2003 AFL Grand Final
The 2003 AFL Grand final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Brisbane Lions and the Collingwood Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 27 September 2003. It was the 107th annual grand final of the Australian Football League (formerly the Victorian Football League), staged to determine the premiers for the 2003 AFL season. The match, attended by 79,451 spectators, was won by Brisbane by a margin of 50 points, marking the club's third premiership victory, all won consecutively from 2001 to 2003.
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The Melbourne Cricket Ground, where the 2003 AFL Grand Final took place. | ||||||||||||||||
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| Date | 27 September 2003, 2:40pm | |||||||||||||||
| Stadium | Melbourne Cricket Ground | |||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 79,451 | |||||||||||||||
| Favourite | Collingwood | |||||||||||||||
| Umpires | #3 Stephen McBurney, #7 Hayden Kennedy, #10 Brett Allen | |||||||||||||||
| Coin toss won by | Michael Voss (Brisbane Lions) | |||||||||||||||
| Kicked toward | Punt Road End | |||||||||||||||
| Ceremonies | ||||||||||||||||
| Pre-match entertainment | Christine Anu, Gorgi Quill, the finalists from the first season of Australian Idol | |||||||||||||||
| National anthem | Christine Anu | |||||||||||||||
| Accolades | ||||||||||||||||
| Norm Smith Medallist | Simon Black (Brisbane Lions) | |||||||||||||||
| Jock McHale Medallist | Leigh Matthews (Brisbane Lions) | |||||||||||||||
| Broadcast in Australia | ||||||||||||||||
| Network | Network Ten | |||||||||||||||
| Commentators | Stephen Quartermain (Host and Commentator) Anthony Hudson (Commentator) Robert Walls (Expert Commentator) Christi Malthouse (Boundary Rider) Gerard Whateley (Boundary Rider) Malcolm Blight (Analyst) Stephen Silvagni (Analyst) | |||||||||||||||
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