No we play on a oval with a maximum of 22 players with only 18 allowed on the field at any one time. We don't have to have a defence team, a offence team, and a special team (about 46 players all up I believe) all cause the boys get a little tired. We also don't need tons of padding because our footballers are real men and play a real mans game And the field of play is a fair bit bigger.

Just as an aside, when I was a school we had to do some research on the who the fittest athletes were and guess who came out on top, Soccer players

Also I would like to apoligise to the OP, if this is getting on your wick just tell me to pull my head in.