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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. In their fifth season ...
The inclusion of the first ever AFL sanctioned LGBT pride game for premiership points was held in round 21 between St Kilda and Sydney. [15] There was a bye round between round 23 and the first week of the finals, to encourage teams participating in the finals to field their strongest side possible ahead of their first final. [16]
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 Geelong Football Club season is currently the club's 117th season of senior competition in the Australian Football League (AFL). The club also fielded its reserves team in the Victorian Football League (VFL) for the 17th season.
They headed into the finals in strong form, however, banking two interstate wins over Greater Western Sydney and Adelaide as well as beating the Hawks at home to finish with a home final. The Western Bulldogs had qualified for their second consecutive finals series for the first time since 2010 and battled with injuries throughout the year ...
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] Beginning in 2020, Fox Footy and more Fox Sports Australia channels began carried in Canada on the premium streaming service DAZN.
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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 ...