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VFL/AFL premiership and grand final statistics

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This page is a collection of VFL/AFL premiership and grand final statistics. The Australian Football League (AFL), known as the Victorian Football League (VFL) until 1990, is the elite national competition in men's Australian rules football. Each year, the premiership is awarded to the club that wins the AFL Grand Final. The grand final has been played in all VFL/AFL seasons except for 1897 and 1924 (where the premiership was awarded without a grand final being played), and has been an annual tradition in its current format since 1931.

Since the introduction by the League of equalisation policies of a salary cap and draft in 1987,[1] every team currently competing in the Australian Football League (except for Gold Coast, which has not yet qualified for a finals series as of 2024) has qualified for a grand final. This has had a significant impact on the spread of premierships: since 1990, fourteen clubs have won a premiership, compared with only five clubs between 1967 and 1989.[2] Of the teams currently competing in the Australian Football League, only Fremantle, Gold Coast and Greater Western Sydney are yet to win a premiership.

As of 2024, Collingwood, Essendon and Carlton are all tied for winning 16 premierships, with Collingwood winning the most consecutive premierships, at four between 1927 and 1930.

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Premierships by team

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Table correct to the end of the 2024 season.

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Premiership frequency

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Table correct to the end of the 2024 season.

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Premiership droughts

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+ Drought began upon club's entry to league
Drought ended upon club's exit from league
* Also the longest club premiership drought

The following tables summarise the different premiership droughts for each club. The first table is limited to droughts lasting fifty or more seasons, while the other three are specific to each club (two of which span the entire competition, including all 21 teams). The duration of the drought is given as the number of full seasons contested between premierships; the season in which the drought is broken is considered to be part of the drought, and if the drought began from a club's entry to the league, the club's inaugural season is also considered to be part of the drought. Grand final replays are not included in grand final appearances.

Longest premiership droughts

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Table correct to the beginning of the 2025 season.

Longest club premiership droughts

Table correct to the beginning of the 2025 season.

Current club premiership droughts

Table correct to the end of the 2024 season.

Time taken to win first premiership

° Club has not yet won a premiership
× Club exited the league without winning a premiership

Table correct to the end of the 2023 season.

  1. As St Kilda did not contest the 1916 and 1917 seasons, the duration of this drought was 68 contested seasons (across 70 calendar years).
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Consecutive appearances

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Consecutive premierships

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Table correct to the end of the 2023 season.

Consecutive grand finals

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1 Essendon drew the 1948 VFL Grand Final, and was defeated by Melbourne in the replay.
2 North Melbourne drew the 1977 VFL Grand Final, and defeated Collingwood in the replay.

Table correct to the end of the 2022 season.

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Most common match-ups

The following table summarises the most common grand final match-ups (not including grand final replays).

Table correct to the end of the 2023 season.

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Premierships at all levels

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This table summarises premierships won at all levels of the VFL/AFL competition: the seniors, seconds/reserves (1919–1999), thirds/under-19s (1946–1991), night series (1956–2013) and AFL Women's (since 2017). Only AFL and AFLW premierships can currently be won; excluded from this table are premierships won by reserves teams competing in state leagues (including the VFL from 2000 onwards).

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Table correct to the end of the 2025 AFL season.

Premierships across multiple grades in a season

A club has won premierships in three grades in a single year on only two occasions – Essendon in 1950, and Richmond in 1973. During the years that it was achievable, no club ever won a senior, reserves, under-19s and night premiership in a single year.

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Table correct to the end of the 2023 AFL season.

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See also

Notes

  1. The 1956 VFL Night Series Competition was only for the teams who missed the finals (5th to 12th on ladder).
  2. The 1965 VFL Night Series Competition was only for the teams who missed the finals (5th to 12th on ladder).
  3. The 1971 VFL Night Series Competition was only for the teams who missed the finals (5th to 12th on ladder).

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