World Footy News

The Wolverhampton Wolverines will make their long-awaited debut on May 1st this year, with the home game against the Birmingham Uni Sharks to be the first-ever Australian rules football match in the city of Wolverhampton.

Wolverines founder Ian Mitchell says "We are playing at our home ground, Wolverhampton RUFC at 2pm. There is potential for this game to turn into a 3 or maybe even 4-way tournament, as I've asked Hull and Peterborough, the other two new teams in the region, to join us."

"We have started to train with the Gaelic Football side in Wolverhampton, St Mary's GAA, which will hopefully be beneficial for both clubs, in terms of sharing players, transferring skills and adding to numbers at training sessions. It is that club's 50 year anniversary this year and so we hope to celebrate that with an international rules game at some point over the summer."

The Wolverines are this year competing in the social division of England's new-look Central & North West league, together with the developing sides in Liverpool, Hull and Peterborough. The league will kick off on May 8th, with all clubs heading to Manchester for huge day of British Aussie Rules.