1991 AFL season

Results and statistics for the Australian Football League season of 1991.

See List of Australian Football League premiers for a complete list.

National Cup

Hawthorn defeated North Melbourne 14.19 (103) to 7.12 (54). (For an explanation of scoring see Australian rules football).

Premiership Season

Due to the addition of the Adelaide Crows, the number of teams in the competition was uneven. Therefore each team had 2 byes for the season; 7 teams had a bye in Round 1, and then each succeding week 1 team had a bye. In total each team would play 22 games for the 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

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" [1]) 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 Melbourne v Collingwood 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 Wooden Spoon was "awarded" to Brisbane Bears

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. The First McIntyre "Final Six" system only lasted a single season. It was replaced by the Second McIntyre "Final Six" system in 1992.
• In Round 6, North Melbourne and Sydney kicked 32.18 (210) in the first half. It is the only aggregate of 200 points for a half in V/AFL history, and included 18.8 (116) in the second quarter - the second highest aggregate for a quarter.
• In Round 11, Carlton 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 had come to a goalless match since 1961, when Richmond did not kick a goal against St. Kilda.
• In Round 12, Footscray and Sydney played the lowest-scoring draw since 1904.
• In Round 22, Fitzroy and North Melbourne played the highest-scoring one-point result on record. During this match, North Melbourne became the only team ever to play in one season three quarters with aggregate scores of over 100 points each.
• West Coast did not concede a century score during the home-and-away season, being the first team to do this since 1967.

See also

• First McIntyre "Final Six" system

References

• Stephen Rodgers: Every Game Ever Played VFL/AFL Results 1897-1991 3rd Edition 1992. Penguin Books Australia ISBN 0-670-90526-7.
• 1991 Season - AFL Tables