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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 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 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 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 .
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 ...
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]
Lost Preliminary Final to Collingwood 58–97 2019: 3rd 1st 16 6 – Won Qualifying Final against Brisbane Lions 112–65 Trent Cotchin: Damien Hardwick: Dion Prestia: Tom Lynch (63) [112] Won Preliminary Final against Geelong 85–66 Won Grand Final against Greater Western Sydney 114–25 2020: 3rd 1st 12 4 1 Lost Qualifying Final against ...