{"id":38727,"date":"2020-01-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/afl-confirms-vic-v-all-stars-state-origin-match-raise-bushfire-funds\/"},"modified":"2020-01-09T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-09T00:00:00","slug":"afl-confirms-vic-v-all-stars-state-origin-match-raise-bushfire-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/afl-confirms-vic-v-all-stars-state-origin-match-raise-bushfire-funds\/","title":{"rendered":"AFL Confirms Vic v All Stars State Of Origin Match To Raise Bushfire Funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>The AFL has announced a \u201clandmark State of Origin match\u201d to raise funds for the Australian bushfire disaster in addition to a donation to support relief efforts.<\/h3>\n<p>According to the league:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Victoria will play an All Stars line-up on Friday February 28, with money raised to boost a Community Relief Fund set-up by the AFL to help rebuild football facilities ripped apart by the national crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Richmond premiership coach Damien Hardwick will lead the Victorians and Sydney counterpart John Longmire will coach the All Stars in the match to be staged at Marvel Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>The AFL ($1.35m) \u2013 in association with the clubs ($900,000) and AFL Players Association ($250,000) \u2013 have committed a $2.5million donation.<\/p>\n<p>A total of $1m will provide immediate emergency assistance through the Australian Red Cross Disaster Relief and Recovery fund. An additional $1.5m will kickstart the Community Relief Fund for grassroots facilities.<\/p>\n<p>The match \u2013 to be played during the second weekend of the pre-season Marsh Community Series \u2013 will see players selected in a process still to be determined.<\/p>\n<p>There will be a maximum of three players per AFL club eligible to take part in the match to ensure minimal disruption to club&#8217;s pre-season plans just 20 days before round one.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">JUST IN: AFL confirms State of Origin match and makes massive donation for bushfire relief.<br> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZRqcKD4tMa\">https:\/\/t.co\/ZRqcKD4tMa<\/a><\/p>&mdash; AFL.com.au (@AFLcomau) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AFLcomau\/status\/1215084367543881728?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 9, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The AFL has announced a \u201clandmark State of Origin match\u201d to raise funds for the Australian bushfire disaster in addition to a donation to support relief efforts. According to the league: Victoria will play an All Stars line-up on Friday February 28, with money raised to boost a Community Relief Fund set-up by the AFL [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":3882,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[143],"tags":[246,248],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-38727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport","tag-fiveaa-app","tag-sport"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>AFL Confirms Vic v All Stars State Of Origin Match To Raise Bushfire Funds - FIVEAA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/afl-confirms-vic-v-all-stars-state-origin-match-raise-bushfire-funds\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"AFL Confirms Vic v All Stars State Of Origin Match To Raise Bushfire Funds\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The AFL has announced a \u201clandmark State of Origin match\u201d to raise funds for the Australian bushfire disaster in addition to a donation to support relief efforts. 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