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2011 Collingwood Football Club season

Collingwood Football Club
2011 season
President Eddie Maguire
Coach Mick Malthouse
(12th season)
Captain(s) Nick Maxwell
(3rd season)
Home ground Melbourne Cricket Ground
Pre-season competition Premiers
Regular season 1st
Finals series Runners Up
Best and Fairest Scott Pendlebury
Leading goalkicker Travis Cloke (69 Goals)
Highest home attendance 89,626 (Round 5, vs Essendon)
Lowest home attendance 35,773 (Round 1, vs Port Adelaide)
Average home attendance 61,977
Club membership ≈70,000

The 2011 AFL season was the Collingwood Magpies' 115th season in the Australian Football League.

Despite winning the McClelland Trophy and the 2011 pre-season cup, Collingwood lost the Grand Final to premiers Geelong.

Collingwood played 22 home and away matches across 24 rounds, with byes in Rounds 7 and 13. The club played Carlton, Essendon, Geelong, North Melbourne, Port Adelaide and St Kilda twice and all other teams once throughout the home and away season. The Magpies travel only four times during the season; one each to Western Australia (to play Fremantle), South Australia (to play Port Adelaide again), New South Wales (to play Sydney) and Queensland (to play Gold Coast). Their matches against inter-state teams West Coast, Adelaide and the Brisbane Lions are to be played at the MCG.


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