The 2018 AFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the West Coast Eagles and the Collingwood Football Club at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on 29 September 2018. It was the 122nd annual grand final of the Australian Football League, staged to determine the premiers for the 2018 AFL season. The match was won by West Coast by a margin of five points, marking the club’s fourth premiership and first since 2006. It is regarded as one of the greatest Grand Finals of all time.
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The 2018 AFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the West Coast Eagles and the Collingwood Football Club at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on 29 September 2018. It was the 122nd annual grand final of the Australian Football League, staged to determine the premiers for the 2018 AFL season. The match was won by West Coast by a margin of five points, marking the club’s fourth premiership and first since 2006. It is regarded as one of the greatest Grand Finals of all time, and one ofThe game is ranked 1st on the AFL’s 50 greatest games of the last 50 years in 2020. The grand final attendance of 100,022 people was the largest crowd since the 1986 Grand Final. The Black Eyed Peas performed a number of their hit singles, including “Where Is the Love?”, “Let’s Get It Started”, “I Gotta Feeling” and their new single “Big Love”. Filipina singer Jessica Reynoso filled in on vocals for former band member Fergie.
Mike Brady performed his own traditional grand final song, while the national anthem was sung by Mahalia Barnes, Jimmy Barnes’ daughter. The presentation ceremony following the match was the most watched television program in Australia for the2018 calendar year, with 2. 62 million viewers in the five largest Australian metropolitan cities. West Coast’s Luke Shuey won the Norm Smith Medal as the player judged best on ground. The Eagles recorded its best season in three years, with a 16–6 win–loss record, to finish second on the ladder. The club hosted third-placedCollingwood in the second qualifying final at Perth Stadium, and overcame the Magpies by sixteen points to advance to the preliminary final. There, the Eagles won comfortably by 66 points to advanced to the grand final for the first time since losing the 2015 Grand Final to Hawthorn.
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