The Latest Breaking News from Footscray Football Club

Legal system 'earthquake' as AFL club to pay out $6m

A jury has awarded a child abuse survivor almost $6 million, finding the AFL's Western Bulldogs were negligent in giving a pedophile special access to the boy.

AAP · Nov 9, 2023

Baby prompted abused boy to turn in football fundraiser

Adam Kneale has told a court how Graeme Hobbs sexually abused him for years before his daughter's birth prompted him to go to police.

AAP · Oct 18, 2023

Footy club 'should have known' about brutal abuse

Lawyers for a man suing the Western Bulldogs over the abuse he experienced at the hands of a pedophile claim the club ought to have known about it.

AAP · Oct 17, 2023

Adam Kneale was like any footy-loving boy of the 80s until a trip to Footscray’s Western Oval turned his innocent life into a nightmare

When Adam Kneale was offered a chance to help out around the Footscray Football Club as an 11-year-old, he thought he was realising every kids' dream. Instead, he faced unimaginable trauma. WARNING: This story contains graphic descriptions of sexual abuse.

ABC News · Apr 30, 2022