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The 2016 AFL First Preliminary Final was an Australian rules football match contested between the Greater Western Sydney Giants and Western Bulldogs at Spotless Stadium on 24 September 2016. It was staged as part of the 2016 AFL finals series to determine which of the two clubs would qualify for that season's Grand Final .
The Greater Western Sydney Giants' 2016 season is the club's fifth season in the Australian Football League (AFL). [1] The Giants finished in fourth place at the end of the 2016 season , [ 2 ] and won their first ever finals game.
The 2016 AFL season was the 120th season of the Australian Football League (AFL), the highest level senior Australian rules football competition in Australia, which was known as the Victorian Football League until 1989.
The two teams then met in the 2016 AFL First Preliminary Final, in which the Bulldogs were attempting to make their first AFL grand final appearance in 55 years while the Giants were attempting to reach the grand final for the first time in their fifth season in the AFL. The Bulldogs won the match by six points and would later go on to win the ...
When two live matches are being played simultaneously, Fox Sports 503 broadcasts one of the matches. From the start of the 2012 AFL season, Fox Footy had become the most watched Pay-TV network in Australia. [4] In 2017, the AFL preliminary finals had 556,000 and 441,000 viewers. [5]
The 2016 season was the Western Bulldogs' 91st year in the Australian Football League (AFL). It was just their second year under coach Luke Beveridge , with Robert Murphy being appointed captain for the second year in a row.
The pre-finals bye has many critics, who take the view that qualifying final winners are put at a disadvantage by losing match fitness and readiness as a result of two byes in three weeks; [17] [18] [19] this view is supported by the percentage of qualifying final winners who then won their preliminary finals dropping from 94% in 2007–2015 to ...
The 2016 AFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between Sydney and the Western Bulldogs at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on 1 October 2016. It was the 121st annual Grand Final of the Australian Football League (formerly the Victorian Football League), [ 1 ] staged to determine the premiers of the 2016 AFL season .