List of Australian Football League Premiers - List of Premiers

List of Premiers

The following is a list of the premiers, and the Grand Final results and circumstances. Most conventional Grand Finals are a single match at the end of a finals series, the winner of which wins the premiership. Under early VFL finals systems in place prior to 1930, the circumstances of the Grand Final were often different; in many of those years, the minor premiers had the right to challenge the winner of the finals series for the premiership, so the Grand Finals of this era are a mixture of challenge matches, non-challenge matches which would have followed by challenge matches had the minor premier been defeated, and some seasons where there was no right to challenge. Regardless of the circumstances of the time, all of these games are now recognised as Grand Finals.

Premiership decided by a conventional Grand Final, in which neither team had any right to challenge Premiership decided by a Grand Final Replay, after the scheduled Grand Final was drawn Premiership decided by a Challenge Final under the Argus system or similar Premiership decided without the need for a Challenge Final under the Argus system or similar; in these cases, had the other team won the match, a rematch would have been played the following weekend Premiership decided without any form of Grand Final