The expansion continues (and from the most unlikely of places) as Ingmar "Terry" Lundquist founds the Helsingborg Saints. Helsingborg is two hours north of Copenhagen, and in Sweden. Aussie players have to start taking their passports to play a game of footy! A fifth team means the finals expand to three teams and two games.

Six rounds into the season, Amager are undefeated on top with a percentage of 323.5. For defender Jim Campion, it is no challenge so he heads across town to the Crocs, who are struggling and being kept off the bottom only by the debutant Saints. It is not the first time Campion will do the unconventional.

Genuine internationals begin as DAFL sends a representative team to London to take on the might of BARFL. Due to a sponsorship agreement, BARFL confine themselves to Brits-only, while DAFL imposes its internal restriction of five Australians per team on its national side. It doesn't help as we go down badly (Scores).

In the same round 14 game, Tiger Steen Jørgensen becomes the first Dane to boot 50 goals in a season and the first of any nationality to kick 100 career goals.

The first of DAFL's several one-season wonders, Rick Ellis of Amager caps off an extraordinary year by becoming the first and so far only player to boot 100 goals in a season, and then easily wins the Sitch Medal. Ellis polls more votes than the second and third place getters combined!

Aalborg slip into the Preliminary Final but are no match for the Crocs, who have rallied with the addition of Campion and the improved match-fitness of a certain Kym Modra. The Tigers are still raging favorites to complete a premiership hatrick.

For the third time in as many seasons, the Tigers and the Crocs clash in the Grand Final. Being undefeated with a percentage of 341 counts for nought as the Crocs play the game of their lives and shock the Tigers and everyone else at the game to win their first DAFL flag. Salt is rubbed in to the proverbial Tiger wound as Campion picks up the BOG award.

DAFL takes its most significant step forward thus far with the establishment of a scholarship program. The league aims to help pay the airfare of two or three players each year to go down and play a season for Power House in the VAFA in Melbourne. The first two to go in 1995 are Joacim Aulin (Helsingborg) and Dennis Klindt (Amager).

The explosion continues with two more new teams, bringing the number of expansion teams to four in three seasons. Jim Campion finds himself in a quandary over whether to return to the Tigers or stay with the Crocs, so he founds the Farum Lions instead. Farum is a suburb on the north-western fringes of Copenhagen. The Lund Bulldogs are the other new team, a spin-off from the Saints and founded by Marc Breeze. In the first round, the two new teams meet each other as part of a triple-header at Farum.

Five games into the season, the Bulldogs succumb to some heavy defeats and the rigours of travel to Jutland and fold. It becomes clear the team was little more than a splinter group of discontented Helsingborg players, and that that area of southern Sweden was never going to have enough resident Australians to sustain two football clubs. The Bulldogs should never have been allowed into the league in the first place.

Mid-season, the British send a team for the first genuine international in Denmark. DAFL takes the courageous decision to exclude Australian players entirely despite the previous season's drubbing with them. The punt pays off to an unprecedented degree as an aging British side is no match for a youthful Danish one (coached by Kim Madsen) in 30 degree heat (Scores).

In Round 10, Crocs Martyn Aynge and Steve McKay simultaneously become the first players to reach 50 DAFL games. Ironically, neither is Danish or Australian (they are a Briton and a New Zealander).

Aalborg's Jesper Gjørup becomes the first non-Australian to win the Sitch Medal since Kim Madsen in 1991. For the third time (also 1992 and 1994), Peter McDonald finishes second.

With the new teams, the traditional final four is adopted. Aalborg had won every home game during the season and finished third, giving them the right to host the First Semi Final against new boys Farum. Incredibly, they lose. The Crocs, who had made all the early running, can not cover the loss of Kym Modra and are bundled out in straight sets. This leaves Amager and Farum in the Grand Final. All the hype of making the big one in their first year is not enough for the Lions to overcome a strong and determined Tiger side, who win their third premiership, all under the coaching of Mark Zagodinos.

The Balmain Tigers from Sydney visit Denmark and play a DAFL All-Star team. They flog us.

Tiger Martin Holberg is chosen as DAFL's scholarship player for 1996.

With the demise of Lund, DAFL is back to six clubs. Nevertheless, the final four is retained.

With Joacim Aulin returning from the scholarship and the influx of some very good Australian players, Helsingborg go from being winless in 1995 to well-nigh unbeatable in 1996. Indeed, they would go on to emulate the Tigers of 1994 by going through the season undefeated with a percentage over 300.

