1. Foster's Cup

2. Premiership season
    Round 1  Round 2  Round 3  Round 4  Round 5  Round 6  Round 7  Round 8  Round 9  Round 10  Round 11  Round 12  Round 13  Round 14  Round 15  Round 16  Round 17  Round 18  Round 19  Round 20  Round 21  Round 22  Round 23  Round 24 

3. Finals series
    Elimination finals  Qualifying final  Semi finals  Preliminary final  Grand final 

4. Ladder

5. Match attendance

6. Awards

7. Notable events

8. See also

9. References

10. Bibliography

The 1991 Australian Football League season was the 95th season of the elite Australian rules football competition and the 2nd under the name 'Australian Football League', having switched from 'Victorian Football League' after 1989.

Foster's Cup

Premiership season

The league expanded to 15 teams with the admission of the Adelaide Crows, meaning byes were required for the first time since 1943.

Each team played 22 games for the season with two byes: seven teams had a bye in round 1, and one team had a bye in each subsequent round.

Round 1

Round 2

Round 3

Round 4

Round 5

Round 6

Round 7

Round 8

Round 9

Round 10

Round 11

Round 12

Round 13

Round 14

Round 15

Round 16

Round 17

Round 18

Round 19

Round 20

Round 21

Round 22

Round 23

Round 24

Finals series

Elimination finals

Qualifying final

Semi finals

Preliminary final

Grand final

Ladder

All teams played 22 games during the home and away season, for a total of 165. An additional 7 games were played during the finals series.

A team based in the state of South Australia, christened the "Adelaide Crows" after the epithet bestowed upon those from South Australia by those living in other Australian states (viz., the "crow eaters") was admitted to the AFL competition in 1991.

Match attendance

Total match attendance for the home-and-away season was 3,810,868 people. Total attendance for the finals series was 381,707 people. Attendance at the Grand Final was 75,230 people. The largest non-finals attendance was 55,735 people for the {{AFL Col}} v {{AFL Mel}} game of Round 6.

Awards

• The Brownlow Medal was awarded to Jim Stynes of Melbourne
• The Coleman Medal was awarded to Tony Lockett of St Kilda
• The Norm Smith Medal was awarded to Paul Dear of Hawthorn
• The Leigh Matthews Trophy was awarded to Jim Stynes of Melbourne
• The Under 19's Grand Final was won by North Melbourne
• The Reserves Grand Final was won by Brisbane
• The Seniors Grand Final was won by Hawthorn

Notable events

• The Adelaide Crows entered the AFL competition.
• The McIntyre "Final Five" system, which had operated from 1972 until 1991, was replaced by the First McIntyre "Final Six" system. This system lasted only this season, and it was replaced by the Second McIntyre "Final Six" system in 1992.
• In round 6, {{AFL Nor}} and {{AFL Syd}} kicked 32.18 (210) in the first half. It is the only aggregate of 200 points for a half in VFL/AFL history.
• In round 11, {{AFL Car}} kicked its only goal through Mark Arceri 33 seconds from the end of their match with Footscray. It was the Blues' lowest score since 1904, and the closest a team has come to a goalless match since 1961.
• In round 21, Essendon hosted its last senior VFL/AFL match at Windy Hill—its home venue since 1922. Essendon played its home matches at the Melbourne Cricket Ground for the remainder of the 1990s.
• {{AFL WC}} did not concede more than 100 points in any game during the home-and-away season, being the first team to do this since 1967.
• The qualifying final at Subiaco Oval between West Coast and Hawthorn was the first finals match played outside Melbourne since 1897, when one finals match was played in Geelong; it was the first final ever played outside Victoria.
• The capacity of the Melbourne Cricket Ground was reduced by half during 1991 as the new Great Southern Stand was constructed in preparation for the 1992 Cricket World Cup, to be played there in the summer of 1991/92. One consequence of this was that Waverley Park hosted all finals that were played in Melbourne, including (for the first and only time in its history) the grand final. The other was that Hawthorn's plans move its home games from Princes Park to Waverley Park were delayed by one year: Hawthorn had played five home games at Waverley Park and six at Princes Park in 1990 as part of transitional arrangements for a permanent move in 1991, but the AFL reneged on the deal when it became clear that the ground was needed for blockbuster games throughout the year; as a compromise, Hawthorn again played five home games at Waverley Park and six at Princes Park during 1991, and then moved permanently to Waverley Park in 1992.^[1]
• By the end of the year, Hawthorn captain Michael Tuck retired from the game, having played a then-record 426 VFL/AFL matches (including 7 premierships from 11 grand finals). The record stood until passed by Brent Harvey ({{AFL Nor}}) in 2016.

See also

• First McIntyre "Final Six" system

References

• 1991 Season - AFL Tables

Bibliography

• {{cite book|first=Stephen|last=Rodgers|title=Every Game Ever Played: VFL/AFL Results 1897-1991|edition=3rd|year=1992|publisher=Penguin Books|location=Australia|ISBN=0-670-90526-7}}

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