Tel Aviv Cheetahs Football Club

The team originally formed in May 2018, when a few players from Jerusalem Peace Lions club moved to Tel Aviv and began to practice in Yarkon Park.^[1]

In August 2018 months the club received its name, and began its preparation for the AFL Euro Cup 2018.

The Tel Aviv Cheetahs represent a continuation of a decade long history of Australian rules football in Israel.^[2] However, it is the first club to focus more on the sport itself rather than utilising its spirit and values in activist work previously done by the Peace Team project curated by Peres Center for Peace, later continued by the Jerusalem Peace Lions football club.

While many AFL clubs outside Australia typically consist of Australian expats players, the Tel Aviv Cheetahs club chose a grassroots way of developing, and is predominantly Israeli, with a few Australian-born players that help maintain the authentic Australian cultural component as the team management works to adapt the game to a wider Israeli market and attract more local players and partners.

As of March 2019 it is the first officially registered and the only active Australian rules football club in Israel.

In 2025, the Tel Aviv Cheetah's participated in the 2025 AFL Israel Winter League against the newly formed Lions. The Cheetahs won the first game 40-31 in wet conditions but lost in the second game 70-96. The third game is set to take place on the 7th of March 2025.

The current Tel Aviv Cheetahs guernsey is yellow and red with the team's emblem of a yellow cheetah across a red shield with white claw marks in the lower right featured on the left chest.