Awards

• The Brownlow Medal
  Brownlow Medal
  The Chas Brownlow Trophy, better known as the Brownlow Medal , is awarded to the "fairest and best" player in the Australian Football League during the regular season as determined by votes cast by the officiating field umpires after each game...
  
   was awarded to both Greg Williams of the Sydney Swans
  Sydney Swans
  The Sydney Swans Football Club is an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League . The club is based in Sydney, New South Wales. The club, founded in 1874, was known as the South Melbourne Football Club until it relocated to Sydney in 1982 to become the Sydney...
  
   and Robert "Dipper" DiPierdomenico
  Robert DiPierdomenico
  Robert "Dipper" DiPierdomenico is a former Australian rules footballer in the VFL/AFL of Italian descent and a member of the VFL/AFL Italian Team of the Century...
  
   of the Hawthorn Hawks
• The Leigh Matthews Trophy
  Leigh Matthews Trophy
  The Leigh Matthews Trophy is an annual award given by the AFL Players Association to the Most Valuable Player in the Australian Football League. It is named in honour of Leigh Matthews, who won the first MVP award in 1982, when the league was still known as the Victorian Football League...
  
   was awarded to Paul Roos
  Paul Roos (Australian rules footballer)
  Paul Roos is a former Australian rules football player and coach in the VFL and Australian Football League.Playing the majority of his career with Fitzroy, Roos was one of the teams greats, captaining the side for a long time and was acknowledged as its best player for several seasons, being named...
  
   of Fitzroy
  Fitzroy Football Club
  The Fitzroy Football Club, formerly nicknamed The Lions, is an Australian rules football club formed in 1883 to represent the inner Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy, Victoria and was a foundation member club of the Victorian Football League on its inception in 1897...
  
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• The Coleman Medal
  Coleman Medal
  The Coleman Medal is awarded yearly to the Australian Football League player who kicks the most goals in regular-season matches in that year...
  
   was awarded to Brian Taylor of Collingwood
  Collingwood Football Club
  The Collingwood Football Club, nicknamed The Magpies, is an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League...
  
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• The Norm Smith Medal
  Norm Smith Medal
  The Norm Smith Medal is the award given in the AFL Grand Final to the player adjudged by an independent panel of experts to have been the best player in the match.-History:The Norm Smith Medal is named after former Melbourne player and coach, Norm Smith...
  
   was awarded to Gary Ayres
  Gary Ayres
  Gary Ayres is a former Australian rules footballer for the Hawthorn Football Club and currently the senior coach for the Port Melbourne Football Club in the Victoria Football League.-Playing career:...
  
   of Hawthorn
  Hawthorn Football Club
  The Hawthorn Football Club, nicknamed the Hawks, is a professional Australian rules football club in the Australian Football League . The club, founded in 1902, is the youngest of the Victorian-based teams in the AFL. The team play in Brown & Gold vertically striped guernseys...
  
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• The wooden spoon was "awarded" to St Kilda.

Notable events

• Sydney broke an unwanted drought when they beat Essendon twice for the first time since 1936.
• In round 21, Hawthorn trailed Geelong by three points early in the third quarter, but then kicked 25.7 (157) to 1.7 (13) before a late Geelong goal. That total is the highest score for a half in VFL/AFL history, and the loss the biggest in Geelong's history.
• That same round was, in terms of average margin, the most one-sided round in VFL/AFL history with an average margin of almost 78 points.

See also

• Early VFL Final systems
  Early VFL Final systems
  Throughout its history, the Victorian Football League has used a system of finals after playing a regular season to determine the winner of the premiership....
  
  
• Page-McIntyre "Final Four" system
• McIntyre "Final Five" system