The 2020 Toyota AFL Grand Final will be held at The Gabba on Saturday 24 October. Unless of course you're a Tigers fan.In 2018, Dom Sheed sunk the hearts of Magpie supporters across the nation to seal the flag for West coast.However, that isn't the only great grand final we've seen recently, with 2011, 2012, 2016 and 2017 all nail-biters that would have had even the most neutral of supporters sitting on the edge of their seats.https://images.daznservices.com/di/library/sportal_com_au/a0/1b/the-gabba_1gnugxyunorye15fe5m3hflqws.jpg?t=1131309898&w=500&quality=80,Swans Stand Down Elijah Taylor Following Arrest,played a key role in keeping the season going,the three Queensland NRL teams are struggling,Richmond 17.12 (114) defeated GWS 3.7 (25),West Coast Eagles 11.13 (79) defeated Collingwood 11.8 (74),Richmond 16.12 (108) defeated Adelaide 8.12 (60),Western Bulldogs 13.11 (89) defeated Sydney Swans 10.7 (67),Hawthorn 16.11 (107) defeated West Coast 8.13 (61),Hawthorn 21.11 (137) defeated Sydney 11.8 (74),Hawthorn 11.11 (77) defeated Fremantle 8.14 (62),Sydney Swans 14.7 (91) defeated Hawthorn 11.15 (81),Geelong Cats (119) defeated Collingwood 12.9 (81),Replay: Collingwood 16.12 (108) defeated St KIlda 7.10 (52),Collingwood 9.14 (68) drew with St Kilda 10.8 (68).
For the first time 123 years, a VFL/AFL grand final will be played outside Victoria with the League confirming Brisbane's Gabba as the host of this season's showpiece. The 2020 AFL Grand Final will be held at the Gabba. Read about the AFL finals system. The breakfast includes a Grand Auction, with all proceeds being donated to the Starlight Children's Foundation.Many big Australian and international stars have performed or appeared as pre-match entertainment at the grand final.
AFL chief executive Gillon McLachlan has confirmed the AFL grand final will be held at the Gabba in Brisbane, the first time the match has been held outside of Victoria with the game to be played away from the MCG for the first time since Hawthorn played West Coast at Waverley in 1991.
A public holiday will not be declared, or moved, when Queensland hosts the AFL grand final next month, Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has confirmed. (Photo by Mark Metcalfe/AFL Photos/via Getty Images) This year's AFL grand final will be the first to be held at night. Previous.
The match will be played on the night of Saturday October 24, with the league hopeful around 30,000 supporters will be able to attend this year’s decider.
For a time, many or all of a selection of traditional football and Australian songs (",Half-time entertainment has been absent since the.Since 1977 a running race has taken place on grand final day between various players who are not taking part in the game. They make their own mind, sometimes they can make weird decisions but I’ll tell you what, every single figure in the AFL and clubland that I’ve canvassed today says that bid just stacks up.”.Veteran journalist Caroline Wilson believes the AFL brass wouldn’t want to quarantine in another state, locking in Brisbane as the winner.“It will be under lights, wherever it is, and my very firm view is it’s going to be in Brisbane,” she said on Nine News.“I’ve felt that for some time. ".The AFL considered the prospect of holding the game at Perth's Optus Stadium but McLachlan indicated the WA government's hard border stance and quarantine measures made that difficult.McLachlan said it was a “close” battle between bidding states, and that it was necessary to have a back-up plan.“It’s not something we’re contemplating, but its incumbent on us to have that plan,” he said, adding the capacity at the Adelaide Oval would also be about 30,000.“All the presentations I think were excellent - all states I think have their points of strength.”.McLachlan said West Australian football fans would understand the difficulty of players playing a grand final after enduring a “hard” lockdown of at least seven days.McLachlan said the WA government remained "unapologetic" about its harsh policy and could not commit to allowing the full 60,000 capacity at Optus Stadium.McLachlan said the AFL was open to the higher ranked teams choosing the venue in which finals were played but the AFL was still finalising details.However he said West Coast were unlikely to be able to play a home preliminary final in Perth given the short turnaround until the grand final if they qualified as one of the higher ranked teams but there was a chance they could play a final at Optus Stadium in the opening week of finals.If Port Adelaide qualified for home finals, they would host those games at Adelaide Oval.In acknowledging the move, Victorian Sports Minister Martin Pakula said: “We’ve acted in the interests of Victorians and all footy fans – this is a one-off deal in a one-off year that means the grand final can be played in front of supporters, as it should be. "The pandemic is a life and death battle and we cannot risk our hard-fought gains for the sake of rushing back to crowds before it is safe.