{{Sources exist|date=April 2024}} {{Short description|Former Australian rules football team in Perth, Western Australia}} {{Use Australian English|date=October 2023}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2023}} {{Infobox australian football club | clubname = Metropolitan | image = | image_name= | image_size= | fullname = Metropolitan Football Club | formernames = | nicknames = | motto = | season = | afterfinals = | home&away = | pre-season = | topgoalkicker = | bestandfairest = | founded = 1889 (merger between {{WAFL|Vic}} and West Australians) | dissolved = 1891 | colours = {{Color box|red|border=darkgray}}{{Color box|black|border=darkgray}} red and black | league = WAFA <small>(1889–90)</small> | chairman = | coach = | captain = F. McDonough | ground = | capacity = | ground2 = | capacity2 = | ground3 = | capacity3 = | premierships = nil | url = | jumper = | current = }} The '''Metropolitan Football Club''' was a West Australian Football League club based in Perth, Western Australia. The club was formed in 1888 after merging the {{WAFL|Vic}} and West Australian Football Club at the end of the 1888 season.
In April 1889, a meeting of the West Australian and Victorian Football Clubs was held at the Criterion Hotel, in which it was unanimously decided to amalgamate the two clubs into a single club known as the Metropolitan Football Club. The West Australians' captain, F. McDonough, remained captain of the combined club, while West Australians' club colours of red and black were maintained for the merged club.<ref>[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article32718116 FOOTBALL.] – ''Western Mail''. Published Saturday, 27 April 1889. Retrieved from Trove, 27 June 2012.</ref>
In 1891, a meeting of footballers was held to form a new team, to be called West Perth, which embraced the members of the now-defunct Metropolitan Football Club.<ref>[https://thewest.com.au/sport/wafl/falcons-target-birthday-victory-ng-ya-104047] ''The West Australian''. Published Friday, 15 April 2016.</ref><ref>Cowan, Sean (18 April 2015). "Historian debunks West Perth claim". The West Australian.</ref>
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Category:Australian rules football clubs in Western Australia Category:Former West Australian Football League clubs Category:Australian rules football clubs disestablished in 1891 Category:Australian rules football clubs established in 1889