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Australian cricket team in India in 2019–20
Australian cricket team in India in 2019-20: three-ODI tour, 14-19 January 2020, at Mumbai, Rajkot, and Bengaluru. Australia won the first ODI by 10 wickets behind Finch and Warner centuries; India took the series 2-1.
Australian cricket team in South Africa in 2026–27
Australia men's cricket tour of South Africa 2026-27: three ODIs (24-30 Sep) and three Tests (9-31 Oct) at Durban, Johannesburg, Potchefstroom, Gqeberha and Cape Town; first Test tour there since 2018, WTC 2025-27 rematch.
Australian cricket team in Zimbabwe in 2026
Australia's 2026 tour of Zimbabwe: a three-ODI series at Harare Sports Club, September 15-20, 2026, won 3-0 by Australia, its first ODI visit to Zimbabwe in over a decade.
Australian Figure Skating Championships
Australian Figure Skating Championships (AFSC), Australia's national figure skating titles run by Ice Skating Australia; singles, pairs, ice dance, solo dance, and synchro from Basic Novice to Senior; AFSC 2026 in Perth, separate Adult championships since 2026.
Australian Football League
Australian Football League (AFL), formerly the Victorian Football League (VFL, 1897-1990): Australia's national governing body for Australian football and its 18-club top-tier competition, run by an independent Commission since 1984.
Australian Grand Prix
Australian Grand Prix: Formula 1 race at Albert Park, Melbourne, since 1996, after Adelaide 1985-1995; 5.278 km, 58 laps; record 465,498 attendance in 2025; contracted until 2037.
Australian motorcycle Grand Prix
The Australian motorcycle Grand Prix is a MotoGP World Championship round held since 1997 at the Phillip Island circuit in Victoria, Australia, moving to an Adelaide street circuit from 2027.
Australian Open
Australian Open: first Grand Slam tennis tournament of the year, held each January on hard courts at Melbourne Park, Melbourne. Formerly Australasian Championships (1905) and Australian Championships; record 2026 attendance 1,368,043 and AUD 111.5m prize pool.
Australian Paralympic Equestrian Team
Australian Paralympic Equestrian Team: Australia's Para-equestrian dressage squad since Atlanta 1996, with nine Paralympic medals (3 gold, 1 silver, 5 bronze), best Games Sydney 2000, and Sharon Jarvis its first three-time equestrian Paralympian.
Australian Rally Championship
The Australian Rally Championship is Australia's premier domestic rally championship, run since 1968 and decided over six rounds; Possum Bourne holds the record with seven driver titles.
Australian rules football
Australian rules football, known in Australia as footy, is a contact team sport developed in Melbourne and codified in 1859, the oldest surviving football code.
Austria national football team
Austria national football team (Das Team), ÖFB men's side founded 1904; seven World Cups, third place 1954, EURO round of 16 in 2020 and 2024 under Ralf Rangnick, 2026 World Cup round of 32.
Austrian Football Bundesliga
The Austrian Football Bundesliga (Österreichische Fußball-Bundesliga) is the top division of men's club football in Austria, a twelve-team league founded in 1974 whose titles have been dominated by FC Red Bull Salzburg.
Austrian Grand Prix
Austrian Grand Prix, Formula One World Championship race at the Red Bull Ring, Spielberg, Styria; first run 1964 at Zeltweg, Österreichring 1970-1987, A1-Ring 1997-2003, back since 2014, contracted through 2041.
Authentic (racehorse)
Authentic (foaled 2017) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse, by Into Mischief out of Flawless, who won the 2020 Kentucky Derby and Breeders' Cup Classic and was named 2020 Horse of the Year.
Auto battler
An auto battler, also called auto chess, is a strategy game genre where players draft units and watch fights resolve automatically. It emerged from a 2019 Dota 2 mod.
Auto polo
Auto polo: an early-20th-century American motorsport adapting equestrian polo, with driver-and-malletman crews in cars. Invented by Joshua Crane Jr. in 1902, revived by Ralph Hankinson in 1911, notorious for crashes, extinct by the Great Depression.
Auto racing
Auto racing, competitive racing of automobiles under organized rules, began with the 1894 Paris-Rouen Trial and is now led by FIA-sanctioned series such as Formula 1, IndyCar, NASCAR, and Formula E, each with distinct cars, tracks, and regulations.
Autodesk 3ds Max
Autodesk 3ds Max (3D Studio MAX) is Autodesk's Windows-only 3D modeling, animation, and rendering software for games, arch-viz, and film, sold by subscription with Arnold rendering, CAT/Biped rigging, MaxScript, and a C++ SDK; current release 3ds Max 2026.
Autodesk Maya
Autodesk Maya, also written Maya 3D, is a professional 3D animation, modeling, simulation, and rendering application first released by Alias|Wavefront in February 1998 as PowerAnimator's successor, now sold by Autodesk on subscription for Windows, macOS, and Linux.
Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez
Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez: permanent F1 circuit in Mexico City's Magdalena Mixhuca park, built 1959, named for Ricardo and Pedro Rodríguez; highest F1 track at about 2,285 m, hosting the Mexico City Grand Prix since 2015.
Automobile sports
Automobile sports (motor sport, motorsport): competitive racing of automobiles across circuit, rally, endurance, drag, karting, and esports disciplines, governed worldwide by the FIA, founded 1904, which launched the Formula One World Championship in 1950.
Autopolis
Autopolis (オートポリス) is a 4.674 km FIA Grade 2 racing circuit at 800 m elevation in Hita, Oita, Kyushu, Japan. Opened 1990, it lost a 1993 F1 slot to bankruptcy and now hosts Super GT and Super Formula.
AutoWorld (theme park)
AutoWorld (Six Flags AutoWorld) was an indoor automotive theme park and museum in Flint, Michigan, opened July 4, 1984 at a cost of $70 million, closed after six months, and demolished in 1997.
Autzen Stadium
Autzen Stadium, Eugene, Oregon; home of Oregon Ducks football since 1967; 54,000 seats after a roughly $90 million early-2000s expansion; sunken crater bowl famed for crowd noise and long home winning streaks.
AV Alta FC
AV Alta FC is a USL League One professional soccer club in Lancaster, California (Antelope Valley), founded by John Smelzer, playing at the 5,300-seat Lancaster Municipal Stadium since March 2025.
Ava (wrestler)
Ava (Simone Johnson, born 2001), daughter of The Rock, is an American wrestling personality; first fourth-generation WWE signee (2020), Schism member, and NXT General Manager from January 2024 until leaving WWE in January 2026.
Ava Mcnaughton
Ava McNaughton (born 2004, Wexford, Pennsylvania) is an American ice hockey goaltender for the Wisconsin Badgers and Team USA. She won gold at the 2025 IIHF Women's Worlds and the 2026 Milano Cortina Olympics, beating Canada 2-1 in the final.
Avalanche Software
Avalanche Software, Salt Lake City studio founded 1995, distinct from Avalanche Studios of Just Cause; Disney-owned maker of Toy Story 3 and Disney Infinity, now a WB Games division behind Hogwarts Legacy (2023, 40+ million copies sold).
Avalon Hill
Avalon Hill is the American board game publisher founded by Charles S. Roberts (Avalon Game Company, 1954) that created the commercial hex-and-counter wargame, dominated the hobby until Hasbro bought it in the late 1990s, and now publishes HeroQuest and Betrayal.