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 The Sydney Swans walk onto the field before the game. The Swans would win the game with a 4-point margin, winning their first premiership in 72 years. | ||||||||||||||||
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| Date | 24 September 2005 | |||||||||||||||
| Stadium | Melbourne Cricket Ground | |||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 91,898 | |||||||||||||||
| Favourite | Sydney | |||||||||||||||
| Umpires | Scott McLaren (11), Brett Allen (10), Darren Goldspink (32) | |||||||||||||||
| Coin toss won by | Sydney | |||||||||||||||
| Kicked toward | City End | |||||||||||||||
| Ceremonies | ||||||||||||||||
| Pre-match entertainment | Delta Goodrem, Silvie Paladino, Michael Bublé, Dame Edna Everage, Melbourne Gospel Choir and Australian Girls' Choir | |||||||||||||||
| National anthem | Silvie Paladino | |||||||||||||||
| Accolades | ||||||||||||||||
| Norm Smith Medallist | Chris Judd (West Coast) | |||||||||||||||
| Jock McHale Medallist | Paul Roos | |||||||||||||||
| Broadcast in Australia | ||||||||||||||||
| Network | Network Ten | |||||||||||||||
| Commentators | Stephen Quartermain (Commentator) Tim Lane (Commentator) Robert Walls (Expert Commentator) Stephen Silvagni (Expert Commentator) Christi Malthouse (Boundary Rider) Neil Cordy (Boundary Rider) Tim Gossage (Boundary Rider) Anthony Hudson (Host) Malcolm Blight (analyst) Leigh Matthews (analyst) | |||||||||||||||
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The 2005 AFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Sydney Swans and West Coast Eagles at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on 24 September 2005. It was the 109th annual grand final of the Australian Football League (formerly the Victorian Football League),[1] staged to determine the premiers for the 2005 AFL season. The match, attended by 91,898 spectators, was won by Sydney by a margin of four points, marking the club's fourth Premiership and their first since 1933.
It remains the highest-rating AFL game of all time (including 3.4 million metropolitan viewers) since the current OzTam measurement system was introduced in 2001. All told, a total average of 4.449 million people watched the game on TV nationally.[2][3] It is one of the most-watched television broadcasts in Australia since 2001, ranked 8th overall. Put another way, one in every 4.5 Australians watched the game live (22.25% of all Australians).
- ^ In 1897 and 1924 there were no grand finals and instead the premier was decided by a round-robin system. In 1948 and 1977 there were grand final replays after initial draws.
- ^ "2005 AFL Grand Final TV ratings - regional figures included". BigFooty. 29 September 2005. Retrieved 27 September 2021.
- ^ "Grand Final TV viewership biggest in 10 years". westernbulldogs.com.au. 3 October 2016. Retrieved 27 September 2021.