1994 AFL season

Results and statistics for the Australian Football League season of 1994.

Pre-season cup

Essendon 15.12 (102) defeated Adelaide 9.14 (68)

Premiership Season

Round 1

Round 2

Round 3

Round 4

Round 5

Round 6

Round 7

Round 8

Round 9

• This was the last time Hawthorn beat Adelaide In Adelaide until Round 12 2008

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

Ladder

All teams played 22 games during the home and away season, for a total of 165. An additional 9 games were played during the finals series. It was the first season that the AFL implemented a top 8 team finals series. That number of teams in the Finals remains the case today.

Finals

Qualifying Finals

Semi finals

Preliminary Final

Grand final

Playing time

In order to meet the requirements of the television broadcasters, the AFL adjusted the playing time allocated to each of a match's four quarters for this season. Playing time was reduced from 25 minutes to 20 minutes, however some additional stoppages attracted "time-on" allocations; the total reduction of playing time was approximately 10%.

Awards

• The Brownlow Medal was awarded to Greg Williams of Carlton.
• The Leigh Matthews Trophy was awarded to Greg Williams of Carlton.
• The Coleman Medal was awarded to Gary Ablett of Geelong.
• The Norm Smith Medal was awarded to Dean Kemp of West Coast.
• The AFL Rising Star award was awarded to Chris Scott of Brisbane Bears.
• The Wooden Spoon was "awarded" to Sydney.

Notable events

• The AFL increases the number of interchange players to three which, when added to the "run on" team of 18 on-the-field players, increasing the standard team squad size to 21 players.
• The "blood rule" was introduced in order to allay fears raised by the threat of AIDS.
• The AFL introduced a third field umpire.
• The reduction in a match's amount of elapsed playing time (see above).
• The Second McIntyre "Final Six" system, which had operated in 1992 and 1993, was replaced by the McIntyre "Final Eight" system. The McIntyre "Final Eight" system operated from 1994 to 1999; it was replaced by the AFL’s Amended "Final Eight" system in 2000.
• The third qualifying final between North Melbourne and Hawthorn was the first ever AFL game to require extra time, after the teams were tied at 91 after four quarters. The provision for extra time was introduced after the controversial 1990 finals series, where the qualifying final between Collingwood and West Coast was tied, forcing a replay the following weekend which gave top team Essendon a second bye weekend. North Melbourne dominated extra time and won the game by 23 points.

See also

• McIntyre "Final Eight" system

References

• 1994 Season - AFL Tables