2007 AFL Grand Final
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Players in action during the first quarter of the game. Geelong would hold the lead for all four quarters of the game.
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| Date | 29 September 2007 | |||||||||||||||
| Stadium | Melbourne Cricket Ground | |||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 97,302 | |||||||||||||||
| Umpires | Stephen McBurney (3), Shane McInerney (30), Scott McLaren (11) | |||||||||||||||
| Coin toss won by | Geelong | |||||||||||||||
| Kicked toward | City end | |||||||||||||||
| Ceremonies | ||||||||||||||||
| Pre-match entertainment | Natalie Bassingthwaighte, JET | |||||||||||||||
| National anthem | Natalie Bassingthwaighte | |||||||||||||||
| Accolades | ||||||||||||||||
| Norm Smith Medallist | Steve Johnson (Geelong) | |||||||||||||||
| Jock McHale Medallist | Mark Thompson (Geelong) | |||||||||||||||
| Broadcast in Australia | ||||||||||||||||
| Network | Network Ten | |||||||||||||||
| Commentators |
Anthony Hudson (Host) Tim Lane (Commentator) Michael Voss (Expert Commentator) Robert Walls (Expert Commentator) Malcolm Blight (Expert Commentator) Christi Malthouse (Boundary Rider) Andrew Maher (Boundary Rider) |
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The 2007 AFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Geelong Football Club and the Port Adelaide Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 29 September 2007. It was the 111th annual Grand Final of the Australian Football League (formerly the Victorian Football League), staged to determine the premiers for the 2007 AFL season. The match, attended by 97,302 spectators, was won by Geelong by a margin of 119 points, the biggest in VFL/AFL Grand Final history. The victory marked Geelong's seventh premiership win, and ended its 44-year premiership drought.
Geelong entered the season after finishing 10th in 2006. Geelong was the best performing side of the home and away season, finishing 12 points clear of second-placed Port Adelaide, with an 18–4 record and a percentage of 152.76, thus winning the McClelland Trophy. Geelong had lost only one game since Round 5: by five points to Port Adelaide at Skilled Stadium in Round 21 when Domenic Cassisi goaled with 3 seconds remaining. The grand final was Geelong's first appearance in a premiership decider since losing the 1995 Grand Final. Geelong defeated the Kangaroos in their qualifying final at the Melbourne Cricket Ground by 106 points, earning them a second week bye, before they met Collingwood in a preliminary final showdown at the MCG. Geelong won a tight contest with the Magpies by 5 points in front of a crowd of 98,002.
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