2015 AFL season

2015 AFL premiership season
Teams	18
Premiers	Hawthorn (13th premiership)
Minor premiers	Fremantle (1st minor premiership)
Matches played	206
Attendance	6,886,266 (33,428 per match)
Highest attendance	98,633 (Grand Final Hawthorn vs West Coast)
Coleman Medallist	Josh Kennedy West Coast (75 goals)
Brownlow Medallist	Nat Fyfe Fremantle (31 votes)
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The 2015 Australian Football League season was the 119th season of the elite Australian rules football competition. There were 18 teams competing in the league, the same as the previous year. The first game was played on Thursday, 2 April, and the Grand Final was played on Saturday, 3 October, with Hawthorn defeating West Coast by 46 points to win its 13th premiership and its third in successive years.

Nat Fyfe won the Brownlow Medal, voted by the umpires to be the best and fairest player in the league for the home-and-away season. Josh Kennedy won the Coleman Medal as the highest goal scorer in the competition.

The season was marred by the mid-season death of Adelaide senior coach Phil Walsh.

The biennial All Stars game, this year played in Western Australia, 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 2015 pre-season. The West Coast Eagles were selected as the AFL team to play in the game, which was played at Medibank Stadium in Perth.

For the second consecutive year, the NAB Challenge series took place, featuring 27 practice matches played over 25 days, beginning February 26 and ending March 22. The matches were stand-alone in nature, with no overall winner crowned for the series. Each team played three pre-season games, many of which were played at suburban or regional venues, with most games televised on Fox Footy. The Super Goal was retained for these matches.

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