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class="infobox-image"><a href="/wiki/File:2018_AFL_Grand_Final_panorama.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/2018_AFL_Grand_Final_panorama.jpg/275px-2018_AFL_Grand_Final_panorama.jpg" decoding="async" width="275" height="139" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/2018_AFL_Grand_Final_panorama.jpg/413px-2018_AFL_Grand_Final_panorama.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/2018_AFL_Grand_Final_panorama.jpg/550px-2018_AFL_Grand_Final_panorama.jpg 2x" data-file-width="7646" data-file-height="3878" /></a><div class="infobox-caption">Panorama of the <a href="/wiki/Melbourne_Cricket_Ground" title="Melbourne Cricket Ground">Melbourne Cricket Ground</a> prior to the <a href="/wiki/2018_AFL_Grand_Final" title="2018 AFL Grand Final">2018 AFL Grand Final</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Other names</th><td class="infobox-data" style="text-align: left;">VFL Grand Final (historical), "the Granny", "The GF",<a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a> "The Big Dance",<a href="#cite_note-2">[2]</a> "The Big Day", and "<a href="/wiki/One_Day_in_September_(song)" title="One Day in September (song)">The One Day in September</a>"<a href="#cite_note-3">[3]</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Sport</th><td class="infobox-data" style="text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Australian_rules_football_in_Australia" title="Australian rules football in Australia">Australian rules football</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">First meeting</th><td class="infobox-data" style="text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/1898_VFL_Grand_Final" class="mw-redirect" title="1898 VFL Grand Final">24 September 1898</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Latest meeting</th><td class="infobox-data" style="text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/2024_AFL_Grand_Final" title="2024 AFL Grand Final">28 September 2024</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Next meeting</th><td class="infobox-data" style="text-align: left;">2025</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Broadcasters</th><td class="infobox-data" style="text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Seven_Network" title="Seven Network">Seven Network</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Stadiums</th><td class="infobox-data" style="text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Melbourne_Cricket_Ground" title="Melbourne Cricket Ground">Melbourne Cricket Ground</a> (all but 11 occasions)</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="border-top: #aaa 1px solid;">Statistics</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Meetings total</th><td class="infobox-data" style="text-align: left;">129</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Most wins</th><td class="infobox-data" style="text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Carlton_Football_Club" title="Carlton Football Club">Carlton</a>, <a href="/wiki/Collingwood_Football_Club" title="Collingwood Football Club">Collingwood</a> (16)<a href="#cite_note-4">[4]</a></td></tr></tbody></table> The AFL Grand Final is an <a href="/wiki/Australian_rules_football" title="Australian rules football">Australian rules football</a> match to determine the premiers for the <a href="/wiki/Australian_Football_League" title="Australian Football League">Australian Football League</a> (AFL) season. Prior to 1990 it was known as the VFL Grand Final, as the league was then known as the <a href="/wiki/Victorian_Football_League" title="Victorian Football League">Victorian Football League</a>, and both were renamed due to the national expansion of the competition. Played at the end of the <a href="/wiki/AFL_finals_series" title="AFL finals series">finals series</a>, the game has been held annually since <a href="/wiki/1898_VFL_Grand_Final" class="mw-redirect" title="1898 VFL Grand Final">1898</a>, except in <a href="/wiki/1924_VFL_season" title="1924 VFL season">1924</a>. It is traditionally staged on the afternoon of the last Saturday in September, at the <a href="/wiki/Melbourne_Cricket_Ground" title="Melbourne Cricket Ground">Melbourne Cricket Ground</a>. As the premier match of the AFL season, it attracts one of the largest audiences in Australian sport, regularly attracting a crowd of more than 100,000 and a television audience of millions. The club which wins the <a href="/wiki/Grand_final" title="Grand final">grand final</a> receives the AFL's premiership cup and flag; players on the winning team receive a gold premiership medallion, and the best player receives the <a href="/wiki/Norm_Smith_Medal" title="Norm Smith Medal">Norm Smith Medal</a>. As of the end of 2024, a total of 129 grand finals have been played, including three <a href="/wiki/Grand_final_replay" title="Grand final replay">grand final replays</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Carlton_Football_Club" title="Carlton Football Club">Carlton Football Club</a> and <a href="/wiki/Collingwood_Football_Club" title="Collingwood Football Club">Collingwood Football Club</a> have both won 16 grand finals, the most of any club; the <a href="/wiki/Essendon_Football_Club" title="Essendon Football Club">Essendon Football Club</a> has also won 16 premierships, although only 14 were earned in grand finals. Collingwood has appeared in the most grand finals, a total of 45; and Collingwood has also won the most consecutive grand finals, with four between <a href="/wiki/1927_VFL_grand_final" title="1927 VFL grand final">1927</a> and <a href="/wiki/1930_VFL_grand_final" title="1930 VFL grand final">1930</a>. Every current AFL club has played in at least one grand final, with the exception of the 2011 expansion club <a href="/wiki/Gold_Coast_Suns" title="Gold Coast Suns">Gold Coast</a>. <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Match_history">Match history</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=AFL_Grand_Final&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Match history">edit</a>]</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/List_of_AFL_Grand_Finals" class="mw-redirect" title="List of AFL Grand Finals">List of AFL Grand Finals</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Early_history_(1897–1915)">Early history (1897–1915)</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=AFL_Grand_Final&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Early history (1897–1915)">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Fitzroy_1898_premiers.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/Fitzroy_1898_premiers.jpg/220px-Fitzroy_1898_premiers.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/Fitzroy_1898_premiers.jpg/330px-Fitzroy_1898_premiers.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/Fitzroy_1898_premiers.jpg/440px-Fitzroy_1898_premiers.jpg 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="400" /></a><figcaption>The 1898 <a href="/wiki/Fitzroy_Football_Club" title="Fitzroy Football Club">Fitzroy</a> team, winners of the <a href="/wiki/1898_VFL_grand_final" title="1898 VFL grand final">inaugural VFL Grand Final</a>.</figcaption></figure> The <a href="/wiki/Victorian_Football_League_(1897%E2%80%931989)" class="mw-redirect" title="Victorian Football League (1897–1989)">Victorian Football League</a> (VFL) was established for the <a href="/wiki/1897_VFL_season" title="1897 VFL season">1897 season</a> by eight clubs which seceded from the <a href="/wiki/Victorian_Football_Association" class="mw-redirect" title="Victorian Football Association">Victorian Football Association</a> (VFA). The new league introduced a system of <a href="/wiki/AFL_finals_series" title="AFL finals series">finals</a> to be contested after the home-and-away matches; this ensured that the premiership could not be decided until the last match had been played, generating greater public interest at the end of the season — compared with the VFA's system, which awarded the premiership based on win–loss record across the entire season, with a playoff match only in the event of tied records. The league arranged that the gate from finals matches be shared among all teams, which guaranteed a better dividend to the league's weaker clubs.<a href="#cite_note-5">[5]</a> Although the <a href="/wiki/1897_VFL_finals_series" title="1897 VFL finals series">finals system</a> used in <a href="/wiki/1897_VFL_season" title="1897 VFL season">1897</a> had the possibility of a grand final, one was not required. As such, the match now recognised as the first grand final took place in the league's second season, on <a href="/wiki/1898_VFL_Grand_Final" class="mw-redirect" title="1898 VFL Grand Final">24 September 1898</a>, between <a href="/wiki/Essendon_Football_Club" title="Essendon Football Club">Essendon</a> and <a href="/wiki/Fitzroy_Football_Club" title="Fitzroy Football Club">Fitzroy</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Junction_Oval" title="Junction Oval">St Kilda Cricket Ground</a>. This match too had been in doubt until the night before it was played, Essendon disputing the choice and fitness-for-use of the St Kilda ground, which had already been top-dressed for the cricket season. Despite appealing to the league and even announcing it intended to forfeit,<a href="#cite_note-6">[6]</a> Essendon relented and played the game,<a href="#cite_note-7">[7]</a> and Fitzroy won the inaugural grand final 5.8 (38) d. 3.5 (23) before a crowd of 16,538. <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:1909_VFL_Grand_Final.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/1909_VFL_Grand_Final.jpg/220px-1909_VFL_Grand_Final.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/1909_VFL_Grand_Final.jpg/330px-1909_VFL_Grand_Final.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/1909_VFL_Grand_Final.jpg/440px-1909_VFL_Grand_Final.jpg 2x" data-file-width="700" data-file-height="525" /></a><figcaption> <a href="/wiki/South_Melbourne_FC" title="South Melbourne FC">South Melbourne</a> players enter the field before the <a href="/wiki/1909_VFL_Grand_Final" class="mw-redirect" title="1909 VFL Grand Final">1909 grand final</a>.</figcaption></figure> Most <a href="/wiki/AFL_finals_series#Systems" title="AFL finals series">VFL finals systems</a> utilised until 1930 comprised a short finals system, usually a simple <a href="/wiki/Knockout_tournament" class="mw-redirect" title="Knockout tournament">knockout tournament</a> ending with a match called the 'final'; if the 'final' was not won by the home-and-away season's <a href="/wiki/Minor_premiership" title="Minor premiership">minor premiers</a>, then the minor premiers had the right to challenge the winner of the 'final' to a playoff match for the premiership. At the time, it was only this challenge match, if played, which was known as the grand final; however, all 'final' matches which decided the premiership have since retrospectively been considered grand finals. The <a href="/wiki/1899_VFL_grand_final" title="1899 VFL grand final">1899 VFL grand final</a> is the earliest such game; it was won by <a href="/wiki/Fitzroy_Football_Club" title="Fitzroy Football Club">Fitzroy</a>, while losing team <a href="/wiki/Sydney_Swans" title="Sydney Swans">South Melbourne</a> would have had to have defeated Fitzroy again in a challenge match to win the premiership. In all, eleven 'finals' are now considered grand finals: eight which were won by the minor premiers and would have resulted in a challenge match had the result been reversed (1899, <a href="/wiki/1904_VFL_Grand_Final" class="mw-redirect" title="1904 VFL Grand Final">1904</a>, <a href="/wiki/1907_VFL_Grand_Final" class="mw-redirect" title="1907 VFL Grand Final">1907</a>, <a href="/wiki/1908_VFL_Grand_Final" class="mw-redirect" title="1908 VFL Grand Final">1908</a>, <a href="/wiki/1911_VFL_Grand_Final" class="mw-redirect" title="1911 VFL Grand Final">1911</a>, <a href="/wiki/1918_VFL_Grand_Final" class="mw-redirect" title="1918 VFL Grand Final">1918</a>, <a href="/wiki/1927_VFL_Grand_Final" class="mw-redirect" title="1927 VFL Grand Final">1927</a> and <a href="/wiki/1928_VFL_Grand_Final" class="mw-redirect" title="1928 VFL Grand Final">1928</a>); and three which decided the premiership but which could not have been followed by a challenge match due to the finals systems and circumstances of those years (<a href="/wiki/1901_VFL_Grand_Final" class="mw-redirect" title="1901 VFL Grand Final">1901</a>, <a href="/wiki/1903_VFL_Grand_Final" class="mw-redirect" title="1903 VFL Grand Final">1903</a> and <a href="/wiki/1906_VFL_Grand_Final" class="mw-redirect" title="1906 VFL Grand Final">1906</a>). In <a href="/wiki/1902_VFL_Grand_Final" class="mw-redirect" title="1902 VFL Grand Final">1902</a>, the Grand Final was first played at the <a href="/wiki/Melbourne_Cricket_Ground" title="Melbourne Cricket Ground">Melbourne Cricket Ground</a>, when <a href="/wiki/Collingwood_Football_Club" title="Collingwood Football Club">Collingwood</a> 9.6 (60) defeated <a href="/wiki/Essendon_Football_Club" title="Essendon Football Club">Essendon</a> 3.9 (27) before a then-record Australian football crowd of 35,000.<a href="#cite_note-8">[8]</a> By 1908, every finals match was played at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, and new attendance records were set in <a href="/wiki/1908_VFL_Grand_Final" class="mw-redirect" title="1908 VFL Grand Final">1908</a> (50,261), <a href="/wiki/1912_VFL_Grand_Final" class="mw-redirect" title="1912 VFL Grand Final">1912</a> (54,463) and <a href="/wiki/1913_VFL_Grand_Final" class="mw-redirect" title="1913 VFL Grand Final">1913</a> (59,479). During this period, <a href="/wiki/Carlton_Football_Club" title="Carlton Football Club">Carlton</a> became the first club to win three consecutive premierships, winning 'finals' in all three years. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Between_the_wars_(1916–1945)">Between the wars (1916–1945)</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=AFL_Grand_Final&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Between the wars (1916–1945)">edit</a>]</div> Football and grand finals continued through <a href="/wiki/World_War_I" title="World War I">World War I</a>, albeit with reduced attendances, and some controversy that it distracted from the war effort, with one critic calling for the Carlton team to receive the <a href="/wiki/Iron_Cross" title="Iron Cross">Iron Cross</a> as their premiership medallion. However, many <a href="/wiki/Digger_(soldier)" title="Digger (soldier)">diggers</a> supported the continuance of the game, and returned servicemen were granted free admission to a portion of the grandstand for the <a href="/wiki/1918_VFL_Grand_Final" class="mw-redirect" title="1918 VFL Grand Final">1918 grand final</a>, with many attending in uniform.<a href="#cite_note-9">[9]</a> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Essendon_fc_1923.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Essendon_fc_1923.jpg/250px-Essendon_fc_1923.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="149" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Essendon_fc_1923.jpg/375px-Essendon_fc_1923.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Essendon_fc_1923.jpg/500px-Essendon_fc_1923.jpg 2x" data-file-width="620" data-file-height="370" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Essendon_Football_Club" title="Essendon Football Club">Essendon</a>'s premiership team from <a href="/wiki/1923_VFL_Grand_Final" class="mw-redirect" title="1923 VFL Grand Final">1923</a>.</figcaption></figure> During the 1920s, the VFL grappled with the problems of the challenge final system — specifically that the league was not always guaranteed four finals, and there was the perception that semi-finals could be <a href="/wiki/Match_fixing" title="Match fixing">thrown</a> to guarantee a grand final and the dividend which came with it.<a href="#cite_note-10">[10]</a> On several occasions during the 1920s, semi-final crowds exceeded that of the final or grand final. In <a href="/wiki/1924_VFL_season#Finals_series" title="1924 VFL season">1924</a>, for the second and last time, no recognised grand final was played; a <a href="/wiki/Round-robin_Argus_system" class="mw-redirect" title="Round-robin Argus system">round-robin finals system</a> was played, with the top team from the round robin to face the minor premiers in a grand final if required; but, when minor premiers Essendon also won the round robin, no grand final was staged.<a href="#cite_note-egep-11">[11]</a> This new finals system was abandoned after one year. A new record crowd of 64,288 was set in 1925, when <a href="/wiki/Geelong_Football_Club" title="Geelong Football Club">Geelong</a> played and won its first grand final, attracting a huge contingent of both provincial and metropolitan supporters.