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Biggest comeback – Quarter time: 29: by Carlton vs Collingwood 1970 Biggest comeback – Half time: 44: by Carlton vs Collingwood 1970 Biggest comeback to win – Three Quarter time: 23: by Essendon vs Hawthorn 1984 Biggest comeback to draw – Three Quarter time: 27: by North Melbourne vs Collingwood 1977 Premiership from lowest ladder ...
This is a list of records from the Australian Football League (AFL) since its founding in 1897. From 1897 to 1989, it was known as the Victorian Football League (VFL). From 1897 to 1989, it was known as the Victorian Football League (VFL).
The match saw the largest successful comeback in the history of the VFL/AFL, with Essendon winning by twelve points after trailing by 69 points midway through the second quarter; and, as of the end of the 2023 AFL season, it is the seventh-highest-scoring game in the league's history. [1]
The biggest VFL/AFL comeback of all time occurred between the two teams when Essendon managed to come back from a 69-point deficit to win by 12 points in 2001. A meeting of the two rivals at the MCG in the 2014 AFL finals series in the 2nd Elimination Final resulted in North winning by 12 points.
The Miracle on Grass is the nickname given to the round 13, 2013 match between Australian Football League (AFL) clubs Brisbane Lions and Geelong. In the match, the Lions came back from a 52-point deficit during the third quarter to clinch a 5-point win with a goal after the siren . [ 1 ]
The team went on to win their 16th premiership, defeating Melbourne, thereby completing the most dominant single season in AFL/VFL history. The defeat to the Bulldogs was the only defeat for Essendon throughout the entire calendar year (Essendon also won the 2000 pre-season competition). [49] Essendon was less successful after 2001.
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 ...
For 37 years this Grand Final victory stood as the greatest comeback in Carlton's history, until the 2007 season when the record was broken by an impressive win from 48 points down in the Round 3 clash against Essendon. It is fitting that Carlton's two greatest comeback wins are against its two fiercest rivals.