2000 AFL Super-Flood Round 21, 2000 Essendon v Western Bulldogs | ||||||||||||||||
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Date | 28 July 2000 | |||||||||||||||
Stadium | Colonial Stadium | |||||||||||||||
Attendance | 45,725 | |||||||||||||||
Broadcast in Australia | ||||||||||||||||
Network | Seven Network | |||||||||||||||
Commentators | Bruce McAvaney, Jason Dunstall, Dermott Brereton |
The Super-Flood is the unofficial title given to the round 21, 2000 match between Australian Football League (AFL) clubs Essendon and Western Bulldogs, which was played at Colonial Stadium on Friday, 28 July 2000.
Essendon went into the match having won its first twenty games of the home-and-away season, needing five more wins to complete the league's first perfect season. In a major upset, the Western Bulldogs employed a strong zone flooding defence to win the match by eleven points, and inflicted Essendon's first and only defeat of the 2000 calendar year.