2023 AFL Grand Final | ||||||||||||||||
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Date | 30 September 2023, 2:30 pm | |||||||||||||||
Stadium | Melbourne Cricket Ground | |||||||||||||||
Attendance | 100,024 | |||||||||||||||
Favourite | Collingwood | |||||||||||||||
Umpires | Matt Stevic, Hayden Gavine, Simon Meredith, Robert Findlay | |||||||||||||||
Coin toss won by | Brisbane Lions | |||||||||||||||
Kicked toward | Punt Road | |||||||||||||||
Ceremonies | ||||||||||||||||
Pre-match entertainment | Kiss William Barton & Jess Hitchcock Mike Brady | |||||||||||||||
National anthem | Kate Miller-Heidke | |||||||||||||||
Halftime show | Mark Seymour & The Undertow with Kate Miller-Heidke | |||||||||||||||
Accolades | ||||||||||||||||
Norm Smith Medallist | Bobby Hill | |||||||||||||||
Jock McHale Medallist | Craig McRae | |||||||||||||||
Broadcast in Australia | ||||||||||||||||
Network | Seven Network | |||||||||||||||
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The 2023 AFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football match contested between the Collingwood Football Club and the Brisbane Lions at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Saturday, 30 September 2023. It was the 128th annual grand final of the Australian Football League (AFL), staged to determine the premiers for the 2023 AFL season. The match, attended by a capacity crowd of 100,024 spectators, was won by Collingwood by a margin of four points, marking the club's sixteenth VFL/AFL premiership and tying the record held jointly by Carlton and Essendon. Collingwood's Bobby Hill won the Norm Smith Medal as the player judged best on ground.