National Teams
The official British national Australian Rules football squad is known as the British Bulldogs and has competed in all of the AFL International Cups in Melbourne. The squad is made up of players mainly from the London clubs, although regional clubs including the Reading Roos and Nottingham Scorpions in particular have provided large numbers of players in recent years. The Bulldogs squad for the 2008 International Cup was the first to include players from the Welsh Australian Rules Football League (WARFL).
A separate English representative team was organised by Aussie Rules UK under the name England Dragonslayers. The Dragonslayers squads have so far been almost exclusively drawn from the ARUK Regional leagues, although some players from the Great Britain Bulldogs have also played for the Dragonslayers.
There has been speculation that England will eventually field national sides at the International Cup, but this has not been officially stated by AFL Britain.
Read more about this topic: Australian Rules Football In England
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