2009 AFL Grand Final
The 2009 AFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the St Kilda Football Club and the Geelong Football Club at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on 26 September 2009. It was the 113th annual grand final of the Australian Football League (formerly the Victorian Football League), staged to determine the premiers for the 2009 AFL season.
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Post-match presentation after the game. The premiership was Geelong's second of three premiership victories won between 2007 and 2011. | ||||||||||||||||
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| Date | 26 September 2009, 2.30pm | |||||||||||||||
| Stadium | Melbourne Cricket Ground | |||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 99,251 | |||||||||||||||
| Favourite | Geelong | |||||||||||||||
| Umpires | Chris Donlon, Brett Rosebury, Shaun Ryan | |||||||||||||||
| Coin toss won by | Geelong | |||||||||||||||
| Kicked toward | City End | |||||||||||||||
| Ceremonies | ||||||||||||||||
| Pre-match entertainment | Mark Seymour, Jimmy Barnes, John Farnham and Qantas choir | |||||||||||||||
| National anthem | Jersey Boys | |||||||||||||||
| Accolades | ||||||||||||||||
| Norm Smith Medallist | Paul Chapman (Geelong) | |||||||||||||||
| Jock McHale Medallist | Mark Thompson (Geelong) | |||||||||||||||
| Broadcast in Australia | ||||||||||||||||
| Network | Network Ten | |||||||||||||||
| Commentators | Stephen Quartermain (Host) Tim Lane (Commentator) Robert Walls (Expert Commentator) Luke Darcy (Expert Commentator) Mark Howard (Boundary Rider) Andrew Maher (Boundary Rider) | |||||||||||||||
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The match, attended by 99,251 spectators, was won by Geelong by a margin of 12 points, marking the club's eighth VFL/AFL premiership victory. It is remembered as one of the great grand finals in recent memory, due to the closeness of the scoreline, the physical nature of the game and the sheer brilliance of individual efforts from some of its participants. Geelong's Paul Chapman was awarded the Norm Smith Medal as the best player on the ground.