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'''''AFL Challenge''''' is a [[sports game]] for the [[PlayStation Portable]], based on the [[Australian Football League|AFL]]. The game was developed by Australian games developer [[Wicked Witch Software]], and was published by [[Tru Blu Entertainment]] and [[Sony Computer Entertainment]].<ref name="AC IGN N"/> The games fixture is based on the [[2009 AFL season]] and features all official AFL teams and a pre-determinedpredetermined best 22 players for each team, whose positions cannot be changed.

As part of the marketing campaign for AFL Challenge, [[Network Ten|Network Ten's]] program, Thursday Night Live, promoted the game and its sister title Rugby League Challenge, claiming it was the inspiration for an inter-league kicking competition.<ref name="Thursday Night Live">{{cite web | url=http://ten.com.au/video-player.htm?channel=TNL+Feature+Interviews&clipId=1427_TNL-NRLAFL-040909 | title=Network Ten | accessdate=2009-09-07}}</ref> TV advertisements promoting both Sony's new PSP model and AFL Challenge were run on Channel 10 during the first week of the finals season.<ref name="AFL Challenge commercial">{{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdb_BBNLHA0 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211220/mdb_BBNLHA0 |archive-date=2021-12-20 |url-status=live| title=AFL Challenge commercial |website=[[YouTube]] | accessdate=2009-09-07}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Asides from TV, AFL Challenge has also been advertised on the official AFL website, with a competition to win a PSP game pack including the game.<ref name="AFL">{{cite web | url=http://www.afl.com.au/competitions/goal/index.aspx | title=AFL website competition | accessdate=2009-09-08| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20091001001438/http://www.afl.com.au/competitions/goal/index.aspx| archivedate= 1 October 2009 | url-status= dead}}</ref> Elsewhere online, Sony's Australian PSP site is featuring a front page advertisement for this title.<ref name="Sony">{{cite web| url= http://au.playstation.com/psp/| title= Sony PSP Australia| accessdate= 2009-09-10| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20090914015742/http://au.playstation.com/psp/| archivedate= 14 September 2009| url-status= dead| df= dmy-all}}</ref>

AFL Challenge was universally critically panned. GameSpot's Dan Chiappini called the game "an unrewarding bore", citing that "the experience is nothing more than shallow and unrewarding gameplay, technical issues, and horrible difficulty scaling."<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.gamespot.com/reviews/afl-challenge-review/1900-6232601/ | title=AFL Challenge Review}}</ref> He also noted its lack of multiplayer, a season mode, commentary, player numbers, and its two grounds, one being a small suburban ground, unfit for AFL football, and the other appearing to be modeled on the MCG. He gave the game a "bad" rating and a 3 out of 10. ''PALGN'' said "AFL Challenge is a dud of the game that not even an AFL fan would enjoy" and gave it a 1 out of 10.<ref>http{{Cite web|url=https://www.metacritic.com/game/psp/afl-challenge/critic-reviews/?platform=psp|title=AFL Challenge|website=[[Metacritic]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://palgn.com.au/sony-psp/15405/afl-challenge-review/ |title= AFL Challenge Review|accessdate=2015-06-06 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120902215230/http://palgn.com.au/sony-psp/15405/afl-challenge-review/ |archivedate=2 September 2012 |df=dmy }}</ref>