2012 AFL season
| 2012 AFL premiership season | |
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| Teams | 18 |
| Premiers |
Sydney (5th premiership) |
| Minor premiers |
Hawthorn (8th minor premiership) |
| Pre-season cup |
Adelaide (2nd pre-season cup win) |
| Matches played | 207 |
| Attendance | 6,778,559 (32,747 per match) |
| Highest attendance | 99,683 (Grand Final, Hawthorn vs. Sydney) |
| Coleman Medallist |
Jack Riewoldt Richmond (65 goals) |
| Brownlow Medallist |
Sam Mitchell and Trent Cotchin Hawthorn and Richmond (26 votes) |
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The 2012 Australian Football League season was the 116th season of the Australian rules football competition. It was the first season in which the new team Greater Western Sydney competed, bringing the number of teams in the competition to a record high eighteen.
The season was opened on 24 March with the inaugural Sydney Derby between Sydney and Greater Western Sydney, and concluded on 29 September with the AFL Grand Final with Sydney defeating Hawthorn.
The 2011 National Draft was held on 24 November in Sydney, making it only the second time it was held out of Melbourne. This is due to the entry of Greater Western Sydney.
Adelaide won the 2012 pre season competition following a 34-point win over the West Coast Eagles at AAMI Stadium. It was their second pre season cup premiership.
The fixture for this season was officially announced on 28 October 2011. Some of the features of the fixture included:
The addition of a ninth match in each round, and the new television rights deal requiring most matches to be shown live, influenced the scheduling of matches, and changed some traditional match starting times. In typical rounds, where nine matches were played between Friday and Sunday, the changes were:
Bold – Home game
X – Bye
Opponent for round listed above margin
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