2015 AFL premiership season | |
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Teams | 18 |
Premiers | Hawthorn 13th premiership |
Minor premiers | Fremantle 1st minor premiership |
Brownlow Medallist | Nat Fyfe Fremantle (31 votes) |
Coleman Medallist | Josh Kennedy West Coast (75 goals) |
Attendance | |
Matches played | 206 |
Total attendance | 6,886,266 (33,428 per match) |
Highest (H&A) | 88,395 (round 4, Essendon v Collingwood) |
Highest (finals) | 98,633 (Grand Final, Hawthorn vs. West Coast) |
The 2015 AFL season was the 119th 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 2 April until 3 October, 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 13th time and third time consecutively, after it defeated West Coast by 46 points in the 2015 AFL Grand Final.
The season was marred by the mid-season death of Adelaide senior coach Phil Walsh, who was the victim of a domestic incident. Adelaide's following match was cancelled.[1]