How Do Afl Finals Work

What happens if AFL ends in a draw

Australian rules football – Until 1991, Australian football had no structure in place to break a tie in a finals game. As such, the teams would reconvene the following week to replay their game, pushing back the rest of the finals schedule by one week.

• This caused controversy in 1990, when the qualifying final between Collingwood and West Coast was drawn.
• It meant that the minor premiers Essendon had a two-weekend bye instead of one, and many insisted that the extended layoff had contributed to their losses to Collingwood, both in the second semi-final and in the grand final.

Additionally, by 1990 there were many more events and corporate entertainment functions scheduled around the AFL finals than had been the case in 1977 (when the previous finals draw had occurred), and the delay in the finals schedule caused chaos for venues and hotels as these events were rescheduled.

1. To avoid a repeat of these undesirable outcomes, the AFL initiated the use of extra time (five minutes each way) to decide drawn finals, except for the grand final (that being the case in 2010 ), from 1991 onward.
2. However, from 1991 until 2015, a grand final replay would still be played after a drawn grand final.

In the days after the 2010 drawn grand final (before the replay), a provision was added that extra time be played if the replay were drawn, rather than playing a second replay. In 2016, the grand final replay was abolished. As for other finals matches, drawn grand finals are now resolved with two five-minute periods of extra time; if the scores are still tied at the end of the extra time period, play will continue until the next score.

How does an AFL game work?

The match – Each AFL game consists of four 20-minute periods and the umpire starts each quarter by bouncing the ball in the centre circle. Once the ball is bounced, it is considered ‘in play’ and the players can contest possession.

Can AFL players play VFL finals

21.6 Notwithstanding the provisions of Rule 21 when an AFL Club is still qualified to participate in the AFL Finals Series, all such AFL Club listed players shall be eligible to be selected for a team participating in either the VFL Senior or VFL Reserve grade Finals Series game provided that such player has played at

Is there a week off before AFL Finals 2023?

When do AFL Finals 2023 start? – An official start time for the AFL finals has not been announced, but the 2023 AFL Finals will take place two weeks after the conclusion of the regular season. While the AFL is yet to confirm times for Round 24, the final game is likely to be played on Sunday, August 27th.

Where are AFL finals played

History – In the early years of the VFL finals, matches were generally played at neutral suburban venues. Starting from 1902, the Melbourne Cricket Ground became the primary venue for finals, including Grand Finals, and from 1908, when all finals were played on different days, it became the sole venue for finals (except from 1942 until 1945, when it was commandeered for military use during World War II).

Long term contracts were signed between the Melbourne Cricket Club and the VFL for use of the venue in finals, including a ten-year deal running from 1932 to 1941, followed by a deal running until 1956, and a subsequent deal ending in 1971. The VFL always resented the arrangement, as the MCC held most of the negotiating leverage and ended up with the more favourable deal in the contract, and the VFL sought actively to break its reliance on the deal.

The opening in 1970 of the VFL-owned VFL Park with a capacity for almost 80,000 spectators gave the league a viable new finals venue. In November 1971, the VFL signed a new three-year deal for finals to be played at the MCG; but shortly afterwards it announced the expansion of the finals to the McIntyre final five system, providing two new finals matches which could be staged at VFL Park while still fulfilling the requirement for four finals at the MCG.

1. It became standard to stage the Elimination Final and Second semi-final at VFL Park; 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.
2. This arrangement persisted from 1975 until 1990.

Attempts were made during the late 1970s and early 1980s to shift the grand final to VFL Park, but a bitter political struggle which included the Cain State Government ultimately blocked this move at the end of 1983. As the Melbourne Cricket Ground was the home of Melbourne (and from 1965 onwards Richmond ), those teams automatically held a home ground advantage in the finals.

Prior to the nationalisation of the league, it was considered philosophically desirable that the finals be played on neutral ground, and one club delegate went as far as proposing in 1961 – after Melbourne had won five premierships in six years – that the MCG’s goal posts should be moved prior to each Melbourne finals match to nullify its home ground advantage (the idea was overwhelmingly voted down and the delegate was roundly laughed at for his suggestion).