<a href="#cite_note-12">[12]</a> Between 1927 and 1930, <a href="/wiki/Collingwood_Football_Club" title="Collingwood Football Club">Collingwood</a> became the first and only club to win four consecutive premierships, winning in 'finals' in 1927 and 1928, then grand finals in 1929 and 1930. In 1931, the <a href="/wiki/Page_playoff_system" title="Page playoff system">Page–McIntyre Final Four</a> system was introduced for finals, which eliminated the minor premier's right to challenge and guaranteed four finals and a genuine grand final each year.<a href="#cite_note-13">[13]</a> Under this system, and all systems which followed it until 1993, one team entered the grand final with a bye week after winning the second semi-final; and the other entered after winning the preliminary final in the week before the grand final. More often than not, the grand final was a rematch between the teams who played the second semi-final two weeks earlier. Several new record crowds were set through the 1930s, and the Melbourne Cricket Ground's new Southern Stand was constructed and opened in 1937. That year, the <a href="/wiki/1937_VFL_Grand_Final" class="mw-redirect" title="1937 VFL Grand Final">Geelong–Collingwood grand final</a> attracted 88,540, with spectators crossing the fence and sitting eight deep along the boundary line;<a href="#cite_note-14">[14]</a> the following year, another record of 96,486 watched <a href="/wiki/Collingwood_Football_Club" title="Collingwood Football Club">Collingwood</a> play <a href="/wiki/Carlton_Football_Club" title="Carlton Football Club">Carlton</a>. <a href="/wiki/Melbourne_Football_Club" title="Melbourne Football Club">Melbourne</a> dominated the final years before the <a href="/wiki/Pacific_War" title="Pacific War">Pacific War</a>, comfortably winning grand finals in 1939, 1940 and 1941. Football served as a distraction for people and as a war fundraiser on the home front during the <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>. The Australian government requisitioned a number of VFL grounds, including the Melbourne Cricket Ground, so the grand finals were staged at Carlton's <a href="/wiki/Princes_Park_(stadium)" title="Princes Park (stadium)">Princes Park</a> in <a href="/wiki/1942_VFL_Grand_Final" class="mw-redirect" title="1942 VFL Grand Final">1942</a>, <a href="/wiki/1943_VFL_Grand_Final" class="mw-redirect" title="1943 VFL Grand Final">1943</a> and <a href="/wiki/1945_VFL_Grand_Final" class="mw-redirect" title="1945 VFL Grand Final">1945</a>, and at the St Kilda Cricket Ground in <a href="/wiki/1944_VFL_Grand_Final" class="mw-redirect" title="1944 VFL Grand Final">1944</a>. The last of those games, in 1945, saw a capacity crowd of 62,986 squeeze into the Carlton ground, which was played just weeks after the armistice with Japan was declared. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Post-war_(1946–1990)">Post-war (1946–1990)</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=AFL_Grand_Final&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Post-war (1946–1990)">edit</a>]</div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:VFL_Grand_Final_in_1945_at_the_MCG.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/VFL_Grand_Final_in_1945_at_the_MCG.jpg/250px-VFL_Grand_Final_in_1945_at_the_MCG.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="187" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/VFL_Grand_Final_in_1945_at_the_MCG.jpg/375px-VFL_Grand_Final_in_1945_at_the_MCG.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9d/VFL_Grand_Final_in_1945_at_the_MCG.jpg 2x" data-file-width="425" data-file-height="318" /></a><figcaption>The VFL grand final in <a href="/wiki/1946_VFL_grand_final" title="1946 VFL grand final">1946</a> from the stands of the Melbourne Cricket Ground</figcaption></figure> When the Melbourne Cricket Ground was relinquished by the government in August 1946, there was great expectation in the buildup to the grand finals, and attendances were soon back to 1930s levels. In 1948, <a href="/wiki/Essendon_Football_Club" title="Essendon Football Club">Essendon</a> and <a href="/wiki/Melbourne_Football_Club" title="Melbourne Football Club">Melbourne</a> played the <a href="/wiki/1948_VFL_Grand_Final" class="mw-redirect" title="1948 VFL Grand Final">first drawn grand final</a> in history; a full replay was played the following week, which Melbourne won. The sight of thousands sitting between the fence and the boundary line was now usual at the grand final,<a href="#cite_note-15">[15]</a> often resulting in injuries to spectators when players collided with them. Spectators were admitted on a first-come basis, and thousands took to lining up outside the stadium from the Friday before the match to gain the best vantage point when the gates opened on the morning.<a href="#cite_note-16">[16]</a> As the Melbourne Cricket Ground was used as the main stadium for the <a href="/wiki/1956_Summer_Olympics" title="1956 Summer Olympics">1956 Olympic Games</a>, the ground was upgraded again with a new stand and extra capacity, and the <a href="/wiki/1956_VFL_Grand_Final" class="mw-redirect" title="1956 VFL Grand Final">1956 grand final</a> was seen as a dry run for the opening ceremony of the games two months later. Although the official capacity was 120,000, the ground could not comfortably accommodate the record crowd of 115,802. Some spectators who gained entry perched dangerously on the back fences of the grandstands and even the roof of the southern stand to get a view of the game; and in violent scenes outside the ground, at least 2,500 gained entry by mobbing gates, climbing fences or sneaking in when the Military Band arrived, while at least 20,000 more were turned away at the gate.<a href="#cite_note-17">[17]</a><a href="#cite_note-18">[18]</a> To finally prevent a recurrence of these growing crowd management problems, the VFL introduced a pre-purchase ticketing system for the finals and grand final from 1957, and attendances hovered around the health department's revised ground capacity of 102,000 over the following years.<a href="#cite_note-19">[19]</a> <a href="/wiki/Melbourne_Football_Club" title="Melbourne Football Club">Melbourne</a> dominated the 1950s, playing a record seven consecutive grand finals from 1954 to 1960, and winning five premierships, including three in a row from 1955 to 1957. The establishment of the modern premiership cup in 1959 gave the after-match a ceremonial focus and allowed the attention to settle on the premier team, ending the previous custom of the crowd descending on the arena and variously chairing or walking the players off the ground.<a href="#cite_note-cuphistory-20">[20]</a> Delayed telecasts of the match were first shown on television in 1961.<a href="#cite_note-countryfs-21">[21]</a> The grandstands were expanded again in 1968, and an enduring record crowd of 121,696 saw one of the most famous grand finals of all in <a href="/wiki/1970_VFL_Grand_Final" class="mw-redirect" title="1970 VFL Grand Final">1970</a>, in which <a href="/wiki/Carlton_Football_Club" title="Carlton Football Club">Carlton</a> overcome a 44-point half-time deficit to defeat <a href="/wiki/Collingwood_Football_Club" title="Collingwood Football Club">Collingwood</a>. Live telecasts of the grand final into Victoria began in 1977, which saw the second drawn grand final between <a href="/wiki/North_Melbourne_Football_Club" title="North Melbourne Football Club">North Melbourne</a> and <a href="/wiki/Collingwood_Football_Club" title="Collingwood Football Club">Collingwood</a>.<a href="#cite_note-countryfs-21">[21]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Norm_Smith_Medal" title="Norm Smith Medal">Norm Smith Medal</a>, awarded to the best on ground in the game, was introduced in 1979. The 1980s saw a concerted effort by the VFL to relocate the grand final to its privately owned <a href="/wiki/VFL_Park" class="mw-redirect" title="VFL Park">VFL Park</a>, in search of a better commercial deal, but the move was ultimately blocked by the state government and the game remained at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.<a href="#cite_note-public-22">[22]</a> The 1980s saw a sustained period of dominance by <a href="/wiki/Hawthorn_Football_Club" title="Hawthorn Football Club">Hawthorn</a>, which contested seven consecutive grand finals from 1983 to 1989, winning four of them. The <a href="/wiki/1989_VFL_Grand_Final" class="mw-redirect" title="1989 VFL Grand Final">1989 Grand Final</a>, a high scoring and very physical encounter in which Hawthorn defeated Geelong by six points, is considered to be one of the greatest of all time. By 1990, <a href="/wiki/Collingwood_Football_Club" title="Collingwood Football Club">Collingwood</a> had lost the last eight decisive grand finals it had played since its 1958 premiership, a streak which became known as the "<a href="/wiki/Colliwobbles" title="Colliwobbles">Colliwobbles</a>"; this came to an end with its victory against <a href="/wiki/Essendon_Football_Club" title="Essendon Football Club">Essendon</a> in the <a href="/wiki/1990_AFL_Grand_Final" title="1990 AFL Grand Final">1990 grand final</a>. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="National_era_(1991–present)">National era (1991–present)</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=AFL_Grand_Final&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: National era (1991–present)">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Sydney_swans_supporters_at_the_2006_afl_grand_final.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/Sydney_swans_supporters_at_the_2006_afl_grand_final.jpg/250px-Sydney_swans_supporters_at_the_2006_afl_grand_final.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="188" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/Sydney_swans_supporters_at_the_2006_afl_grand_final.jpg/375px-Sydney_swans_supporters_at_the_2006_afl_grand_final.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/Sydney_swans_supporters_at_the_2006_afl_grand_final.jpg/500px-Sydney_swans_supporters_at_the_2006_afl_grand_final.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2560" data-file-height="1920" /></a><figcaption>Sydney Swans supporters celebrate a goal against Perth's <a href="/wiki/West_Coast_Eagles" title="West Coast Eagles">West Coast Eagles</a> at the <a href="/wiki/2006_AFL_Grand_Final" title="2006 AFL Grand Final">2006 Grand Final</a>.</figcaption></figure> Starting in the 1980s, the Victorian Football League (VFL) expanded interstate, and it was renamed the Australian Football League (AFL) in 1990. Perth-based <a href="/wiki/West_Coast_Eagles" title="West Coast Eagles">West Coast</a>, which joined the league in 1987, became the first non-Victorian club to both contest and win a grand final, in <a href="/wiki/1991_AFL_Grand_Final" title="1991 AFL Grand Final">1991</a> and <a href="/wiki/1992_AFL_Grand_Final" title="1992 AFL Grand Final">1992</a>, respectively; and, between 1992 and 2006, non-Victorian clubs won ten out of the fifteen grand finals, with the <a href="/wiki/Brisbane_Lions" title="Brisbane Lions">Brisbane Lions</a> enjoying the greatest success, with three premierships in a row between <a href="/wiki/2001_AFL_Grand_Final" title="2001 AFL Grand Final">2001</a> and <a href="/wiki/2003_AFL_Grand_Final" title="2003 AFL Grand Final">2003</a>. Since 1994, new finals systems required both grand finalists to qualify by winning a preliminary final in the previous week, ending the long-standing custom of one qualifier enjoying a bye in the week before the grand final. The third and final drawn grand final occurred in <a href="/wiki/2010_AFL_Grand_Final" title="2010 AFL Grand Final">2010</a> between <a href="/wiki/Collingwood_Football_Club" title="Collingwood Football Club">Collingwood</a> and <a href="/wiki/St_Kilda_Football_Club" title="St Kilda Football Club">St Kilda</a>, with Collingwood winning the replay; <a href="/wiki/Overtime_(sports)" title="Overtime (sports)">extra time</a> has since been introduced to decide drawn grand finals, but it is yet to have been required.<a href="#cite_note-ET-23">[23]</a> <a href="/wiki/Hawthorn_Football_Club" title="Hawthorn Football Club">Hawthorn</a> was dominant in the early 2010s, winning three grand finals in a row between 2013 and 2015. The <a href="/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_Australia" title="COVID-19 pandemic in Australia">COVID-19 pandemic</a> affected the scheduling of the match in <a href="/wiki/2020_AFL_Grand_Final" title="2020 AFL Grand Final">2020</a> and <a href="/wiki/2021_AFL_Grand_Final" title="2021 AFL Grand Final">2021</a>, as outbreaks of the virus in Melbourne during finals precluded unrestricted travel and mass gatherings in Victoria. In 2020, when most of the league's clubs had been relocated to <a href="/wiki/Queensland" title="Queensland">Queensland</a> for the majority of the season, the grand final was played at <a href="/wiki/The_Gabba" title="The Gabba">the Gabba</a> in Brisbane, the first time it had been played outside Victoria. It was also played at night, the first time it was not played in the afternoon time slot.<a href="#cite_note-GabbaFoxSports-24">[24]</a> The following season, it was played at <a href="/wiki/Perth_Stadium" title="Perth Stadium">Optus Stadium</a> in Perth in a twilight timeslot.<a href="#cite_note-MCG2059-25">[25]</a><a href="#cite_note-26">[26]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Prize">Prize</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=AFL_Grand_Final&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Prize">edit</a>]</div> Aside from the prestige of winning the premiership, the premiership-winning club receives four prizes: the premiership cup, the <a href="/wiki/Pennant_(sports)" title="Pennant (sports)">premiership flag</a>, the E. L. Wilson Shield, and A$1.2 million in prize money. <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Carlton_premiership_flag_1907.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/Carlton_premiership_flag_1907.jpg/250px-Carlton_premiership_flag_1907.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="156" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/Carlton_premiership_flag_1907.jpg/375px-Carlton_premiership_flag_1907.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/Carlton_premiership_flag_1907.jpg/500px-Carlton_premiership_flag_1907.jpg 2x" data-file-width="673" data-file-height="419" /></a><figcaption>Carlton Football Club hoists the <a href="/wiki/1906_VFL_grand_final" title="1906 VFL grand final">1906 VFL premiership</a> flag at Princes Park in 1907</figcaption></figure> The premiership flag is the most symbolic and longest-standing award for the clubs. It is a large, triangular <a href="/wiki/Pennant_(sports)" title="Pennant (sports)">pennant</a> in league colours (navy blue fimbriated with white) and emblazoned with the league logo, the word 'premiers' and the year of the premiership. It does not feature in post-match presentations, but tradition dictates that it be ceremonially unfurled from the flagpole at the premiers' first home game of the following season. The awarding of a flag, and its ceremonial unfurling, have been tradition since the very first VFL premiership in 1897,<a href="#cite_note-27">[27]</a> and had been customary before that in the VFA and other sports in Victoria since around 1889.<a href="#cite_note-28">[28]</a> Although the flag is of lower physical importance than the cup, it retains its symbolic significance, and "the flag" is still widely used as a <a href="/wiki/Metonym" class="mw-redirect" title="Metonym">metonym</a> for the premiership itself in Australian rules football parlance, including in many of the league's <a href="/wiki/List_of_Australian_Football_League_team_songs" title="List of Australian Football League team songs">team songs</a>. <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Premiership_Cup_-_2019_Grand_Final_Parade.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Premiership_Cup_-_2019_Grand_Final_Parade.jpg/250px-Premiership_Cup_-_2019_Grand_Final_Parade.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="212" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Premiership_Cup_-_2019_Grand_Final_Parade.jpg/375px-Premiership_Cup_-_2019_Grand_Final_Parade.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Premiership_Cup_-_2019_Grand_Final_Parade.jpg/500px-Premiership_Cup_-_2019_Grand_Final_Parade.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1775" data-file-height="1504" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/2019_AFL_Grand_Final" title="2019 AFL Grand Final">2019</a> AFL Premiership Cup, bearing ribbons in <a href="/wiki/Richmond_Football_Club" title="Richmond Football Club">Richmond</a> and <a href="/wiki/Greater_Western_Sydney_Giants" title="Greater Western Sydney Giants">Greater Western Sydney</a> colours.