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and minor states representative teams which had been staged partly in the pre-season and partly during the premiership season, generally finishing in July; but, it had reduced in size and importance until 1987, when only VFL teams were involved and the competition was finished by the end of April. In
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Most games during the pre-season competition, including the final, were night matches. Normal games were typically played slightly short of full-length (quarters lasting 17½ or 18 minutes plus time-on instead of the normal 20), and with an extended interchange bench of six or eight players to offer
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From 2014 to 2022, the competitive aspect of the preseason was abandoned altogether, and replaced with a series of discrete practice matches often spanning a three-to-four-week period prior to the home-and-away season. This format featured no ranking or overall winner. By the 2021 pre-season, these
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Although many clubs and coaches (especially the wealthier clubs) did not take the pre-season competition seriously and used the competition as a chance to test young and inexperienced players, the preseason competition proved reasonably popular with spectators. The competition's Grand Final could
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The game trialled a number of highly experimental rules, including three points awarded both for deliberate rushed behinds and balls which hit the goalposts, and timekeepers not blowing the siren if scores were tied. However, the rule which altered play most significantly was the ball not being
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Venues were limited to those that were considered AFL standard. This required surfaces that prevent injury to players, spectator facilities including grandstand seating, and adequate lights for night matches. Many of the matches in this series were still played at current AFL and former AFL
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A new rule was introduced to determine the venue of the pre-season Grand Final. The team scoring the most goals in the first three rounds would host the title match. If two teams were tied after the semi-finals the number of super goals kicked would act as a tie-breaker.
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Carlton and
Collingwood played the earliest pre-season match in history, with a one-off match called the "Millennium Challenge" played on the evening of 31 December 1999 at the MCG and counting towards the preseason competition. The game attendance was 16,678.
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made many regional grounds in
Victoria either unavailable or unsuitable for AFL matches. Although the games were exhibitional in nature and there was no prize, they attracted a large amount of interest in regional areas and grew in popularity.
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National Australia Bank. The distribution of the prize would have resulted in half being awarded to the winning club and half being divided among the club's players. Ultimately, however, this offer did not eventuate, as two separate clubs,
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Between 2014 and 2022, the pre-season consisted of a series of matches, usually held over the course of three or four weekends, where results no longer determined each team's next opponent. The series of matches, known most recently as the
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Waverley Park forced the relocation of three matches – Melbourne v Collingwood (Feb.17) was moved to Princes Park, whilst Essendon v Brisbane (Feb.27) and Footscray v Fitzroy (Feb.28) were moved to Kardinia Park.
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less physically demanding conditions for the pre-season games. Lightning matches, when they were played from 2011 until 2013, were played over two-halves of 20 minutes plus time-on. Extra time was played to resolve drawn knock-out games.
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for clubs that were eliminated from the main competition. It provided eliminated teams with match practice before the main premiership season and brought the game to fans in remote areas while gauging interest in new markets.
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1988, the competition was moved entirely into the pre-season, and became the VFL Pre-season Cup. The pre-season competition is generally considered to be of equivalent importance as both the AFC Night Series and the
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Australia for the first time, with Brisbane defeating Fremantle in Cape Town, South Africa (Feb.22) followed by Melbourne defeating Sydney in Wellington, New Zealand (Mar.1).
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Fitzroy (Feb.28) was the first VFL/AFL match to be decided using extra-time – the Bombers getting home by a goal in overtime then winning their next two matches to claim the title.
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181:(which joined the day premiership in 2012). Over the following three years, the first round of the pre-season competition was staged with six pools of three teams, with each group playing a
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draw more than 60,000 spectators to the
Melbourne Cricket Ground, and usually drew more than 40,000 to Docklands Stadium or Football Park (both of which have a capacity of around 55,000)
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were advanced directly to the second round; after
Fremantle entered the league as the 16th team in 1995, all teams began in the first round. In 1992, the competition introduced the
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2.5m x 6.5m "no-go" area around the centre bounce, where players are prohibited before and during the bounce until the umpire clears the area.
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thrown in from the boundary line after travelling out of bounds, a free kick being awarded instead against the last team to touch the ball.
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List of Australian Football League pre-season and night series premiers
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won the title, defeating Brisbane by 17 points in the grand final.
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1273:Most pre-season cup premierships
1713:2007 NAB Cup trophy won by the
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2037:1996 AFL Lightning Premiership
30:VFL/AFL pre-season competition
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2313:. Melbourne. Archived from
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18:National Australia Bank Cup
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1486:A larger centre circle.