The desire for neutral venues persisted, and from 1977 until 1986, a rule existed requiring that any finals featuring Melbourne or Richmond, other than the grand final, would be played at VFL Park instead of the MCG. Two events in 1987 changed the nature of finals scheduling:

• Firstly, the VFL expanded interstate to become the Australian Football League, introducing the desire to allow non-Victorian clubs to host finals in their home states and reversing the traditional notion that finals should be held in neutral locations.
• Secondly, the AFL and the MCC agreed to terms to jointly fund the replacement of the MCG’s ageing Southern Stand, reducing the AFL’s commercial desire to stage finals at VFL Park.

The changes began to be seen in 1991: West Coast had won the minor premiership and the replacement work on the Southern Stand had temporarily halved the MCG’s capacity, so all of the finals were played at VFL Park except for West Coast’s home qualifying final at Perth’s Subiaco Oval, which was the first final played outside Victoria.

The use of VFL Park for finals declined thereafter, and the venue’s last finals match was staged in 1997. Under the new finals contract beginning in 1992, non-Victorian clubs could host their home finals in their own states, subject to the stipulation that at least one final be played at the MCG each week during the finals.

This became increasingly controversial in the early 2000s, a period of time when non-Victorian clubs dominated the competition, after several non-Victorian clubs were forced to host their home finals in Victoria. This led to a renegotiation of the contract in 2005, which introduced the current requirement for ten finals matches (plus all Grand Finals) to be staged at the MCG every rolling five-year period.

Do AFL players get paid a lot?

AFL players rake in record salaries in season 2022 – ESPN Feb 15, 2023, 05:28 PM Twelve players were paid seven-figure salaries last year – a new competition record – as wages across the league grew to greater levels than ever before. Players’ salaries took a huge hit during the COVID-ravaged 2020 season but have bounced back over the last two years. The average was $406,000; up from $372,224 in 2021 and $259,651 during the first year of the global pandemic. Only 10 players earned less than $100,000 last year, while at the top end, three players were paid at least $1.2 million. There were 12 players above the $1 million mark, up from just five the previous year.

Individual AFL player salary figures are not released. However Sydney goal-kicking legend Lance Franklin and Brownlow Medal winners Dustin Martin and Nat Fyfe are believed to among those who earned seven-figure sums in 2022. Melbourne midfield guns Christian Petracca and Clayton Oliver, former Collingwood ruckman Brodie Grundy, Geelong premiership forward Jeremy Cameron, West Coast star defender Jeremy McGovern and reappointed Western Bulldogs captain Marcus Bontempelli are also reportedly around the same mark.

A total of 51 players were paid at least $800,000 in 2022, while 193 of the competition’s 659 players received at least $500,000. Lance Franklin is one of the greatest goalkickers we’ve ever seen. Will Russell/AFL Media/Getty Images Meanwhile, AFL executives received a total of $11.8 million in 2022 – an average of $1.3 million each – compared to $10.4 million in 2019, before the global pandemic.

On Wednesday, the AFL also reported an underlying operating profit of $20.7 million for 2022. It was a significant improvement for the league, which posted an underlying operating loss of $46.1 million in 2021 after two years riddled with COVID-19 interruptions. AFL chief financial officer Travis Auld said last year’s underlying profit was a “break even” result for the league’s budget.

It included partial receipt of the majority of the $225 million Victorian government grant for the Marvel Stadium redevelopment. The AFL’s operating revenue increased by $131.8 million – due to a combination of improved commercial returns from Marvel Stadium, sponsorship and broadcasting – and the league’s cash balance at the end of the financial year was $178.2 million.

“Our balance sheet remains strong,” Auld said in a statement.”Despite the significant cash cost required to deliver the AFL and two AFLW seasons, the co-ordinated effort to reduce the industry cost base and protect revenues means the AFL was able to report a cash surplus for the financial year.”The focus remains on the rebuild and strengthening of the industry balance sheet that will enable future investment in the growth and development of our game from grassroots through to the elite platforms, while still investing significant funding into player mental health and welfare initiatives which remain well above pre-Covid levels.”We have survived the most challenging three years in the game’s history and our priority remains to keep our game as affordable and accessible as possible for all.”

: AFL players rake in record salaries in season 2022 – ESPN

Do AFL players get paid per game?

Players are paid monthly for their work and performance, which equals one-twelfth of their annual salary. Some players are on a base contract, which means they get paid an additional payment for each match they play. Their base payment covers their training and schedule requirements throughout the year.

