A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | CH | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9
| 2011 AFL premiership season | |
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| Teams | 17 |
| Premiers | Geelong 9th premiership |
| Minor premiers | Collingwood 19th minor premiership |
| Pre-season cup | Collingwood 2nd pre-season cup win |
| Brownlow Medallist | Dane Swan (Collingwood) 34 votes |
| Coleman Medallist | Lance Franklin (Hawthorn) 71 goals |
| Attendance | |
| Matches played | 196 |
| Total attendance | 7,139,272 (36,425 per match) |
| Highest (H&A) | 89,626 (round 5, Essendon v Collingwood) |
| Highest (finals) | 99,537 (Grand Final, Collingwood vs. Geelong) |
The 2011 AFL season was the 115th 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 seventeen clubs, with the newly established Gold Coast Suns, based in Gold Coast, Queensland, playing its inaugural season. The season ran from 24 March until 1 October, and comprised a 22-game home-and-away season followed by a finals series featuring the top eight clubs.
The premiership was won by the Geelong Football Club for the ninth time, after it defeated Collingwood by 38 points in the 2011 AFL Grand Final.
Pre-season
Draft
The 2010 National Draft was held on 18 November 2010 at the Gold Coast Convention Centre.[1] 107 players were drafted, including 28 promoted rookies. New club Gold Coast received the first three selections as part of its draft concessions, and selected David Swallow with the number one draft pick.[2]
The 2011 Pre-season and Rookie Drafts were held on 7 December 2010, with another 80 players being selected. Greater Western Sydney, set to join the AFL as a senior club in 2012, had the first eight selections in the Rookie Draft as part of its draft concessions.[3]
NAB Cup
The 2011 NAB Cup featured all seventeen senior clubs, as well as Greater Western Sydney which would not join the AFL as a senior club until 2012. The first round of matches featured lightning football matches played among six pools of three teams; standard matches were played for the rest of the competition. Collingwood defeated Essendon in the Grand Final at Etihad Stadium on Friday, 11 March.
| 2011 NAB Cup Grand Final | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Friday, 11 March 7:45 pm | Essendon | def. by | Collingwood | Etihad Stadium (crowd: 45,304) | Report |
| 0.2.2 (14) 0.3.4 (22) 0.9.5 (59) 0.13.8 (86) |
Q1 Q2 Q3 Final |
0.3.4 (22) 0.7.6 (48) 1.11.7 (82) 1.15.9 (108) |
Umpires: Rosebury, Stevic, Nicholls, Jennings Michael Tuck Medal: Heath Shaw Television broadcast: Seven Network | ||
| Super Goals | 1 Buckley | ||||
| Hurley, Monfries 3 Ryder, Watson, Zaharakis 2 Hocking 1 |
Goals | 3 Krakouer, Dawes 2 Cloke 1 Ball, Beams, McCarthy, Pendlebury, Swan, Thomas, Wellingham | |||
| Hardingham (groin) | Injuries | Nil | |||
Premiership season
The fixture was announced on 29 October.[4] Some of the highlights included:
- Gold Coast had a bye for the first round and played its first home match in the second round against Carlton at the Gabba. Its first match at its permanent home ground, the renovated Metricon Stadium, was against Geelong on 28 May.
- The season had 24 rounds; 19 rounds featured eight matches with one team having a bye, and five rounds featured seven matches with three teams having a bye. There were eleven additional matches compared with 2010, giving a total of 196 games including finals, up from 185.[5]
- Two venues hosted their first AFL matches during the season: Cazaly's Stadium in Cairns hosted the Richmond vs Gold Coast match in round 17, and the Adelaide Oval in Adelaide hosted the Port Adelaide vs Melbourne match in round 24; the latter was not part of the original fixture, and the game was moved there from AAMI Stadium during the season.
Round 1
| Round 1 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thursday, 24 March (7:40 pm) | Carlton 14.20 (104) | def. | Richmond 13.6 (84) | MCG (crowd: 60,654) | Report |
| Friday, 25 March (7:40 pm) | Geelong 6.12 (48) | def. | St Kilda 6.11 (47) | MCG (crowd: 42,869) | Report |
| Saturday, 26 March (2:10 pm) | Collingwood 24.11 (155) | def. | Port Adelaide 12.8 (80) | Etihad Stadium (crowd: 35,773) | Report |
| Saturday, 26 March (7:10 pm) | Adelaide 16.9 (105) | def. | Hawthorn 12.13 (85) | AAMI Stadium (crowd: 42,536) | Report |
| Saturday, 26 March (7:10 pm) | Brisbane Lions 14.8 (92) | def. by | Fremantle 13.16 (94) | The Gabba (crowd: 23,373) | Report |
| Sunday, 27 March (1:10 pm) | Essendon 16.17 (113) | def. | Western Bulldogs 8.10 (58) | Etihad Stadium (crowd: 42,617) | Report |
| Sunday, 27 March (2:10 pm) | Melbourne 11.18 (84) | drew with | Sydney 11.18 (84) | MCG (crowd: 33,951) | Report |
| Sunday, 27 March (4:10 pm) | West Coast 13.14 (92) | def. | North Melbourne 13.10 (88) | Patersons Stadium (crowd: 35,878) | Report |
| Bye Gold Coast |
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