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2013 AFL finals series
The 2013 Australian Football League finals series determined the winner of the 2013 AFL season. The series ran from the 6th to 28 September and culminated in the 117th AFL/VFL Grand Final, held between Fremantle and Hawthorn, which Hawthorn won.
| 2013 premiership season |
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| 6–28 September 2013 |
| 8 |
| Hawthorn (11th premiership) |
| Fremantle (1st grand final) |
| Hawthorn (9th minor premiership) |
| 9 |
| 558,391 (62,043 per match) |
| 100,007 (Grand Final, Hawthorn vs. Fremantle) |
The 2013 Australian Football League finals series determined the winner of the 2013 AFL season. The series ran from the 6th to 28 September and culminated in the 117th AFL/VFL Grand Final, held between Fremantle and Hawthorn, which Hawthorn won.
The top eight teams from the home and away season qualified for the finals series. The top four teams (Hawthorn, Geelong, Fremantle and Sydney) all made the preliminary finals. Both Carlton and Port Adelaide made the semi-finals, while Collingwood and Richmond lost their respective elimination finals.
AFL final series have been played under the current format since 2000. The higher a team finishes on the ladder, the more advantages they get. First and second get a "double chance" and a home final. Third and fourth also get a "double chance" but have to play away. Fifth to eighth play elimination finals where the loser's season is over. Fifth and sixth play their elimination finals at home.
Essendon originally finished seventh but were disqualified due to an Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority (ASADA) investigation into their possible use of un-approved supplements during the 2012 season. This promoted Carlton to eighth and Port Adelaide to seventh.
2013 saw the first time Kardinia Park had hosted a final and only the second time a final had been hosted in Geelong, the previous occurrence being in 1897 at Corio Oval.
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| Melbourne Cricket Ground | ANZ Stadium | |
| Capacity: 100,024 | Capacity: 82,500 | |
| Simonds Stadium | Patersons Stadium | |
| Capacity: 33,500 | Capacity: 43,500 | |
| Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3 | Column 4 | Column 5 | Column 6 |
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| Friday, 6 September (7:50 pm) | Hawthorn | def. | Sydney | MCG (crowd: 59,615) | Report |
| 3.4 (22) 4.7 (31) 9.9 (63) 15.15 (105) | Q1Q2Q3Final | 3.3 (21) 4.7 (31) 5.8 (38) 7.9 (51) | Television broadcast: Seven Network, Fox Footy (simulcast) | ||
| 3: Gunston2: Roughead, Hale 1: Lake, Shiels, Anderson, Hill, Puopolo, Spangher, Breust, Bailey | Goals | 2: Tippett1: White, Jetta, Rohan, O'Keefe, Pyke | |||
| Sewell, Mitchell, Gibson, Guerra | Best | Jack, Kennedy, Bird, Parker | |||
| Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3 | Column 4 | Column 5 | Column 6 |
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| Saturday, 7 September (2:20 pm) | Geelong | def. by | Fremantle | Simonds Stadium (crowd: 32,815) | Report |
| 4.6 (30) 6.11 (47) 9.13 (67) 9.18 (72) | Q1Q2Q3Final | 2.5 (17) 7.9 (51) 10.12 (72) 12.15 (87) | Television broadcast: Seven Network, Fox Footy (simulcast) | ||
| 3: Podsiadly2: Johnson1: Corey, Vardy, Motlop, Duncan | Goals | 3: Barlow2: Pavlich, Hill1: Walters, Ballantyne, Spurr, Sandilands, Mayne | |||
| Mackie, Bartel, Corey, Guthrie, Taylor | Best | Barlow, Fyfe, Spurr, Mundy, Pearce, Crowley | |||
| Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3 | Column 4 | Column 5 | Column 6 |
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| Saturday, 7 September (7:45 pm) | Collingwood | def. by | Port Adelaide | MCG (crowd: 51,722) | Report |
| 1.4 (10)4.6 (30)7.7 (49)9.9 (63) | Q1Q2Q3Final | 2.4 (16)6.6 (42)8.9 (57)12.15 (87) | Television broadcast: Seven Network, Fox Footy (simulcast) | ||
| 3: Swan2: Cloke1: Keeffe, Macaffer, Williams, Beams | Goals | 3: Wingard, Schulz2: Boak, Wines1: Westhoff, Monfries | |||
| Swan, Beams, Macaffer, Sidebottom | Best | Logan, Ebert, Cornes, Jonas, Lobbe, Carlile | |||
| Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3 | Column 4 | Column 5 | Column 6 |
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| Sunday, 8 September (3:20 pm) | Richmond | def. by | Carlton | MCG (crowd: 94,690) | Report |
| 3.5 (23)10.7 (67)12.10 (82)14.12 (96) | Q1Q2Q3Final | 2.3 (15)6.5 (41)12.6 (78)18.8 (116) | Television broadcast: Seven Network, Fox Footy (simulcast) | ||
