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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.
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 ...
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 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.
The 2024 AFL season was the 128th season of the Australian Football League (AFL), the highest-level senior men's Australian rules football competition in Australia. The season featured 18 clubs and ran from 7 March to 28 September, comprising a 23-match home-and-away season over 25 rounds, followed by a four-week finals series featuring the top eight clubs.
Unfortunately, even with a full 16-game slate of matchups on deck in Week 8 thanks to no teams being on a bye, injuries have made it more crucial than ever to win at the flex this year.
The NFL power rankings for Week 16 feature a rare reshuffling at the top, as the Lions' fall leaves the No. 1 spot open for another team to seize.
Grand Final: winner of 1st Preliminary Final vs winner of 2nd Preliminary Final Due to perceived weaknesses of this system, the AFL adopted a modified top-eight playoff in 2000 . The National Rugby League (NRL), Australia's top rugby league competition (also with a team in New Zealand), used this system from 1999 through 2011, after which it ...