Why is an AFL ball shaped

History – Thomas W. Sherrin, founder In 1879, Thomas W. Sherrin opened a factory at 32 Wellington Street in Collingwood. The first Australian rules football was invented by Sherrin himself in 1880, when he was given a misshapen ball to fix. He designed the Sherrin with indented rather than pointy ends to give the ball a better bounce.

The sport known as, or “footy”, was rapidly increasing in popularity, and Sherrin footballs soon became the icon for being the first ball made for Australian rules football. The new shaped ball was so quickly accepted that the National Football League of Australia eventually used the size and shape as standard.

Sherrin began production in 1897 in a workshop in, which had produced a variety of leather sporting goods since 1880, including footballs, cricket balls, boxing gloves and punching balls. The quality of Sherrin’s goods was widely regarded. The company was sold in 1972 to the Australian subsidiary of,

Why is an AFL football oval shaped

3) How is an AFL oval? – It’s no secret that AFL has evolved over time. The first balls they played with, were in fact round. AFL took its roots from soccer, which is why the ball was shaped this way. In 1880, T.W. Sherrin (a name you’ll recognise on many AFL balls today) invented the official AFL ball,

What sport is AFL based on?

New Australian game Australian Rules football evolved in Melbourne in the mid-19th century. An Aboriginal game known as marngrook and Gaelic football, played in Ireland, have been cited as inspiration but the game was mainly based on football played in English public (this is, private) schools.

Has there ever been a tie in AFL?

Saturday’s GF replay throws the spotlight on October contests, the origin of finals and the ’48 and ’77 connections OCTOBER GRAND FINALS The replayed Collingwood-St Kilda grand final will be the 25th premiership-deciding match to be played in the month of October.

1. The first was on October 2, 1909, when South Melbourne defeated Carlton by a mere two points.
2. The others played on the second day of the 10th month have been in 1920, when Richmond finished in front of Collingwood to claim its first league premiership, and 1948 when Melbourne easily outscored Essendon after a tied result a week earlier.

The latest ever league match occurred in 1923 when Essendon was too good for Fitzroy in the grand final, which was played on October 25, which was also Caulfield Cup day. The match was scheduled for seven days earlier, but had to be postponed due to torrential rain.

1. Remarkably in that match, Dons follower George Rawle made his senior debut aged 33.
2. THE ORIGIN OF FINALS MATCHES For two decades, from 1877 until late in the 19th century, the Victorian Football Association was the state’s elite competition.
3. The premiership winner was always the team finishing on top of the ladder after a series of home and away matches.

That system operated smoothly until 1896, when both Collingwood and South Melbourne ended the season absolutely equal, with the same number of wins, ties, and goals for and against. Behinds tallies were not included as scores at that time. The VFA administrators decided to organise a playoff match to decide the flag winner.

It generated huge interest and a very large crowd attended the East Melbourne Cricket Ground to watch Collingwood outscore its opponent. Coincidentally, a group of the strongest VFA clubs decided to form a rebel competition, which began as the Victorian Football League in 1897. A decision was made to have a series of playoff matches at the end of each season to decide the premiership.

Those games were to be called finals. Australian football became the first team sport in the world to have such a system. TONGUE-TIED The tied 2010 Collingwood-St Kilda grand final became the 146th drawn match in 13,767 contests since the competition began in 1897.

The only other Magpies-Saints tie occurred in round four, 1991 at Moorabbin. Eight of the 582 finals matches have been tied (1.4 per cent of all finals). Collingwood has been involved in five of the eight. Twenty-three of the 2437 contests at the MCG, including six finals encounters, have been tied. There have been 417 finals matches played at the MCG.

Six of them have resulted in ties. A total of 112 seasons have required grand finals. Three of them have needed a replayed match – 1948, 1977 and 2010. TIED GRAND FINALS 1948: Nine players from the two grand finals are still alive – Essendon’s Jack Jones, Les Gardiner, George Hassell, Harold Lanbert, Ted Leehane and Wally May, and Melbourne’s Noel McMahen, Gordon Bowman and Max Spittle.

