1999 AFL season

Results and statistics for the Australian Football League season of 1999.

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

AFL Draft

See 1999 AFL Draft for more information.

National Cup

Hawthorn defeated Port Adelaide 12.11 (83) to 5.6 (36)

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

Finals series

Qualifying Finals

Semi Finals

Preliminary Finals

For the main article on the Preliminary Final between Essendon and Carlton: 1999 AFL First Preliminary Final

Grand Final

Ladder

All teams played 22 games during the home and away season, for a total of 176. An additional 9 games were played during the finals series.

Ladder progression

• Numbers highlighted in green indicate that the team finished the round inside the top 8.
• Numbers highlighted in blue indicates the team finished first on the ladder in that round.
• Numbers highlighted in red indicates the team finished in last place on the ladder in that round.

Match attendance

Awards

• The Brownlow Medal was awarded to Shane Crawford of Hawthorn.
• The Leigh Matthews Trophy as the AFL's most valuable player was awarded to Shane Crawford of Hawthorn.
• The Coleman Medal was awarded to Scott Cummings of the West Coast Eagles.
• The Norm Smith Medal was awarded to Shannon Grant of the Kangaroos
• The AFL Rising Star award was awarded to Adam Goodes of the Sydney Swans.
• The wooden Spoon was "awarded" to Collingwood.

Notes

• Richmond and Adelaide played in torrential and stormy conditions at Football Park in round 9. Under new laws that were introduced following the power outage which interrupted a game at Waverley Park in 1996, the captains met in the centre to decide whether to call the game off at three quarter time (accepting the progress score as final), due to the thunder and lightning having put out two light towers during half time. At that stage, Adelaide led by a point, but the captains agreed to carry on with the game. Richmond ended up winning by 9 points.
• Two weeks later, Richmond once again played in heavy and unyielding rain at Football Park, this time against Port Adelaide. Port Adelaide won by the score of 4.8 (32) to 3.12 (30). It was Port Adelaide's lowest score (giving them the unique distinction of recording a victory with their lowest score) until Round 10 of 2010 (which, coincidentally, was also against Richmond at Football Park in wet weather). The match remains the last time a team has won with four or fewer goals, and remains the fifth-lowest winning score since 1912.
• Brisbane's half-time score of 21.5 (131) against Fremantle set the new and enduring record for the highest half-time score in VFL/AFL history.
• In their round 12 game, Hawthorn trailed St Kilda by 63 points early in the second quarter before recovering to win by thirteen points. This set a new record for the largest ever comeback in a VFL/AFL game, a record which would stand until 2001.
• The start of the Round 22 game between Carlton and Richmond at the M.C.G. was delayed by about half an hour after the scoreboard at the city end caught fire ten minutes before the scheduled bounce down. Players returned to the rooms, and much of the Ponsford stand was evacuated onto the playing arena.
• Tim Watson became coach of St. Kilda. They'd lose his first game as coach by 89 points. The same match marked Leigh Matthews' first match as coach of the Brisbane Lions. Brisbane's first round win put them on top of the ladder, a season after winning the wooden spoon.
• Collingwood had lost 13 straight games in a row. They finally won against Fremantle in round 8.
• Waverley Park and Victoria Park both hosted their final AFL games in Round 22; their absence would the following year be replaced by Colonial Stadium.

See also

• List of AFL debuts in 1999

References

• 1999 Season - AFL Tables