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The 2023 AFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football match contested between the Collingwood Football Club and the Brisbane Lions at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Saturday, 30 September 2023. It was the 128th annual grand final of the Australian Football League (AFL), staged to determine the premiers for the 2023 AFL season .
The 2023 AFL season was the 127th season of the Australian Football League (AFL), the highest-level senior Australian rules football competition in Australia. The season featured 18 clubs and ran from 16 March to 30 September, comprising a 23-match home-and-away season followed by a four-week finals series featuring the top eight clubs.
TV audiences during the 2022 AFL season totalled 125.4 million viewers, with an average of 537,000 people watching each match; the TV audience for the 2023 AFL Grand Final was 4.98 million—plus an additional 756,000 on 7plus, for a total of 5.736 million [93] [94] [95] —and the game was seen by 100,024 stadium spectators, which was exactly ...
In the AFL Women's (AFLW), Brisbane won their second women's premiership with a 19-point victory over North Melbourne in the 2023 AFL Women's Grand Final. [ 7 ] Melbourne won the McClelland Trophy , the format of which was altered to a club championship including results from both the AFL and AFL Women's 2023 seasons.
The competition takes place on the AFL Grand Final day each year. The reigning champion is Daniel Rich , who kicked a 69.5-metre (228 ft) torpedo punt on the day of the 2023 AFL Grand Final . As of the completion of the 2023 edition, Bryce Gibbs ' 72.3-metre (237 ft) kick from 2016 is the record, and nobody has ever cleared the river.
The grand final is covered by anti-siphoning laws, ensuring it remains on free-to-air television in Australia. [142] Some archival and newsreel footage for segments of grand finals prior to 1961 still exist, and video from the 1909 grand final is the earliest known surviving Australian football footage. [143]
During the 2023 holiday season, which ran from Nov. 1, 2022, to Jan. 31, 2023, about 14,900 people were treated at hospitals for holiday decorating-related injuries, the CPSC said.
This page is a collection of VFL/AFL premiership and grand final statistics. The Australian Football League (AFL), known as the Victorian Football League (VFL) until 1990, is the elite national competition in men's Australian rules football. Each year, the premiership is awarded to the club that wins the AFL Grand Final. The grand final has ...