AFL Teamcoach is a popular Australian rules football-themed collectible card game. More than 2.2 million people play it in all states and territories except NSW. The series started since 2001, . The current set of cards is the 2007 series. Each pack contains 9 cards and include a gold card. Packs of cards are available from all Newsagents aswell as AFL stores and cost $2.95.

Online Game types

As well as collecting cards users are able to join a fantasy type sport game. This online game has two types of competitions.

Top Team

Uses chose 22 of their best cards. Each user must choose 7 backman, 2 ruckman, 6 midfielders and 7 forwards from their collection of cards. At the end of each round users will receive points based on the actual performance of their chosen cards in that round of the AFL.

4 star

This competion is very similar to the Top Team competition however users chose a total of 4 cards, 1 backman, 1 ruckman, 1 midfield and 1 forward. Prizes for this section of the competition are only able to those people aged 16 years and under. This format was used in 2001 and 2002 and war reintroduced in 2007.

Other games

Other than the online games there are also a set of other games that users can play with other people who also collect Teamcoach cards.

Super Stats

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Set shots

Types of cards

Cards that are available through card packs include common cards, gold cards, checklists and wildcards.

Common Cards

These are the most common card and is the basic card. There is 1 unique common card for every player included in the 2007 set

Gold Cards

Gold cards are worth double points and are quite rare. 1 gold card is included in every card. There is 1 unique card for every player included in the 2007 set

Wild Cards

These cards are extremely rare with 1 card appearing in every 72 cards. A wildcard is a team card. This card can be used at any time and doubles the points of a selected player from the team the card is associated to.

Distribution of cards

In the current 2007 set there are a total of 200 players.
This comprises of

60 Backman

64 Midfielders

60 Fowards

16 Ruckman.

Each club has 12 players and 1 team checklist.
Each club has 1 wildcard
Each player has a common card and a gold card

Card lists

2000

Never released as it was too complicated. This Teamcoach had certain limits, like the use of cards for different rounds, Doubles in this game were actually very useful as the more you had of one player, the more rounds you can use that player. They came in 6 variations, making a total of 600 cards.

Some of the tests have found the markets.

The cards had corners, had the total number of game points, the average and the play rate.

2001

The face of 2001 was Wayne Carey

2001 was the only year where some cards had to be got by packs, such as the Ingerson Silver and Phil Matera Gold, Found in the Starter packs.

2001 cards were very similar to the 2000 cards, instead of a random round number allocation, highs and lows were introduced, three of each kind. Rather than 6 types of card, there was the Common, Silver and Gold system as used until 2006.

2002

The face for 2002 was Shane Crawford

This was the first year where the rounded edges cards was made. Some extra stats were included on the card, like average Kicks, handballs, goals etc. This was the only year where the Portrait card was Gold rather than Silver.

2003

2003 was when the first expansion happened, there were now 150 cards, it also saw the drop of the 4 star team game. A new website was released for 2003.

The face for 2003 is Jason Akermanis

2004

The face for 2004 is Adam Goodes

2005

The Face for 2005 was Matthew Richardson

A thunderbolt design was used for this year in celebration of Port's first premiership the previous year.

2006

The face for 2006 is Aaron Davey

The High and Low system was dropped, and marks went up to 3 for all positions.

All players are available in Common, Silver and Gold

Adelaide Crows - Nathan Bassett, Graham Johncock, Andrew McLeod, Ben Rutten, Tyson Edwards, Simon Goodwin, Mark Ricciuto, Ken McGregor, Scott Thompson, Rhett Biglands.

Brisbane Lions - Chris Johnson, Jason Akermanis, Simon Black, Nigel Lappin, Luke Power, Daniel Bradshaw, Jonathan Brown, Michael Voss, Clark Keating.

Carlton Blues - Andrew Carrazzo, Bret Thornton, Anthony Koutoufides, Nick Stevens, Brendan Fevola, Brad Fisher, Jarrad Waite, Lance Whitnall, Barnaby French.

Collingwood Magpies - James Clement, Tarkyn Lockyer, Nathan Buckley, Brodie Holland, Paul Licuria, Travis Cloke, Alan Didak, Anthony Rocca, Chris Tarrant, Josh Fraser.

Essendon Bombers - Dustin Fletcher, Adam McPhee, Jason Johnson, Mark Johnson, Brent Stanton, James Hird, Matthew Lloyd, Andrew Lovett, Scott Lucas, David Hille.

Fremantle Dockers - Matthew Carr, Shane Parker, Peter Bell, Heath Black, Josh Carr, Paul Hasleby, Luke McPharlin, Matthew Pavlich, Aaron Sandilands.

Geelong Cats -Darren Milburn, Cam Mooney, Matthew Scarlett, James Bartel, Joel Corey, Cameron Ling, Gary Ablett, Jr., Nathan Ablett, Paul Chapman, Steven King

Hawthorn Hawks - Trent Croad, Jarryd Roughead, Chance Bateman, Shane Crawford, Luke Hodge, Sam Mitchell, Lance Franklin, Mark Williams, Peter Everitt.

Kangaroos - Glenn Archer, Jess Sinclair, Adam Simpson, Daniel Wells, Shannon Grant, Brent Harvey, Corey Jones, Nathan Thompson, David Hale.

Melbourne Demons - Nathan D. Brown, Cameron Bruce, Travis Johnstone, Brent Moloney, Aaron Davey, Brad Green, David Neitz, Russell Robertson, Jeff White.

Port Adelaide Power - Shaun Burgoyne, Chad Cornes Stuart Dew, Darryl Wakelin, Peter Burgoyne, Domenic Cassisi, Kane Cornes, Warren Tredrea, Brendon Lade.

Richmond Tigers - Joel Bowden, Mark Coughlan, Kane Johnson, Shane Tuck, Nathan G. Brown, Brett Deledio, Matthew Richardson, Troy Simmonds

St. Kilda Saints - Matt Maguire, Luke Ball, Nick Dal Santo, Robert Harvey, Lenny Hayes, Fraser Gehrig, Aaron Hamill, Stephen Milne, Nick Riewoldt, Justin Koschitzke.

Sydney Swans - Leo Barry, Craig Bolton, Tadhg Kennelly, Jude Bolton, Brett Kirk, Barry Hall, Ryan O'Keefe, Michael O'Laughlin, Adam Goodes.

West Coast Eagles - Darren Glass, Adam Hunter, Tyson Stenglein, David Wirrpanda, Ben Cousins, Chad Fletcher, Chris Judd, Daniel Kerr, Andrew Embley, Dean Cox.

Western Bulldogs - Daniel Giansiracusa, Lindsay Gilbee, Rohan Smith, Adam Cooney, Daniel Cross, Scott West, Brad Johnson, Robert Murphy, Will Minson.

Promotion

Subway Restaurants released a promotional Subway Wildcard Series in early 2005, releasing one star from each club.

Their television advertising campaign was a rather forgettable one for Nick Riewoldt. He and a kid trading their Teamcoach cards. This was after Nick controversially broke his arm in Round 1 of 2005 against the Brisbane Lions.

The first TV ads on Teamcoach came in 2005.