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| 2022 AFL premiership season | |
|---|---|
| Date | 16 March—24 September 2022 |
| Teams | 18 |
| Premiers | Geelong 10th premiership |
| Runners-up | Sydney 13th runners-up result |
| Minor premiers | Geelong 15th minor premiership |
| Brownlow Medallist | Patrick Cripps (Carlton) 29 votes |
| Coleman Medallist | Charlie Curnow (Carlton) 64 goals |
| Attendance | |
| Matches played | 216 |
| Total attendance | 7,392,391 (34,224 per match) |
| Highest (H&A) | 88,287 (round 23, Carlton v Collingwood) |
| Highest (finals) | 100,024 (grand final, Geelong v Sydney) |
The 2022 AFL season was the 126th season of the Australian Football League (AFL), the highest level senior men's Australian rules football competition in Australia, which was known as the Victorian Football League until 1989. The season featured eighteen clubs and ran from 16 March until 24 September, comprising 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 tenth time, after defeating Sydney by 81 points in the 2022 AFL Grand Final.
Background
The 2022 season was played during the third year of the COVID-19 pandemic. 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 social and interstate travel restrictions which had been in place through the latter half of 2021 had been lifted;[2] Western Australia maintained some restrictions into the start of the season.[3] Cases of the virus, particularly the Omicron variant which became dominant in December 2021, were widespread in the community for the first time in the pandemic; and confirmed cases and their close contacts were still required to test and isolate, although for shorter periods than earlier in the pandemic.[4]
The main impacts of the pandemic to the AFL season were:
- The league implemented a vaccination policy requiring all players and football department staff to be vaccinated against COVID-19;[5] equivalent requirements were implemented by some state governments.[6] Two players – Liam Jones (Carlton) and Cam Ellis-Yolmen (Brisbane Lions) – resigned as a result of the mandate.[7] The AFL's mandate was lifted in July, on a similar timeline to those of the state governments.[8]
- A player top-up list and policy was put in place to cover the event of a substantial portion of a team being forced into isolation. Each club could nominate twenty top-up players from their affiliated state league and reserves systems; those players would become eligible to play if fewer than 28 main list players were available due for COVID-19 reasons, but would not otherwise be contracted to the club.[9] The Western Australian government's tighter restrictions on isolation for close contacts early in the season meant that state's clubs saw greater COVID-19 impacts, and West Coast was the only club to draw on its top-up list, doing so twice.[10]
Melbourne and the Western Bulldogs opened the season in a rematch of the previous season's grand final.[11] Accor Stadium hosted its first premiership match since the 2016 Qualifying Final, with a Sydney Derby between Greater Western Sydney and Sydney fixtured for the ground in round one.[12] The remainder of the fixture was released on 9 December, with only the first nine rounds released with dates and times for each match. The remainder of the fixture from round 10 was left as a floating fixture so as to prioritize the best matches for each round in prime-time slots, and dates were released progressively through the year.[13] For the first time since 2001, some Friday nights had two scheduled games, with each double-header to take games away from a less-favourable or an otherwise occupied timeslot later in the weekend; the broadcast times of the two matches overlapped partially.[14]
Club leadership
Pre-season
The pre-season series of games returned as the 2022 AAMI Community Series, with teams playing one game each. The games were stand-alone, with no overall winner of the series. All games were televised live on Fox Footy.[33]
Home-and-away season
Round 1
| Round 1 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wednesday, 16 March (7:10 pm) | Melbourne 14.13 (97) | def. | Western Bulldogs 11.5 (71) | MCG (crowd: 58,002) | Report |
| Thursday, 17 March (7:25 pm) | Carlton 14.17 (101) | def. | Richmond 11.10 (76) | MCG (crowd: 72,179) | Report |
| Friday, 18 March (7:50 pm) | St Kilda 12.13 (85) | def. by | Collingwood 15.12 (102) | Marvel Stadium (crowd: 40,129) | Report |
| Saturday, 19 March (2:10 pm) | Geelong 20.18 (138) | def. | Essendon 11.6 (72) | MCG (crowd: 54,495) | Report |
| Saturday, 19 March (5:10 pm) | Greater Western Sydney 13.14 (92) | def. by | Sydney 17.10 (112) | Accor Stadium (crowd: 25,572) | Report |
| Saturday, 19 March (7:10 pm) | Brisbane Lions 11.14 (80) | def. | Port Adelaide 10.9 (69) | The Gabba (crowd: 25,100) | Report |
| Sunday, 20 March (1:10 pm) | Hawthorn 11.12 (78) | def. | North Melbourne 8.10 (58) | MCG (crowd: 38,279) | Report |
| Sunday, 20 March (3:40 pm) | Adelaide 12.10 (82) | def. by | Zdroj:https://en.wikipedia.org?pojem=2022_AFL_season|||