2019 AFL Grand Final
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 124th annual grand final of the Australian Football League (formerly Victorian 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 VFL/AFL premiership and their second in three seasons. Richmond's Dustin Martin won the Norm Smith Medal as the player judged best on ground.
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The teams line up for the National Anthem at the 2019 AFL Grand Final | ||||||||||||||||
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| Date | 28 September 2019, 2:30 pm | |||||||||||||||
| Stadium | Melbourne Cricket Ground | |||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 100,014 | |||||||||||||||
| Favourite | Richmond | |||||||||||||||
| Umpires | Matt Stevic, Shaun Ryan, Ray Chamberlain | |||||||||||||||
| Coin toss won by | Richmond | |||||||||||||||
| Kicked toward | City End | |||||||||||||||
| Ceremonies | ||||||||||||||||
| Pre-match entertainment | Paul Kelly, Dean Lewis, Tones and I, John Williamson, Mike Brady | |||||||||||||||
| National anthem | Conrad Sewell | |||||||||||||||
| Post-match entertainment | Dean Lewis | |||||||||||||||
| Accolades | ||||||||||||||||
| Norm Smith Medallist | Dustin Martin | |||||||||||||||
| Jock McHale Medallist | Damien Hardwick | |||||||||||||||
| Broadcast in Australia | ||||||||||||||||
| Network | Seven Network | |||||||||||||||
| Commentators | Bruce McAvaney (host and commentator) Hamish McLachlan (host and master of ceremonies) Brian Taylor (commentator) Wayne Carey (expert commentator) Cameron Ling (expert commentator) Daisy Pearce (boundary rider) Matthew Richardson (boundary rider) Leigh Matthews (analyst) | |||||||||||||||
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