The Club

The Fort Lauderdale Australian Rules Football Club was formed to bring people who were along way from home together, for the love of mateship, the game of Aussie Rules and a few social beers.

In 2005 we hard our first meeting at the tap room on Fort Lauderdale Beach, to start recruiting and get thing organized to form the club. As it turned out we had alot of people that wanted to be a SOCIAL member and only a few that actually wanted to play. As a result, one guy grabbed a piece of paper and drew a line down the middle and wrote..... SOCIAL SQUID and PLAYING SQUID....... Hence the Name "FIGHTING SQUIDS" was born...

In 2009we joined forces with Florida International University (FIU) to form a college recruiting team. We look forward to the future and getting some more local