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The 2001 AFL season was the 105th season of the Australian Football League (AFL), the highest level senior Australian rules football competition in Australia. The season featured sixteen clubs, ran from 30 March until 29 September, and comprised a 22-game home-and-away season followed by a finals series featuring the top eight clubs.
The 2001 AFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Essendon Bombers and the Brisbane Lions, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 29 September 2001. It was the 105th annual grand final of the Australian Football League (formerly the Victorian Football League), [ 1 ] staged to determine the ...
The Australian Football League finals series, more generally known as the AFL finals, and known from 1897 until 1989 as the Victorian Football League finals series or VFL finals, is a playoff tournament held at the end of each AFL season to determine the premier.
2001 season; Coach: Leigh Matthews: Captain(s) Michael Voss: Home ground: The Gabba (Capacity: 42,000) AFL season: 2nd: Finals series: Premiers: Best and fairest: Simon Black Michael Voss: Leading goalkicker: Alastair Lynch (58 goals) Highest home attendance: 36,149 vs. Essendon (2 June 2001) [1] Lowest home attendance: 20,059 vs. Fremantle (29 ...
2001 AFL Grand Final; 2001 AFL Rising Star; 2001 AFL season; 2001 AFL Women's National Championships; B. 2001 Brownlow Medal; I. 2001 International Rules Series; N ...
2001 season; President: Ian Dicker: Coach: Peter Schwab Chris Connolly (Round 17) Captain(s) Shane Crawford: Home ground: Melbourne Cricket Ground York Park: AFL season: 13–9 (6th) Finals series: Preliminary Final (lost to Essendon 67–76) Best and Fairest: Joel Smith: Leading goalkicker: John Barker (47) Highest home attendance: 52,472 ...
In the other semi-final at Colonial Stadium, the Brisbane Lions kicked the final 4 goals of the game against Hawthorn to win by 15 points. The win by Brisbane Lions was significant. as it broke a finals hoodoo in Melbourne, and it set up the first grand final between two non-Victorian teams in VFL/AFL history.
The finals series is played under the AFL final eight system, and the grand final is traditionally played at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on the afternoon of the last Saturday in September. The winning team receives a silver premiership cup, a navy blue premiership flag – a new one of each is manufactured each year – and is recorded on the ...