1994 AFL premiership season | |
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Teams | 15 |
Premiers | West Coast 2nd premiership |
Minor premiers | West Coast 2nd minor premiership |
Pre-season cup | Essendon 3rd pre-season cup win |
Brownlow Medallist | Greg Williams (Carlton) |
Leading goalkicker | Gary Ablett (Geelong) |
Attendance | |
Matches played | 174 |
Total attendance | 5,237,398 (30,100 per match) |
Highest | 93,860 (Grand Final, West Coast vs. Geelong) |
The 1994 AFL season was the 98th season of the Australian Football League (AFL), the highest level senior Australian rules football competition in Australia, which was known as the Victorian Football League until 1989. The season featured fifteen clubs, ran from 26 March until 1 October, and comprised a 22-game home-and-away season followed by a finals series featuring the top eight clubs – an increase from the six clubs which had contested the finals in previous years.
The premiership was won by the West Coast Eagles for the second time, after it defeated Geelong by 80 points in the 1994 AFL Grand Final.
Essendon 15.12 (102) defeated Adelaide 9.14 (68) in the final.
There were several significant alterations to the laws of the game brought in for the 1994 season:
Round 2 | |||||
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Saturday, 2 April (2:00 pm) | Fitzroy 17.10 (112) | def. | Essendon 14.15 (99) | Optus Oval (crowd: 24,872) | Report |
Saturday, 2 April (2:00 pm) | North Melbourne 21.16 (142) | def. | St Kilda 10.13 (73) | MCG (crowd: 27,195) | Report |
Saturday, 2 April (2:08 pm) | Hawthorn 8.16 (64) | def. by | Melbourne 17.16 (118) | Waverley Park (crowd: 29,581) | Report |
Sunday, 3 April (2:08 pm) | Richmond 20.14 (134) | def. | Brisbane Bears 11.6 (72) | MCG (crowd: 15,333) | Report |
Sunday, 3 April (2:15 pm) | West Coast 14.13 (97) | def. | Adelaide 11.12 (78) | Subiaco Oval (crowd: 28,228) | Report |
Monday, 4 April (2:00 pm) | Geelong 22.20 (152) | def. | Footscray 8.16 (64) | Kardinia Park (crowd: 24,019) | Report |
Monday, 4 April (2:08 pm) | Carlton 9.12 (66) | def. by | Collingwood 14.16 (100) | MCG (crowd: 85,063) | Report |
Bye Sydney | |||||
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Round 12 | |||||
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Saturday, 11 June (2:00 pm) | Geelong 17.11 (113) | def. | St Kilda 16.14 (110) | Kardinia Park (crowd: 23,696) | Report |
Saturday, 11 June (2:08 pm) | North Melbourne 21.23 (149) | def. | Adelaide 10.9 (69) | Optus Oval (crowd: 16,643) | Report |
Saturday, 11 June (2:08 pm) | Melbourne 13.16 (94) | def. by | Carlton 18.13 (121) | MCG (crowd: 52,199) | Report |
Sunday, 12 June (1:15 pm) | Sydney 13.5 (83) | def. by | Hawthorn 21.15 (141) | SCG (crowd: 12,251) | Report |
Sunday, 12 June (4:15 pm) | West Coast 11.12 (78) | def. | Brisbane Bears 10.9 (69) | Subiaco Oval (crowd: 23,492) | Report |
Monday, 13 June (2:00 pm) | Footscray 13.14 (92) | def. | Essendon 9.10 (64) | Waverley Park (crowd: 39,181) | Report |
Monday, 13 June (2:08 pm) | Richmond 14.18 (102) | def. | Collingwood 4.12 (36) | MCG (crowd: 61,983) | Report |
