Ladder

All teams played 20 games during the home and away season, for a total of 165. Each team also had two byes

Bye (sports)

A bye, in sports and other competitive activities, most commonly refers to the practice of allowing a player or team to advance to the next round of a playoff tournament without playing...

. An additional 7 games were played during the finals series.

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 Gavin Wanganeen
  Gavin Wanganeen
  Gavin Adrian Wanganeen is a retired Australian rules footballer, playing in two Australian Football League premierships with Essendon and Port Adelaide. Wanganeen is a Brownlow Medallist and is considered one of the finest indigenous players ever...
  
   of .
• The AFLPA MVP
  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 Gary Ablett of .
• 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 Gary Ablett of .
• 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 Michael Long of .
• The inaugural AFL Rising Star award was awarded to Nathan Buckley
  Nathan Buckley
  Nathan Charles Buckley is a former professional Australian rules football player, commentator and coach, best known for his time as captain of the Collingwood Football Club in the Australian Football League ....
  
   of .
• The Wooden Spoon
  Wooden spoon (award)
  A wooden spoon is a mock or real award, usually given to an individual or team which has come last in a competition, but sometimes also to runners-up. Examples range from the academic to sporting and more frivolous events...
  
   was "awarded" to .

Notable events

and both set club-record high scores in this season. North Melbourne's 35.19 (229) in round 6 was the fifth-highest score of all time, and Brisbane's 33.21 (219) was the tenth-highest of all times. The opponent in both of these games was .

• In the same game, set the record for the highest score at three-quarter time, 27.17 (179). This remained the record until 2007
  2007 AFL season
  The 2007 AFL Season was the 111th season of the Australian Football League, the highest-level professional Australian rules football league in Australia...
  
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