to 2003, and it follows owners across franchise moves the same way the trophy room does, so your record is yours, not the slot's. Below the numbers sits the full title rack: AFL Championships, Premier League crowns, conference and division flags, D-League titles, even the NIT — hover any pill for the years. The cards sort by hardware first, wins second, inside proper American League and National League sections, and each one glows in its team color when you reach for it. The icon stays — this is the AFL, we lead with the crest.
The Former Identities archive now sits in the open instead of behind a collapsed toggle, all several dozen punitive rebrands of it. One footnote for the historians: points totals before 2023 are approximate — the early feeds kept score like the early league kept promises. The wins are exact. Argue accordingly.
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