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98:(AFL), previously the
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910:Preliminary Finalist
815:10.11 (71) – 9.8 (62)
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88:(4 premierships each)
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2321:28 September
2319:. Retrieved
2315:the original
2310:
2285:28 September
2283:. Retrieved
2277:. Adelaide.
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2095:Please help
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1794:
1781:2007 NAB Cup
1760:
1752:2012 NAB Cup
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1211:AAMI Stadium
1197:Adelaide (2)
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1053:AAMI Stadium
1039:St Kilda (3)
1037:
1014:Telstra Dome
998:
975:AAMI Stadium
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936:Telstra Dome
920:
897:Telstra Dome
883:St Kilda (2)
881:
858:Telstra Dome
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723:Essendon (3)
721:
684:Hawthorn (4)
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61:No. of teams
26:
2204:28 February
1791:Attendances
1744:prize money
1409:Collingwood
1158:Collingwood
1084:Collingwood
1078:Geelong (2)
1000:Carlton (3)
922:Carlton (2)
850:Collingwood
183:round-robin
102:(VFL), the
77:Most titles
2311:Herald Sun
2197:AFL.com.au
2175:References
2113:March 2016
1779:, won the
1459:super goal
1269:Source:
1203:West Coast
928:West Coast
2084:does not
1649:Panasonic
1435:Melbourne
729:Kangaroos
290:Melbourne
219:Runner Up
72:Australia
2817:Category
2279:Archived
2157:See also
2059:Essendon
1917:518,572
1901:493,982
1885:418,095
1869:171,224
1853:206,663
1837:191,355
1821:165,420
1811:Average
1655:Foster's
1396:Brisbane
1344:Adelaide
1318:St Kilda
1305:Hawthorn
1292:Essendon
1236:Brisbane
1164:Essendon
1125:St Kilda
1045:Adelaide
967:Adelaide
844:Adelaide
811:Richmond
698:VFL Park
659:VFL Park
651:St Kilda
581:VFL Park
567:St Kilda
542:VFL Park
534:Adelaide
503:VFL Park
495:Adelaide
462:VFL Park
454:Richmond
423:VFL Park
382:VFL Park
343:VFL Park
329:Essendon
304:VFL Park
263:VFL Park
249:Hawthorn
85:Hawthorn
81:Essendon
2232:4 April
2105:removed
2090:sources
2019:20,479
2013:307,181
2003:15,732
1997:235,980
1987:16,421
1981:246,321
1971:16,274
1965:244,103
1955:18,839
1949:282,585
1939:15,165
1933:227,481
1923:20,743
1907:11,227
1808:Matches
1777:Geelong
1773:Carlton
1357:Geelong
1331:Carlton
1242:Carlton
1103:Premier
961:Geelong
889:Geelong
792:Premier
748:Premier
612:Geelong
606:Carlton
573:Carlton
473:Premier
415:Fitzroy
393:Premier
296:Geelong
274:Premier
255:Geelong
216:Premier
206:Winners
133:History
108:NAB Cup
94:In the
69:Country
45:Founded
2254:7 July
1891:9,723
1875:6,342
1859:7,654
1843:7,087
1827:6,127
1802:Season
1768:Toyota
1722:trophy
1705:Trophy
1254:24,884
1215:27,376
1176:45,304
1137:42,381
1096:37,277
1057:26,823
1018:46,094
979:30,707
940:43,391
901:50,533
862:43,571
823:36,481
782:35,304
741:56,720
702:49,874
663:63,760
624:63,898
585:66,888
546:39,393
507:43,925
466:75,533
427:49,453
386:46,629
347:48,559
308:48,720
267:35,803
231:Margin
222:Scores
197:Final.
53:Ceased
1692:Marsh
1449:Rules
1442:1989
1429:2010
1416:2011
1403:2013
1390:1998
1377:2002
1364:2009
1351:2012
1338:2007
1325:2008
1312:1999
1299:2000
1027:10th
832:14th
555:11th
516:11th
477:14th
436:10th
228:Crowd
225:Venue
147:SANFL
35:Sport
2802:1996
2797:1953
2792:1952
2787:1951
2782:1943
2777:1941
2772:1940
2756:2019
2751:2018
2742:AFLX
2732:2024
2727:2023
2722:2022
2717:2021
2712:2020
2707:2019
2702:2018
2697:2017
2692:2016
2687:2015
2682:2014
2666:2013
2661:2012
2656:2011
2651:2010
2646:2009
2641:2008
2636:2007
2631:2006
2626:2005
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