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2012 AFL season

2012 AFL season

116th season of the Australian Football League (AFL)


The 2012 AFL season was the 116th season of the Australian Football League (AFL), the highest level senior Australian rules football competition in Australia, which was known as the Victorian Football League until 1989.

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The season featured eighteen clubs, with addition of the newly established Greater Western Sydney Giants, which was based in Western Sydney and split its home games between Sydney and Canberra.

The season ran from 24 March until 29 September, and comprised a 22-game home-and-away season followed by a finals series featuring the top eight clubs.

The premiership was won by the Sydney Swans for the fifth time, after it defeated Hawthorn by ten points in the 2012 AFL Grand Final.

Pre-season

Draft

The 2011 National Draft was held on 24 November in Sydney, making it only the second time it was held out of Melbourne. This is due to the entry of Greater Western Sydney.[1]

NAB Cup

Adelaide won the 2012 pre-season competition following a 34-point win over the West Coast Eagles at AAMI Stadium. It was their second pre-season cup premiership.

2012 NAB Cup Grand Final
Saturday, 17 March (7:10 pm) Adelaide def. West Coast AAMI Stadium (crowd: 27,376) Report
0.2.2 (14)
1.3.6 (33)
2.6.13 (67)
 2.10.17 (95)
Q1
Q2
Q3
 Final
2.0.2 (20)
2.1.6 (30)
2.4.7 (49)
 2.5.13 (61)
Umpires: McBurney, McInerney, Mollison, Dalgleish
Michael Tuck Medal: Bernie Vince
Television broadcast: Fox Footy

Premiership season

The fixture for this season was officially announced on 28 October 2011.[2] Some of the features of the fixture included:

  • Each team played twenty-two matches over twenty-three rounds.
  • Each team had one bye, located between rounds 11 and 13. This is similar in practice to the split round concept, which (prior to 2011) saw one of the mid-season rounds played over two weeks, giving each team one week off.
  • Due to concern over one-sided matches featuring the two newest teams (Gold Coast and Greater Western Sydney), their fixtures were adjusted so that they played each of the top five teams from 2011 only once.
  • For the first time, each Victorian team travelled interstate at least five times, and each team travelled to Perth at least once.
  • Blundstone Arena, Blacktown International Sportspark and Škoda Stadium hosted home and away matches for the first time in 2012.
  • As had been the case since 2010, the final round of matches was given a floating fixture. Exact dates were determined later in the season with a view to giving likely finalists the longest possible break ahead of their first final.

The addition of a ninth match in each round, and the new television rights deal requiring most matches to be shown live, influenced the scheduling of matches, and changed some traditional match starting times. In typical rounds, where nine matches were played between Friday and Sunday, the changes were:

  • Friday night matches began at 7:50 pm EST instead of 7:40 pm, or 8:40 pm EST when played in South Australia or Western Australia.
  • Saturday afternoon matches began at 1:40 pm EST and 1:45 pm/2:10 pm EST.
  • A regular Saturday match was scheduled beginning at 4:40 pm EST – which was either a twilight match on the east coast, or an afternoon match in Perth.
  • Saturday night matches began at 7:40 pm EST instead of 7:10 pm.
  • The second Sunday afternoon match began at 3:15 pm instead of the traditional 2:10 pm. This change was to allow the Seven Network to show the match live into Victoria, and use it as a lead-in to its struggling 6:00 pm news bulletin.

Rule changes

Following two high profile goal umpiring errors in the previous three years' grand finals, in which goals were awarded to Tom Hawkins (Geelong, 2009) and Sharrod Wellingham (Collingwood, 2011) for shots which hit the post, video score reviews were introduced to AFL games for the first time. A score review could be initiated by the field umpire, at his own discretion or on request by the goal umpire, and television broadcast footage would be reviewed for visual evidence to overturn an on-field goal umpiring decision.[3]

Round 1

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Round 2

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Round 3

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Round 4

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Round 5

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Round 6

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Round 7

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Round 8

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Round 9

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Round 10

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Round 11

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Round 12

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Round 13

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Round 14

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Round 15

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Round 16

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Round 17

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Round 18

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Round 19

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Round 20

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Round 21

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Round 22

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Round 23

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Win/loss table

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+WinQualified for finals
-LossXBye
DrawEliminated

Bold – Home game
X – Bye
Opponent for round listed above margin

Ladder

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Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) percentage; 3) number of points for.
(P) Premiers

Ladder progression

  Numbers highlighted in green indicate that the team finished the round inside the top 8.
  Numbers highlighted in blue indicates the team finished first on the ladder in that round.
  Numbers highlighted in red indicates the team finished in last place on the ladder in that round.
  Underlined numbers indicate that the team had a bye during that round.
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Finals series

Qualifying and elimination finalsSemi-finalsPreliminary finalsGrand Final
Fri, 7 Sep, MCG
1Hawthorn20.15 (135)
4Collingwood15.7 (97)Sat, 15 Sep, MCG
Collingwood10.13 (73)
Sun, 9 Sep, PatersonsWest Coast9.6 (60)Sat, 22 Sep, MCG
5West Coast24.18 (162)Hawthorn13.19 (97)
8North Melbourne9.12 (66)Adelaide14.8 (92)Sat, 29 Sep, MCG
Hawthorn11.15 (81)
Sat, 8 Sep, MCGFri, 21 Sep, ANZ StadiumSydney14.7 (91)
6Geelong11.14 (80)Sydney13.18 (96)
7Fremantle14.12 (96)Fri, 14 Sep, AAMI StadiumCollingwood10.10 (70)
Adelaide12.9 (81)
Sat, 8 Sep, AAMI StadiumFremantle11.5 (71)
2Adelaide5.12 (42)
3Sydney11.5 (71)

Week one

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Week two

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Week three

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Week four

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Awards

Coleman Medal

  • Numbers highlighted in blue indicates the player led the Coleman that round.
  • Underlined numbers indicates the player did not play that round.
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Best and fairest

Player milestones

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Club leadership

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Club membership

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Coach changes

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References

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