The 2008 AFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football match contested between the Geelong Football Club and the Hawthorn Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 27 September 2008. It was the 112th annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League/Australian Football League, staged to determine the Premiers for the 2008 AFL season.
The game was the third Grand Final meeting between the two teams in their long history, having previously contested in the 1963 and 1989 VFL Grand Finals. The 2008 Grand Final was the first Grand Final contested by two Victorian-based teams since Essendon and Melbourne met in 2000. It was attended by 100,012 spectators, the first crowd to exceed 100,000 for a VFL/AFL game since the 1986 VFL Grand Final. Geelong entered the match as the favourites to win, however Hawthorn won by 26 points, earning its 10th Premiership, the Club's first since 1991.
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