2005 AFL Grand Final
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The Sydney Swans walk onto the field before the game. The Swans would win the game with a 4-point margin, winning their first premiership in 72 years.
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| Date | 24 September 2005 | |||||||||||||||
| Stadium | Melbourne Cricket Ground | |||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 91,898 | |||||||||||||||
| Umpires | Scott McLaren (11), Brett Allen (10), Darren Goldspink (32) | |||||||||||||||
| Coin toss won by | Sydney | |||||||||||||||
| Kicked toward | City End | |||||||||||||||
| Ceremonies | ||||||||||||||||
| Pre-match entertainment | Delta Goodrem, Silvie Paladino, Michael Bublé, Dame Edna Everage, Melbourne Gospel Choir and Australian Girls’ Choir | |||||||||||||||
| National anthem | Silvie Paladino | |||||||||||||||
| Accolades | ||||||||||||||||
| Norm Smith Medallist | Chris Judd (West Coast) | |||||||||||||||
| Jock McHale Medallist | Paul Roos | |||||||||||||||
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| Network | Network Ten | |||||||||||||||
| Commentators |
Stephen Quartermain (Host) Tim Lane (Commentator) Robert Walls (Expert Commentator) Stephen Silvagni (Expert Commentator) Neil Cordy (Boundary Rider - Sydney) Tim Gossage (Boundary Rider - Perth) |
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The 2005 AFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Sydney Swans and West Coast Eagles at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on 24 September 2005. It was the 109th annual Grand Final of the Australian Football League (formerly the Victorian Football League), staged to determine the premiers for the 2005 AFL season. The match, attended by 91,898 spectators, was won by Sydney by a margin of four points, marking the club's fourth Premiership and their first since 1933.
It remains the highest-rating AFL / NRL game of all time (with 3.4 million metropolitan viewers), since the current OzTam measurement system was introduced in 2001.
This was West Coast's first appearance in a Grand Final since winning the 1994 AFL Grand Final, whilst it was Sydney's first since losing the 1996 AFL Grand Final, and the Swans had not won a premiership since winning the 1933 VFL Grand Final. Two players from the Eagles' last premiership in 1994 were appearing in this Grand Final - Drew Banfield for the Eagles and Jason Ball for the Swans. At the conclusion of the home and away season, West Coast had finished second on the AFL ladder behind Adelaide with 17 wins and five losses. Sydney had finished third with 15 wins and seven losses. West Coast entered the Grand Final having defeated Adelaide in the preliminary final by 16 points. Sydney had defeated St Kilda in their preliminary final by 31 points.
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