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The AFL final eight system is an eight-team championship playoff tournament developed and adopted by the Australian Football League in the 2000 season. The eight teams, which are ranked or seeded in advance of the tournament, participate in a four-week tournament, with two teams eliminated in each of the first three weeks.
The McIntyre final eight system was devised by Ken McIntyre in addition to the McIntyre Four, Five and Six systems. It is a playoff system of the top 8 finishers in a competition to determine which two teams will play in the grand final. The teams play each other over three weeks, with two teams eliminated each week.
McIntyre also devised the McIntyre final five system for the VFL for 1972, the McIntyre final six system for 1991 (which was revised for 1992) and the McIntyre final eight system for the 1994 season. The AFL and its fans grew dissatisfied with some of the outcomes the McIntyre final eight system might allow, and replaced it with another final ...
It became standard to stage the elimination final and second semi-final at VFL Park; [7] and in 1975 (after the three-year contract signed in November 1971 had ended), a new agreement shifted the preliminary final to VFL Park also, resulting in three matches at each venue during the finals. [8] This arrangement persisted from 1975 until 1990.
The system used for the 2014 AFL finals series is a final eight system. The top four teams in the eight receive the "double chance" when they play in week-one qualifying finals, such that if a top-four team loses in the first week it still remains in the finals, playing a semi-final the next week against the winner of an elimination final.
Like the AFL system, the Super League system eliminated two teams in each week leading up to the grand final. However, it had a number of differences from the AFL system, most notably the feature known as "Club Call" (explained below). [4] As in the AFL, the participants were ranked by league position in the regular season.
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 ...
The article should be renamed "AFL Finals Series" Pnatt 16:37, 24 April 2006 (UTC) [] I agree. This is just free advertising. Xtra 01:18, 26 April 2006 (UTC) [] I think it should be something like "AFL final eight system" because the finals series is the actual event and calling it "AFL finals system" wouldn't be right either because there have been so many.