1999 AFL Grand Final
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The Melbourne Cricket Ground, where the 1999 AFL Grand Final took place.
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| Date | 25 September 1999 | |||||||||||||||
| Stadium | Melbourne Cricket Ground | |||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 94,228 | |||||||||||||||
| Umpires | Scott McLaren, Andrew Coates, Brett Allen | |||||||||||||||
| Coin toss won by | Kangaroos | |||||||||||||||
| Kicked toward | Punt Road end | |||||||||||||||
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| Pre-match entertainment | Human Nature | |||||||||||||||
| National anthem | Human Nature | |||||||||||||||
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| Norm Smith Medallist | Shannon Grant (Kangaroos) | |||||||||||||||
| Jock McHale Medallist | Denis Pagan | |||||||||||||||
| Broadcast in Australia | ||||||||||||||||
| Network | Seven Network | |||||||||||||||
| Commentators | Bruce McAvaney, Sandy Roberts and Ian Robertson | |||||||||||||||
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The 1999 AFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the North Melbourne Kangaroos and the Carlton Blues at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on 25 September 1999. It was the 103rd annual Grand Final of the Australian Football League (formerly the Victorian Football League), staged to determine the premiers for the 1999 AFL season. The match, attended by 94,228 spectators, was won by North Melbourne by a margin of 35 points (the second consecutive year in which the premiership decider was determined by that margin). It was North Melbourne's fourth premiership victory.
This was the Kangaroos' second consecutive appearance in a Grand Final, whilst it was Carlton's first since winning the 1995 AFL Grand Final.
Kangaroos finished the 1999 home and away season in second position with 17 wins and 5 losses, a game behind Essendon, with the Western Bulldogs, West Coast, Carlton, Port Adelaide, Brisbane and Sydney making up the final eight. Carlton had finished sixth with a record of 12 wins and ten losses, becoming only the second club (after Melbourne in 1900) to reach the Grand Final after finishing sixth on the ladder.
The Kangaroos progressed to the Grand Final after a 45-point win over Brisbane in the Preliminary Final, while Carlton progressed to the Grand Final after an upset one-point win against the heavily favoured minor premiers, Essendon, in their preliminary final. Consequently, the Kangaroos went into the Grand Final as heavy favourites.
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