A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | CH | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9
| 1994 AFL premiership season | |
|---|---|
| Teams | 15 |
| Premiers | West Coast 2nd premiership |
| Minor premiers | West Coast 2nd minor premiership |
| Pre-season cup | Essendon 3rd pre-season cup win |
| Brownlow Medallist | Greg Williams (Carlton) |
| Leading goalkicker | Gary Ablett (Geelong) |
| Attendance | |
| Matches played | 174 |
| Total attendance | 5,237,398 (30,100 per match) |
| Highest | 93,860 (Grand Final, West Coast vs. Geelong) |
The 1994 AFL season was the 98th 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. The season featured fifteen clubs, ran from 26 March until 1 October, and comprised a 22-game home-and-away season followed by a finals series featuring the top eight clubs – an increase from the six clubs which had contested the finals in previous years.
The premiership was won by the West Coast Eagles for the second time, after it defeated Geelong by 80 points in the 1994 AFL Grand Final.
Foster's Cup
Essendon 15.12 (102) defeated Adelaide 9.14 (68) in the final.
Rule changes
There were several significant alterations to the laws of the game brought in for the 1994 season:
- The number of interchange players was increased from two to three which, when added to the "run on" team of 18 on-the-field players, increased the standard team squad size to 21 players.
- The number of field umpires was increased from two to three.
- Playing time was reduced from 25 minutes per quarter to 20 minutes, but additional stoppages (including all scores and boundary throw-ins) attracted "time-on" allocations; the total reduction of playing time was approximately 10%.[1]
- The size of each club's senior playing list was significantly reduced from 52 to 42 players from the 1994 season (with the exception of the struggling Sydney, which was granted a list of 50 players). Victorian clubs could list ten players on a supplementary list to make up the numbers in their reserves teams, but those players were not eligible for AFL senior selection. The change was part of an AFL Commission plan to completely abolish the Victorian clubs' reserves competition by 1995, but this final stage did not occur until 2000.[2]
- Advertising was permitted for the first time on the backs of guernseys. Small sponsors' logos had previously been permitted over the breast and on the shorts, but the new regulations allowed for logos 30 cm long and 8 cm high below the number on the back of the guernsey, which has since become the prime advertising location on guernseys. Under the original rules, the logo was required to be consistent with the colour of the guernsey, a stipulation which has since been relaxed.[3]
Home-and-away season
Round 1
Round 2
| Round 2 | |||||
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| Saturday, 2 April (2:00 pm) | Fitzroy 17.10 (112) | def. | Essendon 14.15 (99) | Optus Oval (crowd: 24,872) | Report |
| Saturday, 2 April (2:00 pm) | North Melbourne 21.16 (142) | def. | St Kilda 10.13 (73) | MCG (crowd: 27,195) | Report |
| Saturday, 2 April (2:08 pm) | Hawthorn 8.16 (64) | def. by | Melbourne 17.16 (118) | Waverley Park (crowd: 29,581) | Report |
| Sunday, 3 April (2:08 pm) | Richmond 20.14 (134) | def. | Brisbane Bears 11.6 (72) | MCG (crowd: 15,333) | Report |
| Sunday, 3 April (2:15 pm) | West Coast 14.13 (97) | def. | Adelaide 11.12 (78) | Subiaco Oval (crowd: 28,228) | Report |
| Monday, 4 April (2:00 pm) | Geelong 22.20 (152) | def. | Footscray 8.16 (64) | Kardinia Park (crowd: 24,019) | Report |
| Monday, 4 April (2:08 pm) | Carlton 9.12 (66) | def. by | Collingwood 14.16 (100) | MCG (crowd: 85,063) | Report |
| Bye Sydney |
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