Фарум Австралиялық Футбол Клубының Тарихы

Farum Australsk Fodbold (English: Farum Australian Football) is a club under the Danish Australian Football League. Formed in 1994 as the Farum Lions, the team played their first season of DAFL Premier League 1995 finishing 2nd, after losing the grand final. The next year, the team, called Farum Lions at the time, won the DAFL Premier League. The team has won a total of 8 premierships, aside from 1996, they've also won 2005, 2006, 2007, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014. They are the only team to win four premierships in a row. The team changed names from the Farum Lions to the Farum Cats after an agreement with AFL club Geelong Cats. In 2015, the club changed name from Farum Cats Australsk Fodboldklub to Farum Australsk Fodbold to be more modern and to indicate that the club now runs two different teams.

The Farum Cats (and Lions) have competed in the DAFL Premier League every year since 1995. They have also hosted the Farum Local League (later North Zealand Australian Football League) and fielded two teams for the DAFL Sjælland 9's league every year. In 2004 the team fielded both Farum Cats and Farum Lions for the DAFL Premier League and in 2008, they fielded both Farum Cats and the majority of Værløse Bulldogs, a team meant for players playing the national team, but which was unsupported by most of the players from other clubs. The bulldogs folded halfway through the season.

In 1994 Jim Campion played for the Copenhagen Crocs, but decided to start his own club in Farum where he lived. The club was named Farum Lions after the Fitzroy moniker Lions, as their guernseys spelled FFC on the front, matching Farum Football Club, as well as the jumpers matching the colors of Farum BK. The club played well in 1995 and reached the Grand Final, but lost the game to Amager Tigers. In 1996, the Lions won the Grand Final against Helsingborg.

Before the 2013 season, DAFL changed the format of the competition from 16 aside to 12 aside. For this reason, Farum Cats decided to split up in two teams; Farum Cats, consisting mostly of players residing in Farum and FC Demons, consisting mostly of players who had moved away from Farum. After a good inaugural home and away season, the Demons entered the finals series placed second, but went down to Port Malmö Maulers in the Qualifying Final. In the Preliminary Final, they again lost, this time to the Cats, who had beaten Helsingborg Saints away from home after finishing the home and away season fourth. The Cats went on to win the Grand Final at Limhamnsfältet in Malmö, bringing home the club's second triple premiership. In 2014 the Demons had none of their glory from 2013, forfeiting no less than half their games, and finishing 5th only above new club Odense. The Cats, however, went through to the Qualifying final by finishing second in the home and away season, again beaten only by Port Malmö. And again, the team from Farum went down in the QF meaning that the Grand Final would be played in Malmö again. The Cats beat Helsingborg in the Preliminary Final, and everything pointed towards another close GF between Port Malmö and Farum Cats. The Cats thought otherwise, and finished impressively, winning the GF 19.12 (126) to 5.11 (41). Before the 2015 season, FC Demons were close to folding. However, with the addition of Australian Sam Killworth and Aalborg ruckman Rene Pallsgaard, and the added support from Greater Western Sydney Giants who provided new playing kits to the team, they decided to give it a go. The club also changed name from Farum Cats Australsk Fodbold (English: Farum Cats Australian Football Club) to Farum Australsk Fodbold (English: Farum Australian Football). This was done to equalise the status of the two teams within the club more. It was an up and down season for both teams, especially for the Giants who in late June impressively beat the Cats, only to go down crashing against the Barracudas 5 days later. Both teams made it into the finals, however they did it as 3rd and 4th, meaning that with the new two week finals format, the Cats would travel to Aalborg to meet 2nd placed Aalborg, while the Giants would play the "Battle of Copenhagen" against Barracudas in Valby the same match that they had lost 170 17 earlier on the season. While the Cats went down with two goals to Aalborg, the Giants created history as they beat the Barracudas by a single point in what might just be the biggest surprise in recent DAFL history. A week later, in Aalborg, the history repeated itself, as the Giants, led on by Tim Wilton, came from behind to deny Aalborg their first flag, and claim it for themselves instead.

When the club was formed as the Lions in 1994, they decided to use the jumpers worn by Fitzroy Football Club in the AFL. This was for two reasons: firstly the colours more or less matched those of Farum BK, the local soccer club, and it was believed that that might have gotten them some financial help from the club later, and secondly, the Fitzroy jumpers had the lettering FFC on the front, matching the name Farum Football Club. Later, newer Lions jumpers were used, and these had a lion on the front, with the name Farum underneath. In 2002 Farum Cats changed their moniker from Lions to Cats, and got a shipment of jumpers from Geelong Cats. They were greyish silver with the GFC shield of the Geelong Football Club on Farum Cats lungs and on the stomach. These were used during Farum's greatest reign in the DAFL, Cats when they won back to back to back premierships. At the time, the club also used a modified version of the GFC shield, spelling out FFC instead. In the 2008 season, the team sold the old jumpers to the players, and started using a new shipment of jumpers from Geelong. These were mainly large to extra large sized jumpers, with long sleeves in the 2006–07 style Cats clash jumper. Many of the players did not, however, like these jumpers, as sleeveless jumpers were preferred by many, and the few sleeveless jumpers were pretty much always used. These were older, homestyle Cats jumpers from Fila while the others were of the brand Slazenger. In the 2010 final series the team started using their new original Farum Cats jumpers, after wearing different Geelong Cats jumpers since 2002. Their kit is mainly dark blue, with two thick white hoops, and the old FFC shield on the front, with the new one on the upper left, and the old (then current) DAFL shield on the upper right. The only cooperate name visible is Sekem, the manufacturer.

In 2013 and 2014 the then FC Demons played in generic kits resembling those of Melbourne Demons in the AFL. In the 2015 season, they wore new kits gifted by Greater Western Sydney Giants. The new kits are an old clash kit of the Giants: white with orange and gray trims and a black Giants logo on the front.

The club has three honorary members: Christian Birkholm Jacobsen, better known as Dumbo, founder Jim Campion and former player and long time treasurer Peter Malone. Other significant personnel include creator of The Footy Record Ian Hill, former coach Chris Little, power forward Mikkel Norlander and Mr. Football Morten Engsbye. The club has one Hall of Fame member: founder, long time player and coach Jim Campion.