July 13 DAFL's finest hour. The National side flies to London to take on BARFL and for the first time ever, the visitors win one of these matches. The Vikings get well on top early but in the end have to hang on grimly to prevail by five points. Several experienced campaigners still recount this as their most thrilling memory in DAFL (Scores).

Jesper Gjørup wins the Sitch Medal again - the first player to win it twice.

The once mighty Tigers suffer a terrible season and finish last. The Cudas, incredibly, finish one spot out of the four for the fifth season in a row! Farum finish second and send a side of 13 Danes to contest the Second Semi Final in Helsingborg. They lose by 198 points but account comfortably for Aalborg in the Preliminary Final.

Yet again the Grand Final is between an undefeated colossus (Helsingborg) and a second side peaking at the right time (Farum). Yet again, the colossus is upset as the Lions win a flag in only their second season. Helsingborg's appearance in the Grand Final was, until 2005 when they did it again, the only one by a side from outside Copenhagen.

For the first and still the only time since genuine competition started, DAFL's president Mark Zagodinos decides to stay in office for a second season.

After being rumoured for several years with so many Aussies living in the city, finally a team gets off the ground in Århus. The man behind the team is Jason Young who has lived there for several years and played for Aalborg.

With the success of Helsingborg the previous year, a new international concept is tried with a Denmark v Sweden match played in Helsingborg the week before the start of the regular season. Sweden start out well but are over-powered in the end in driving snow!

With the numbers back up to seven, DAFL branches out and introduces a knockout style Doktors Cup - for non-Australian players only. The idea is to expose non-Australian players to key-position play. Farum win the inaugural tournament in a high-class final in and against Aalborg.

This year it is DAFL's turn to host BARFL and with last year's away win under our belts, we are favorites and win easily.

Another one-season wonder dominates the competition as Amager's Shaun Hawking emulates Rick Ellis by winning both the Sitch Medal and the goalkicking in the same year. For the second time (also 1993), Gary Marks is the highest finishing non-Australian in the medal.

The big surprise is North Copenhagen finally making the finals for the first time since 1991. Unfortunately, they bow out to the Crocs in a thrilling First Semi Final.

The most exciting DAFL match ever takes place at Farum when the home team clash with Copenhagen in the Preliminary Final. After leading comfortably all day and by 24 points with six minutes to go, Farum fall asleep and the Crocs ram on four straight goals to draw the match - DAFL's first ever tie. Farum prevail in extra time but go down to another undefeated Tigers side in the Grand Final.

Probably the most disappointing DAFL season ever. Only Mick Sitch is willing to go on the committee and so he winds up as president. Due to apathy, we are not invited to London for an international. Also, the Copenhagen clubs agree to assist the Jutland clubs by having two home games moved there ... but the move is scuppered by the nation's general workers' strike which seriously corrupts the first few rounds of the season.

Yet again a side goes through the season undefeated ... this time it is Copenhagen's turn.

The Doktors Cup dies an ugly death in its current format when the Tigers make the final yet cannot get a team to go to Aalborg to contest it. The Roos win the cup by default.

The Sitch Medal is somewhat of a boilover. Few people know who Cuda, Mogens Hansen is when he accepts the award - only the third Danish winner.

The Cudas again scrape into the finals but unfortunately they again go down in a tight First Semi Final despite a magnificent second half recovery in the game. Farum yet again have to settle for second spot and again lose by far the wettest Grand Final ever.

After the season, the Farum Lions break new ground by going on a tour to Australia and play three matches - one of them at Victoria Park against Scotch College. They also attend the AFL Grand Final.

In December, a defining moment in Aussie Rules in Denmark as Jim Campion is the first person to start holding regular junior clinics in Farum.

A genuine junior competition for under 12's gets under way in Farum with three teams competing, including girls.

Internationals against Great Britain restart as DAFL sends a very good side to London under the coaching of Stuart Stevens. After a tight first half we win the game convincingly, proving 1996 was no fluke.

The Doktors Cup is re-born as a two-day lightning premiership - still for non-Australians only. Held at Stefan, it is won by the Tigers who are having another disastrous year in the regular premiership. Indeed, nearly all finishing placings in the 1999 Doktors Cup are the complete inverse of the premiership ladder at the time.

In the final home and away round, Croc Aaron Ravenarki becomes the first player to kick 200 career goals.

