After the three team expansion in 1925 and the five teams that expanded between 1987 and 1997, six new teams would be bound to enter the AFL starting with another team in Melbourne in 2005.
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The expansion granted to Port Melbourne in 2005 brought an eighth team into the state of Victoria for the first time since the last expansion year when Sydney and St. Kilda were in merger talks for the following season. Hobart would soon follow as the Beagles enter in 2008. Gold Coast and GWS are significant as well as Gold Coast adds another team in Queensland and GWS brings professional footy back to Sydney since the departure of the Swans to merge with former rival St. Kilda. Auckland becomes the first team to be located in New Zealand in 2013 and Wellington follows in 2014 as their team get their nickname from the native tuatara and Auckland likewise as the "City of Sails."
-Ricky
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