AFL Grand Final

AFL GRAND FINAL TICKETS 2023

About

The AFL Grand Final is an annual Australian rules football match, staged to determine the premiers for that year's Australian Football League (AFL) season. From its inception until 1989, it was known as the VFL Grand Final, and the league as the Victorian Football League. Played at the end of the finals series, the game has been held annually since 1898, except in 1924. It is traditionally staged on the afternoon of the last Saturday in September, at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne, Australia.

The game has become significant to Melburnian culture, spawning a number of traditions and surrounding activities, which have grown in popularity nationally since the interstate expansion of the Victorian Football League to become the Australian Football League in the 1980s and 1990s. According to the 2006 Sweeney Sports Report, the AFL Grand Final has become Australia's most important sporting event, with the largest attendance, metropolitan television audience and overall interest of any annual event.

The club which wins the grand final wins the premiership for the current season, and receives the AFL's premiership cup and premiership flag; all players in the winning team receive a gold premiership medallion. The best player on the ground receives the Norm Smith Medal.

As of the end of 2022, a total of 127 grand finals have been played, including three grand final replays. The Carlton Football Club has won 16 grand finals, the most of any club; the Essendon Football Club has also won 16 premierships, but only 14 in grand finals. The Collingwood Football Club has appeared in the most grand finals, a total of 44 for 15 wins; and has also won the most consecutive grand finals, with four between 1927 and 1930. Every present day club has played in at least one grand final, with the exception of the 2011 expansion club Gold Coast.

Last 10 Premiership Winners & Runners Up

Year	Premiership team	Runner-up
2022	Geelong	Sydney
2021	Melbourne	Western Bulldogs
2020	Richmond	Geelong
2019	Richmond	GWS Giants
2018	West Coast	Collingwood
2017	Richmond	Adelaide
2016	Western Bulldogs	Sydney Swans
2015	Hawthorn	West Coast
2014	Hawthorn	Sydney Swans
2013	Hawthorn	Fremantle Dockers

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