2011 AFL Grand Final
The 2011 AFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Collingwood Football Club and the Geelong Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on 1 October 2011. It was the 116th annual grand final of the Australian Football League (formerly the Victorian Football League), staged to determine the premiers for the 2011 AFL season. The match, attended by 99,537 spectators, was won by Geelong by a margin of 38 points, marking the club's ninth VFL/AFL premiership victory. Geelong's Jimmy Bartel was awarded the Norm Smith Medal as the best player on the ground.
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The Melbourne Cricket Ground (pictured), where the 2011 AFL Grand Final was played. | ||||||||||||||||
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| Date | 1 October 2011, 2.30pm | |||||||||||||||
| Stadium | Melbourne Cricket Ground | |||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 99,537 | |||||||||||||||
| Favourite | Geelong | |||||||||||||||
| Umpires | C. Donlon, B. Rosebury, S. Ryan | |||||||||||||||
| Coin toss won by | Geelong | |||||||||||||||
| Kicked toward | Punt Road End | |||||||||||||||
| Ceremonies | ||||||||||||||||
| Pre-match entertainment | Meat Loaf | |||||||||||||||
| National anthem | Vanessa Amorosi | |||||||||||||||
| Accolades | ||||||||||||||||
| Norm Smith Medallist | Jimmy Bartel (Geelong) | |||||||||||||||
| Jock McHale Medallist | Chris Scott (Geelong) | |||||||||||||||
| Broadcast in Australia | ||||||||||||||||
| Network | Network Ten | |||||||||||||||
| Commentators | Stephen Quartermain (Host) Anthony Hudson (Commentator) Matthew Lloyd (Expert Commentator) Luke Darcy (Expert Commentator) Andrew Maher (Boundary Rider) Mark Howard (Boundary Rider) | |||||||||||||||
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As of 2023, this is the most recent AFL Grand Final to be contested between two Victorian clubs at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.a
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