</figcaption></figure> The most prestigious award for supporters is the AFL premiership cup, which is presented to the captain and coach of the winning team in a ceremony after the game. Prior to the Grand Final, it is traditional for the captain of each side to hold one side of the cup in official promotional photos. The premiership cup is silver (with the exception of the 1996 cup, which was gold to commemorate the league's 100th season),<a href="#cite_note-29">[29]</a> and it is adorned with ribbons in the winning team's colours when presented. A new cup is manufactured each year by Cash's International at its metalworks in <a href="/wiki/Frankston,_Victoria" title="Frankston, Victoria">Frankston</a>. The cup was first introduced in 1959 after league president <a href="/wiki/Kenneth_Luke" title="Kenneth Luke">Kenneth Luke</a> sought to recreate the spectacle he had observed at England's <a href="/wiki/FA_Cup" title="FA Cup">FA Cup</a> final; a lap of honour with the cup by the winning team has become customary since <a href="/wiki/1966_VFL_Grand_Final" class="mw-redirect" title="1966 VFL Grand Final">1966</a>.<a href="#cite_note-1966gf-30">[30]</a> Since <a href="/wiki/2004_AFL_Grand_Final" title="2004 AFL Grand Final">2004</a>, it has become tradition for the cup to be presented by a past legend of the winning club, with each club's potential presenter nominated ahead of the game.<a href="#cite_note-cuphistory-20">[20]</a> In 2004, the AFL allowed clubs to purchase cups based on the current design for premierships won prior to 1959.<a href="#cite_note-31">[31]</a> The premier club's name is also recorded on the perpetual E. L. Wilson Shield, which resides at AFL House.<a href="#cite_note-32">[32]</a> The shield, inaugurated in 1929, was named after long-serving VFL secretary <a href="/wiki/Edwin_Lionel_Wilson" title="Edwin Lionel Wilson">Edwin Lionel Wilson</a>. It was initially discontinued after 1978, when there was no room remaining on the shield. In 2016, it was rediscovered under a stairwell at AFL House; it was refurbished, extra space was added, and it was brought up to date. It, too, does not feature in the on-field presentation.<a href="#cite_note-33">[33]</a> As of 2019, the premier also receives $1.2 million in prize money, with $660k for the runners-up.<a href="#cite_note-34">[34]</a> Prior to its increase in 2007, the prize for the premier was only $250k, which was not even enough to cover an interstate club's participation in the finals series.<a href="#cite_note-35">[35]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Premiership_medal">Premiership medal</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=AFL_Grand_Final&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Premiership medal">edit</a>]</div> Each player from the winning team who plays in the grand final is awarded a premiership medal. For much of the league's history, premiership medals were awards made by clubs or their benefactors to the players as part of their celebrations; however, since live telecasts of the game were introduced in 1977, the medal has been a league award presented in the on-field presentation following the match.<a href="#cite_note-medalhistory-36">[36]</a> Since 2002, the medals have been presented each year by children selected nationwide from the <a href="/wiki/Auskick" title="Auskick">Auskick</a> junior football program.<a href="#cite_note-37">[37]</a> The league-endorsed medal dating from 1977 is awarded only to the players who participate in the winning grand final team (or in a drawn grand final team if their team won the replay).<a href="#cite_note-38">[38]</a> Players who do not play in the grand final itself do not receive the medal, regardless of their contribution to the club's season; this has been a point of contention, with many observers believing medals should be more broadly awarded across the premier's squad.<a href="#cite_note-39">[39]</a> Criteria for the club-awarded medals prior to 1977 depended on the individual clubs' decisions.<a href="#cite_note-medalhistory-36">[36]</a> From <a href="/wiki/1977_VFL_Grand_Final" class="mw-redirect" title="1977 VFL Grand Final">1977</a> until <a href="/wiki/1981_VFL_Grand_Final" class="mw-redirect" title="1981 VFL Grand Final">1981</a>, runners-up medals were also presented during the post-match ceremony. This was discontinued after 1981, popularly attributed to the negative spectacle of <a href="/wiki/Collingwood_Football_Club" title="Collingwood Football Club">Collingwood</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Peter_Moore_(Australian_rules_footballer)" title="Peter Moore (Australian rules footballer)">Peter Moore</a> — in his fourth losing grand final — throwing the medal on the ground shortly after receiving it.<a href="#cite_note-medalhistory-36">[36]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Individual_awards">Individual awards</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=AFL_Grand_Final&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Individual awards">edit</a>]</div> The <a href="/wiki/Norm_Smith_Medal" title="Norm Smith Medal">Norm Smith Medal</a> is presented to the player judged best on ground in the grand final by a panel of experts. The award is named in honour of ten-time <a href="/wiki/Melbourne_Football_Club" title="Melbourne Football Club">Melbourne</a> premiership player and coach <a href="/wiki/Norm_Smith" title="Norm Smith">Norm Smith</a>. It was first awarded in <a href="/wiki/1979_VFL_Grand_Final" class="mw-redirect" title="1979 VFL Grand Final">1979</a>, and has come to carry great prestige as an individual prize. The coach of the winning team receives the Jock McHale Medal, named in honour of Collingwood coach <a href="/wiki/Jock_McHale" title="Jock McHale">Jock McHale</a> who coached a record eight premierships. The medal was first awarded in 2001, and it was retrospectively awarded to all premiership-winning coaches starting from 1950, the first season after McHale's retirement from coaching. The captain or co-captains of the winning team receive the Ron Barassi Medal, named in honour of ten-time premiership player and coach <a href="/wiki/Ron_Barassi" title="Ron Barassi">Ron Barassi Jr</a>. The medal was first awarded in 2024.<a href="#cite_note-40">[40]</a> The game's leading goalkicker or goalkickers receive the <a href="/wiki/Jack_Collins_(footballer,_born_1930)" title="Jack Collins (footballer, born 1930)">Jack Collins</a> Medal from the AFL Premiership Players' Club.<a href="#cite_note-41">[41]</a><a href="#cite_note-42">[42]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Venue">Venue</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=AFL_Grand_Final&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Venue">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/AFL_Grand_Final_location_debate" title="AFL Grand Final location debate">AFL Grand Final location debate</a></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:AFL_Grand_Final_2010_on_the_Melbourne_Cricket_Ground.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/AFL_Grand_Final_2010_on_the_Melbourne_Cricket_Ground.jpg/250px-AFL_Grand_Final_2010_on_the_Melbourne_Cricket_Ground.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="167" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/AFL_Grand_Final_2010_on_the_Melbourne_Cricket_Ground.jpg/375px-AFL_Grand_Final_2010_on_the_Melbourne_Cricket_Ground.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/AFL_Grand_Final_2010_on_the_Melbourne_Cricket_Ground.jpg/500px-AFL_Grand_Final_2010_on_the_Melbourne_Cricket_Ground.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="1071" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/2010_AFL_Grand_Final" title="2010 AFL Grand Final">2010 AFL Grand Final</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Melbourne_Cricket_Ground" title="Melbourne Cricket Ground">Melbourne Cricket Ground</a>.</figcaption></figure> The first four Grand Finals were played at different neutral venues chosen by the league's match committee a week in advance:<a href="#cite_note-43">[43]</a> these were played at the <a href="/wiki/St_Kilda_Cricket_Ground" class="mw-redirect" title="St Kilda Cricket Ground">St Kilda Cricket Ground</a> (<a href="/wiki/1898_VFL_Grand_Final" class="mw-redirect" title="1898 VFL Grand Final">1898</a> and <a href="/wiki/1899_VFL_Grand_Final" class="mw-redirect" title="1899 VFL Grand Final">1899</a>), the <a href="/wiki/East_Melbourne_Cricket_Ground" title="East Melbourne Cricket Ground">East Melbourne Cricket Ground</a> (<a href="/wiki/1900_VFL_Grand_Final" class="mw-redirect" title="1900 VFL Grand Final">1900</a>) and the <a href="/wiki/South_Melbourne_Cricket_Ground" class="mw-redirect" title="South Melbourne Cricket Ground">South Melbourne Cricket Ground</a> (<a href="/wiki/1901_VFL_Grand_Final" class="mw-redirect" title="1901 VFL Grand Final">1901</a>). Since the fifth Grand Final in 1902, after a deal was made with the <a href="/wiki/Melbourne_Cricket_Club" title="Melbourne Cricket Club">Melbourne Cricket Club</a> (MCC), the Grand Final has been played at the <a href="/wiki/Melbourne_Cricket_Ground" title="Melbourne Cricket Ground">Melbourne Cricket Ground</a> every season, except when it has been unavailable. Under the current agreement among the AFL, MCC and <a href="/wiki/Victorian_Government" class="mw-redirect" title="Victorian Government">Victorian Government</a>, the ground is contracted to host the game every year until 2059.<a href="#cite_note-MCG2059-25">[25]</a> Since 1902, only seven Grand Finals have been played at other grounds: <ul><li>In 1942 to 1945, when the Melbourne Cricket Ground was requisitioned for military use during World War II: these Grand Finals were played at <a href="/wiki/Princes_Park_(stadium)" title="Princes Park (stadium)">Princes Park</a> (<a href="/wiki/1942_VFL_Grand_Final" class="mw-redirect" title="1942 VFL Grand Final">1942</a>, <a href="/wiki/1943_VFL_Grand_Final" class="mw-redirect" title="1943 VFL Grand Final">1943</a> and <a href="/wiki/1945_VFL_Grand_Final" class="mw-redirect" title="1945 VFL Grand Final">1945</a>) and the St Kilda Cricket Ground (<a href="/wiki/1944_VFL_Grand_Final" class="mw-redirect" title="1944 VFL Grand Final">1944</a>).</li> <li>In 1991, when the capacity of the Melbourne Cricket Ground was halved due to construction of the Great Southern Stand: the Grand Final was played at <a href="/wiki/Waverley_Park" title="Waverley Park">Waverley Park</a>.</li> <li>During the <a href="/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic" title="COVID-19 pandemic">COVID-19 pandemic</a> in 2020 and 2021, when travel and crowds were restricted in Victoria during the finals; these Grand Finals were played at <a href="/wiki/The_Gabba" title="The Gabba">The Gabba</a> in <a href="/wiki/Brisbane" title="Brisbane">Brisbane</a> (2020) and <a href="/wiki/Perth_Stadium" title="Perth Stadium">Optus Stadium</a> in <a href="/wiki/Perth,_Western_Australia" class="mw-redirect" title="Perth, Western Australia">Perth</a> (2021).</li></ul> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:2021_AFL_Grand_Final,_Perth_Stadium,_Simon_Goodwin_and_Max_Gawn_hoist_up_the_cup_together,_25_September_2021.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/2021_AFL_Grand_Final%2C_Perth_Stadium%2C_Simon_Goodwin_and_Max_Gawn_hoist_up_the_cup_together%2C_25_September_2021.jpg/250px-2021_AFL_Grand_Final%2C_Perth_Stadium%2C_Simon_Goodwin_and_Max_Gawn_hoist_up_the_cup_together%2C_25_September_2021.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="141" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/2021_AFL_Grand_Final%2C_Perth_Stadium%2C_Simon_Goodwin_and_Max_Gawn_hoist_up_the_cup_together%2C_25_September_2021.jpg/375px-2021_AFL_Grand_Final%2C_Perth_Stadium%2C_Simon_Goodwin_and_Max_Gawn_hoist_up_the_cup_together%2C_25_September_2021.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/2021_AFL_Grand_Final%2C_Perth_Stadium%2C_Simon_Goodwin_and_Max_Gawn_hoist_up_the_cup_together%2C_25_September_2021.jpg/500px-2021_AFL_Grand_Final%2C_Perth_Stadium%2C_Simon_Goodwin_and_Max_Gawn_hoist_up_the_cup_together%2C_25_September_2021.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1920" data-file-height="1080" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/2021_AFL_Grand_Final" title="2021 AFL Grand Final">2021 AFL Grand Final</a> at <a href="/wiki/Perth_Stadium" title="Perth Stadium">Optus Stadium</a>.</figcaption></figure> The match sells out most years, and routinely qualifies as the world's <a href="/wiki/List_of_sports_attendance_figures#Top_leagues_in_recent_domestic_club_championship_event_attendance" title="List of sports attendance figures">most attended domestic sports championship event</a>. The capacity of the Melbourne Cricket Ground is 100,024 and tickets to the game are allocated to different membership groups. In 2019, the allocations were: 13,000 to 23,000 for AFL members, with priority given to nominated supporters of the competing clubs; 3,000 to 5,000 for AFL Medallion Club members; 34,000 divided between the members of the two competing clubs; up to 5,000 for staff, sponsors and guests of the competing clubs; up to 7,000 for staff, sponsors and guests of the non-competing clubs; 5,000 to 30,000 for corporate box, coterie and hospitality packages; and 16,000 to 26,000 for <a href="/wiki/Melbourne_Cricket_Club" title="Melbourne Cricket Club">Melbourne Cricket Club</a> members in the ground's permanently dedicated members' reserve area. Where demand outstrips supply within one of those groups, tickets are usually allocated by ballot, and must be pre-purchased at prices ranging from $155 to $422 — with the exception of MCC members, who are entitled to gain free entry to the members' area on the day of the match without pre-purchase of tickets, or with pre-purchase of a $30 reserved seat.<a href="#cite_note-44">[44]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="History">History</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=AFL_Grand_Final&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: History">edit</a>]</div> As the largest venue in Melbourne, long-term contracts have secured the game at the Melbourne Cricket Ground since as early as the 1930s.<a href="#cite_note-45">[45]</a><a href="#cite_note-46">[46]</a><a href="#cite_note-47">[47]</a> The VFL resented its reliance on the arrangement, as the ground's government-appointed trust fixed admission prices, and the MCC took a large portion of the gate and retained free entry privileges for its members, an entitlement it had held since 1902.<a href="#cite_note-48">[48]</a> In the early 1950s, <a href="/wiki/Princes_Park_(stadium)" title="Princes Park (stadium)">Princes Park</a> was almost upgraded to become the <a href="/wiki/1956_Melbourne_Olympics" class="mw-redirect" title="1956 Melbourne Olympics">Olympic Stadium</a>, which would have provided an alternative venue; but when the Melbourne Cricket Ground was upgraded instead, it remained the only ground large enough to accommodate the game.<a href="#cite_note-49">[49]</a><a href="#cite_note-50">[50]</a> In the 1960s, the VFL constructed its own privately owned ground, <a href="/wiki/VFL_Park" class="mw-redirect" title="VFL Park">VFL Park</a> (later Waverley Park), to a capacity of 75,000. The league announced that it would move the grand final to VFL Park starting from <a href="/wiki/1984_VFL_Grand_Final" class="mw-redirect" title="1984 VFL Grand Final">1984</a>, and submitted plans to expand its ground's capacity to 104,500;<a href="#cite_note-51">[51]</a> but the upgrade was blocked by the state government, which even threatened to pass legislation requiring that the game remain at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.<a href="#cite_note-52">[52]</a> Eventually, the VFL, MCC and Victorian government negotiated for the game to remain at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, with better terms and access privileges for VFL members.<a href="#cite_note-53">[53]</a> Since the expansion of the league interstate beyond Victoria, the long-term deals at the Melbourne Cricket Ground have been criticised as unfair for non-Victorian clubs, who play fewer games at the ground and are always forced to carry the travel burden of playing in the grand final.<a href="#cite_note-rucci-54">[54]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Schedule">Schedule</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=AFL_Grand_Final&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Schedule">edit</a>]</div> The grand final is conventionally played on the afternoon of the last Saturday in September; it is often referred to in popular culture as the "One day in September", which is also the <a href="/wiki/One_Day_in_September_(song)" title="One Day in September (song)">name of a famous football song</a>. Since the introduction of the four-term school year to Victoria in 1987, it has fallen during the spring school holiday break;<a href="#cite_note-55">[55]</a> and, since 2015, the 'Friday before the AFL Grand Final' has been a gazetted <a href="/wiki/Public_holiday" title="Public holiday">public holiday</a> in Victoria.