1991 AFL season
| 1991 AFL premiership season | |
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| Teams | 15 |
| Premiers |
Hawthorn (9th premiership) |
| Minor premiers |
West Coast (1st minor premiership) |
| Pre-season cup |
Hawthorn (1st pre-season cup win) |
| Matches played | 172 |
| Attendance | 4,178,884 (24,296 per match) |
| Highest attendance | 75,230 (Grand Final, Hawthorn v West Coast) |
| Coleman Medallist | Tony Lockett (St Kilda) |
| Brownlow Medallist | Jim Stynes (Melbourne) |
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The 1991 Australian Football League season was the 95th season of the elite Australian rules football competition.
Hawthorn defeated North Melbourne 14.19 (103) to 7.12 (54). (For an explanation of scoring see Australian rules football).
Due to the addition of the Adelaide Crows, there was an odd number of teams in the league, requiring byes. Each team played 22 games for the season, with two byes: seven teams had a bye in Round 1, and then one team had a bye in each other week.
All teams played 22 games during the home and away season, for a total of 165. An additional 7 games were played during the finals series.
A team based in the state of South Australia, christened the "Adelaide Crows" after the epithet bestowed upon those from South Australia by those living in other Australian states (viz., the "") was admitted to the AFL competition in 1991.
Total match attendance for the home-and-away season was 3,810,868 people. Total attendance for the finals series was 381,707 people. Attendance at the Grand Final was 75,230 people. The largest non-finals attendance was 55,735 people for the Collingwood v Melbourne game of Round 6.
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