The 2007 AFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Geelong Football Club and the Port Adelaide Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 29 September 2007. It was the 111th annual Grand Final of the Australian Football League, staged to determine the premiers for the 2007 AFL season. The match, attended by 97,302 spectators, was won by Geelong by a margin of 119 points, the greatest winning margin in VFL/AFL grand final history. The victory marked Geelong's seventh premiership win, and ended its 44-year premiership drought.
Players in action during the first quarter of the game. Geelong would hold the lead for all four quarters of the game.
2007 Brownlow Medal winner Jimmy Bartel of Geelong (2008)
Image: AFL Grand Final 2007 Postmatch
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.