<a href="#cite_note-56">[56]</a> Occasionally, the match is scheduled for the first Saturday in October, and prior to the introduction of extra time to finals in 1991, any drawn finals matches would be replayed, delaying all subsequent finals by a week and pushing the grand final into October. The earliest grand final date has been 2 September in the war-shortened <a href="/wiki/1916_VFL_Grand_Final" class="mw-redirect" title="1916 VFL Grand Final">1916</a> season, and in the <a href="/wiki/2000_AFL_Grand_Final" title="2000 AFL Grand Final">2000</a> season, which was scheduled early to avoid a clash with the <a href="/wiki/Sydney_Olympics" class="mw-redirect" title="Sydney Olympics">Sydney Olympics</a>. The latest grand final date has been 24 October, in the <a href="/wiki/2020_AFL_Grand_Final" title="2020 AFL Grand Final">2020</a> season, which was delayed by the <a href="/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic" title="COVID-19 pandemic">COVID-19 pandemic</a>. Throughout its history, the grand final has remained scheduled for the traditional Saturday afternoon timeslot, most recently at 2:30pm AEST, even after night premiership football became common in the 1980s and when rival codes such as the <a href="/wiki/National_Rugby_League" title="National Rugby League">NRL</a> began regularly broadcasting the <a href="/wiki/NRL_Grand_Final" title="NRL Grand Final">NRL Grand Final</a> in the evening for primetime television. AFL CEO <a href="/wiki/Gillon_McLachlan" title="Gillon McLachlan">Gillon McLachlan</a> has stated that it is out of respect for tradition that the afternoon timeslot has remained, even though playing in the twilight or night timeslots would attract more lucrative television deals.<a href="#cite_note-57">[57]</a> Only the two grand finals played outside Victoria strayed from this, each being played in the east-coast night timeslot: the pandemic-delayed <a href="/wiki/2020_AFL_Grand_Final" title="2020 AFL Grand Final">2020 grand final</a>, to avoid a broadcasting clash with the <a href="/wiki/Cox_Plate" class="mw-redirect" title="Cox Plate">Cox Plate</a>;<a href="#cite_note-GabbaFoxSports-24">[24]</a> and the 2021 grand final in Perth, which would have needed an impractically early 12:30pm local start to meet the traditional timeslot.<a href="#cite_note-58">[58]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Drawn_games">Drawn games</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=AFL_Grand_Final&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Drawn games">edit</a>]</div> Until the 2015 season, a drawn grand final would be <a href="/wiki/Grand_final_replay" title="Grand final replay">replayed</a> the following Saturday to determine the premier. This occurred on three occasions: in <a href="/wiki/1948_VFL_Grand_Final" class="mw-redirect" title="1948 VFL Grand Final">1948</a>, <a href="/wiki/1977_VFL_Grand_Final" class="mw-redirect" title="1977 VFL Grand Final">1977</a> and <a href="/wiki/2010_AFL_Grand_Final" title="2010 AFL Grand Final">2010</a>. The provision to play <a href="/wiki/Overtime_(sports)" title="Overtime (sports)">extra time</a> in the event of a draw was introduced in 2016, ensuring that future grand finals will always be decided on the scheduled day. In the event of a drawn game, the teams will play two extra time periods in full, each lasting three minutes plus <a href="/wiki/Time_on_(Australian_rules_football)" class="mw-redirect" title="Time on (Australian rules football)">time on</a>, with a change of ends after the first period: if still tied, further pairs of extra time periods will be played in the same manner until a winner is determined.<a href="#cite_note-ET-23">[23]</a> From 2016 to 2019, the periods were to have lasted five minutes plus time on, with a third untimed period of <a href="/wiki/Golden_point" title="Golden point">golden point</a> extra time to have been played if the game remained tied after the first two periods.<a href="#cite_note-59">[59]</a> As of season 2024, extra time has not yet been required to decide a grand final. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Grand_final_traditions">Grand final traditions</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=AFL_Grand_Final&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Grand final traditions">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Grand_final_parade">Grand final parade</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=AFL_Grand_Final&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Grand final parade">edit</a>]</div> Since <a href="/wiki/1977_VFL_grand_final" title="1977 VFL grand final">1977</a>, a grand final parade featuring the players from each team has been held around midday on the Friday before each grand final. The players have in the past appeared on parade <a href="/wiki/Float_(parade)" title="Float (parade)">floats</a> it has become a <a href="/wiki/Motorcade" title="Motorcade">motorcade</a> of open-top vehicles, weather permitting.<a href="#cite_note-oldparade-60">[60]</a> From its inception until 2014, the parade was based in the Melbourne city centre, usually proceeding along <a href="/wiki/St_Kilda_Road" title="St Kilda Road">St Kilda Road</a>, <a href="/wiki/Swanston_Street" title="Swanston Street">Swanston Street</a>, <a href="/wiki/Collins_Street,_Melbourne" title="Collins Street, Melbourne">Collins Street</a> and ending at the steps of the <a href="/wiki/Old_Treasury_Building,_Melbourne" title="Old Treasury Building, Melbourne">Old Treasury Building</a>.<a href="#cite_note-oldparade-60">[60]</a> From <a href="/wiki/2015_AFL_Grand_Final" title="2015 AFL Grand Final">2015</a> (when the day of the parade became a public holiday) to <a href="/wiki/2019_AFL_Grand_Final" title="2019 AFL Grand Final">2019</a>, the parade began at the Old Treasury Building, and headed down <a href="/wiki/Spring_Street,_Melbourne" title="Spring Street, Melbourne">Spring Street</a> and Wellington Parade, ending within <a href="/wiki/Yarra_Park" title="Yarra Park">Yarra Park</a> outside the Melbourne Cricket Ground.<a href="#cite_note-61">[61]</a> Due to the <a href="/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic" title="COVID-19 pandemic">COVID-19 pandemic</a>, the <a href="/wiki/2020_AFL_Grand_Final" title="2020 AFL Grand Final">2020</a> and <a href="/wiki/2021_AFL_Grand_Final" title="2021 AFL Grand Final">2021</a> parades did not occur. In <a href="/wiki/2022_AFL_Grand_Final" title="2022 AFL Grand Final">2022</a>, part of the parade saw the teams travel down the <a href="/wiki/Yarra_River" title="Yarra River">Yarra River</a> on boats.<a href="#cite_note-62">[62]</a> In the city centre, a parade featuring two Victorian teams in fine weather would generally attract in excess of 100,000 fans;<a href="#cite_note-63">[63]</a><a href="#cite_note-64">[64]</a> attendances are typically lower in inclement weather or in the absence of Victorian clubs.<a href="#cite_note-65">[65]</a><a href="#cite_note-66">[66]</a><a href="#cite_note-67">[67]</a> On the first public holiday parade in 2015, a record 150,000 spectators attended.<a href="#cite_note-68">[68]</a> <figure class="mw-halign-center" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Crowds_at_afl_grand_final_parade.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/35/Crowds_at_afl_grand_final_parade.jpg" decoding="async" width="642" height="220" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="642" data-file-height="220" /></a><figcaption>Some of the estimated 75,000 people who lined the streets of Melbourne for the <a href="/wiki/2006_AFL_Grand_Final" title="2006 AFL Grand Final">2006 AFL Grand Final</a> parade</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Grand_Final_Breakfast">Grand Final Breakfast</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=AFL_Grand_Final&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Grand Final Breakfast">edit</a>]</div> The <a href="/wiki/North_Melbourne_Grand_Final_Breakfast" title="North Melbourne Grand Final Breakfast">North Melbourne Grand Final Breakfast</a> has been held annually since 1967 on the morning of the grand final. It is a corporate-style breakfast event, featuring keynote speakers and guests including prime ministers, state premiers and football celebrities. It is the most well-known corporate hospitality event associated with the grand final, and it rose to prominence in the 1970s when it was first televised across Victoria; it was endorsed by the VFL as the official pre-match function. Since then, the event has grown into a significant money raiser for the <a href="/wiki/North_Melbourne_Football_Club" title="North Melbourne Football Club">North Melbourne Football Club</a>.<a href="#cite_note-69">[69]</a> Today, the breakfast is broadcast live on <a href="/wiki/Fox_Footy" title="Fox Footy">Fox Footy</a>. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="On-field_entertainment">On-field entertainment</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=AFL_Grand_Final&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: On-field entertainment">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Afl_grand_final.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6d/Afl_grand_final.jpg/270px-Afl_grand_final.jpg" decoding="async" width="270" height="203" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6d/Afl_grand_final.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="400" data-file-height="300" /></a><figcaption>Pre-match entertainment at the <a href="/wiki/2006_AFL_Grand_Final" title="2006 AFL Grand Final">2006 AFL Grand Final</a>.</figcaption></figure> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/List_of_AFL_Grand_Final_pre-match_performances" title="List of AFL Grand Final pre-match performances">List of AFL Grand Final pre-match performances</a></div> Since the match was televised live in the late 1970s, many big Australian and international music stars have performed on the ground as part of pre-match, or occasionally half-time, entertainment. The pre-match entertainment has at times been criticised as uninspiring; and two performances in particular — <a href="/wiki/Angry_Anderson" title="Angry Anderson">Angry Anderson</a> in <a href="/wiki/1991_AFL_Grand_Final" title="1991 AFL Grand Final">1991</a> and <a href="/wiki/Meat_Loaf" title="Meat Loaf">Meat Loaf</a> in <a href="/wiki/2011_AFL_Grand_Final" title="2011 AFL Grand Final">2011</a> — are routinely mocked for the poor performances of the artists.<a href="#cite_note-70">[70]</a><a href="#cite_note-71">[71]</a> Since 2012, the main pre-match/half-time entertainer has also performed a post-match entertainment set on the arena after the presentations and player celebrations have concluded, which is free and open to the general public.<a href="#cite_note-72">[72]</a><a href="#cite_note-73">[73]</a> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:The_teams_line_up_for_the_national_anthem,_2005_AFL_Grand_Final.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/The_teams_line_up_for_the_national_anthem%2C_2005_AFL_Grand_Final.jpg/270px-The_teams_line_up_for_the_national_anthem%2C_2005_AFL_Grand_Final.jpg" decoding="async" width="270" height="180" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/The_teams_line_up_for_the_national_anthem%2C_2005_AFL_Grand_Final.jpg/405px-The_teams_line_up_for_the_national_anthem%2C_2005_AFL_Grand_Final.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/The_teams_line_up_for_the_national_anthem%2C_2005_AFL_Grand_Final.jpg/540px-The_teams_line_up_for_the_national_anthem%2C_2005_AFL_Grand_Final.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3072" data-file-height="2048" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/West_Coast_Eagles" title="West Coast Eagles">West Coast Eagles</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sydney_Swans" title="Sydney Swans">Sydney Swans</a> players lining up for the national anthem at the <a href="/wiki/2005_AFL_Grand_Final" title="2005 AFL Grand Final">2005 AFL Grand Final</a>.</figcaption></figure> The pre-match entertainment frequently features traditional football and Australian songs performed live, including "<a href="/wiki/Up_There_Cazaly" title="Up There Cazaly">Up There Cazaly</a>", "<a href="/wiki/One_Day_in_September_(song)" title="One Day in September (song)">One Day in September</a>", "<a href="/wiki/That%27s_the_Thing_About_Football" title="That's the Thing About Football">That's the Thing About Football</a>", "<a href="/wiki/Holy_Grail_(Hunters_%26_Collectors_song)" title="Holy Grail (Hunters & Collectors song)">Holy Grail</a>", "<a href="/wiki/Waltzing_Matilda" title="Waltzing Matilda">Waltzing Matilda</a>" and the competing teams' club songs. Each year, a motorcade is staged, in which players who have retired since the previous grand final are given a lap of honour in open top cars.<a href="#cite_note-74">[74]</a> <a href="/wiki/Curtain_raiser" title="Curtain raiser">Curtain raiser</a> matches are played on the main arena prior to the musical entertainment. Since 2008, this has been an under-16s or under-17s match,<a href="#cite_note-tacrevamp-75">[75]</a> presently an exhibition match among the country's top under-17s players known as the <a href="/wiki/AFL_Futures_match" title="AFL Futures match">AFL Futures match</a>.<a href="#cite_note-76">[76]</a> Previously, the grand finals of the <a href="/wiki/Victorian_State_Football_League" title="Victorian State Football League">VFL/AFL reserves</a> (1919–1999), VFL/AFL under-19s (from 1962 to 1991), and the <a href="/wiki/NAB_League" class="mw-redirect" title="NAB League">Victorian statewide under-18s</a> (from 1992 until 2007)<a href="#cite_note-tacrevamp-75">[75]</a> were usually scheduled as one or two curtain raisers — although sometimes a drawn final and replay meant that a minor grade preliminary final, or no final at all, would be available as curtain raiser.<a href="#cite_note-77">[77]</a> After the teams enter the arena, each team lines up for a team photograph on the ground. The <a href="/wiki/Advance_Australia_Fair" title="Advance Australia Fair">national anthem</a> is performed live when the teams and umpires are lined up on the wing. <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:2015_AFL_Grand_Final_sprint.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/2015_AFL_Grand_Final_sprint.jpg/220px-2015_AFL_Grand_Final_sprint.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/2015_AFL_Grand_Final_sprint.jpg/330px-2015_AFL_Grand_Final_sprint.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/2015_AFL_Grand_Final_sprint.jpg/440px-2015_AFL_Grand_Final_sprint.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3264" data-file-height="2448" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/2015_AFL_Grand_Final" title="2015 AFL Grand Final">2015 Grand Final</a> sprint as the competitors cross the finish line. <a href="/wiki/Majak_Daw" title="Majak Daw">Majak Daw</a> of North Melbourne was the winner.</figcaption></figure> As part of the on-field entertainment, a sprint running race known as the <a href="/wiki/AFL_Grand_Final_Sprint" title="AFL Grand Final Sprint">AFL Grand Final Sprint</a> is held on the field among players who are not taking part in the game. This was first established in 1979 and held each year until 1987 (except 1986) before being discontinued. It was re-established in 2002 and has been held each year since.<a href="#cite_note-78">[78]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Post-match_customs">Post-match customs</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=AFL_Grand_Final&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Post-match customs">edit</a>]</div> From as early as the 1940s until the 1980s, the long-standing <a href="/wiki/Association_football" title="Association football">soccer</a> custom<a href="#cite_note-79">[79]</a> of opponents exchanging guernseys after the match was sometimes observed.<a href="#cite_note-herald-80">[80]</a><a href="#cite_note-81">[81]</a> This most infamously meant that photographs of St Kilda celebrating its only premiership in 1966 featured captain <a href="/wiki/Darrel_Baldock" title="Darrel Baldock">Darrel Baldock</a> hoisting the trophy wearing a Collingwood guernsey; St Kilda later doctored the photo to put him back in a St Kilda guernsey in murals and promotional material it created with the image. The VFL banned the captains from swapping guernseys after 1966,<a href="#cite_note-1966gf-30">[30]</a> and the custom eventually fell out of vogue altogether. Decades later, long-retired players often handed the guernseys back to their original wearers.<a href="#cite_note-82">[82]</a> A premiership poster, generally showing a caricature of the winning club's mascot smiling gleefully, is produced and available for purchase after the match through the <a href="/wiki/Herald_Sun" title="Herald Sun">Herald Sun</a> newspaper each year. First drawn in <a href="/wiki/1954_VFL_Grand_Final" class="mw-redirect" title="1954 VFL Grand Final">1954</a> by <a href="/wiki/The_Herald_(Melbourne)" title="The Herald (Melbourne)">The Herald</a> cartoonist <a href="/wiki/William_Ellis_Green" title="William Ellis Green">William Ellis Green</a> (aka WEG),<a href="#cite_note-AgeWeg-83">[83]</a> and since his death in 2008 by Herald Sun cartoonist <a href="/wiki/Mark_Knight" title="Mark Knight">Mark Knight</a>,<a href="#cite_note-84">[84]</a> the posters are extremely popular with fans and collectors and sell over 100,000 copies each year.