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2015 AFL Grand Final
The 2015 AFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football match contested between the Hawthorn Football Club and the West Coast Eagles at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on 3 October 2015. It was the 120th annual Grand Final of the Australian Football League (formerly the Victorian Football League), staged to determine the premiers for the 2015 AFL season. The match, attended by 98,632 spectators, was won by Hawthorn by a margin of 46 points, marking the club's third consecutive premiership and thirteenth VFL/AFL premiership victory overall. Hawthorn's Cyril Rioli was awarded the Norm Smith Medal as the best player on the ground.
With the Fremantle Dockers and West Coast Eagles finishing first and second respectively on the AFL ladder at the conclusion of the home and away season (and both subsequently winning their qualifying finals to set up two home preliminary finals in Perth for the first time), it was anticipated that the 2015 grand final could be a western derby between the two Western Australian teams for the first time at the MCG.
Hawthorn experienced an average start to the year, with a record of 4–4 after eight matches (including losses to non-finals teams Essendon, Port Adelaide and Greater Western Sydney), but lost just twice more for the remainder of the regular season to finish in the top three for the fifth consecutive year. The team then lost its qualifying final to West Coast at Domain Stadium by 32 points, but rebounded to defeat Adelaide and Fremantle (in Perth) in their semi and preliminary Finals, by 74 and 27 points respectively, to qualify for its fourth consecutive grand final.
West Coast entered the season low on expectations after finishing ninth the previous year and losing key defenders Eric Mackenzie and Mitch Brown to knee injuries early in the year. After losing two of the first three games, to the Western Bulldogs and Fremantle, the Eagles finished the season with a record of 16–5–1 to finish in the top two for the first time since 2006. The Eagles received the week off after beating Hawthorn in the qualifying final by 32 points, and subsequently defeated North Melbourne by 25 points in the preliminary final to progress to their first grand final since 2006.
Hawthorn and West Coast met once during the home-and-away season, in round 19 at Domain Stadium, with Hawthorn winning by 14 points.
The grand final was held on the first Saturday in October, rather than its traditional date on the last Saturday of September, because the 2015 Cricket World Cup delayed access to some AFL grounds early in the season. The game was held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, Hawthorn's main home ground for the home and away season: West Coast who had only played there once during the season compared with Hawthorn's 11 matches. It was the second time that the two sides had met in a grand final; the first was in 1991, which Hawthorn won by a margin of 53 points.
Similar to previous grand finals, the grand final provided both pre-match and post-match entertainment, with English singer Ellie Goulding, Canadian musician Bryan Adams and American musician Chris Isaak performing on the day. Australian singer Kate Ceberano performed the national anthem, and musician Mike Brady performed his famous football song, "Up There Cazaly" as he had done at several grand finals before and since.
For the first time, the day before the grand final was declared a public holiday in Victoria by the incoming Daniel Andrews government, as promised during the campaigning for the 2014 Victorian state election. As this reduced the number of workers in the Melbourne City Centre, the traditional route for the Grand Final Parade was changed to leave from the Old Treasury Building and finish at Yarra Park, adjacent to the Melbourne Cricket Ground. A record crowd of 150,000 people turned up to watch the parade.
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2015 AFL Grand Final
The 2015 AFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football match contested between the Hawthorn Football Club and the West Coast Eagles at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on 3 October 2015. It was the 120th annual Grand Final of the Australian Football League (formerly the Victorian Football League), staged to determine the premiers for the 2015 AFL season. The match, attended by 98,632 spectators, was won by Hawthorn by a margin of 46 points, marking the club's third consecutive premiership and thirteenth VFL/AFL premiership victory overall. Hawthorn's Cyril Rioli was awarded the Norm Smith Medal as the best player on the ground.
With the Fremantle Dockers and West Coast Eagles finishing first and second respectively on the AFL ladder at the conclusion of the home and away season (and both subsequently winning their qualifying finals to set up two home preliminary finals in Perth for the first time), it was anticipated that the 2015 grand final could be a western derby between the two Western Australian teams for the first time at the MCG.
Hawthorn experienced an average start to the year, with a record of 4–4 after eight matches (including losses to non-finals teams Essendon, Port Adelaide and Greater Western Sydney), but lost just twice more for the remainder of the regular season to finish in the top three for the fifth consecutive year. The team then lost its qualifying final to West Coast at Domain Stadium by 32 points, but rebounded to defeat Adelaide and Fremantle (in Perth) in their semi and preliminary Finals, by 74 and 27 points respectively, to qualify for its fourth consecutive grand final.
West Coast entered the season low on expectations after finishing ninth the previous year and losing key defenders Eric Mackenzie and Mitch Brown to knee injuries early in the year. After losing two of the first three games, to the Western Bulldogs and Fremantle, the Eagles finished the season with a record of 16–5–1 to finish in the top two for the first time since 2006. The Eagles received the week off after beating Hawthorn in the qualifying final by 32 points, and subsequently defeated North Melbourne by 25 points in the preliminary final to progress to their first grand final since 2006.
Hawthorn and West Coast met once during the home-and-away season, in round 19 at Domain Stadium, with Hawthorn winning by 14 points.
The grand final was held on the first Saturday in October, rather than its traditional date on the last Saturday of September, because the 2015 Cricket World Cup delayed access to some AFL grounds early in the season. The game was held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, Hawthorn's main home ground for the home and away season: West Coast who had only played there once during the season compared with Hawthorn's 11 matches. It was the second time that the two sides had met in a grand final; the first was in 1991, which Hawthorn won by a margin of 53 points.
Similar to previous grand finals, the grand final provided both pre-match and post-match entertainment, with English singer Ellie Goulding, Canadian musician Bryan Adams and American musician Chris Isaak performing on the day. Australian singer Kate Ceberano performed the national anthem, and musician Mike Brady performed his famous football song, "Up There Cazaly" as he had done at several grand finals before and since.
For the first time, the day before the grand final was declared a public holiday in Victoria by the incoming Daniel Andrews government, as promised during the campaigning for the 2014 Victorian state election. As this reduced the number of workers in the Melbourne City Centre, the traditional route for the Grand Final Parade was changed to leave from the Old Treasury Building and finish at Yarra Park, adjacent to the Melbourne Cricket Ground. A record crowd of 150,000 people turned up to watch the parade.