2015 AFL season

2015 AFL premiership season
Teams18
PremiersHawthorn
13th premiership
Minor premiersFremantle
1st minor premiership
Brownlow MedallistNat Fyfe
Fremantle (31 votes)
Coleman MedallistJosh Kennedy
West Coast (75 goals)
Attendance
Matches played206
Total attendance6,886,266 (33,428 per match)
Highest (H&A)88,395 (round 4, Essendon v Collingwood)
Highest (finals)98,633 (Grand Final, Hawthorn vs. West Coast)
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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]

  1. ^ Thring, Harry (3 July 2015). "Phil Walsh dead after domestic dispute". Australian Football League. AAP. Retrieved 3 July 2015.