The
2007 AFL Grand Final was an
Australian rules football game contested between the
Geelong Football Club and the
Port Adelaide Football Club, held at the
Melbourne Cricket Ground in
Melbourne on 29 September 2007. It was the 111th annual
grand final of the
Australian Football League(formerly the Victorian Football League),
[1] staged to determine the
premiers for the
2007 AFL season. The match, attended by 97,302 spectators, was won by Geelong by a margin of 119 points, the biggest in VFL/AFL grand final history. The victory marked Geelong's seventh premiership win, and ended its 44-year premiership drought.
The match ended with
Geelong winning by the score of 24.19 (163) to 6.8 (44), recording the greatest winning margin in AFL grand final history, 119 points. This broke the previous record of 96 points set by
Hawthorn against
Melbourne in the
1988 VFL Grand Final; it was also, at the time, Port Adelaide's heaviest defeat in an AFL match (this record was surpassed in 2011).[
citation needed] Geelong’s 417 disposals was also a grand final record. Meanwhile, Port Adelaide became the only finals side in history to have more handballs than kicks. Geelong scored 17.10 from Port Adelaide turnovers, while the Power scored just 1.2 from the Cats’.
The Cats’ win ended a 44-year premiership drought for the club. Their last flag had come in 1963, and since then the club had lost five grand finals. It was also the first premiership won by a team from
Victoria since
Essendon’s
2000 victory.
Just to add the funny facts, 1963 was our last Grand Final win, having 63 in our score line and 44 years since we won a premiership, 44 in PA scoreline. The two players we were missing in the GF were numbers, 24 and 19 also in our scorline.
Amazing!!