THE CHINESE national Australian Football team - Team China - will again be backed by the Port Adelaide Football Club in the 2017 AFL International Cup.
It comes following recent confirmation from the league that the men's and women's finals for the triennial tournament which sees teams composed of native-born citizens of non-Australian nations (expatriate Australians are ineligible to play) come to Melbourne to play in the competition.
The men’s grand final will be played prior to the Collingwood-Geelong Cats match at the MCG while the women’s grand final will be prior to the Carlton-Hawthorn match at Etihad Stadium.
This will be the sixth running of the International Cup, which will take place in Melbourne from Saturday August 5 to Saturday August 19, 2017.
Port Adelaide sponsored Team China for the first time in 2014, and will continue to do so as part of its China Engagement Strategy.
Port Adelaide has driven the first game for premiership points to be played in mainland China, which will be against Gold Coast on Sunday May 14.
