The Carlton Football Club, established in 1864, is a professional Australian rules football club based at Ikon Park in Carlton North, Melbourne, Victoria. The Club competes in the Australian Football League, and was one of the eight founding members of the competition back in 1897, then known as the Victorian Football Association. Its nickname, the Blues, comes from the navy blue colours that is traditionally worn as its playing uniform. Carlton has historically been one of the AFL's most successful clubs, having won sixteen senior premierships throughout its rich history.