1990 AFL season

Infobox AFL season
year = 1990


imagesize = 100px
caption = AFL logo 1990-1999
teams = 14
premiers = AFL Col
count = 14th
minor premiers = AFL Ess
mpcount =
national cup winners = AFL Ess
nccount = 1st
matches =
attendance =
highest attendance =
top goal scorer = John Longmire (AFL Nor)
brownlow medallist = Tony Liberatore (AFL Foo)Results and statistics for the Australian Football League season of 1990.

"See List of Australian Football League premiers for a complete list."

National Cup

Essendon defeated North Melbourne 17.10 (112) to 10.16 (76)

Grand Final

Collingwood defeated Essendon 13.11 (89) to 5.11 (41). (For an explanation of scoring see Australian rules football).

This, Collingwood's 14th VFL/AFL premiership, ended a 32 year drought; Collingwood had lost each of the eight Grand Finals it had contested since it won the 1958 Grand Final (it had also drawn the first of the two 1977 Grand Finals, losing the second).

Ladder

All teams played 22 games during the home and away season, for a total of 156. An additional 7 games were played during the finals series.

Qualifying Final Replay

Preliminary Final

Grand Final

Match attendance

Total match attendance for the home-and-away season was 3,587,595 people. Total attendance for the finals series was 475,790 people. Attendance at the Grand Final was 98,944 people.

Awards

*The Brownlow Medal was awarded to Tony Liberatore of Footscray.
*The Coleman Medal was awarded to John Longmire of North Melbourne.
*The Norm Smith Medal was awarded to Tony Shaw of Collingwood
*The Leigh Matthews Trophy was awarded to Darren Millane of Collingwood
*The Wooden Spoon was "awarded" to the Brisbane Bears

Notable Events

* The Victorian Football League (VFL) was re-named and re-badged (with a new logo) the Australian Football League in 1990.
* By AFL rules, the drawn qualifying final between Collingwood and West Coast was replayed on the following weekend. This meant that minor premier Essendon was given an additional bye week, giving them three weeks between games, a fact about which the club was not pleased. Although Essendon would ultimately reach the Grand Final through the Preliminary Final, they were soundly beaten and claimed that the extended layoff was partly to blame. Agreeing with this assessment, the AFL would go on to introduce the provision to play extra time in tied finals matches (except the Grand Final) in future years.
* The Port Adelaide Magpies made a bid to join the new AFL competition. The application was rejected. A composite South Australian National Football League team, christened the "Adelaide Crows" after the epithet bestowed upon those from South Australia by those living in other Australian states (the "crow eaters" [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/crow_eater] ) was admitted to the AFL competition in the 1991 season.

References

* Stephen Rodgers: "Every Game Ever Played" VFL/AFL Results 1897-1991 3rd Edition 1992. Penguin Books Australia ISBN 0 670 90526 7.
* [http://stats.rleague.com/afl/seas/1990.html 1990 Season - AFL Tables]