The teams made the following changes from the tied match to the replayed one; Essendon – In: Harry Equid, Les Gardiner and Ron McEwin. Out: Doug Bigelow, Wally Buttsworth and Harold Lambert. Melbourne – In: Bob McKenzie. Out: Doug Heywood. Two sets of brothers played in at least one of the grand finals: Denis and Don Cordner (Melbourne) and Harold and Chris Lambert (Essendon).1977: Two Collingwood players from both grand finals have since died: Wayne Gordon and Len Thompson.

The teams made the following changes from the tied match to the replayed one: Collingwood – In: Chris Perry. Out: Doug Gott. North Melb- No changes. One set of brothers played in both matches: Wayne and Max Richardson (Collingwood). Magpie rover Ray Shaw participated in both encounters.

Can a match end in a draw

A draw or tie occurs in a competitive sport when the results are identical or inconclusive. Ties or draws are possible in some, but not all, sports and games. Such an outcome, sometimes referred to as deadlock, can also occur in other areas of life such as politics, business, and wherever there are different factions regarding an issue.

Can an AFL match result in a draw?

Is this different to what happens during the AFL home-and-away season? – Yes. If a game finishes drawn during the regular season, the result stands and both teams receive two points toward the competition ladder instead of the four for a win.

Does any other country play AFL?

Overview – The international growth of Australian rules in the 19th century and early 20th century was rapid, but it went into rapid decline following World War I. After World War II, the sport experienced a small amount of growth in the Pacific region, particularly in Nauru, Papua New Guinea and New Zealand,

• Australian Football emerged as an international sport much later than other forms of football, such as soccer or rugby, but has grown substantially as an amateur sport in some countries since the 1980s.
• Initially, the sport grew with the Australian diaspora, aided by multiculturalism and assisted by exhibition matches and players who have converted to and from other football codes,

In Papua New Guinea, New Zealand, South Africa, the United States, Pakistan and India there are many thousands of players. The AFL became the de facto international governing body for the sport when created the AFL International Development Committee and the IAFC was dissolved between 2002 and 2006.

• Australian Football is played professionally in Australia, and is the dominant spectator sport, with the exception of exhibition games staged in other countries.
• The game is played in many countries, the Australian Football League and has more than 13 affiliated international governing bodies, AFL Canada, Danish Australian Football League, BARFL, AFL Japan, ARFLI, Nauru Australian Football Association, New Zealand AFL, USAFL, AFL South Africa, AFL PNG, AFL Samoa, Tonga Australian Football Association and AFL Germany,

The league also has working relationships with bodies in additional countries, who have sent, or may in future send, teams to the International Cup. There are now 3 major regional bodies, the first of which formed in 2008. The first was an association of 16 Asian clubs from 11 countries which later afflicated to the AFL as AFL Asia,

What do Australians call footy?

is Australian Rules Football? –

Australian Rules Football (also “Aussie Rules” or ” footy”) is a physical contact sport. It is a form of football with roots traceable from early forms of Rugby and Gaelic football, but it is uniquely Australian. Its rules were codified in 1858, and probably predate all other modern forms of football, such as American, Canadian, Rugby Union and League, Association (Soccer) and Gaelic football. Today it is a multi-million dollar business, with a National Competition and numerous smaller leagues. Interest in the game is generally at an all time high within and outside Australia, yet despite this, some parts of Australia are still lukewarm in support of their team in the AFL, and the game has yet to take a firm hold overseas.

Does footy tipping go into finals

Tipping Rules – Correct tip : 1 point Incorrect tip : 0 points Each round, you must predict the margin for the first match. The margin is used as a tie-breaker to separate tipsters who’ve racked up the same number of points, and will accumulate over the course of the season.

• The cut-off time for entering your tips for each match is that game’s start time – so if you don’t get your tips in by the start of the round, you can still enter them for the remaining fixtures.
• You can change your tips up until the cut-off time for each match.
• If you don’t enter your tips for a match, you’ll have the away team entered as your tip by default.

Tipping competitions The Super Rugby tipping competition runs over the entire Super Rugby Pacific competition. The NRL tipping competition runs over all the regular-season rounds and includes the finals series, but not State of Origin or any representative matches.

Is there a week off before AFL Finals 2023?

When do AFL Finals 2023 start? – An official start time for the AFL finals has not been announced, but the 2023 AFL Finals will take place two weeks after the conclusion of the regular season. While the AFL is yet to confirm times for Round 24, the final game is likely to be played on Sunday, August 27th.