There never was a more deserving winner of the Sitch Medal than Aalborg coach, Duncan Milward.

The Lions are undefeated at the break but lose the services of half their Australians and struggle to continue in that vein. They still manage to finish on top but go out in straight sets, allowing the Cudas to reach the Grand Final with the Crocs - setting up an enticing finish to the decade and matching the first DAFL Grand Final. After matching the favorites valiantly for half the game, the Crocs win well with a dominating premiership (third) quarter. Ashley Davie kicks a record Grand Final haul of eight goals.

Some DAFL clubs react fiercely to recent domination by Australian players and make the most radical change yet to the Australian player rule which had in recent years decreased from as many as eight to four on the field and six on the teamsheet. Now, it plummets to two-and-four with a procedure to allow certain older and/or less-skilled players to be excluded from this limit.

In Round 7, Kim Madsen achieves his dream of being the first player to reach 100 DAFL games.

The Lightning Premiership is renamed the Crew Cup after sponsorship from American Crew hair care products. It is played in Aalborg in a single day, with North Copenhagen taking out a marvellous tournament by beating Helsingborg in the final. The whole event is a pointer of things to come as Andreas Svensson takes out both Player of the Tournament and Player of the Final awards.

Farum continue to break new ground, this time with a three week junior trip to Australia. The team plays seven games, winning three of them, including one in front of 72,000 people at an AFL match at the MCG.

Great Britain visit Denmark with a youthful side aimed towards the coming 2002 International Cup in Melbourne. As an experiment, the game is played in Århus. We win overwhelmingly, the British unable to score a single goal.

In Round 12, Clayton Coleman joins Madsen on 100 games.

As a superb achiever in a poor side, Andreas Svensson is a raging hot favorite for the Sitch Medal and duly takes out the award ... an enormously popular winner, the guy can hardly speak English!

For once the season is dominated by two teams and not one. They contest a fabulous Grand Final, and it is the warm and sentimental favorites, North Copenhagen who snatch victory.

The pre-season features trips to Denmark by two BARFL clubs for practice matches, as the North London Lions and the Wandsworth Demons visit Århus and Helsingborg respectively. The Saints win but the Bombers are crunched by a near All Australian Lions side.

The games appear to pay off for the locals. The two regional clubs dominate the first half of the season, losing only to each other, with the Bombers remaining otherwise undefeated until Round 10.

They also dominate the Crew Cup in Helsingborg, again losing only to each other, with Århus prevailing in the final.

Ian Moore becomes the third player to reach 100 DAFL games in the first round.

DAFL is asked to play an Exhibition Game in Svendborg as part of a Sports Culture Festival. We go one better and play a real game there. The Crocs upset Århus in a thriller.

In round 6, Jim Campion becomes the fourth person to reach 100 DAFL games.

Both Århus and Helsingborg slump badly after the summer break - with the Bombers failing to win at all until the finals. Ultimately, neither would reach the Grand Final.

Although not favored to win, Andreas Svensson takes out his second consecutive Sitch Medal.

The season continues to mirror 2000, as for the first time since 1994, the Grand Final is contested between the same two sides as the previous one. That's where the similarity ends as the Cudas murder the Tigers in easily the most one-sided Grand Final ever.

In October, the Vikings go to England to contest the AA Cup as pre-tournament favorites. No-one has any notion of how much the Gaelic Football experience will help the one year old Irish league. They are a class above the rest and win easily. The Vikings lose the final but the low point came with a shock loss to Great Britain in the preliminary rounds.

In the 2001-02 off-season, DAFL gets an administrative make-over, changing from a four-man Executive to a two-man Executive and a Board consisting of a delegate from each club.

The Farum Lions also make a change by engaging in a strategic agreement with the Geelong Football Club. In so doing, the Lions become the "Farum Cats".

Things are much the same on-field with the Barracudas once again dominating the competition. They would go through the home-and-away season undefeated. There are some notable changes though, Århus establish themselves early as the Cudas' only genuine challengers and Aalborg appear to be heading for a rare finals berth. At the other end of the scale, Helsingborg endure another wretched season which threatens the club's existence.

Miko Keto and Kiwi Steves, Macrae and McKay bring the number of 100-gamers to seven.

The Lightning Premiership moves to Århus where the hosts dominate and win easily. This year for the first time, a team from Germany participates. They do not manage a victory but nevertheless are competitive.

