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AFL Finals
AFL Finals
DateAug 2026 – Sep 2026
TypeAustralian Rules
Winner 2025Brisbane Lions
AFL FINALS STRUCTURE
Fast facts
Since the AFL adopted an eight-team finals format in 1994, just six teams from outside the top four have progressed to the Grand Final.
The minor premiers have gone on to reach the AFL Grand Final in 23 of the 32 seasons where an eight-team finals series has been in effect.
Extra time was introduced for drawn AFL finals matches in 1991 (and Grand Finals from 2016), which has been required on just three occasions since the rule change.
Only three clubs have won the premiership from outside the top four in the era of the eight-team AFL finals structure: Adelaide Crows, who went all the way from fifth in 1998; Western Bulldogs, who ended a 62-year title drought in 2017 after surging from seventh place; and the 2024 Brisbane Lions, who walked the tightrope to glory from fifth.
AFL FINALS DRAW
AFL FINALS WINNERS & RESULTS
AFL Finals winners
Here are the some of the past winners and runners-up from AFL Grand Finals.
Season | Winner | Score | Runner Up | Score | Venue | Attendance |
2025 | Brisbane Lions | 18.14 (122) | Geelong Cats | 11.9 (75) | MCG | 100022 |
2024 | Brisbane Lions | 18.12 (120) | Sydney Swans | 9.6 (60) | MCG | 100013 |
2023 | Collingwood Magpies | 12.18 (90) | Brisbane Lions | 13.8 (86) | MCG | 100024 |
2022 | Geelong Cats | 20.13 (133) | Sydney Swans | 8.4 (52) | Melbourne Cricket Ground | 100024 |
2021 | Melbourne Demons | 21.14 (140) | Western Bulldogs | 10.6(66) | Optus Stadium | 61118 |
2020 | Richmond Tigers | 12.9 (81) | Geelong Cats | 7.8 (50) | The Gabba | 29707 |
2019 | West Coast Eagles | 17.12 (114) | Greater Western Sydney | 3.7 (25) | Melbourne Cricket Ground | 100014 |
2018 | West Coast Eagles | 11.13 (79) | Collingwood | 11.8 (74) | Melbourne Cricket Ground | 100022 |
2017 | Richmond | 16.12 (108) | Adelaide | 8.12 (60) | Melbourne Cricket Ground | 100021 |
2016 | Western Bulldogs | 13.11 (89) | Sydney Swans | 10.7 (67) | Melbourne Cricket Ground | 99981 |
2015 | Hawthorn | 16.11 (107) | West Coast | 8.13 (61) | Melbourne Cricket Ground | 98663 |
2014 | Hawthorn | 21.11 (137) | Sydney | 11.8 (74) | Melbourne Cricket Ground | 99460 |
2013 | Hawthorn | 11.11 (77) | Fremantle | 8.14 (62) | Melbourne Cricket Ground | 100007 |
2012 | Sydney | 14.7 (91) | Hawthorn | 11.15 (81) | Melbourne Cricket Ground | 99683 |
2011 | Geelong | 18.11 (119) | Collingwood | 12.9 (81) | Melbourne Cricket Ground | 99537 |
2010 (Replay) | Collingwood | 16.12 (108) | St Kilda | 7.10 (52) | Melbourne Cricket Ground | 93853 |
2009 | Geelong | 12.8 (80) | St Kilda | 9.14 (68) | Melbourne Cricket Ground | 99251 |
2008 | Hawthorn | 18.7 (115) | Geelong | 11.23 (89) | Melbourne Cricket Ground | 100012 |
2007 | Geelong | 24.19 (163) | Port Adelaide | 6.8 (44) | Melbourne Cricket Ground | 97302 |
2006 | West Coast | 12.13 (85) | Sydney | 12.12 (84) | Melbourne Cricket Ground | 97431 |
2005 | Sydney | 8.10 (58)) | West Coast | 7.12 (54) | Melbourne Cricket Ground | 91828 |
2004 | Port Adelaide | 17.11 (113) | Brisbane Lions | 10.13 (73) | Melbourne Cricket Ground | 77671 |
2003 | Brisbane Lions | 20.14 (134) | Collingwood | 12.12 (84) | Melbourne Cricket Ground | 79451 |
2002 | Brisbane Lions | 10.15 (75) | Collingwood | 9.12 (66) | Melbourne Cricket Ground | 91817 |
2001 | Brisbane Lions | 215.18 (108) | Essendon | 12.10 (82) | Melbourne Cricket Ground | 91482 |
2000 | Essendon | 19.21 (135) | Melbourne | 11.9 (75) | Melbourne Cricket Ground | 96249 |
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