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The Melbourne Cricket Ground, where the 1992 AFL Grand Final took place.
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Date | 26 September 1992 | |||||||||||||||
Stadium | Melbourne Cricket Ground | |||||||||||||||
Attendance | 95,007 | |||||||||||||||
Umpires | Carey, Rich | |||||||||||||||
Ceremonies | ||||||||||||||||
Pre-match entertainment | Joan Carden | |||||||||||||||
Accolades | ||||||||||||||||
Norm Smith Medallist | Peter Matera (West Coast) | |||||||||||||||
Broadcast in Australia | ||||||||||||||||
Network | Seven Network | |||||||||||||||
Commentators | Dennis Cometti and Sandy Roberts | |||||||||||||||
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The 1992 AFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Geelong Football Club and West Coast Eagles, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 26 September 1992. It was the 96th annual Grand Final of the Australian Football League (formerly the Victorian Football League), staged to determine the premiers for the 1992 AFL season. The match, attended by 95,007 spectators, was won by West Coast by a margin of 28 points, marking that club's first premiership victory and the first by a team based outside the state of Victoria.
This was Geelong's first appearance in a Grand Final since losing the 1989 VFL Grand Final, whilst West Coast was making its second successive appearance in the premiership decider, having been defeated by Hawthorn in the 1991 AFL Grand Final
At the conclusion of the home and away season, Geelong had finished first on the AFL ladder with 16 wins and 6 losses, winning the McClelland Trophy. West Coast had finished fourth (behind Footscray and Collingwood) with 15 wins, 6 losses and a draw.
In the finals series leading up to the game, West Coast defeated Hawthorn in the Elimination Final, before convincingly defeating Geelong by 38 points in the Second Semi-Final to advance to the Grand Final. Geelong defeated Footscray in the Qualifying Final, and after their loss to the Eagles in the Second Semi-Final, defeated Footscray once again in the Preliminary Final to advance to the Grand Final.