Denmark is due to send a team to the International Cup in Melbourne, Australia in August, and so for the first time the DAFL season plays right through July without the traditional summer break.

The Tigers forfeit their Round 10 game against Aalborg in Århus because most of their players would rather watch Denmark lose 0-3 to England in the soccer World Cup.

Aalborg arrive two players short for their round 12 game against the Crocs, who are competing with the Roos for a final four spot and therefore claim a forfeit - the first default where the game actually took place since Round 10 of 1993. The decision has far-reaching implications as in the end the Crocs would have made the finals anyway and it is the Tigers who take Aalborg's spot.

The Saints end the season in disarray. Having forfeited both their Jutland games, they also forfeit their last round match against the Crocs in Farum - DAFL's fifth forfeit for the season.

The one highight for Helsingborg in 2002 is Andreas Svensson, who completes a hatrick of Sitch Medals. The voting system which favours a stand-out player in a poor team comes under scrutiny once again, although all three medals would have still gone to Svensson even if only the umpires' votes had been taken into account.

The two Jutland sides appear unable to withstand the length of the season. Aalborg miss out on a finals spot they deserved, while Århus claim the double-chance but go out in straight sets despite a home Preliminary Final.

With their premiership record under threat, the Amager Tigers complete the most amazing revival in the league's history. Fortunate to finish fourth, they become the first team from either First Semi Final position to win the premiership, as they play the Cudas in the Grand Final for the third year in a row. The Barras, for their part, become the third of the five teams to go through the home-and-away season undefeated, only to lose the Grand Final.

A DAFL season which at times bordered on the farcical ends on a positive note when the Vikings acquit themselves well in the International Cup, finishing fourth behind Ireland, Papua New Guinea and New Zealand. During the tournament, Andreas Svensson becomes the eighth player to reach 100 DAFL games.

With no new teams since 1997 and player numbers decreasing for the first time, it becomes clear that Aussie Rules in Denmark has plateaued. For the first time, DAFL must take action to keep the sport growing. The league undergoes a major restructure, by splitting in to three divisions (by geographic location) and having smaller teams but more of them, playing in divisions and reducing the travelling. The finals would involve the top half of teams from each division - six in all. There would also be representative matches between the divisions.

Aalborg fields a new team, Aalborg Power. A team called the Holte Hawks is created out of willing players from other existing teams and plays in the Sjælland division (Copenhagen), and the North Copenhagen Barracudas form the Barras and the Cudas, although the Cudas are in practice a reserves team. Helsingborg takes the biggest punt and establishes a three team division from the remnants of a club that was almost defunct.

A team also kicks off in Gothenburg, two hours north of Helsingborg. The Berserkers do not participate in DAFL, although a handful of its players turn out for the Helsingborg West Raptors in the Skåne (South Sweden) Division of DAFL.

In order to ease the gap between junior and senior football, Farum create its own Farum Local League, a three team competition where the juniors and seniors all play in a social competition.

DAFL's Lightning Premiership is re-invented as the Sheep Station Cup. No restrictions of any kind are placed, and teams are welcome from anywhere to compete. They pay an entry fee and the place-getters win money. A combined Århus-Amager team, the "Jylland Tigers" win the event.

DAFL starts to show its age with five players crossing the 100-game barrier during the year. They are Jes Ritter, Adam Holberg, Christian Jacobsen, Christer Hjelm and in the Grand Final, Jesper Gjørup.

International matches revert to the traditional one-off game, the first of its kind in Copenhagen for six years. In a disgustingly wind-effected match at Windy Hill held on the summer solstice, Denmark is untroubled to down Great Britain (Scores).

A statistically significant event - despite many one-sided games, it takes 13 years for a DAFL team to walk off the field without having scored a goal. The Crocs, who until that point had the highest lowest score in the league, reach this nadir in Round 9.

In the First Quarter Final, Kim Madsen becomes the first player to play 150 DAFL games.

The concept of the split is shown not to be complete yet, as the two expansion teams in Sjælland barely survive the season and the Sjælland based finalists flog those from the other divisions in the finals on every occasion.

The youth program in Farum starts to pay off as some of the kids who started in the late 90s are moving in to the seniors. After two years in the wilderness, the Cats are almost unbeatable, finish on top in Sjælland, but are humbled in a shock defeat in the First Semi Final by the Tigers, who go on to defeat the NC Barras in a classy Grand Final, claiming their second successive flag and their sixth overall.

