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The 2022 AFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football match contested between Geelong and the Sydney Swans at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on 24 September 2022. It was the 127th grand final of the Australian Football League (AFL), staged to determine the premiers of the 2022 AFL season. The match, attended by 100,024 spectators, was won by ...
Lionel Richie was the grand final replay and post-match entertainment. [16] Cameron and Taylor Henderson Julie Anthony (replay) 2011: Meat Loaf performed a twelve-and-a-half minute medley of his best-known songs. Vanessa Amorosi: 2012: Pre-match entertainment was Tim Rogers and Paul Kelly. Half-time entertainment was provided by The Temper Trap ...
A grand final replay was a method of deciding the winner of a competition when a grand final is drawn. It is commonly used in football codes, particularly in Australian rules football . It was most notably used in the Australian Football League on three occasions—most recently in 2010 —prior to its abolition in 2016.
The 2022 season was played during the third year of the COVID-19 pandemic and was the last season to be directly impacted by it. At the start of the season, the roll-out of Australia's vaccination program was almost complete with 95% of adults vaccinated to a two-dose standard and about 50% having received a booster; [1] and across all states except for Western Australia, practically all ...
Previously, the grand finals of the VFL/AFL reserves (1919–1999), VFL/AFL under-19s (from 1962 to 1991), and the Victorian statewide under-18s (from 1992 until 2007) [75] 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 ...
The 2024 AFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football match that was contested between the Sydney Swans and the Brisbane Lions at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Saturday, 28 September 2024. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It was the 129th annual grand final of the Australian Football League (AFL), staged to determine the premiers of the 2024 AFL season .
Prior to the 2016 season, if the grand final resulted in a draw, the game would be replayed the following week. [12] In such instances, a separate Norm Smith Medal was awarded in each game. [13] Since 2016, a drawn grand final would result in the use of extra time to determine the winner, rather than a full-match replay. [12]
Finals were reintroduced in 1926, and the premiership decider appeared to only be called a "grand final" if it involved the minor premiers. By the 1930s, the NSWRFL adopted the term "grand final" to describe the premiership decider. [10] Up until 1954 a 'grand final' match was only held if the minor premiers were beaten. [11]