page_title: Sydney Swans
section_title: West Coast Eagles
hierarchical_section_title: Sydney Swans / Rivalries / West Coast Eagles
caption_attribution_description: Barry Hall and an opponent from rivals West Coast
context_page_description: The Sydney Swans are a professional Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League. Established in Melbourne as the South Melbourne Football Club in 1874, the Swans relocated to Sydney in 1982, thus making it the first club in the competition to be based outside Victoria.
  Initially playing in the Victorian Football Association, the Swans joined seven other clubs in founding the breakaway Victorian Football League in 1896. It won premierships in 1909, 1918 and 1933 before experiencing a 72-year premiership drought—the longest in the competition's history. The club broke the drought in 2005 and won another premiership in 2012.
  The club has proven to be one of the most consistent teams in the AFL era, failing to make the finals in only four seasons since 1995, playing the most number of finals matches and winning the second-most matches overall since 2000 and boasting a finals winning record of over 50% in the same time period.
  The Swans' headquarters and training facilities are located at the Sydney Cricket Ground, the club's playing home ground since 1982.
context_section_description: The Swans developed a famous modern rivalry against the Perth-based West Coast Eagles between 2005 and 2007, when six consecutive games between the two teams, including two qualifying finals and two grand finals, were decided by less than a goal. The rivalry was highlighted by Sydney's four-point win against West Coast in the 2005 Grand Final, and West Coast's one-point win against Sydney in the 2006 Grand Final.
caption: Barry Hall and Darren Glass
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