1991 AFL finals series

The 1991 AFL finals series was the second finals series in the Australian Football League, culminating the 1991 AFL season.

In this year, the McIntyre "Final Five" system, which had operated from 1972 until 1991, was replaced by the First McIntyre "Final Six" system. This system lasted only this season, and it was replaced by the Second McIntyre "Final Six" system in 1992.

Bracket

  Qualifying/Elimination finals Semi-finals Preliminary final Grand final
                               
  QF: Sep 8, Subiaco Oval
  1  West Coast  15.11 (101)
  2  Hawthorn  18.16 (124)   SF2: Sep 14, Waverley Park   GF: Sep 28, Waverley Park
   Hawthorn  13.17 (95)    Hawthorn  20.19 (139)
  EF2: Sep 8, Waverley Park    Geelong  13.15 (93)     PF: Sep 21, Waverley Park      West Coast  13.8 (86)
  3  Geelong  15.14 (104)        Geelong  8.16 (64)  
  4  St Kilda  14.13 (97)   SF1: Sep 15, Waverley Park      West Coast  11.13 (79)  
   West Coast  17.15 (117)  
  EF1: Sep 7, Waverley Park    Melbourne  12.7 (79)  
  5  Melbourne  17.11 (113)
  6  Essendon  11.9 (75)

Elimination Finals

1st Elimination Final
September 7, 1991 Melbourne def. Essendon Waverley Park (crowd: 46,032)
1.2 (8)
4.5 (29)
10.7 (67)
 17.11 (113)
Q1
Q2
Q3
 Final
5.6 (36)
7.7 (49)
9.9 (63)
 11.9 (75)
Umpires: Grant Vernon, Bryan Sheehan
Allen Jakovich 8
Andy Lovell 4
Luke Beveridge 2
Earl Spalding, Jim Stynes, Todd Viney
Goals Michael Werner 4
Tim Watson 2
Greg Anderson, Terry Daniher, Paul Hills, Derek Kickett, Kieran Sporn
2nd Elimination Final
September 8, 1991 Geelong def. St Kilda Waverley Park (crowd: 63,796)
5.3 (33)
6.6 (42)
13.10 (88)
 15.14 (104)
Q1
Q2
Q3
 Final
3.5 (23)
9.7 (61)
13.9 (87)
 14.13 (97)
Umpires: Peter Cameron, Rowan Sawers
Brownless 8
Bruns, Denham, Hocking 2
Couch
Goals Lockett 9
McAdam 2
Coghlan, Loewe, Nixon

Qualifying Final

Qualifying Final
September 8, 1991 Hawthorn def. West Coast Subiaco Oval (crowd: 44,142)
5.4 (34)
8.9 (57)
12.12 (84)
 18.16 (124)
Q1
Q2
Q3
 Final
6.3 (39)
7.4 (46)
11.9 (75)
 15.11 (101)
Umpires: John Russo, Darren Goldspink
Dunstall 4
Hudson 3
Dear, Jarman, Platten 2
Allan, Brereton, Condon, Lawrence, Lawrence
Goals Sumich 3
Lewis, Wilson 2
Heady, Kemp, Langdon, Matera, McIntosh
Turley, Waterman

Semi-Finals

Non-Elimination Bracket

2nd Semi-Final
September 14, 1991 Hawthorn def. Geelong Waverley Park (crowd: 63,733)
3.11 (29)
6.13 (49)
10.13 (73)
 13.17 (95)
Q1
Q2
Q3
 Final
2.1 (13)
5.2 (32)
11.8 (74)
 13.15 (93)
Umpires: Dore, Russo
Dunstall 3
Dear, Hall, Pritchard 2
Gowers, Hudson, Jarman, Robran
Goals Hocking, Neeld 3
Brownless, Bruns, Mansfield 2
Stoneham

Elimination Bracket

1st Semi-Final
September 15, 1991 West Coast def. Melbourne Waverley Park (crowd: 41,136)
2.4 (16)
7.6 (48)
12.13 (85)
 17.15 (117)
Q1
Q2
Q3
 Final
4.2 (26)
5.4 (34)
8.4 (52)
 12.7 (79)
Umpires: Chris Mitchell, Bryan Sheehan
Heady, Irving, Sumich, Wilson 3
Hart, Jakovich, Kemp, Lewis, Turley
Goals Jakovich 4
Rohde 2
Beveridge, Cuthbertson, Spalding, Stynes, Viney

Preliminary Finals

Preliminary Final
September 21, 1991 West Coast def. Geelong Waverley Park (crowd: 47,638)
4.6 (30)
6.9 (45)
8.12 (60)
 11.13 (79)
Q1
Q2
Q3
 Final
1.2 (8)
2.6 (18)
5.7 (37)
 8.16 (64)
Umpires: Dore, Sawers
Sumich 6
Lewis 2
Hart, Heady, Jakovich
Goals Neeld, Scott 2
Bairstow, Mansfield, Poole, Stoneham

Grand final

The 1991 AFL Grand Final was held at Waverley Park in Melbourne on 28 September 1991. It was the 2nd Grand Final of the Australian Football League following its transformation into a national league from the Victorian Football League.

The match, attended by a smaller-than-usual crowd of 75,230 spectators, was won by Hawthorn by a margin of 53 points, marking that club's ninth premiership victory and first within the AFL..

Reconstruction work at the larger Melbourne Cricket Ground, where most Grand Finals in the VFL had been played since 1902, made this game the first and only Grand Final held within this stadium

The match was also the first VFL/AFL Grand Final to feature a team (West Coast) based outside the state of Victoria.


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