<a href="#cite_note-AgeWeg-83">[83]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Famous_moments_in_grand_finals">Famous moments in grand finals</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=AFL_Grand_Final&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Famous moments in grand finals">edit</a>]</div> Many famous, folkloric moments have occurred on the field throughout grand final history: <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1903_VFL_Grand_Final" class="mw-redirect" title="1903 VFL Grand Final">1903</a>, <a href="/wiki/Collingwood_Football_Club" title="Collingwood Football Club">Collingwood</a> 4.7 (31) d. <a href="/wiki/Fitzroy_Football_Club" title="Fitzroy Football Club">Fitzroy</a> 3.11 (29) — on the final kick of the game, Fitzroy captain <a href="/wiki/Gerald_Brosnan" title="Gerald Brosnan">Gerald Brosnan</a> had a set shot thirty metres from goal directly in front to win the game; his kick just grazed the outside of the goal post and the final bell sounded immediately after.<a href="#cite_note-85">[85]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1910_VFL_Grand_Final" class="mw-redirect" title="1910 VFL Grand Final">1910</a>, <a href="/wiki/Collingwood_Football_Club" title="Collingwood Football Club">Collingwood</a> 9.7 (61) d. <a href="/wiki/Carlton_Football_Club" title="Carlton Football Club">Carlton</a> 6.11 (47) — the final quarter was marred by a massive brawl, sparked by a fight between <a href="/wiki/Richard_Daykin" title="Richard Daykin">Richard Daykin</a> (<a href="/wiki/Collingwood_Football_Club" title="Collingwood Football Club">Collingwood</a>) and <a href="/wiki/Jack_Baquie" title="Jack Baquie">Jack Baquie</a> (<a href="/wiki/Carlton_Football_Club" title="Carlton Football Club">Carlton</a>). Umpire <a href="/wiki/Jack_Elder_(umpire)" title="Jack Elder (umpire)">Jack Elder</a> settled matters by blowing his whistle and bouncing the ball, giving the players no option but to forget about the fight.<a href="#cite_note-86">[86]</a> Four players were suspended for a year or more,<a href="#cite_note-87">[87]</a> and the incident is considered to have initiated the long-standing <a href="/wiki/Carlton%E2%80%93Collingwood_AFL_rivalry" class="mw-redirect" title="Carlton–Collingwood AFL rivalry">Carlton–Collingwood rivalry</a>.<a href="#cite_note-origin-88">[88]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1913_VFL_Grand_Final" class="mw-redirect" title="1913 VFL Grand Final">1913</a>, <a href="/wiki/Fitzroy_Football_Club" title="Fitzroy Football Club">Fitzroy</a> 7.14 (56) d. <a href="/wiki/St_Kilda_Football_Club" title="St Kilda Football Club">St Kilda</a> 5.13 (43) — trailing by 25 points at three-quarter time, St Kilda rallied to narrow the margin to two points with four minutes remaining.<a href="#cite_note-89">[89]</a> <a href="/wiki/Des_Baird" title="Des Baird">Des Baird</a> had an opportunity to put St Kilda in front after taking a mark, but he handballed to <a href="/wiki/George_Morrissey" title="George Morrissey">George Morrissey</a> in a worse position who kicked a behind, often considered to be the error which swung the game in Fitzroy's favour.<a href="#cite_note-90">[90]</a><a href="#cite_note-Browne-91">[91]</a><a href="#cite_note-Why-92">[92]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1918_VFL_Grand_Final" class="mw-redirect" title="1918 VFL Grand Final">1918</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sydney_Swans" title="Sydney Swans">South Melbourne</a> 9.8 (62) d. <a href="/wiki/Collingwood_Football_Club" title="Collingwood Football Club">Collingwood</a> 7.15 (57) — in the final seconds, trailing by a point, <a href="/wiki/Gerald_P._Ryan" title="Gerald P. Ryan">Gerald Ryan</a> (<a href="/wiki/Sydney_Swans" title="Sydney Swans">South Melbourne</a>) took a long running shot at goal which fell to a pack in the goal square; South Melbourne rover <a href="/wiki/Chris_Laird" title="Chris Laird">Chris Laird</a> came rushing through and soccered the ball off the ground for the winning goal.<a href="#cite_note-93">[93]</a></li></ul> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Bob_Pratt.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cb/Bob_Pratt.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="175" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="100" data-file-height="175" /></a><figcaption>Star full-forward <a href="/wiki/Bob_Pratt" title="Bob Pratt">Bob Pratt</a> missed the 1935 Grand Final after a vehicle accident.</figcaption></figure> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1921_VFL_Grand_Final" class="mw-redirect" title="1921 VFL Grand Final">1921</a>, <a href="/wiki/Richmond_Football_Club" title="Richmond Football Club">Richmond</a> 5.6 (36) d. <a href="/wiki/Carlton_Football_Club" title="Carlton Football Club">Carlton</a> 4.8 (32) — in the Carlton forward line in the final minute, a pass to <a href="/wiki/Alec_Duncan" class="mw-redirect" title="Alec Duncan">Alec Duncan</a> (<a href="/wiki/Carlton_Football_Club" title="Carlton Football Club">Carlton</a>), who was close to goal, was intercepted from behind by <a href="/wiki/Max_Hislop" title="Max Hislop">Max Hislop</a> (<a href="/wiki/Richmond_Football_Club" title="Richmond Football Club">Richmond</a>), who dashed away, kicking the ball as the final bell rang.<a href="#cite_note-94">[94]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1927_VFL_Grand_Final" class="mw-redirect" title="1927 VFL Grand Final">1927</a>, <a href="/wiki/Collingwood_Football_Club" title="Collingwood Football Club">Collingwood</a> 2.13 (25) d. <a href="/wiki/Richmond_Football_Club" title="Richmond Football Club">Richmond</a> 1.7 (13) — unrelenting heavy rain meant that the game was played in atrocious conditions, with sheets of water inches deep over the ground.<a href="#cite_note-95">[95]</a> With only 38 points scored, it was the lowest-scoring VFL/AFL game, grand final or otherwise, in the 20th century.<a href="#cite_note-96">[96]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1935_VFL_Grand_Final" class="mw-redirect" title="1935 VFL Grand Final">1935</a>, <a href="/wiki/Collingwood_Football_Club" title="Collingwood Football Club">Collingwood</a> 11.12 (78) d. <a href="/wiki/Sydney_Swans" title="Sydney Swans">South Melbourne</a> 7.16 (58) — <a href="/wiki/Bob_Pratt" title="Bob Pratt">Bob Pratt</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sydney_Swans" title="Sydney Swans">South Melbourne</a>'s star full-forward and league leading goalkicker of the previous three seasons, was forced to withdraw from the grand final after being clipped by a truck carrying a load of bricks two days before the game.<a href="#cite_note-97">[97]</a> Without him, South Melbourne lost by 20 points despite having as many scoring shots as Collingwood.<a href="#cite_note-98">[98]</a></li></ul> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Norm_Smith_1939.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ce/Norm_Smith_1939.jpg" decoding="async" width="135" height="410" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="135" data-file-height="410" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Norm_Smith" title="Norm Smith">Norm Smith</a> missed two chances to win the 1948 Grand Final. He won ten grand finals as player and coach, and the medal for best on ground is named in his honour.</figcaption></figure> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1945_VFL_Grand_Final" class="mw-redirect" title="1945 VFL Grand Final">1945</a>, <a href="/wiki/Carlton_Football_Club" title="Carlton Football Club">Carlton</a> 15.13 (103) d. <a href="/wiki/Sydney_Swans" title="Sydney Swans">South Melbourne</a> 10.15 (75) — marred by constant brawling and fighting, the 1945 grand final became known as the Bloodbath. Ten players were reported and received a combined 73 weeks of suspension, and it became the benchmark against which on-field violence was compared for many years.<a href="#cite_note-99">[99]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1947_VFL_Grand_Final" class="mw-redirect" title="1947 VFL Grand Final">1947</a>, <a href="/wiki/Carlton_Football_Club" title="Carlton Football Club">Carlton</a> 13.8 (86) d. <a href="/wiki/Essendon_Football_Club" title="Essendon Football Club">Essendon</a> 11.19 (85) — inside the final minute, first-year player <a href="/wiki/Fred_Stafford" title="Fred Stafford">Fred Stafford</a> (<a href="/wiki/Carlton_Football_Club" title="Carlton Football Club">Carlton</a>) kicked the winning goal for Carlton on his non-preferred foot after roving a boundary throw-in.<a href="#cite_note-100">[100]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1948_VFL_Grand_Final" class="mw-redirect" title="1948 VFL Grand Final">1948</a>, <a href="/wiki/Essendon_Football_Club" title="Essendon Football Club">Essendon</a> 7.27 (69) drew <a href="/wiki/Melbourne_Football_Club" title="Melbourne Football Club">Melbourne</a> 10.9 (69) — inaccurate kicking saw Essendon fail to win despite fifteen more scoring shots than Melbourne, an equal record for any VFL/AFL game.<a href="#cite_note-101">[101]</a><a href="#cite_note-102">[102]</a> <a href="/wiki/Norm_Smith" title="Norm Smith">Norm Smith</a> (<a href="/wiki/Melbourne_Football_Club" title="Melbourne Football Club">Melbourne</a>) missed two chances in the final minute to win the game: a 45-metre running shot which went out of bounds, then fumbling clean possession from the throw-in due to interference from team-mate <a href="/wiki/Don_Cordner" title="Don Cordner">Don Cordner</a>.<a href="#cite_note-103">[103]</a> Melbourne won the replay.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/1960_VFL_Grand_Final" class="mw-redirect" title="1960 VFL Grand Final">1960</a>, <a href="/wiki/Melbourne_Football_Club" title="Melbourne Football Club">Melbourne</a> 8.14 (62) d. <a href="/wiki/Collingwood_Football_Club" title="Collingwood Football Club">Collingwood</a> 2.2 (14) — in a rain-affected game, <a href="/wiki/Collingwood_Football_Club" title="Collingwood Football Club">Collingwood</a> was held to its lowest score of the 20th century, grand final or otherwise,<a href="#cite_note-104">[104]</a> managing only six shots at goal for two lucky goals and two behinds.<a href="#cite_note-105">[105]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1964_VFL_Grand_Final" class="mw-redirect" title="1964 VFL Grand Final">1964</a>, <a href="/wiki/Melbourne_Football_Club" title="Melbourne Football Club">Melbourne</a> 8.16 (64) d. <a href="/wiki/Collingwood_Football_Club" title="Collingwood Football Club">Collingwood</a> 8.12 (60) — with three minutes remaining, <a href="/wiki/Melbourne_Football_Club" title="Melbourne Football Club">Melbourne</a> back pocket <a href="/wiki/Neil_Crompton_(footballer)" title="Neil Crompton (footballer)">Neil Crompton</a>, who had drifted forward to follow his opponent against the coach's instructions, gathered the ball in a pack and kicked the winning goal. It was the only goal Crompton kicked in the last five seasons of his career from 1962 to 1966.<a href="#cite_note-106">[106]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1966_VFL_Grand_Final" class="mw-redirect" title="1966 VFL Grand Final">1966</a>, <a href="/wiki/St_Kilda_Football_Club" title="St Kilda Football Club">St Kilda</a> 10.14 (74) d. <a href="/wiki/Collingwood_Football_Club" title="Collingwood Football Club">Collingwood</a> 10.13 (73) — with scores level and 90 seconds remaining, 18-year-old St Kilda forward <a href="/wiki/Barry_Breen" title="Barry Breen">Barry Breen</a> <a href="/wiki/Snap_kick" class="mw-redirect" title="Snap kick">snapped</a> the winning behind with an ugly kick from a ball-up in the forward pocket, securing St Kilda's first and only premiership.<a href="#cite_note-107">[107]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1970_VFL_Grand_Final" class="mw-redirect" title="1970 VFL Grand Final">1970</a>, <a href="/wiki/Carlton_Football_Club" title="Carlton Football Club">Carlton</a> 17.9 (111) d. <a href="/wiki/Collingwood_Football_Club" title="Collingwood Football Club">Collingwood</a> 14.17 (101) — Carlton trailed by 44 points at half time, before fighting back to win, in large part due to nineteenth man <a href="/wiki/Ted_Hopkins" title="Ted Hopkins">Ted Hopkins</a>, who was substituted onto the field at half time and kicked four goals. Only one team had ever previously won a VFL/AFL game from such a large half-time deficit.<a href="#cite_note-108">[108]</a> The game was seen by an enduring record attendance of 121,696, and it featured an iconic <a href="/wiki/Spectacular_mark" title="Spectacular mark">speckie</a> taken by <a href="/wiki/Alex_Jesaulenko" title="Alex Jesaulenko">Alex Jesaulenko</a> (<a href="/wiki/Carlton_Football_Club" title="Carlton Football Club">Carlton</a>) in the second quarter,<a href="#cite_note-109">[109]</a> after which the <a href="/wiki/Alex_Jesaulenko_Medal" title="Alex Jesaulenko Medal">Alex Jesaulenko Medal</a> for <a href="/wiki/Mark_of_the_Year" title="Mark of the Year">Mark of the Year</a> is now named.<a href="#cite_note-110">[110]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1972_VFL_Grand_Final" class="mw-redirect" title="1972 VFL Grand Final">1972</a>, <a href="/wiki/Carlton_Football_Club" title="Carlton Football Club">Carlton</a> 28.9 (177) d. <a href="/wiki/Richmond_Football_Club" title="Richmond Football Club">Richmond</a> 22.18 (150) — with a combined 327 points scored, the 1972 grand final was, at the time, the highest-scoring VFL/AFL game of all time, grand final or otherwise.<a href="#cite_note-111">[111]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1977_VFL_Grand_Final" class="mw-redirect" title="1977 VFL Grand Final">1977</a>, <a href="/wiki/North_Melbourne_Football_Club" title="North Melbourne Football Club">North Melbourne</a> 9.22 (76) drew <a href="/wiki/Collingwood_Football_Club" title="Collingwood Football Club">Collingwood</a> 10.16 (76) — trailing by 27 points at three-quarter time and having kicked only 11 behinds since quarter time, <a href="/wiki/North_Melbourne_Football_Club" title="North Melbourne Football Club">North Melbourne</a> rallied with five final quarter goals to take a six-point lead. <a href="/wiki/Ross_Dunne" title="Ross Dunne">Ross Dunne</a> (<a href="/wiki/Collingwood_Football_Club" title="Collingwood Football Club">Collingwood</a>) levelled the scores with 40 seconds remaining after converting a set shot from a strong pack mark 15 metres from goal.<a href="#cite_note-112">[112]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1977_VFL_Grand_Final#Grand_Final_replay" class="mw-redirect" title="1977 VFL Grand Final">1977 replay</a>, <a href="/wiki/North_Melbourne_Football_Club" title="North Melbourne Football Club">North Melbourne</a> 21.25 (151) d. <a href="/wiki/Collingwood_Football_Club" title="Collingwood Football Club">Collingwood</a> 19.10 (124) — trailing by 23 points in the final quarter, <a href="/wiki/Phil_Manassa" title="Phil Manassa">Phil Manassa</a> (<a href="/wiki/Collingwood_Football_Club" title="Collingwood Football Club">Collingwood</a>) gathered the ball at the half-back flank, then ran all the way to the forward line with four <a href="/wiki/Running_bounce" title="Running bounce">bounces</a> and baulking one opponent before kicking a goal from about 40 metres.<a href="#cite_note-113">[113]</a> Although Collingwood still lost the match, the goal remains famous, and the Phil Manassa Medal for <a href="/wiki/Goal_of_the_Year_(Australia)" class="mw-redirect" title="Goal of the Year (Australia)">Goal of the Year</a> is now named after it.<a href="#cite_note-114">[114]</a></li></ul> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Robert_dipierdomenico.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/Robert_dipierdomenico.jpg/200px-Robert_dipierdomenico.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="191" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/Robert_dipierdomenico.jpg/300px-Robert_dipierdomenico.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/25/Robert_dipierdomenico.jpg 2x" data-file-width="376" data-file-height="359" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Robert_DiPierdomenico" title="Robert DiPierdomenico">Robert DiPierdomenico</a> played most of the brutal <a href="/wiki/1989_VFL_Grand_Final" class="mw-redirect" title="1989 VFL Grand Final">1989 Grand Final</a> with a punctured lung.</figcaption></figure> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1979_VFL_Grand_Final" class="mw-redirect" title="1979 VFL Grand Final">1979</a>, <a href="/wiki/Carlton_Football_Club" title="Carlton Football Club">Carlton</a> 11.16 (82) d. <a href="/wiki/Collingwood_Football_Club" title="Collingwood Football Club">Collingwood</a> 11.11 (77) — with ten minutes remaining, <a href="/wiki/Wayne_Harmes" title="Wayne Harmes">Wayne Harmes</a> (<a href="/wiki/Carlton_Football_Club" title="Carlton Football Club">Carlton</a>) kicked errantly towards goal, then chased down his own kick and punched it back towards the goal square just as it was about to go out of bounds in the forward pocket; teammate <a href="/wiki/Ken_Sheldon" title="Ken Sheldon">Ken Sheldon</a> gathered in the goal square and kicked a goal to put Carlton 10 points ahead. Collingwood scored one more goal in the remaining time, but Sheldon's goal proved to be the winner.