2017 AFL finals series

2017 premiership season
Date	7 – 30 September 2017
Teams	8
Premiers	Richmond (11th premiership)
Matches played	9
Attendance	553,818 (61,535 per match)
Highest attendance	100,021 (GF, Adelaide vs Richmond)
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The 2017 Australian Football League finals series was the 121st annual edition of the VFL/AFL final series, the Australian rules football tournament staged to determine the winner of the 2017 AFL Premiership season. The series ran over four weekends in September 2017, culminating with the 2017 AFL Grand Final at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on 30 September 2017.

The top eight teams from the 2017 AFL Premiership season qualified for the finals series. AFL finals series have been played under the current format since 2000. The qualifying teams were Adelaide, Greater Western Sydney, Geelong, Richmond, Port Adelaide, Sydney, Essendon and West Coast.

Perennial finalists Sydney qualified for their eighth straight finals appearance, thus becoming the first team to reach the finals after starting a season with six straight losses. Adelaide qualified for the third straight year; Geelong qualified for the fourteenth time in the past sixteen years, Port Adelaide and Richmond both returned to the finals for the first time since 2014 and 2015 respectively, while Greater Western Sydney contested its second finals series since entering the AFL in 2012. Essendon returned to the finals for the first time since 2014 and became the first wooden spooner to play finals the following year since West Coast in 2011.

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