2017 AFL season

2017 AFL premiership season
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The 2017 Australian Football League season will be the 121st season of the elite Australian rules football competition. There will be 18 teams competing in the league, the same as the previous five seasons. The first game will be played on Thursday, 23 March, and is scheduled to conclude with the 2017 AFL Grand Final on Saturday, 30 September.

The following amendments were made to the Laws of the Game for the 2017 season:

The pre-season series of matches returned in 2017 as the newly renamed JLT Community Series, which featured 27 practice matches played over 25 days, beginning on 16 February and ending on 12 March. The matches were stand-alone, with no overall winner of the series. Each team played three games, many at suburban or regional venues, while all games were televised on Fox Footy.

Notable features of the draw include:

The International Rules Series returns in November 2017, with Australia hosting two test matches. The series will be played on an aggregate-points basis, with the winner to be the team that scores the highest amount over the two test matches. The matches will be played on 11 and 18 November 2017 at venues yet to be decided. The Australian team will again be comprised exclusively of players who have won All-Australian honours in their careers.

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