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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.
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 .
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 ...
Since the 2016 AFL finals series, it has been standard to schedule a one-week break between the final round of the AFL season and the first week of finals, [13] introduced to encourage teams participating in the finals to field their strongest side possible ahead of their first final, and to dissuade clubs assured of finals places from resting ...
Occasionally region games air on CSN and WGN's CLTV, and all AFL games are streamed for free online through UStream. [12] Chicago returned to the field on April 2, 2010 on the road against the Iowa Barnstormers. The game was broadcast on the NFL Network and Chicago won 61–43. The Rush began the season 4–0 and were in first place in the ...
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.
Prior to Showdown 24 Port Adelaide had lost their two opening games of the 2008 AFL season and, coupled with their disastrous 2007 AFL Grand Final, Mark Williams demanded throughout the week at training leading up to the game that his players bring tough and physical brand of football to their next match. [61]
The 2022 season was played during the third year of the COVID-19 pandemic and was the last season to be directly impacted by it. At the start of the season, the roll-out of Australia's vaccination program was almost complete with 95% of adults vaccinated to a two-dose standard and about 50% having received a booster; [1] and across all states except for Western Australia, practically all ...