2010 AFL season

2010 AFL premiership season
Official 2010 AFL logo
Teams	16
Premiers	Collingwood (15th premiership)
Minor premiers	Collingwood (18th minor premiership)
Pre-season cup	Western Bulldogs (1st pre-season cup win)
Matches played	186
Attendance	7,145,488 (38,417 per match)
Highest attendance	100,016 (drawn grand final, Collingwood vs. St Kilda)
Coleman Medallist	Jack Riewoldt (Richmond) 78 goals
Brownlow Medallist	Chris Judd (Carlton) 30 votes
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The 2010 Australian Football League season commenced on 25 March 2010 and concluded on 2 October 2010. It was the 114th season of the VFL/AFL competition. The premiership was won by Collingwood, who defeated St Kilda by 56 points in the Grand Final Replay, which was played after the first Grand Final was drawn. Collingwood's win marked the 15th VFL/AFL premiership in the club's history.

This season was the final AFL season to be played with sixteen teams, with the addition of clubs from the Gold Coast and Greater Western Sydney in 2011 and 2012 respectively resulting in an expansion of the league.

The draw for the 2010 AFL Premiership Season was produced by the AFL with the intention of producing a balanced draw while also providing the fans and television networks with blockbuster games. In a competition with 16 teams and 22 rounds, it is not possible for all teams to play each other twice. These factors combine to create some of the following anomalies:

Bold – Home game

The AFL Rising Star is awarded to the best player who, as of the beginning of the season, is under the age of 21 and has played fewer than 10 games. Each week one player is nominated and at the end of the season a selection panel votes to select the overall winner.

Sydney's Dan Hannebery won the award for 2010, with the maximum 45 votes awarded to him.

† players ineligible due to tribunal sanction

The Australian Football League celebrates the best goal of the season through the annual Goal of the Year competition. From 2010 onwards, the commercial name for the award is the Panasonic Goal of the Year.

Lance 'Buddy' Franklin won the award for his running goal against Essendon in round 13. By winning the award Franklin became the fifth indigenous player to win the award since 2004.