List of Australian Football League Premiers

List Of Australian Football League Premiers

This page is a complete chronological listing of Australian Football League premiers. The Australian Football League (AFL), known as the Victorian Football League until 1990, is the elite national competition in Australian rules football.

Each year, the premiership is awarded to the club which wins the VFL/AFL Grand Final. The Grand Final has been an annual tradition in its current format since 1931, and some form of Grand Final has been played in each season except for 1897 and 1924.

Since the introduction by the League of equalisation policies of a salary cap and draft in the late 1980s, every AFL club (except for the most recent expansion clubs, Gold Coast and Greater Western Sydney) has played in a preliminary final. This has had a significant impact on the spread of premierships, as eleven different clubs have won premierships in the 23 seasons since 1990, compared with only five different clubs winning the previous 23 premierships.

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