<a href="#cite_note-115">[115]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1989_VFL_Grand_Final" class="mw-redirect" title="1989 VFL Grand Final">1989</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hawthorn_Football_Club" title="Hawthorn Football Club">Hawthorn</a> 21.18 (144) d. <a href="/wiki/Geelong_Football_Club" title="Geelong Football Club">Geelong</a> 21.12 (138) — noted for its roughness, <a href="/wiki/Dermott_Brereton" title="Dermott Brereton">Dermott Brereton</a> (<a href="/wiki/Hawthorn_Football_Club" title="Hawthorn Football Club">Hawthorn</a>) was infamously knocked out by a solid shirtfront from <a href="/wiki/Mark_Yeates_(Australian_rules_footballer)" class="mw-redirect" title="Mark Yeates (Australian rules footballer)">Mark Yeates</a> (<a href="/wiki/Geelong_Football_Club" title="Geelong Football Club">Geelong</a>) at the opening bounce; however, he played out the game in the forward line and kicked three goals despite internal bleeding. <a href="/wiki/Robert_DiPierdomenico" title="Robert DiPierdomenico">Robert DiPierdomenico</a> (<a href="/wiki/Hawthorn_Football_Club" title="Hawthorn Football Club">Hawthorn</a>) played three quarters with a <a href="/wiki/Pneumothorax" title="Pneumothorax">punctured lung</a>, and many other players were hospitalised after the game. Hawthorn opened a 40-point lead by quarter time and still led by 37 points at three-quarter time; but with only twelve uninjured men, Hawthorn was almost overrun in the final quarter, with Geelong falling six points short.<a href="#cite_note-116">[116]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1997_AFL_Grand_Final" title="1997 AFL Grand Final">1997</a>, <a href="/wiki/Adelaide_Football_Club" title="Adelaide Football Club">Adelaide</a> 19.11 (125) d. <a href="/wiki/St_Kilda_Football_Club" title="St Kilda Football Club">St Kilda</a> 13.16 (94) — after being moved into the midfield, but instructed to drift forward after each centre bounce, Adelaide's <a href="/wiki/Darren_Jarman" title="Darren Jarman">Darren Jarman</a> kicked a record five final-quarter goals, helping Adelaide break away to win with an eight-goals-to-four final quarter.<a href="#cite_note-117">[117]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2005_AFL_Grand_Final" title="2005 AFL Grand Final">2005</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sydney_Swans" title="Sydney Swans">Sydney</a> 8.10 (58) d. <a href="/wiki/West_Coast_Eagles" title="West Coast Eagles">West Coast</a> 7.12 (54) — with less than five seconds remaining, a long kick was placed deep into the West Coast forward line towards a pack of about eight players, with West Coast crumbers well placed around the pack, but the ball was cleanly marked by <a href="/wiki/Sydney_Swans" title="Sydney Swans">Sydney</a> defender <a href="/wiki/Leo_Barry" title="Leo Barry">Leo Barry</a> to secure the victory.<a href="#cite_note-118">[118]</a></li></ul> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Dom_Sheed_with_the_premiership_cup_2018_AFL_Grand_Final.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/be/Dom_Sheed_with_the_premiership_cup_2018_AFL_Grand_Final.jpg/180px-Dom_Sheed_with_the_premiership_cup_2018_AFL_Grand_Final.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="240" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/be/Dom_Sheed_with_the_premiership_cup_2018_AFL_Grand_Final.jpg/270px-Dom_Sheed_with_the_premiership_cup_2018_AFL_Grand_Final.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/be/Dom_Sheed_with_the_premiership_cup_2018_AFL_Grand_Final.jpg/360px-Dom_Sheed_with_the_premiership_cup_2018_AFL_Grand_Final.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2573" data-file-height="3431" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Dom_Sheed" title="Dom Sheed">Dom Sheed</a>, who kicked the winning goal in the <a href="/wiki/2018_AFL_Grand_Final" title="2018 AFL Grand Final">2018 Grand Final</a>, with the premiership cup</figcaption></figure> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2009_AFL_Grand_Final" title="2009 AFL Grand Final">2009</a>, <a href="/wiki/Geelong_Football_Club" title="Geelong Football Club">Geelong</a> 12.8 (80) d. <a href="/wiki/St_Kilda_Football_Club" title="St Kilda Football Club">St Kilda</a> 9.14 (68) — with scores level with less than four minutes remaining, an errant pass to <a href="/wiki/Gary_Ablett_Jr." title="Gary Ablett Jr.">Gary Ablett Jr.</a> (<a href="/wiki/Geelong_Football_Club" title="Geelong Football Club">Geelong</a>) in the centre circle was broken up by <a href="/wiki/Zac_Dawson" title="Zac Dawson">Zac Dawson</a> (<a href="/wiki/St_Kilda_Football_Club" title="St Kilda Football Club">St Kilda</a>); against two St Kilda opponents, <a href="/wiki/Matthew_Scarlett" title="Matthew Scarlett">Matthew Scarlett</a> (<a href="/wiki/Geelong_Football_Club" title="Geelong Football Club">Geelong</a>) was able to deftly toe-poke the ball off the bounce back to Ablett in space, and the ensuing play ended in a goal to <a href="/wiki/Paul_Chapman_(Australian_footballer)" title="Paul Chapman (Australian footballer)">Paul Chapman</a>, giving Geelong a lead it never surrendered.<a href="#cite_note-Ralph-119">[119]</a><a href="#cite_note-SaintsCats-120">[120]</a><a href="#cite_note-Niall-121">[121]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2010_AFL_Grand_Final" title="2010 AFL Grand Final">2010</a>, <a href="/wiki/Collingwood_Football_Club" title="Collingwood Football Club">Collingwood</a> 9.14 (68) drew <a href="/wiki/St_Kilda_Football_Club" title="St Kilda Football Club">St Kilda</a> 10.8 (68) — trailing by one point with 90 seconds remaining, a 60-metre running shot by <a href="/wiki/Lenny_Hayes" title="Lenny Hayes">Lenny Hayes</a> (<a href="/wiki/St_Kilda_Football_Club" title="St Kilda Football Club">St Kilda</a>) landed 10 metres in front of the right behind post, took one bounce 45° left toward the goal, then another bounce 90° right and went through for the tying behind, eluding St Kilda <a href="/wiki/Goalsneak" title="Goalsneak">goalsneak</a> <a href="/wiki/Stephen_Milne" title="Stephen Milne">Stephen Milne</a> who could not gather the unpredictable ball. The match was drawn, and Collingwood won the replay.<a href="#cite_note-122">[122]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2018_AFL_Grand_Final" title="2018 AFL Grand Final">2018</a>, <a href="/wiki/West_Coast_Eagles" title="West Coast Eagles">West Coast</a> 11.13 (79) d. <a href="/wiki/Collingwood_Football_Club" title="Collingwood Football Club">Collingwood</a> 11.8 (74) — West Coast had trailed by 29 points in the first quarter, but they fought back to level the scores at three-quarter time. With less than three minutes remaining and trailing by two points, <a href="/wiki/Dom_Sheed" title="Dom Sheed">Dom Sheed</a> (<a href="/wiki/West_Coast_Eagles" title="West Coast Eagles">West Coast</a>) kicked the winning goal from a difficult 40-metre set shot from near the right boundary line.<a href="#cite_note-123">[123]</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Television_broadcast">Television broadcast</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=AFL_Grand_Final&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Television broadcast">edit</a>]</div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable" style="float:right; text-align:center; margin:1em;"> <caption>Australian metropolitan television viewers </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col">Year </th> <th scope="col">Viewers </th> <th scope="col"><abbr title="Overall rank for year">Rank</abbr> </th> <th scope="col">Network </th> <th class="unsortable"><abbr title="Reference(s)">Ref.</abbr> </th></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:center;"><a href="/wiki/2001_AFL_Grand_Final" title="2001 AFL Grand Final">2001</a> </th> <td>2.604 million </td> <td>3 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Seven_Network" title="Seven Network">Seven Network</a> </td> <td rowspan="9"><a href="#cite_note-Screen_Australia-124">[124]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:center;"><a href="/wiki/2002_AFL_Grand_Final" title="2002 AFL Grand Final">2002</a> </th> <td>2.626 million </td> <td>3 </td> <td rowspan="6"><a href="/wiki/Network_Ten" class="mw-redirect" title="Network Ten">Network Ten</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:center;"><a href="/wiki/2003_AFL_Grand_Final" title="2003 AFL Grand Final">2003</a> </th> <td>2.966 million </td> <td>4 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:center;"><a href="/wiki/2004_AFL_Grand_Final" title="2004 AFL Grand Final">2004</a> </th> <td>2.796 million </td> <td>3 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:center;"><a href="/wiki/2005_AFL_Grand_Final" title="2005 AFL Grand Final">2005</a> </th> <td>3.386 million </td> <td>2 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:center;"><a href="/wiki/2006_AFL_Grand_Final" title="2006 AFL Grand Final">2006</a> </th> <td>3.145 million </td> <td>2 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:center;"><a href="/wiki/2007_AFL_Grand_Final" title="2007 AFL Grand Final">2007</a> </th> <td>2.563 million </td> <td>1 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:center;"><a href="/wiki/2008_AFL_Grand_Final" title="2008 AFL Grand Final">2008</a> </th> <td>2.491 million </td> <td>2 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Seven_Network" title="Seven Network">Seven Network</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:center;"><a href="/wiki/2009_AFL_Grand_Final" title="2009 AFL Grand Final">2009</a> </th> <td>2.878 million </td> <td>3 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Network_Ten" class="mw-redirect" title="Network Ten">Network Ten</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;"><a href="/wiki/2010_AFL_Grand_Final" title="2010 AFL Grand Final">2010</a> </th> <td>2.768 million </td> <td>4 </td> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Seven_Network" title="Seven Network">Seven Network</a> </td> <td rowspan="2"><a href="#cite_note-125">[125]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>2.687 million </td> <td>6 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:center;"><a href="/wiki/2011_AFL_Grand_Final" title="2011 AFL Grand Final">2011</a> </th> <td>2.641 million </td> <td>7 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Network_Ten" class="mw-redirect" title="Network Ten">Network Ten</a> </td> <td><a href="#cite_note-126">[126]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:center;"><a href="/wiki/2012_AFL_Grand_Final" title="2012 AFL Grand Final">2012</a> </th> <td>2.962 million </td> <td>4 </td> <td rowspan="12"><a href="/wiki/Seven_Network" title="Seven Network">Seven Network</a> </td> <td><a href="#cite_note-127">[127]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:center;"><a href="/wiki/2013_AFL_Grand_Final" title="2013 AFL Grand Final">2013</a> </th> <td>2.717 million </td> <td>3 </td> <td><a href="#cite_note-128">[128]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:center;"><a href="/wiki/2014_AFL_Grand_Final" title="2014 AFL Grand Final">2014</a> </th> <td>2.828 million </td> <td>1 </td> <td><a href="#cite_note-2014_ratings-129">[129]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:center;"><a href="/wiki/2015_AFL_Grand_Final" title="2015 AFL Grand Final">2015</a> </th> <td>2.645 million </td> <td>1 </td> <td><a href="#cite_note-2015_ratings-130">[130]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:center;"><a href="/wiki/2016_AFL_Grand_Final" title="2016 AFL Grand Final">2016</a> </th> <td>3.081 million </td> <td>2 </td> <td><a href="#cite_note-2016_ratings-131">[131]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:center;"><a href="/wiki/2017_AFL_Grand_Final" title="2017 AFL Grand Final">2017</a> </th> <td>2.680 million </td> <td>1 </td> <td><a href="#cite_note-2017_ratings-132">[132]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:center;"><a href="/wiki/2018_AFL_Grand_Final" title="2018 AFL Grand Final">2018</a> </th> <td>2.615 million </td> <td>2 </td> <td><a href="#cite_note-2018_ratings-133">[133]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:center;"><a href="/wiki/2019_AFL_Grand_Final" title="2019 AFL Grand Final">2019</a> </th> <td>2.219 million </td> <td>1 </td> <td><a href="#cite_note-2019_ratings-134">[134]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:center;"><a href="/wiki/2020_AFL_Grand_Final" title="2020 AFL Grand Final">2020</a> </th> <td>3.011 million </td> <td>1 </td> <td><a href="#cite_note-2020_ratings-135">[135]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:center;"><a href="/wiki/2021_AFL_Grand_Final" title="2021 AFL Grand Final">2021</a> </th> <td>3.051 million </td> <td>1 </td> <td><a href="#cite_note-136">[136]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:center;"><a href="/wiki/2022_AFL_Grand_Final" title="2022 AFL Grand Final">2022</a> </th> <td>2.179 million </td> <td>3 </td> <td><a href="#cite_note-137">[137]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:center;"><a href="/wiki/2023_AFL_Grand_Final" title="2023 AFL Grand Final">2023</a> </th> <td>2.465 million </td> <td>4 </td> <td><a href="#cite_note-138">[138]</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> The grand final is one of the most-watched television events of the year in Australia. Since the introduction of the current <a href="/wiki/OzTAM" title="OzTAM">OzTAM</a> ratings system in 2001,<a href="#cite_note-OzTam-139">[139]</a> the match has been the <a href="/wiki/Television_ratings_in_Australia#Top-rated_programs" title="Television ratings in Australia">highest-rated program of the year</a> four times across metropolitan audiences (2007, 2014, 2015 and 2017);<a href="#cite_note-Screen_Australia-124">[124]</a><a href="#cite_note-2014_ratings-129">[129]</a><a href="#cite_note-2015_ratings-130">[130]</a><a href="#cite_note-2017_ratings-132">[132]</a> and the post-game ceremony was the highest-rated program twice (2016 and 2018).<a href="#cite_note-2016_ratings-131">[131]</a><a href="#cite_note-2018_ratings-133">[133]</a> The worldwide audience has grown substantially, with broadcasts being televised into 72 countries for an estimated audience of around 30 million.<a href="#cite_note-140">[140]</a> When television was first introduced to Australia in 1956, the VFL was reluctant to broadcast the grand final into Victoria, fearful that crowd numbers would be affected. The grand final was first shown on television in <a href="/wiki/1961_VFL_Grand_Final" class="mw-redirect" title="1961 VFL Grand Final">1961</a>, shown as a replay starting an hour after the game itself had finished.<a href="#cite_note-countryfs-21">[21]</a> Live telecasts were first allowed in Victoria in <a href="/wiki/1977_VFL_Grand_Final" class="mw-redirect" title="1977 VFL Grand Final">1977</a>,<a href="#cite_note-countryfs-21">[21]</a> although live broadcasts interstate were permitted before that.<a href="#cite_note-141">[141]</a> The match has been broadcast live in colour into Victoria since that date, and consistently in <a href="/wiki/High-definition_television" title="High-definition television">high definition</a> since 2015,<a href="#cite_note-antisiphon-142">[142]</a> by the following networks: <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Seven_Network" title="Seven Network">Seven Network</a> (1977–1986, 1988–2001, 2008, 2010, 2012–present)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/7plus" title="7plus">7plus</a> (2024–present)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Network_Ten" class="mw-redirect" title="Network Ten">Network Ten</a> (2002–2007, 2009, 2011)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Australian_Broadcasting_Corporation" title="Australian Broadcasting Corporation">ABC</a> and SportsPlay (1987)</li></ul> Although the <a href="/wiki/Nine_Network" title="Nine Network">Nine Network</a> held partial rights to the league's matches from 2002 until 2006, it has never broadcast the grand final. The grand final is covered by <a href="/wiki/Anti-siphoning_laws_in_Australia" title="Anti-siphoning laws in Australia">anti-siphoning laws</a>, ensuring it remains on free-to-air television in Australia.<a href="#cite_note-antisiphon-142">[142]</a> Some archival and <a href="/wiki/Newsreel" title="Newsreel">newsreel</a> footage for segments of grand finals prior to 1961 still exist, and video from the <a href="/wiki/1909_VFL_Grand_Final" class="mw-redirect" title="1909 VFL Grand Final">1909 grand final</a> is the earliest known surviving Australian football footage.