1999 AFL premiership season
Teams16
PremiersKangaroos
4th premiership
Minor premiersEssendon
15th minor premiership
Pre-season cupHawthorn
3rd pre-season cup win
Brownlow MedallistShane Crawford (Hawthorn)
Coleman MedallistScott Cummings (West Coast)
Attendance
Matches played185
Total attendance6,243,586 (33,749 per match)
Highest94,228 (Grand Final, Kangaroos vs. Carlton)

The 1999 AFL season was the 103rd season of the Australian Football League (AFL), the highest level senior Australian rules football competition in Australia, which was known as the Victorian Football League until 1989. The season featured sixteen clubs, ran from 25 March until 25 September, and comprised a 22-game home-and-away season followed by a finals series featuring the top eight clubs.

The premiership was won by the Kangaroos (North Melbourne) for the fourth time, after it defeated Carlton by 35 points in the 1999 AFL Grand Final.[1]

AFL Draft

See 1999 AFL Draft.

Ansett Australia Cup

Hawthorn defeated Port Adelaide 12.11 (83) to 5.6 (36).

Home-and-away season

Round 1

Round 2

Round 3

Round 4

Round 5

Round 6

Round 7

Round 8

Round 9

Round 10

Note: Tony Lockett kicked the record number of goals in the Sydney vs Collingwood game

Round 11

Round 12

Round 13

Round 14

Round 15

Round 16

Round 17

Round 18

Round 19

Round 20

Round 21

Round 22

Ladder

(P)Premiers
Qualified for finals
# Team P W L D PF PA  % Pts
1Essendon22184024001905126.072
2Kangaroos (P)22175024632129115.768
3Brisbane Lions22166024221671144.964
4Western Bulldogs22156123631993118.662
5West Coast221210020681937106.848
6Carlton221210020882028103.048
7Port Adelaide22121001851205490.148
8Sydney221111021842128102.644
9Hawthorn22101111858194395.642
10St Kilda22101201978202197.940
11Geelong22101202328245494.940
12Richmond2291301977217091.136
13Adelaide2281401903223285.332
14Melbourne2261601850229380.724
15Fremantle2251701981240382.420
16Collingwood2241801973232684.816

Rules for classification: 1. premiership points; 2. percentage; 3. points for
Average score: 95.7
Source: AFL Tables

Progression by round

  Numbers highlighted in green indicate that the team finished the round inside the top 8.
  Numbers highlighted in blue indicates the team finished first on the ladder in that round.
  Numbers highlighted in red indicates the team finished in last place on the ladder in that round.
Team ╲ Round12345678910111213141516171819202122
Essendon481212162020202428323640444448525660646872
Kangaroos004481216202428323640444448485256606468
Brisbane Lions4448121620202424282832323640444852566064
Western Bulldogs44448812162024263030343842464650545862
West Coast481216202424283232323640444444444848484848
Carlton04812121216162024242424283232364044444848
Port Adelaide481212121212161616202024283236404040444848
Sydney00044812161620242828283232363636404444
Hawthorn448881212121216182222222222222630343842
St Kilda044881216202428282828323232363636363640
Geelong481216202020202020202020202424242832363640
Richmond0448888121616162024242832323232323236
Adelaide0488121616161616162020242424283232323232
Melbourne4448121216161616202024242424242424242424
Fremantle0000004448121212121620202020202020
Collingwood00000004444488812121216161616
Source:

Finals series

Qualifying Finals

Semi-finals

Note: West Coast Eagles played its "home" final at the MCG despite being ranked above Carlton due to the agreement then in place with the Melbourne Cricket Club that at least one game each week of the finals be played at the MCG.

