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2024 AFL season
The 2024 AFL season was the 128th season of the Australian Football League (AFL), the highest-level senior men's Australian rules football competition in Australia. The season featured 18 clubs and ran from 7 March to 28 September, comprising a 23-match home-and-away season over 25 rounds, followed by a four-week finals series featuring the top eight clubs.
The Brisbane Lions won the premiership, defeating Sydney by 60 points in the 2024 AFL Grand Final; it was the Lions' fourth AFL premiership. Sydney won the minor premiership by finishing atop the home-and-away ladder with a 17–6 win–loss record. Carlton's Patrick Cripps won his second Brownlow Medal as the league's best and fairest player, breaking the record for most votes polled using the 3–2–1 voting system with 45, and Greater Western Sydney's Jesse Hogan won the Coleman Medal as the league's leading goalkicker.
In November 2023, the AFL and Seven Network announced that the usual start times for Thursday and Friday night matches would be brought forward by ten minutes to 7:30pm and 7:40pm (Melbourne time), respectively, for the upcoming season, in response to feedback from fans.
Caretaker coaches are italicised.
All starting times are local time. Source: afl.com.au
Andrew Dillon took over as CEO of the AFL from this season, commencing in October 2023. Dillon replaced Gillon McLachlan, who had served in the role since 2014.
On 20 February 2024, goal umpire Jesse Baird was scheduled to officiate a practice match between Sydney and Greater Western Sydney, but did not arrive at the match. One day later, New South Wales Police alleged Baird and his partner, Luke Davies, were murdered. Before the start of the Sydney and Melbourne match, both teams formed a minute silence in the middle of the field, along with the umpires, in honoring Jesse Baird.
In an effort to grow the game in the northern states, the season featured an "Opening Round" wherein two matches in Sydney, one in Brisbane and one on the Gold Coast were played, prior to round 1. Following its successful first iteration in 2023, Gather Round, a special round featuring all 18 clubs playing in the same region, was held for the second time in South Australia; it was held in round 4, from 4 to 7 April.
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2024 AFL season
The 2024 AFL season was the 128th season of the Australian Football League (AFL), the highest-level senior men's Australian rules football competition in Australia. The season featured 18 clubs and ran from 7 March to 28 September, comprising a 23-match home-and-away season over 25 rounds, followed by a four-week finals series featuring the top eight clubs.
The Brisbane Lions won the premiership, defeating Sydney by 60 points in the 2024 AFL Grand Final; it was the Lions' fourth AFL premiership. Sydney won the minor premiership by finishing atop the home-and-away ladder with a 17–6 win–loss record. Carlton's Patrick Cripps won his second Brownlow Medal as the league's best and fairest player, breaking the record for most votes polled using the 3–2–1 voting system with 45, and Greater Western Sydney's Jesse Hogan won the Coleman Medal as the league's leading goalkicker.
In November 2023, the AFL and Seven Network announced that the usual start times for Thursday and Friday night matches would be brought forward by ten minutes to 7:30pm and 7:40pm (Melbourne time), respectively, for the upcoming season, in response to feedback from fans.
Caretaker coaches are italicised.
All starting times are local time. Source: afl.com.au
Andrew Dillon took over as CEO of the AFL from this season, commencing in October 2023. Dillon replaced Gillon McLachlan, who had served in the role since 2014.
On 20 February 2024, goal umpire Jesse Baird was scheduled to officiate a practice match between Sydney and Greater Western Sydney, but did not arrive at the match. One day later, New South Wales Police alleged Baird and his partner, Luke Davies, were murdered. Before the start of the Sydney and Melbourne match, both teams formed a minute silence in the middle of the field, along with the umpires, in honoring Jesse Baird.
In an effort to grow the game in the northern states, the season featured an "Opening Round" wherein two matches in Sydney, one in Brisbane and one on the Gold Coast were played, prior to round 1. Following its successful first iteration in 2023, Gather Round, a special round featuring all 18 clubs playing in the same region, was held for the second time in South Australia; it was held in round 4, from 4 to 7 April.
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