2014 AFL Grand Final
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View of the Melbourne Cricket Ground, shortly after gates opened for the 2014 AFL Grand Final.
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| Date | 27 September 2014, 2.30pm | |||||||||||||||
| Stadium | Melbourne Cricket Ground | |||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 99,460 | |||||||||||||||
| Umpires | Simon Meredith, Mathew Nicholls, Matt Stevic | |||||||||||||||
| Coin toss won by | Hawthorn | |||||||||||||||
| Kicked toward | City End | |||||||||||||||
| Ceremonies | ||||||||||||||||
| Pre-match entertainment | Tom Jones, Ed Sheeran, Mike Brady | |||||||||||||||
| National anthem | Olivia Newton-John | |||||||||||||||
| Post-match entertainment | Tom Jones, Ed Sheeran | |||||||||||||||
| Accolades | ||||||||||||||||
| Norm Smith Medallist |
Luke Hodge (Hawthorn) |
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| Jock McHale Medallist |
Alastair Clarkson (Hawthorn) |
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| Broadcast in Australia | ||||||||||||||||
| Network | Seven Network | |||||||||||||||
| Commentators | Bruce McAvaney and Dennis Cometti | |||||||||||||||
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The 2014 AFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between Sydney Swans and the Hawthorn Football Club at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on 27 September 2014. It was the 118th annual Grand Final of the Australian Football League (formerly the Victorian Football League), staged to determine the premiers for the 2014 AFL season. The match, attended by 99,460 spectators, was won by Hawthorn by a margin of 63 points, marking the club's second consecutive premiership and twelfth VFL/AFL premiership victory overall. Hawthorn's Luke Hodge was awarded the Norm Smith Medal as the best player on the ground.
Having finished the home and away season as minor premiers, Sydney advanced to the Grand Final with a hard fought victory over Fremantle, followed by a 71-point victory over North Melbourne in their preliminary final. Defending premiers Hawthorn, which finished second behind Sydney on the ladder, advanced after defeating Geelong by 36 points in their qualifying final, after which followed a hard fought three-point victory over Port Adelaide in the second preliminary final.
The two teams met twice during the home-and-away season, with Sydney winning by 19 points at ANZ Stadium in Round 8 and Hawthorn winning by 10 points at the MCG in Round 18.
It was the second time that Sydney and Hawthorn had met in a grand final, having faced each other two years earlier in the 2012 AFL Grand Final when Sydney won by 10 points. The match was Hawthorn's third grand final appearance in a row, having also appeared in the 2013 AFL Grand Final when it defeated Fremantle by 15 points.
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