2011 AFL Grand Final
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The Melbourne Cricket Ground (pictured), where the 2011 AFL Grand Final was played.
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| Date | 1 October 2011, 2.30pm | |||||||||||||||
| Stadium | Melbourne Cricket Ground | |||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 99,537 | |||||||||||||||
| Umpires | C. Donlon, B. Rosebury, S. Ryan | |||||||||||||||
| Coin toss won by | Geelong | |||||||||||||||
| Kicked toward | Punt Road End | |||||||||||||||
| Ceremonies | ||||||||||||||||
| Pre-match entertainment | Meat Loaf | |||||||||||||||
| National anthem | Vanessa Amorosi | |||||||||||||||
| Accolades | ||||||||||||||||
| Norm Smith Medallist | Jimmy Bartel (Geelong) | |||||||||||||||
| Jock McHale Medallist | Chris Scott (Geelong) | |||||||||||||||
| Broadcast in Australia | ||||||||||||||||
| Network | Network Ten | |||||||||||||||
| Commentators |
Stephen Quartermain (Host) Anthony Hudson (Commentator) Matthew Lloyd (Expert Commentator) Luke Darcy (Expert Commentator) Andrew Maher (Boundary Rider) Mark Howard (Boundary Rider) |
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The 2011 AFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Collingwood Football Club and the Geelong Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on 1 October 2011. It was the 115th annual Grand Final of the Australian Football League (formerly the Victorian Football League), staged to determine the premiers for the 2011 AFL season. The match, attended by 99,537 spectators, was won by Geelong by a margin of 38 points, marking the club's ninth VFL/AFL premiership victory. Geelong's Jimmy Bartel was awarded the Norm Smith Medal as the best player on the ground.
Collingwood entered the 2011 season as the reigning premiers, having defeated St Kilda in the 2010 AFL Grand Final Replay by 56 points. Collingwood were the best performed side of the home and away season, winning 14 games in a row in the latter part of the season, to finish with a record of 20–2. Collingwood won its second consecutive minor premiership and McClelland Trophy whilst registering the highest overall scoring percentage in over a century. Collingwood progressed to the Grand Final after two hard-fought finals matches; beating West Coast by 20 points in a qualifying final, then coming back from a four-goal deficit to defeat Hawthorn by three points in a preliminary final.
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