2013 AFL season
| 2013 AFL premiership season | |
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| Teams | 18 |
| Premiers |
Hawthorn (11th premiership) |
| Minor premiers |
Hawthorn (9th minor premiership) |
| Pre-season cup |
Brisbane Lions (1st pre-season cup win) |
| Matches played | 207 |
| Attendance | 6,931,085 (33,484 per match) |
| Highest attendance | 100,007 (Grand Final Hawthorn vs. Fremantle) |
| Coleman Medallist |
Jarryd Roughead Hawthorn (68 goals) |
| Brownlow Medallist |
Gary Ablett, Jr. Gold Coast (28 votes) |
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The 2013 Australian Football League season was the 117th season of the elite Australian rules football competition.
The season opened on 22 March, with Adelaide hosting Essendon, and concluded on 28 September with Hawthorn defeating Fremantle in the AFL Grand Final. It was Hawthorn's eleventh VFL/AFL premiership, and Fremantle's first Grand Final appearance.
The season was marred by a series of off-field controversies, with three clubs penalised in 2013 for separate infractions which had taken place over previous years: Essendon, following an investigation into irregularities in the club's supplements program; Adelaide, after illegal payments and draft tampering charges relating to Kurt Tippett's 2009 contract extension; and Melbourne, after an investigation into allegations that the club had intentionally lost matches towards the end of the 2009 season.
The biennial All Star game played in the Northern Territory, featuring an AFL team and the Indigenous All Stars team, made up of some of the best Indigenous players in the game, returned for the 2013 pre-season. Richmond were selected as the AFL team to partake in the game, which was played at Traeger Park in Alice Springs.
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