1995 AFL Grand Final
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The Melbourne Cricket Ground, where the 1995 AFL Grand Final took place.
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| Date | 30 September 1995 | |||||||||||||||
| Stadium | Melbourne Cricket Ground | |||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 93,670 | |||||||||||||||
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| Pre-match entertainment | Tina Arena | |||||||||||||||
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| Norm Smith Medallist | Greg Williams (Carlton) | |||||||||||||||
| Jock McHale Medallist | David Parkin | |||||||||||||||
| Broadcast in Australia | ||||||||||||||||
| Network | Seven Network | |||||||||||||||
| Commentators | Sandy Roberts and Ian Robertson | |||||||||||||||
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The 1995 AFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Carlton Football Club and Geelong Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 30 September 1995. It was the 99th annual Grand Final of the Australian Football League (formerly the Victorian Football League), staged to determine the premiers for the 1995 AFL season. The match was attended by 93,670 spectators. The 1995 Grand final was won by Carlton by a margin of 61 points. It was Carlton's 16th premiership victory, making it the most successful club in the league's history. The game also marked Carlton's sixteenth consecutive win and twenty-third win for the year overall, then a record.
Both clubs were back in the Grand Final after recent unsuccessful attempts. Carlton had last played in the Grand Final in 1993, which it had lost against Essendon; Geelong was back after having lost the previous year's premiership decider. The Cats had finished runners-up in three of the past six Grand Finals (in 1989, 1992 and 1994), and were looking for its first flag since 1963.
At the conclusion of the home and away season, Carlton had finished first on the AFL ladder with 20 wins and 2 losses, winning the McClelland Trophy. Geelong had finished second with 16 wins and 6 losses.
In the lead-up to the Grand Final, Carlton defeated the Brisbane Bears by 13 points in the Fourth Qualifying Final, thereby earning the week off, and subsequently defeated North Melbourne by 62 points in the Second Preliminary Final. Geelong defeated Footscray by 82 points in the Third Qualifying Final before defeating Richmond by 89 points in the First Preliminary Final.
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