1990 AFL Grand Final | ||||||||||||||||
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Date | 6 October 1990, 2.30pm | |||||||||||||||
Stadium | Melbourne Cricket Ground | |||||||||||||||
Attendance | 98,944 | |||||||||||||||
Umpires | Sawers, Rowan | |||||||||||||||
Ceremonies | ||||||||||||||||
Pre-match entertainment | Normie Rowe | |||||||||||||||
National anthem | Normie Rowe | |||||||||||||||
Accolades | ||||||||||||||||
Norm Smith Medallist | Tony Shaw (Collingwood) | |||||||||||||||
Broadcast in Australia | ||||||||||||||||
Network | Seven Network | |||||||||||||||
Commentators | Bruce McAvaney (host) Sandy Roberts (commentator) Ian Robertson (commentator) Don Scott (expert commentator) Bernie Quinlan (boundary rider) Michael Roberts (boundary rider) Peter McKenna (analyst) Ross Glendinning (analyst) | |||||||||||||||
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The 1990 AFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Collingwood Football Club and the Essendon Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 6 October 1990. It was the 94th annual grand final of the Australian Football League (formerly the Victorian Football League), staged to determine the premiers for the 1990 AFL season. The match, attended by 98,944 spectators, was won by Collingwood by a margin of 48 points, marking that club's 14th premiership victory.