2005 AFL season

2005 AFL premiership season
Teams16
PremiersSydney
4th premiership
Minor premiersAdelaide
1st minor premiership
Pre-season cupCarlton
2nd pre-season cup win
Brownlow MedallistBen Cousins (West Coast)
Coleman MedallistFraser Gehrig (St Kilda)
Attendance
Matches played185
Total attendance6,763,852 (36,561 per match)
Highest91,828 (Grand Final, Sydney vs. West Coast)
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The 2005 AFL season was the 109th 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 sixteen clubs, ran from 24 March until 24 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 Sydney Swans for the fourth time, after they defeated West Coast by four points in the AFL Grand Final. It was the club's first premiership since it won the 1933 premiership as South Melbourne, and ended a 72-year premiership drought which stands as the longest in league history.