| 2: Vickery, Cotchin, Edwards, Maric1: Riewoldt, Petterd, Newman, Martin, Tuck, Ellis | Goals | 4: Waite, Duigan3: Betts2: Garlett, Robinson1: Warnock, Scotland, Judd | |||
| Deledio, Cotchin, Martin, Rance, Newman | Best | Judd, Murphy, Curnow, Duigan, Betts, Waite, Gibbs | |||
| Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3 | Column 4 | Column 5 | Column 6 |
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| Saturday, 14 September (7:45 pm) | Sydney | def. | Carlton | ANZ Stadium (crowd: 37,980) | Report |
| 3.3 (21) 8.6 (54) 13.8 (86) 13.8 (86) | Q1Q2Q3Final | 2.3 (15) 4.8 (32) 4.8 (32) 8.14 (62) | Television broadcast: Seven Network, Fox Footy (simulcast) | ||
| 3: Parker2: McVeigh, Jack, Cunningham1: O'Keefe, Kennedy, Jetta, Bolton | Goals | 3: Waite2: Betts1: Armfield, Gibbs, Robinson | |||
| McVeigh, Parker, Jack, Hannebery, Grundy, Cunningham | Best | Walker, Murphy, Simpson, Henderson, McLean | |||
| Carlton's scoreless 3rd quarter marked the first time since 1959 that they went scoreless in a finals quarter. |
| Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3 | Column 4 | Column 5 | Column 6 |
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| Friday, 13 September (7:50 pm) | Geelong | def. | Port Adelaide | MCG (crowd: 52,744) | Report |
| 2.2 (14)3.6 (24)8.12 (60)13.18 (96) | Q1Q2Q3Final | 3.2 (20)7.5 (47)8.5 (53)12.8 (80) | Television broadcast: Seven Network, Fox Footy (simulcast) | ||
| 4: Chapman2: Hawkins, Motlop1: Duncan, Bartel, Corey, Christensen, Selwood | Goals | 3: Westhoff2: Schulz1: Ebert, Monfries, Lobbe, Logan, Gray, Broadbent, Hartlett | |||
| Chapman, Johnson, Corey, Selwood, Motlop, Kelly | Best | Cornes, Moore, Westhoff, Boak, Monfries | |||
| Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3 | Column 4 | Column 5 | Column 6 |
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| Friday, 20 September (7:50 pm) | Hawthorn | def. | Geelong | MCG (crowd: 85,569) | Report |
| 3.5 (23)7.8 (50)10.10 (70)14.18 (102) | Q1Q2Q3Final | 4.0 (24)7.4 (46)14.6 (90)15.7 (97) | Television broadcast: Seven Network, Fox Footy (simulcast) | ||
| 4: Gunston3: Burgoyne2: Hale, Hill1: Guerra, Breust, Franklin | Goals | 4: Johnson2: Motlop1: Christensen, Hawkins, Vardy, Bartel, Selwood, Guthrie, Taylor, Murdoch, Caddy | |||
| Mitchell, Burgoyne, Gunston, Hale, Birchall, Guerra, Hill | Best | Johnson, Motlop, Guthrie, Selwood, Taylor, Stokes, Duncan | |||
| Hawthorn's victory was its first over Geelong in 11 games since the 2008 Grand Final, ending the "Kennett curse". |
| Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3 | Column 4 | Column 5 | Column 6 |
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| Saturday, 21 September (5:45 pm) | Fremantle | def. | Sydney | Patersons Stadium (crowd: 43,249) | Report |
| 2.9 (21)7.11 (53)11.12 (78)14.15 (99) | Q1Q2Q3Final | 2.1 (13)2.2 (14)5.5 (35)11.8 (74) | Television broadcast: Seven Network, Fox Footy (simulcast) | ||
| 3: Walters2: Pavlich, Fyfe, Suban1: Crowley, Duffield, Neale, Barlow, Ballantyne | Goals | 2: Rohan1: Jetta, Cunningham, Parker, Bolton, McGlynn, Pyke, McVeigh, Hannebery | |||
| Mundy, Fyfe, Crowley, Walters, Duffield, Mzungu | Best | McVeigh, Kennedy, Parker, Malceski, McGlynn, Mumford | |||
| Sydney's half-time score of 2.2 (14) was its lowest ever in a finals match. |
| Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3 | Column 4 | Column 5 | Column 6 |
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| Saturday, 28 September (2:30 pm) | Hawthorn | def. | Fremantle | MCG (crowd: 100,007) | Report |
| 2.3 (15)5.5 (35)8.8 (56)11.11 (77) | Q1Q2Q3Final | 0.3 (3)1.6 (12)6.10 (46)8.14 (62) | Umpires: Brett Rosebury, Mathew Nicholls, Simon Meredith Norm Smith Medal: Brian Lake Television broadcast: Seven Network National anthem: Tina Arena | ||
| Gunston 4, Roughead 2, Franklin, Rioli, Smith, Breust, Hill | Goals | Pavlich 3, Walters 2, Mzungu, Mayne, Pearce | |||
| Lake, Gunston, Lewis, Rioli, Hodge, Birchall | Best | Mundy, Fyfe, Crowley, Johnson, Barlow | |||
| Nil | Injuries | Nil | |||
| Lake (striking), Rioli (rough conduct) | Reports | Suban (misconduct) | |||
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In Round one, all finals were to be played in Melbourne, usually meaning that one match would be moved to Etihad Stadium; however, the AFL announced that the qualifying final between Geelong and Fremantle would instead be played at Simonds Stadium in Geelong, as a match between these two sides would not have attracted a full capacity crowd at Etihad Stadium. It was the first finals match in Geelong since 1897, and the first ever at Simonds Stadium.
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