Bye Fitzroy | |||||
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Round 24 | |||||
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Friday, 2 September (8:08 pm) | Collingwood 8.14 (62) | def. by | North Melbourne 19.12 (126) | MCG (crowd: 72,932) | Report |
Saturday, 3 September (2:00 pm) | Essendon 12.8 (80) | def. | Carlton 9.8 (62) | MCG (crowd: 61,231) | Report |
Saturday, 3 September (2:00 pm) | Fitzroy 15.12 (102) | def. by | St Kilda 21.14 (140) | Western Oval (crowd: 10,809) | Report |
Saturday, 3 September (2:08 pm) | Hawthorn 9.12 (66) | def. | Adelaide 6.11 (47) | Waverley Park (crowd: 22,973) | Report |
Saturday, 3 September (2:08 pm) | Richmond 13.17 (95) | def. by | Geelong 27.9 (171) | Optus Oval (crowd: 25,112) | Report |
Sunday, 4 September (1:15 pm) | Sydney 18.13 (121) | def. by | Melbourne 27.5 (167) | SCG (crowd: 8,344) | Report |
Sunday, 4 September (4:15 pm) | West Coast 17.15 (117) | def. | Footscray 6.10 (46) | Subiaco Oval (crowd: 26,992) | Report |
Bye Brisbane Bears | |||||
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(P) | Premiers |
Qualified for finals |
# | Team | P | W | L | D | PF | PA | % | Pts |
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1 | West Coast (P) | 22 | 16 | 6 | 0 | 2078 | 1572 | 132.2 | 64 |
2 | Carlton | 22 | 15 | 7 | 0 | 2351 | 1774 | 132.5 | 60 |
3 | North Melbourne | 22 | 13 | 9 | 0 | 2383 | 1848 | 129.0 | 52 |
4 | Geelong | 22 | 13 | 9 | 0 | 2403 | 2104 | 114.2 | 52 |
5 | Footscray | 22 | 13 | 9 | 0 | 2106 | 1905 | 110.6 | 52 |
6 | Hawthorn | 22 | 13 | 9 | 0 | 2188 | 2005 | 109.1 | 52 |
7 | Melbourne | 22 | 12 | 10 | 0 | 2190 | 1879 | 116.6 | 48 |
8 | Collingwood | 22 | 12 | 10 | 0 | 2017 | 2019 | 99.9 | 48 |
9 | Richmond | 22 | 12 | 10 | 0 | 2033 | 2167 | 93.8 | 48 |
10 | Essendon | 22 | 11 | 11 | 0 | 2075 | 2119 | 97.9 | 44 |
11 | Adelaide | 22 | 9 | 12 | 1 | 1876 | 2159 | 86.9 | 38 |
12 | Brisbane Bears | 22 | 9 | 13 | 0 | 1940 | 2195 | 88.4 | 36 |
13 | St Kilda | 22 | 7 | 14 | 1 | 1809 | 2415 | 74.9 | 30 |
14 | Fitzroy | 22 | 5 | 17 | 0 | 1726 | 2456 | 70.3 | 20 |
15 | Sydney | 22 | 4 | 18 | 0 | 1987 | 2545 | 78.1 | 16 |
Rules for classification: 1. premiership points; 2. percentage; 3. points for
Average score: 94.4
Source: AFL Tables
The second McIntyre "final six" system, which had operated in 1992 and 1993, was replaced by the McIntyre "final eight" system. The McIntyre "final eight" system would be used until 1999 and was then replaced by the AFL’s Amended "final eight" system in 2000.
Qualifying finals | |||||
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Saturday, 10 September (2:30 pm) | North Melbourne 15.24 (114) | def. | Hawthorn 13.13 (91) | Waverley Park (crowd: 38,223) | Report |
Saturday, 10 September (7:45 pm) | Geelong 15.16 (106) | def. | Footscray 15.11 (101) | MCG (crowd: 61,182) | Report |
Sunday, 11 September (2:10 pm) | Carlton 14.12 (96) | def. by | Melbourne 18.15 (123) | MCG (crowd: 56,111) | Report |
Sunday, 11 September (4:45 pm) | West Coast 11.16 (82) | def. | Collingwood 12.8 (80) | WACA Ground (crowd: 31,824) | Report |
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