2014 premiership season | |
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Date | 5–27 September 2014 |
Teams | 8 |
Premiers | Hawthorn (12th premiership) |
Runners-up | Sydney (16th grand final) |
Minor premiers | Sydney (8th minor premiership) |
Attendance | |
Matches played | 9 |
Total attendance | 570,568 (63,396 per match) |
Highest | 99,454 (Grand Final, Sydney vs. Hawthorn) |
The 2014 Australian Football League finals series is the 118th annual edition of the VFL/AFL final series, the Australian rules football tournament staged to determine the winner of the 2014 AFL Premiership Season. The series ran over four weekends in September 2014, and culminated with the 2014 AFL Grand Final at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on 27 September 2014.
The top eight teams from the season qualified for the finals series. AFL final series have been played under the current format since 2000. Hawthorn won the premiership after defeating Sydney in the Grand Final. Port Adelaide and North Melbourne both reached the preliminary finals after finishing outside the top four, and top-four finishers Fremantle and Geelong were eliminated at the semi-finals stage. Richmond and Essendon lost their respective elimination finals.