2024 AFL Grand Final Betting Preview

The 2024 AFL Grand Final took place at the MCG on Saturday the 28th of September, 2024 with the Brisbane Lions dominating with a 120 – 60 win over the Sydney Swans to secure their 4th Premiership title and first Grand Final win since 2003!

The AFL Grand Final is the number one professional Australian Rules game of the year and sees the league’s two premier teams face off in a Premiership decider.

Traditionally held on a Saturday afternoon in late September or early October the AFL Premiership Grand Final takes place at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) in Victoria and is officially the most popular Australian sporting event of the year.

The MCG has hosted the Grand Final AFL / VFL match from 1902 – 1941; 1946- 1990; and 1992 – now, meaning the game has been played at a different venue on just 10 occasions since 1898. In 2021 the AFL Grand Final was played in Perth due to COVID-19 restrictions in Melbourne.

Each season the AFL Grand Final winners are awarded the AFL Premiership Cup and Premiership Flag, plus every player in the winning team is presented with a gold Premiership Medallion.

The standout player deemed to be the man-of-the-match in the AFL Grand Final is awarded the Norm Smith Medal, named in honour of former Melbourne player and coach Norm Smith (1915 – 1973).

Since 2001 the winning AFL Grand Final coach is presented with the Jock McHale Medal, whose namesake is former Collingwood coach Jock McHale who holds the AFL Premiership winning coaching record of eight victories.

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Brisbane Lions (120) defeated the Sydney Swans (60) by 60 points

Sydney Swans (Winner of Preliminary Final 1) vs Brisbane Lions (Winner of Preliminary Final 2)
Winner: Brisbane Lions
Result: Brisbane Lions defeated the Sydney Swans by 60 points
Score: Lions 120 – 60 Swans
Norm Smith Medal: Will Ashcroft (Brisbane Lions)
Date: Saturday September 28, 2024
Start Time: 2:30pm (AEST)
Venue: MCG, Melbourne

Match Review:

It was a decisive 60-point 2024 AFL Grand Final win by last year’s runners-up, the Brisbane Lions, who easily accounted for their better fancied rivals the Sydney Swans with a 120-60 victory at the MCG on Saturday afternoon.

Brisbane were the dominant team from first bounce to the final whistle, headlined by standout performances by Kai Lohmann and Callum Ah Chee who both kicked an impressive four goals each.

The Lions put the pressure on the Swans from the outside and the Sydney squad struggled to keep up with the underdogs.

It was Brisbane’s first Premiership victory in the AFL since 2003 breaking a 21-year drought for the now four-time winning club.

AFL Grand Final Results

There has been a total of 129 Australian Rules Grand Finals played out over history and the most successful clubs with a total of 16 Premiership wins are Essendon and Carlton whose latest victories were 2001 and 1999 respectively.

Collingwood are just one AFL Grand Final win away with 15, but they have finished runners-up more than any other club having been beaten in the Premiership decider 26 times from 43 appearances. The only AFL teams in the current competition yet to make a Grand Final appearance are the Gold Coast Suns.

The current competition as we know and love it was renamed the Australian Football League (AFL) in 1990 and most recently Hawthorn have dominated winning three straight AFL Premierships from 2013-15.

The AFL Grand Final man-of-the-match is awarded the Norm Smith Medal.

VFL/AFL Premiership Winners

Club Name	No. of Premierships	Runners-up	Grand Final Appearances	Premiership Wins by year	Runner-up years
Essendon	16	14	29	1897, 1901, 1911, 1912, 1923, 1924, 1942, 1946, 1949, 1950, 1962, 1965, 1984, 1985, 1993, 2000	1898, 1902, 1908, 1941, 1943, 1947, 1948, 1951, 1957, 1959, 1968, 1983, 1990, 2001
Carlton	16	13	29	1906, 1907, 1908, 1914, 1915, 1938, 1945, 1947, 1968, 1970, 1972, 1979, 1981, 1982, 1987, 1995	1904, 1909, 1910, 1916, 1921, 1932, 1949, 1962, 1969, 1973, 1986, 1993, 1999
Collingwood	16	27	45	1902, 1903, 1910, 1917, 1919, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1935, 1936, 1953, 1958, 1990, 2010, 2023	1901, 1905, 1911, 1915, 1918, 1920, 1922, 1925, 1926, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1952, 1955, 1956, 1960, 1964, 1966, 1970, 1977, 1979, 1980, 1981, 2002, 2003, 2011, 2018
Hawthorn	13	6	19	1961, 1971, 1976, 1978, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 2008, 2013, 2014, 2015	1963, 1975, 1984, 1985, 1987, 2012
Melbourne	13	5	19	1900, 1926, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1948, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1959, 1960, 1964, 2021	1946, 1954, 1958, 1988, 2000
Richmond	13	12	24	1920, 1921, 1932, 1934, 1943, 1967, 1969, 1973, 1974, 1980, 2017, 2019, 2020	1919, 1924, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1931, 1933, 1940, 1942, 1944, 1972, 1982
Geelong	10	10	18	1925, 1931, 1937, 1951, 1952, 1963, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2022	1897, 1930, 1953, 1967, 1989, 1992, 1994, 1995, 2008, 2020
Fitzroy (1897–1996)	8	5	13	1898, 1899, 1904, 1905, 1913, 1916, 1922, 1944	1900, 1903, 1906, 1917, 1923
Sydney / South Melbourne (1897-1981)	5	12	17	1909, 1918, 1933, 2005, 2012	1899, 1907, 1912, 1914, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1945, 1996, 2006, 2014, 2016
North Melbourne	4	5	10	1975, 1977, 1996, 1999	1950, 1974, 1976, 1978, 1998
West Coast	4	3	6	1992, 1994, 2006, 2018	1991, 2005, 2015
Brisbane Lions	4	2	5	2001, 2002, 2003, 2024	2004, 2023
Adelaide	2	1	3	1997, 1998	2017
St Kilda	1	6	8	1966	1913, 1965, 1971, 1997, 2009, 2010
Port Adelaide	1	1	2	2004	2007
Western Bulldogs / Footscray (1925–1996)	2	2	4	1954, 2016	1961, 2021
Fremantle	0	1	1	2013	–
University (1908–1914)	0	0	0	–	–
Brisbane Bears (1987–1996)	0	0	0	–	–
Gold Coast	0	0	0	–	–
Greater Western Sydney	0	1	1	–	2019