- 2000 AFL season
Infobox AFL season
year = 2000
imagesize = 100px
caption = AFL logo
teams = 16
premiers = AFL Ess
count = 16th
minor premiers = AFL Ess
mpcount =
national cup winners = AFL Ess
nccount = 4th
matches =
attendance =
highest attendance =
top goal scorer =Matthew Lloyd (AFL Ess)
brownlow medallist =Shane Woewodin (AFL Mel)Results and statistics for theAustralian Football League season of 2000."See
List of Australian Football League premiers for a complete list."AFL Draft "See
2000 AFL Draft for more information."National Cup
Essendon defeated Kangaroos 16.21 (117) to 11.10 (76) in the Final.
Premiership Season
Round 1
Round 2
Round 3
Round 4
Round 5
Round 6
Round 7
Round 8
Round 9
Round 10
Round 11
Round 12
Round 13
Round 14
Round 15
Round 16
Round 17
Round 18
Round 19
Round 20
Round 21
Round 22
Qualifying and Elimination Finals
emi Finals
Preliminary Finals
Grand Final
Ladder
All teams played 22 games during the home and away season, for a total of 176. An additional 11 games were played during the finals series.
Match attendance
Total match attendance for the home-and-away season was 5,731,091 people. Total attendance for the finals season was 566,562 people. Attendance at the Grand Final was 96,249 people. The largest non-finals attendance was 91,571 people for the Essendon v Carlton game of Round 20.
Awards
* The
Brownlow Medal was awarded toShane Woewodin of Melbourne.
* TheColeman Medal was awarded toMatthew Lloyd of Essendon.
* TheNorm Smith Medal was awarded toJames Hird of Essendon.
* TheAFL Rising Star award was awarded toPaul Hasleby of Fremantle.Notable Events
* Essendon won the most games in in a single season in the history of the VFL/AFL.
* Essendon's Grand Final win was the last by a Victorian side until Geelong won in 2007.
* The McIntyre "Final Eight" system, which had operated from 1994 and 1999, was replaced by the AFL's Amended "Final Eight" system. The AFL's Amended "Final Eight" system has operated continuously from 2000 until today.ee also
* AFL's Amended "Final Eight" system (2000)
References
* [http://stats.rleague.com/afl/seas/2000.html 2000 Season - AFL Tables]
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