Preliminary Finals

Grand Final

Match attendance

TeamHostedAverageHighestLowestTotalLast Season+/-
Essendon1157,30973,11835,273630,39954,894+ 2414
Richmond1140,53359,45828,217445,86344,307- 3774
Adelaide1139,39345,61533,398433,32441,245- 1852
Collingwood1139,12656,12919,441430,38649,399- 10,273
Carlton1135,03770,50619,100385,40332,634+ 2403
Hawthorn1134,86372,13013,941383,49032,173+ 2690
St Kilda1133,18246,88020,131365,00636,231- 3049
Melbourne1131,95551,72218,679351,50440,085- 8130
Port Adelaide1131,26942,66925,753343,96331,799- 530
West Coast Eagles1130,86836,76324,696339,54934,199- 3331
Sydney1130,53941,28024,629335,93031,549- 1010
Kangaroos1125,89048,38310,676284,78635,791- 9901
Geelong1124,84042,27217,234273,24228,371- 3531
Western Bulldogs1124,02344,68313,513264,25423,832+ 191
Fremantle1123,97232,68017,620263,68923,104+ 868
Brisbane Lions1121,89024,98917,665240,79116,675+ 5215
Totals17632,79373,11810,6765,771,57934,768- 1975
VenueHostedAverageHighestLowestTotalLast Year+/-
MCG5842,37073,11816,4292,457,44047,585- 5215
Football Park2235,33145,61525,753777,28736,522- 1191
Waverley Park2133,55872,13013,941704,71934,549- 991
Subiaco Oval1628,50636,76317,620456,09629,800- 1294
SCG1526,76741,28010,676401,50631,549- 4782
WACA624,52426,12622,987147,14225,590- 1066
Victoria Park221,96724,49319,44143,93423,241- 1274
Shell Stadium921,92227,41717,234197,29623,307- 1385
GABBA1121,89024,98917,665240,79116,675+ 5215
Optus Oval1621,58631,18913,513345,36821,874- 289
Totals17632,79373,11810,6765,771,57934,768- 1975

Awards

See also

Notes

  • Richmond and Adelaide played in torrential and stormy conditions at Football Park in Round 9. Under new laws that were introduced following the power outage which interrupted a game at Waverley Park in 1996, the captains met in the centre to decide whether to call the game off at three quarter time (accepting the progress score as final), due to the thunder and lightning having put out two light towers during half time. At that stage, Adelaide led by a point, but the captains agreed to carry on with the game. Richmond ended up winning by 11 points.
  • Two rounds later, Richmond once again played in heavy and unrelenting rain at Football Park, this time against Port Adelaide. Port Adelaide won by the score of 4.8 (32) to 3.12 (30). It was Port Adelaide's lowest score, and remained as such until 2010 (also against Richmond), giving them the unique distinction during that period of time of having recorded a victory with their lowest score.
  • In round 10, Sydney's Tony Lockett entered the game against Collingwood 2 goals shy of Gordon Coventry's 62-year standing record of 1299 career goals. Lockett kicked his 3rd of 9 goals to break the record, which he still holds as of 2022.
  • Brisbane's half-time score of 21.5 (131) against Fremantle in round 20 set the new and enduring record for the highest half-time score in VFL/AFL history.
  • In their Round 12 game, Hawthorn trailed St Kilda by 63 points early in the second quarter before recovering to win by thirteen points. This set a new record for the largest ever comeback in a VFL/AFL game, a record which would stand until 2001.
  • The start of the Round 22 game between Richmond and Carlton at the Melbourne Cricket Ground was delayed by about half an hour after the scoreboard at the city end caught fire ten minutes before the scheduled bounce down. Players returned to the rooms, and much of the Ponsford Stand was evacuated onto the playing arena.
  • Collingwood lost 13 games in a row following on from the end of the previous season. They finally won against Fremantle in Round 8.
  • Port Adelaide's percentage of 90.12 remains the worst of any team in VFL/AFL history which qualified a team for the finals (excluding the seasons affected by World War I).
  • Waverley Park and Victoria Park both hosted their last senior AFL games in Round 22 – their absence would be replaced the following year by Colonial Stadium.

References

  1. McCamish, Scott (25 September 1999). "1999 Grand Final Report". Australian Football Association of North America. Archived from the original on 18 July 2001. Retrieved 29 December 2023.

Sources

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