The 2019 AFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Richmond Football Club and Greater Western Sydney Giants. It was the 123rd annual grand final of the Australian Football League, staged to determine the premiers for the 2019 AFL season. The match, attended by 100,014 spectators, was won by Richmond by a margin of 89 points, marking the club’s twelfth VFLAFL premiership and their second in three seasons.
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The 2019 AFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Richmond Football Club and Greater Western Sydney Giants at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on 28 September 2019. It was the 123rd annual grand final of the Australian Football League, staged to determine the premiers for the 2019 AFL season. The match, attended by 100,014 spectators, was won by Richmond by a margin of 89 points, marking the club’s twelfth VFLAFL premiership and their second in three seasons. Richmond’s Dustin Martin won the Norm Smith Medal as the player judged best on ground. The teams met twice during the home-and-away season; first in Round 3 at Giants Stadium when the Giants thrashed Richmond by 49 points, and then in Round 17 at the MCG when the Tigers won by 27 points. It is the eighth consecutive grand final which featured one Victorian team and one non-Victorian team, and it was only the second grand final in VflAFL history that did not feature either team that finished first or second on the ladder.
With an average audience of 2. 197 million across the five major capital cities, this was the lowest rating AFL Grand final on free-to-air television since OzTAM began recording television ratings in 2001. Richmond chose Maureen Hafey – the widow of legendary coach Tom Hafey – to carry the premiership cup onto the field, while GWS chose Kevin Sheedy – their first ever coach – to present the trophy during the on-field award ceremony. The opening term of the grand final was a tough battle of attrition, with neither team scoring a goal in the first twenty minutes. Jeremy Cameron scored the opening goal of the match at 20-minute mark before Dustin Martin scored two late goals at the end of the first term. The Giants won three finals to qualify for the grandfinal: a dominant win against Western Bulldogs by 58 points in the elimination final, then two thrilling victories – a three-point win over Brisbane in the semi-final, and a four- point win against Collingwood in the preliminary final.
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