Erik Krolmark, with his third and final goal in the Grand Final, becomes the first player to kick 300 career goals.

After being the bridesmaid for almost every individual DAFL award imagineable, the incredibly consistent Pàll Finnsson claims the first Sitch Medal MVP, a revamped award based on a convoluted weighted voting system from each division plus votes from the regional and international matches.

In the wash-up, the split is hugely successful in Aalborg and Skåne, but less so in Århus and Sjælland. More tweaking was needed.

After 15 years of existence, DAFL's administrative leader is for the first time, a Dane, with Erik Krolmark taking on the job of General Manager.

The split concept is tweaked a bit in order to try and bring the level of the Sjælland teams in line with the rest. Amager, Farum and North Copenhagen each decide to field two even teams, forming a seven team division with Copenhagen the other team.

After 12 years of usage, DAFL's most regular and central venue, Stefan Boldklub, is finally allowed to use permanent goalposts.

The North Copenhagen Barracudas begin an interesting exchange program with the North London Lions. The two clubs exchange players for two rounds. The first Barracudas to take the plunge are Martin Egholm and Kim Pelby.

The AFL cancel its annual match at the Oval in London. DAFL's National team use this an excuse for why its match against Great Britain will not go ahead because it was hoped it could be played as a curtain-raiser to the AFL game. This makes 2004 the first year since 1998 with no international match for DAFL at all.

The Farum Cats successfully stage a school-based lightning premiership between four schools in the Farum area.

The Sheep Station Cup is held in Aalborg and features a smattering of DAFL sides, one from Stockholm and the Reading Roos from BARFL (who win it). (Scores).

The changes in Sjælland have very mixed results. North Copenhagen succeed to the extent that both their teams make the finals, and the supposed "lesser" of the two (NC Cudas) beat their clubmates (NC Barras) in a semi final. Farum do OK, with the Cats making the finals but need to exploit their youth with many of the kids playing for both the Cats and Lions by season's end. For Amager it's a disaster, as the Hawks collapse very early in the piece and even the Tigers can't field a side by the end (but that's nothing new in one of their bad years). Clearly, another tweak is on the cards.

One of the first of Farum's early juniors, Morten Engsbye, plays his 50th senior DAFL game in the Grand Final - 32 days before his 18th birthday.

The Grand Final between the Cats and the Cudas is a cracker. The Cudas control most of the game and lead by 32 points at the last break. But in an amazing turnaround, the young Cats hit back. Mikkel Norlander kicks goals literally at will to boot five in the last quarter alone and equal the record for most goals in a Grand Final (eight). However the Cudas hold firm to uniquely win a Grand Final with fewer goals than the losers (Scores).

In a novel twist, DAFL's new General Manager, Joakim Gundel, is someone who came to the league because his sons had played in Farum's juniors. Sadly, he was compelled to resign shortly afterwards for personal reasons.

By default, Erik Krolmark is forced back into the role and thus becomes only the second person to lead DAFL in consecutive years (not to mention his hatrick of years as treasurer).

Another twist to the split. DAFL turns the concept on its head and makes the higher level the premier competition - and calls it the Premier League. The league is formed by having the two powerful Copenhagen-based clubs (Farum and North Copenhagen) enter their own teams into the old regional league. Farum add to the split by forming their own local league consisting of local regional towns, Værløse, Birkerød and Stavnsholt.

Martin Holberg plays his 100th DAFL game in Round 2, joining brother Adam. They are the first pair of brothers to reach the mark.

In the second local league round, Ian Moore becomes only the second player to play 150 games.

Denmark and Sweden clash in Farum for only the second time ever. The match is to help Denmark prepare for the International Cup, so they play no Australians and allow Sweden as many as they like. Sweden play 12 and the game is a cracker. The Elks get away to a big lead with the wind but Denmark slowly peg them back and draw the match with a goal after the siren (Scores).

Denmark pulls out of the International Cup due to financial constraints.

The Sheep Station Cup is held at Stefan and is again won by the Reading Roos. (Scores).

The closing matches of the season constantly surprise. South Sweden have looked all year like finishing last. They come good when it matters, benefit from a forfeit and other results, anihilate league leaders Farum, and end up flogging the Barracudas at Stefan to clinch second spot and tip the Cudas out of the finals.

The fairy-tale doesn't last and the Saints go down to Farum in a repeat of the 1996 Grand Final, but they are far from disgraced (Scores). For their part, Farum finally clinch their second flag after several attempts.