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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 St Kilda Football Club has fared relatively well since the league became known as the AFL prior to the start of the 1990 premiership season (formerly the VFL, whose first season was 1897, a season in which St Kilda participated and finished 8th out of 8 with no wins). The team have made the finals series eleven times.
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 ...
Minor premiers for the ninth time, [2] the Sydney Swans finished the home-and-away season with a 17-5 record. They were defeated by the GWS Giants in the qualifying final by 36 points, [3] but bounced back with a semi-final victory against Adelaide, [4] and then a 37-point preliminary final win against Geelong at the Melbourne Cricket Ground [5] for their third grand final appearance in five ...
2.13 (25) by Collingwood vs Richmond 1927 Highest attendance: 121,696: Collingwood vs Carlton 1970 Lowest attendance: 4,823: Fitzroy vs South Melbourne 1899 Highest score – 1st Qtr: 8.4 (52) by Hawthorn vs Geelong 1989, by Carlton vs Richmond 1972 Highest score – 2nd Qtr: 10.2 (62) by Carlton vs Richmond 1972 Highest score – 3rd Qtr: 11.8 ...
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 2016 St Kilda Football Club season was the 120th in the club's history. Coached by Alan Richardson and captained by Nick Riewoldt , they competed in the AFL 's 2016 Toyota Premiership Season .
The 2016 AFL season is the 120th season of the VFL/AFL competition since its inception in 1897; having entered the competition in 1925, it was the 92nd season contested by the Hawthorn Football Club. Tasmania and iiNet continued as the club's two major sponsors, as they had done since 2006 and 2013 respectively, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] while Adidas ...