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The 2024 AFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football match that was contested between the Sydney Swans and the Brisbane Lions at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Saturday, 28 September 2024. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It was the 129th annual grand final of the Australian Football League (AFL), staged to determine the premiers of the 2024 AFL season .
Time Event; 9:35 am: AFL Grand Final curtain-raiser: AFL Futures Match: 12:38 pm: AFL Grand Final Sprint—won by Max Holmes of Geelong: 1:30 pm: AFL Grand Final motorcade: 1:36 pm: Mike Brady performs "Up There Cazaly" [a] 1:42 pm: KISS performs 2:13 pm: Teams enter the ground: 2:24 pm: Delivery of the premiership cup by Josh P. Kennedy: 2:25 pm
The AFL Grand Final is an Australian rules football match to determine the premiers for the Australian Football League (AFL) season. Prior to 1990 it was known as the VFL Grand Final, as the league was then known as the Victorian Football League, and both were renamed due to the national expansion of the competition.
Lionel Richie was the grand final replay and post-match entertainment. [12] Cameron and Taylor Henderson Julie Anthony (replay) 2011: Meat Loaf performed a twelve-and-a-half minute medley of his best-known songs. Vanessa Amorosi: 2012: Pre-match entertainment was Tim Rogers and Paul Kelly. Half-time entertainment was provided by The Temper Trap ...
In the Australian Football League (AFL), Collingwood won their 16th VFL/AFL premiership (and 17th senior premiership) after defeating Brisbane Lions by four points in the 2023 AFL Grand Final. [3] [4] The AFL fixture was extended to 23 matches per club, the longest in history, to accommodate the introduction of Gather Round, a special round ...
The following day, the AFL announced the addition on Sunday night matches as a semi-regular fixture in 2025, with nine of the first 16 rounds featuring a Sunday night match. [8] In the same month, Adelaide [ 9 ] and St Kilda unveiled new club logos, [ 10 ] while Gold Coast unveiled a new logo and playing guernseys as part of a rebrand of the club.
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 start time for the game was 5:15 pm AWST / 7:15 pm AEST, [13] making it the first grand final played in the local twilight timeslot and second consecutive grand final in the east-coast night timeslot. The league opted for this over the traditional and originally scheduled start time of 2:30 pm AEST because this would have resulted in an ...