<a href="#cite_note-143">[143]</a> Figures for broadcasts were originally measured across the five metropolitan areas (Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth, Brisbane and Sydney) from 2001 to 2023. However, following changes to the TV ratings measurement system in Australia in 2024, metropolitan figures were replaced by a new nationwide 'Total TV' figure, which includes regional and broadcaster video on demand (BVOD) streaming numbers in a single figure.<a href="#cite_note-144">[144]</a> The record under the five metropolitan cities measurement system was set in <a href="/wiki/2005_AFL_Grand_Final" title="2005 AFL Grand Final">2005</a> when <a href="/wiki/Sydney_Swans" title="Sydney Swans">Sydney</a> defeated <a href="/wiki/West_Coast_Eagles" title="West Coast Eagles">West Coast</a>,<a href="#cite_note-Screen_Australia-124">[124]</a> while the total TV record was set in <a href="/wiki/2024_AFL_Grand_Final" title="2024 AFL Grand Final">2024</a> for the <a href="/wiki/Brisbane_Lions" title="Brisbane Lions">Brisbane</a> versus <a href="/wiki/Sydney_Swans" title="Sydney Swans">Sydney</a> match.<a href="#cite_note-:0-145">[145]</a> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable" style="float:right; text-align:center; margin:1em;"> <caption>Australian total television viewers </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col">Year </th> <th scope="col">Viewers </th> <th scope="col"><abbr title="Overall rank for year">Rank</abbr> </th> <th scope="col">Network </th> <th class="unsortable"><abbr title="Reference(s)">Ref.</abbr> </th></tr> <tr> <th><a href="/wiki/2024_AFL_Grand_Final" title="2024 AFL Grand Final">2024</a> </th> <td>4.024 million </td> <td>1 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Seven_Network" title="Seven Network">Seven Network</a> </td> <td><a href="#cite_note-:0-145">[145]</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="International_telecasts">International telecasts</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=AFL_Grand_Final&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: International telecasts">edit</a>]</div> The AFL grand final is televised into many countries, and grand final parties are held around the world.<a href="#cite_note-146">[146]</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Papua_New_Guinea" title="Papua New Guinea">Papua New Guinea</a> — <a href="/wiki/EM_TV" title="EM TV">EM TV</a>, <a href="/wiki/Australia_Plus" class="mw-redirect" title="Australia Plus">Australia Plus</a> (live)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand" title="New Zealand">New Zealand</a> — <a href="/wiki/Sky_Sport_(New_Zealand)" title="Sky Sport (New Zealand)">Sky Sport</a> (live) and <a href="/wiki/TVNZ" title="TVNZ">TVNZ</a> (live)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Asia-Pacific" class="mw-redirect" title="Asia-Pacific">Asia-Pacific</a> — <a href="/wiki/ABC_Australia" class="mw-redirect" title="ABC Australia">ABC Australia</a> (live) (includes <a href="/wiki/China" title="China">China</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hong_Kong" title="Hong Kong">Hong Kong</a>/<a href="/wiki/Macau" title="Macau">Macau</a>, <a href="/wiki/Taiwan" title="Taiwan">Taiwan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Japan" title="Japan">Japan</a>, <a href="/wiki/South_Korea" title="South Korea">South Korea</a>, <a href="/wiki/North_Korea" title="North Korea">North Korea</a>, <a href="/wiki/Vietnam" title="Vietnam">Vietnam</a>, <a href="/wiki/Indonesia" title="Indonesia">Indonesia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Singapore" title="Singapore">Singapore</a>, <a href="/wiki/Thailand" title="Thailand">Thailand</a>, <a href="/wiki/Philippines" title="Philippines">Philippines</a>, <a href="/wiki/Palau" title="Palau">Palau</a>, <a href="/wiki/Malaysia" title="Malaysia">Malaysia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cambodia" title="Cambodia">Cambodia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Burma" class="mw-redirect" title="Burma">Burma</a>/<a href="/wiki/Myanmar" title="Myanmar">Myanmar</a>, <a href="/wiki/Laos" title="Laos">Laos</a>, <a href="/wiki/Brunei" title="Brunei">Brunei</a>, <a href="/wiki/Fiji" title="Fiji">Fiji</a>, <a href="/wiki/Western_Samoa" class="mw-redirect" title="Western Samoa">Western Samoa</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tonga" title="Tonga">Tonga</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cook_Islands" title="Cook Islands">Cook Islands</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tuvalu" title="Tuvalu">Tuvalu</a>, <a href="/wiki/Timor-Leste" class="mw-redirect" title="Timor-Leste">Timor-Leste</a>(<a href="/wiki/East_Timor" title="East Timor">East Timor</a>), <a href="/wiki/Vanuatu" title="Vanuatu">Vanuatu</a>, <a href="/wiki/New_Caledonia" title="New Caledonia">New Caledonia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Solomon_Islands" title="Solomon Islands">Solomon Islands</a>, <a href="/wiki/Marshall_Islands" title="Marshall Islands">Marshall Islands</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nauru" title="Nauru">Nauru</a>, <a href="/wiki/Micronesia" title="Micronesia">Micronesia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kiribati" title="Kiribati">Kiribati</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Indian_subcontinent" title="Indian subcontinent">Indian subcontinent</a> (<a href="/wiki/India" title="India">India</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pakistan" title="Pakistan">Pakistan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lanka" title="Sri Lanka">Sri Lanka</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bangladesh" title="Bangladesh">Bangladesh</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nepal" title="Nepal">Nepal</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bhutan" title="Bhutan">Bhutan</a>) — <a href="/wiki/ABC_Australia" class="mw-redirect" title="ABC Australia">ABC Australia</a> (live)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/China" title="China">China</a> — GZTV (live)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Middle_East" title="Middle East">Middle East</a> — <a href="/wiki/Australia_Plus" class="mw-redirect" title="Australia Plus">Australia Plus</a> and <a href="/wiki/Orbit_Showtime_Network" title="Orbit Showtime Network">Orbit Showtime Network</a> (live)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Israel" title="Israel">Israel</a> — <a href="/wiki/Fox_Sports_Israel" class="mw-redirect" title="Fox Sports Israel">Fox Sports Israel</a> (live)</li> <li>North America<a href="#cite_note-147">[147]</a></li> <li>United States — <a href="/wiki/Fox_Sports" title="Fox Sports">Fox Sports</a>.</li> <li>Canada — <a href="/wiki/The_Sports_Network" title="The Sports Network">TSN</a> (live).</li> <li>United Kingdom and Ireland — <a href="/wiki/TNT_Sports_(United_Kingdom)" title="TNT Sports (United Kingdom)">TNT Sports</a> (live)</li> <li>ALL of Europe — <a href="/wiki/Eurosport_2" title="Eurosport 2">Eurosport 2</a> (live/delayed coverage to be confirmed)</li> <li>Africa — <a href="/wiki/Kwes%C3%A9_Sports" title="Kwesé Sports">Kwesé Sports</a> <a href="/wiki/Orbit_Showtime_Network" title="Orbit Showtime Network">Orbit Showtime Network</a> (live)</li> <li>Latin America and Caribbean — <a href="/wiki/ESPN_International" title="ESPN International">ESPN International</a> (to be confirmed)</li> <li>Russia — <a href="/wiki/Viasat_(Nordic_television_service)" title="Viasat (Nordic television service)">Viasat</a> (live)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=AFL_Grand_Final&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: See also">edit</a>]</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239009302">.mw-parser-output .portalbox{padding:0;margin:0.5em 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title="1968 VFL season">1968</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1969_VFL_season" title="1969 VFL season">1969</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1970_VFL_season" title="1970 VFL season">1970</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1971_VFL_season" title="1971 VFL season">1971</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1972_VFL_season" title="1972 VFL season">1972</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1973_VFL_season" title="1973 VFL season">1973</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1974_VFL_season" title="1974 VFL season">1974</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1975_VFL_season" title="1975 VFL season">1975</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1976_VFL_season" title="1976 VFL season">1976</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1977_VFL_season" title="1977 VFL season">1977</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1978_VFL_season" title="1978 VFL season">1978</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1979_VFL_season" title="1979 VFL season">1979</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1980_VFL_season" title="1980 VFL season">1980</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1981_VFL_season" title="1981 VFL season">1981</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1982_VFL_season" title="1982 VFL season">1982</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1983_VFL_season" title="1983 VFL season">1983</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1984_VFL_season" title="1984 VFL season">1984</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1985_VFL_season" title="1985 VFL season">1985</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1986_VFL_season" title="1986 VFL season">1986</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1987_VFL_season" title="1987 VFL season">1987</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1988_VFL_season" title="1988 VFL season">1988</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1989_VFL_season" title="1989 VFL season">1989</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1990_AFL_season" title="1990 AFL season">1990</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1991_AFL_season" title="1991 AFL season">1991</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1992_AFL_season" title="1992 AFL season">1992</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1993_AFL_season" title="1993 AFL season">1993</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1994_AFL_season" title="1994 AFL season">1994</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1995_AFL_season" title="1995 AFL season">1995</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1996_AFL_season" title="1996 AFL season">1996</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1997_AFL_season" title="1997 AFL season">1997</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1998_AFL_season" title="1998 AFL season">1998</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1999_AFL_season" title="1999 AFL season">1999</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2000_AFL_season" title="2000 AFL season">2000</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2001_AFL_season" title="2001 AFL season">2001</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2002_AFL_season" title="2002 AFL season">2002</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2003_AFL_season" title="2003 AFL season">2003</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2004_AFL_season" title="2004 AFL season">2004</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2005_AFL_season" title="2005 AFL season">2005</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_AFL_season" title="2006 AFL season">2006</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2007_AFL_season" title="2007 AFL season">2007</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2008_AFL_season" title="2008 AFL season">2008</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2009_AFL_season" title="2009 AFL season">2009</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2010_AFL_season" title="2010 AFL season">2010</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2011_AFL_season" title="2011 AFL season">2011</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2012_AFL_season" title="2012 AFL season">2012</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2013_AFL_season" title="2013 AFL season">2013</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2014_AFL_season" title="2014 AFL season">2014</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2015_AFL_season" title="2015 AFL season">2015</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2016_AFL_season" title="2016 AFL season">2016</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2017_AFL_season" title="2017 AFL season">2017</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2018_AFL_season" title="2018 AFL season">2018</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2019_AFL_season" title="2019 AFL season">2019</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2020_AFL_season" title="2020 AFL season">2020</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2021_AFL_season" title="2021 AFL season">2021</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2022_AFL_season" title="2022 AFL season">2022</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2023_AFL_season" title="2023 AFL season">2023</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2024_AFL_season" title="2024 AFL season">2024</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2025_AFL_season" title="2025 AFL season">2025</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#0C3F91; color:white;width:1%"><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Grand finals</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>1897</li> <li><a href="/wiki/1898_VFL_grand_final" title="1898 VFL grand final">1898</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1899_VFL_grand_final" title="1899 VFL grand final">1899</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1900_VFL_grand_final" title="1900 VFL grand final">1900</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1901_VFL_grand_final" title="1901 VFL grand final">1901</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1902_VFL_grand_final" title="1902 VFL grand final">1902</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1903_VFL_grand_final" title="1903 VFL grand final">1903</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1904_VFL_grand_final" title="1904 VFL grand final">1904</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1905_VFL_grand_final" title="1905 VFL grand final">1905</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1906_VFL_grand_final" title="1906 VFL grand final">1906</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1907_VFL_grand_final" title="1907 VFL grand final">1907</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1908_VFL_grand_final" title="1908 VFL grand final">1908</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1909_VFL_grand_final" title="1909 VFL grand final">1909</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1910_VFL_grand_final" title="1910 VFL grand final">1910</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1911_VFL_grand_final" title="1911 VFL grand final">1911</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1912_VFL_grand_final" title="1912 VFL grand final">1912</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1913_VFL_grand_final" title="1913 VFL grand final">1913</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1914_VFL_grand_final" title="1914 VFL grand final">1914</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1915_VFL_grand_final" title="1915 VFL grand final">1915</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1916_VFL_grand_final" title="1916 VFL grand final">1916</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1917_VFL_grand_final" title="1917 VFL grand final">1917</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1918_VFL_grand_final" title="1918 VFL grand final">1918</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1919_VFL_grand_final" title="1919 VFL grand final">1919</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1920_VFL_grand_final" title="1920 VFL grand final">1920</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1921_VFL_grand_final" title="1921 VFL grand final">1921</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1922_VFL_grand_final" title="1922 VFL grand final">1922</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1923_VFL_grand_final" title="1923 VFL grand final">1923</a></li> <li>1924</li> <li><a href="/wiki/1925_VFL_grand_final" title="1925 VFL grand final">1925</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1926_VFL_grand_final" title="1926 VFL grand final">1926</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1927_VFL_grand_final" title="1927 VFL grand final">1927</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1928_VFL_grand_final" title="1928 VFL grand final">1928</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1929_VFL_grand_final" title="1929 VFL grand final">1929</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1930_VFL_grand_final" title="1930 VFL grand final">1930</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1931_VFL_grand_final" title="1931 VFL grand