2019 AFL season
123rd season of the Australian Football League (AFL) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For the 2019 season of the AFL Women's competition, see 2019 AFL Women's season.
The 2019 AFL season was the 123rd season of the Australian Football League (AFL), the highest level senior men's Australian rules football competition in Australia, which was known as the Victorian Football League until 1989. The season featured eighteen clubs, ran from 21 March until 28 September, and comprised a 22-game home-and-away season followed by a finals series featuring the top eight clubs.
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2019 AFL premiership season | |
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Date | 21 March – 28 September |
Teams | 18 |
Premiers | Richmond 12th premiership |
Runners-up | Greater Western Sydney (1st runners-up) |
Minor premiers | Geelong 14th minor premiership |
Brownlow Medallist | Nat Fyfe (Fremantle – 33 votes) |
Coleman Medallist | Jeremy Cameron (Greater Western Sydney – 67 goals) |
Attendance | |
Matches played | 207 |
Total attendance | 7,517,677 (36,317 per match) |
Highest (H&A) | 92,241 (round 6, Essendon v Collingwood) |
Highest (finals) | 100,014 (Grand Final, Richmond vs. Greater Western Sydney) |
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The premiership was won by the Richmond Football Club for the twelfth time, after it defeated Greater Western Sydney by 89 points in the 2019 AFL Grand Final.