The 2010 AFL Grand Final was a series of two Australian rules football matches between the Collingwood Football Club and the St Kilda Football Club. They are considered the 114th and 115th grand finals of the Australian Football League ,Note 1 and were staged to determine the premiers for the 2010 AFL season. The premiership is usually decided by a single match; however, as the first grand final ended in a draw, a grand final replay was played the following week and was won by Collingwood.
The Melbourne Cricket Ground (pictured), where the 2010 AFL Grand Final was played.
Aerial view of the Melbourne Cricket Ground, during the replay's pre-match entertainment
Leigh Matthews Trophy winner Dane Swan of Collingwood, the pre-match favourite to win the Norm Smith Medal.
A Qantas Airbus A380 flies over the MCG on grand final day.
The AFL Grand Final is an Australian rules football match to determine the premiers for the Australian Football League (AFL) season. From its inception until 1989, it was known as the VFL Grand Final, as the league at that time was the Victorian Football League. Played at the end of the finals series, the game has been held annually since 1898, except in 1924. It is traditionally staged on the afternoon of the last Saturday in September, at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. As the premier match of the AFL season, it attracts one of the largest audiences in Australian sport, regularly attracting a crowd of more than 100,000 and a television audience of millions.
Panorama of the Melbourne Cricket Ground prior to the 2018 AFL Grand Final
The 1898 Fitzroy team, winners of the inaugural VFL Grand Final.
South Melbourne players enter the field before the 1909 grand final.
Essendon's premiership team from 1923.