<P> The Australian Football League has implemented a salary cap on its clubs since 1987, when Brisbane and West Coast were admitted, as part of its equalization policy designed to neutralize the ability of the richest and most successful clubs, Carlton, Collingwood, Essendon and Hawthorn, to perennially dominate the competition . </P> <P> The cap was set at A $1.25 million for 1987--1989 as per VFL agreement, with the salary floor set at 90% of the cap or $1.125 million; the salary floor was increased to 92.5% of the cap in 2001, and to 95% of the cap for 2013 onwards due to increased revenues . The salary cap, known officially as Total Player Payments, is A $12,600,000 for the 2018 season with a salary floor of $11,970,000 . </P> <P> Both the salary cap and salary floor has increased substantially since the competition was re-branded as the AFL in 1990 to assist in stemming the dominance of new interstate high membership clubs such as Adelaide and the West Coast Eagles . </P>

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