2014 AFL premiership season | |
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Teams | 18 |
Premiers | Hawthorn 12th premiership |
Minor premiers | Sydney 8th minor premiership |
Brownlow Medallist | Matt Priddis West Coast (26 votes) |
Coleman Medallist | Lance Franklin Sydney (67 goals) |
Attendance | |
Matches played | 207 |
Total attendance | 6,972,552 (33,684 per match) |
Highest (H&A) | 91,731 (round 6, Collingwood v Essendon) |
Highest (finals) | 99,454 (Grand Final, Sydney vs. Hawthorn) |
The 2014 AFL season was the 118th 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 eighteen clubs, ran from 14 March until 27 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 Hawthorn Football Club for the twelfth time and second time consecutively, after it defeated Sydney by 63 points in the 2014 AFL Grand Final.