final">1931</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1932_VFL_grand_final" title="1932 VFL grand final">1932</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1933_VFL_grand_final" title="1933 VFL grand final">1933</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1934_VFL_grand_final" title="1934 VFL grand final">1934</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1935_VFL_grand_final" title="1935 VFL grand final">1935</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1936_VFL_grand_final" title="1936 VFL grand final">1936</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1937_VFL_grand_final" title="1937 VFL grand final">1937</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1938_VFL_grand_final" title="1938 VFL grand final">1938</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1939_VFL_grand_final" title="1939 VFL grand final">1939</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1940_VFL_grand_final" title="1940 VFL grand final">1940</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1941_VFL_grand_final" title="1941 VFL grand final">1941</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1942_VFL_grand_final" title="1942 VFL grand final">1942</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1943_VFL_grand_final" title="1943 VFL grand final">1943</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1944_VFL_grand_final" title="1944 VFL grand final">1944</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1945_VFL_grand_final" title="1945 VFL grand final">1945</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1946_VFL_grand_final" title="1946 VFL grand final">1946</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1947_VFL_grand_final" title="1947 VFL grand final">1947</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1948_VFL_grand_final" title="1948 VFL grand final">1948</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1949_VFL_grand_final" title="1949 VFL grand final">1949</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1950_VFL_grand_final" title="1950 VFL grand final">1950</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1951_VFL_grand_final" title="1951 VFL grand final">1951</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1952_VFL_grand_final" title="1952 VFL grand final">1952</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1953_VFL_grand_final" title="1953 VFL grand final">1953</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1954_VFL_grand_final" title="1954 VFL grand final">1954</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1955_VFL_grand_final" title="1955 VFL grand final">1955</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1956_VFL_grand_final" title="1956 VFL grand final">1956</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1957_VFL_grand_final" title="1957 VFL grand final">1957</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1958_VFL_grand_final" title="1958 VFL grand final">1958</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1959_VFL_grand_final" title="1959 VFL grand final">1959</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1960_VFL_grand_final" title="1960 VFL grand final">1960</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1961_VFL_grand_final" title="1961 VFL grand final">1961</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1962_VFL_grand_final" title="1962 VFL grand final">1962</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1963_VFL_grand_final" title="1963 VFL grand final">1963</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1964_VFL_grand_final" title="1964 VFL grand final">1964</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1965_VFL_grand_final" title="1965 VFL grand final">1965</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1966_VFL_grand_final" title="1966 VFL grand final">1966</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1967_VFL_grand_final" title="1967 VFL grand final">1967</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1968_VFL_grand_final" title="1968 VFL grand final">1968</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1969_VFL_grand_final" title="1969 VFL grand final">1969</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1970_VFL_grand_final" title="1970 VFL grand final">1970</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1971_VFL_grand_final" title="1971 VFL grand final">1971</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1972_VFL_grand_final" title="1972 VFL grand final">1972</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1973_VFL_grand_final" title="1973 VFL grand final">1973</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1974_VFL_grand_final" title="1974 VFL grand final">1974</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1975_VFL_grand_final" title="1975 VFL grand final">1975</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1976_VFL_grand_final" title="1976 VFL grand final">1976</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1977_VFL_grand_final" title="1977 VFL grand final">1977</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1978_VFL_grand_final" title="1978 VFL grand final">1978</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1979_VFL_grand_final" title="1979 VFL grand final">1979</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1980_VFL_grand_final" title="1980 VFL grand final">1980</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1981_VFL_grand_final" title="1981 VFL grand final">1981</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1982_VFL_grand_final" title="1982 VFL grand final">1982</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1983_VFL_grand_final" title="1983 VFL grand final">1983</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1984_VFL_grand_final" title="1984 VFL grand final">1984</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1985_VFL_grand_final" title="1985 VFL grand final">1985</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1986_VFL_grand_final" title="1986 VFL grand final">1986</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1987_VFL_grand_final" title="1987 VFL grand final">1987</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1988_VFL_grand_final" title="1988 VFL grand final">1988</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1989_VFL_grand_final" title="1989 VFL grand final">1989</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1990_AFL_Grand_Final" title="1990 AFL Grand Final">1990</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1991_AFL_Grand_Final" title="1991 AFL Grand Final">1991</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1992_AFL_Grand_Final" title="1992 AFL Grand Final">1992</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1993_AFL_Grand_Final" title="1993 AFL Grand Final">1993</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1994_AFL_Grand_Final" title="1994 AFL Grand Final">1994</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1995_AFL_Grand_Final" title="1995 AFL Grand Final">1995</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1996_AFL_Grand_Final" title="1996 AFL Grand Final">1996</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1997_AFL_Grand_Final" title="1997 AFL Grand Final">1997</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1998_AFL_Grand_Final" title="1998 AFL Grand Final">1998</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1999_AFL_Grand_Final" title="1999 AFL Grand Final">1999</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2000_AFL_Grand_Final" title="2000 AFL Grand Final">2000</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2001_AFL_Grand_Final" title="2001 AFL Grand Final">2001</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2002_AFL_Grand_Final" title="2002 AFL Grand Final">2002</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2003_AFL_Grand_Final" title="2003 AFL Grand Final">2003</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2004_AFL_Grand_Final" title="2004 AFL Grand Final">2004</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2005_AFL_Grand_Final" title="2005 AFL Grand Final">2005</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_AFL_Grand_Final" title="2006 AFL Grand Final">2006</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2007_AFL_Grand_Final" title="2007 AFL Grand Final">2007</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2008_AFL_Grand_Final" title="2008 AFL Grand Final">2008</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2009_AFL_Grand_Final" title="2009 AFL Grand Final">2009</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2010_AFL_Grand_Final" title="2010 AFL Grand Final">2010</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2011_AFL_Grand_Final" title="2011 AFL Grand Final">2011</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2012_AFL_Grand_Final" title="2012 AFL Grand Final">2012</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2013_AFL_Grand_Final" title="2013 AFL Grand Final">2013</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2014_AFL_Grand_Final" title="2014 AFL Grand Final">2014</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2015_AFL_Grand_Final" title="2015 AFL Grand Final">2015</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2016_AFL_Grand_Final" title="2016 AFL Grand Final">2016</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2017_AFL_Grand_Final" title="2017 AFL Grand Final">2017</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2018_AFL_Grand_Final" title="2018 AFL Grand Final">2018</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2019_AFL_Grand_Final" title="2019 AFL Grand Final">2019</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2020_AFL_Grand_Final" title="2020 AFL Grand Final">2020</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2021_AFL_Grand_Final" title="2021 AFL Grand Final">2021</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2022_AFL_Grand_Final" title="2022 AFL Grand Final">2022</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2023_AFL_Grand_Final" title="2023 AFL Grand Final">2023</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2024_AFL_Grand_Final" title="2024 AFL Grand Final">2024</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#0C3F91; color:white;width:1%"><abbr title="Venues that hosted matches during the 2024 season">Venues</abbr></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Adelaide_Oval" title="Adelaide Oval">Adelaide Oval</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bellerive_Oval" title="Bellerive Oval">Blundstone Arena</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sydney_Showground_Stadium" title="Sydney Showground Stadium">Engie Stadium</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Gabba" title="The Gabba">The Gabba</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kardinia_Park_(stadium)" title="Kardinia Park (stadium)">GMHBA Stadium</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manuka_Oval" title="Manuka Oval">Manuka Oval</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eureka_Stadium" title="Eureka Stadium">Mars Stadium</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Docklands_Stadium" title="Docklands Stadium">Marvel Stadium</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Melbourne_Cricket_Ground" title="Melbourne Cricket Ground">Melbourne Cricket Ground</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Norwood_Oval" title="Norwood Oval">Norwood Oval</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Perth_Stadium" title="Perth Stadium">Optus Stadium</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carrara_Stadium" title="Carrara Stadium">People First Stadium</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Summit_Sport_and_Recreation_Park" title="Summit Sport and Recreation Park">Summit Sport and Recreation Park</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sydney_Cricket_Ground" title="Sydney Cricket Ground">Sydney Cricket Ground</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marrara_Oval" title="Marrara Oval">TIO Stadium</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Traeger_Park" title="Traeger Park">TIO Traeger Park</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/York_Park" title="York Park">University of Tasmania Stadium</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#0C3F91; color:white;width:1%">Other awards</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/AFL_Coaches_Association_awards" title="AFL Coaches Association awards">AFL Coaches Association awards</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/AFL_Players_Association_awards" title="AFL Players Association awards">AFL Players Association awards</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Leigh_Matthews_Trophy" title="Leigh Matthews Trophy">Leigh Matthews Trophy</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Goal_of_the_Year_(AFL)" title="Goal of the Year (AFL)">Goal of the Year</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mark_of_the_Year" title="Mark of the Year">Mark of the Year</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#0C3F91; color:white;width:1%">Major recurring events</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Australian_Football_League_Draft" class="mw-redirect" title="Australian Football League Draft">AFL draft</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/AFL_finals_series" title="AFL finals series">AFL finals series</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/AFL_Futures_match" title="AFL Futures match">AFL Futures match</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">AFL Grand Final</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anzac_Day_match#Other_ANZAC_Day_fixtures" title="Anzac Day match">Anzac Day Eve match</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anzac_Day_match" title="Anzac Day match">Anzac Day match</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dreamtime_at_the_%27G" title="Dreamtime at the 'G">Dreamtime at the 'G</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rivalries_in_the_Australian_Football_League#Hawthorn_v_Geelong" title="Rivalries in the Australian Football League">Easter Monday clash</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/E._J._Whitten_Legends_Game" title="E. J. Whitten Legends Game">E. J. Whitten Legends Game</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gather_Round" title="Gather Round">Gather Round</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/King%27s_Birthday_match" title="King's Birthday match">King's Birthday match</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anzac_Day_match#Len_Hall_Tribute_game" title="Anzac Day match">Len Hall Tribute game</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rivalries_in_the_Australian_Football_League#Richmond_v_Carlton" title="Rivalries in the Australian Football League">Opening game</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/QClash" title="QClash">QClash</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Showdown_(AFL)" title="Showdown (AFL)">Showdown</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sydney_Derby_(AFL)" title="Sydney Derby (AFL)">Sydney Derby</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Western_Derby" title="Western Derby">Western Derby</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#0C3F91; color:white;width:1%">Second-tier and junior competitions</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background:#0C3F91; color:white">Current</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/AFL_National_Championships" title="AFL National Championships">AFL National Championships</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Talent_League" title="Talent League">Talent League</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_Australian_National_Football_League" title="South Australian National Football League">South Australian National Football League</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Victorian_Football_League" title="Victorian Football League">Victorian Football League</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/West_Australian_Football_League" title="West Australian Football League">West Australian Football League</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background:#0C3F91; color:white">Former</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/AFL_reserves" title="AFL reserves">AFL reserves</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/AFL_under-19s" title="AFL under-19s">AFL under-19s</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_East_Australian_Football_League" title="North East Australian Football League">North East Australian Football League</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/VFL_Sub-Districts" title="VFL Sub-Districts">VFL Sub-Districts</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#0C3F91; color:white;width:1%">Related articles</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/AFL_Coaches_Association" title="AFL Coaches Association">AFL Coaches 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