AFL Grand Final

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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. The game has been held annually since 1898, apart from 1924, at the end of the finals series. It is traditionally staged on the afternoon of the last Saturday in September, at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. The match attracts one of the largest audiences in Australian sport, with crowds regularly exceeding 100,000 and a television audience of millions. The club that wins the grand final receives the AFL's premiership cup and flag; players on the winning team receive a gold premiership medallion, and the best player receives the Norm Smith Medal. A total of 131 grand finals have been played, including three grand final replays. The Carlton Football Club and Collingwood Football...

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