2011 AFL Grand Final
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The 2011 AFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Collingwood Football Club and the Geelong Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on 1 October 2011. It was the 116th annual grand final of the Australian Football League (formerly the Victorian Football League),[1] staged to determine the premiers for the 2011 AFL season. The match, attended by 99,537 spectators, was won by Geelong by a margin of 38 points, marking the club's ninth VFL/AFL premiership victory. Geelong's Jimmy Bartel was awarded the Norm Smith Medal as the best player on the ground.
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Date | 1 October 2011, 2.30pm | |||||||||||||||
Stadium | Melbourne Cricket Ground | |||||||||||||||
Attendance | 99,537 | |||||||||||||||
Favourite | Geelong | |||||||||||||||
Umpires | C. Donlon, B. Rosebury, S. Ryan | |||||||||||||||
Coin toss won by | Geelong | |||||||||||||||
Kicked toward | Punt Road End | |||||||||||||||
Ceremonies | ||||||||||||||||
Pre-match entertainment | Meat Loaf | |||||||||||||||
National anthem | Vanessa Amorosi | |||||||||||||||
Accolades | ||||||||||||||||
Norm Smith Medallist | Jimmy Bartel (Geelong) | |||||||||||||||
Jock McHale Medallist | Chris Scott (Geelong) | |||||||||||||||
Broadcast in Australia | ||||||||||||||||
Network | Network Ten | |||||||||||||||
Commentators | Stephen Quartermain (Host) Anthony Hudson (Commentator) Matthew Lloyd (Expert Commentator) Luke Darcy (Expert Commentator) Andrew Maher (Boundary Rider) Mark Howard (Boundary Rider) | |||||||||||||||
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As of 2023[update], this is the most recent AFL Grand Final to be contested between two Victorian clubs at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.a[2][3]