2004 AFL Grand Final
The 2004 AFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Port Adelaide Football Club and the Brisbane Lions, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 25 September 2004. It was the 108th annual grand final of the Australian Football League (formerly the Victorian Football League), staged to determine the premiers for the 2004 AFL season.
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| Date | 25 September 2004, 2:40pm | |||||||||||||||
| Stadium | Melbourne Cricket Ground | |||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 77,671 | |||||||||||||||
| Favourite | Brisbane Lions | |||||||||||||||
| Umpires | #5 Mathew James, #10 Brett Allen, #30 Shane McInerney | |||||||||||||||
| Coin toss won by | Michael Voss (Brisbane Lions) | |||||||||||||||
| Kicked toward | City End | |||||||||||||||
| Ceremonies | ||||||||||||||||
| Pre-match entertainment | Guy Sebastian, The Ten Tenors, David Hobson & Kath & Kim | |||||||||||||||
| National anthem | Guy Sebastian | |||||||||||||||
| Accolades | ||||||||||||||||
| Norm Smith Medallist | Byron Pickett (Port Adelaide) | |||||||||||||||
| Jock McHale Medallist | Mark Williams (Port Adelaide) | |||||||||||||||
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| Network | Network Ten | |||||||||||||||
| Commentators | Anthony Hudson (Commentator) Tim Lane (Commentator) Robert Walls (Expert Commentator) Christi Malthouse (Boundary Rider) Andrew Maher (Boundary Rider) Stephen Quartermain (Host) Stephen Silvagni (Analyst) Mick Malthouse (Analyst) | |||||||||||||||
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The match was won by Port Adelaide, marking that club's maiden AFL premiership victory. It was a closely fought match until midway through the third quarter, when Port Adelaide broke away and went on to win by 40 points. It was attended by 77,671 spectators. It was also the first Grand Final in AFL/VFL history, to not have a Victorian side play, however, this was overshadowed by the fact that the Brisbane Lions were formerly the Brisbane Bears who had merged with the Fitzroy Lions at the end of the 1996 season, which - ironically - opened the opportunity for Port Adelaide to enter the league.