1991 AFL Grand Final | ||||||||||||||||
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Date | 28 September 1991 | |||||||||||||||
Stadium | Waverley Park | |||||||||||||||
Attendance | 75,230 | |||||||||||||||
Favourite | West Coast | |||||||||||||||
Umpires | John Russo, Sheehan | |||||||||||||||
Ceremonies | ||||||||||||||||
National anthem | Daryl Braithwaite | |||||||||||||||
Halftime show | Angry Anderson | |||||||||||||||
Accolades | ||||||||||||||||
Norm Smith Medallist | Paul Dear (Hawthorn) | |||||||||||||||
Jock McHale Medallist | Alan Joyce | |||||||||||||||
Broadcast in Australia | ||||||||||||||||
Network | Seven Network | |||||||||||||||
Commentators | Sandy Roberts (host) Bruce McAvaney (commentator) Dennis Cometti (commentator) Don Scott (expert commentator) Peter McKenna (boundary rider) Bernie Quinlan (boundary rider) Ross Glendinning (analyst) Ian Robertson (analyst) | |||||||||||||||
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The 1991 AFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Hawthorn Football Club and West Coast Eagles, held at Waverley Park in Melbourne on 28 September 1991. It was the 94th annual grand final of the Australian Football League (formerly the Victorian Football League), staged to determine the premiers for the 1991 AFL season. The match, attended 75,230 spectators, was won by Hawthorn by a margin of 53 points, marking that club's ninth premiership victory.
Reconstruction work at the larger Melbourne Cricket Ground, where most grand finals had been played since 1902, meant that the game was played at Waverley Park, marking the first and only time that this stadium hosted a premiership decider. The match was also the first grand final to feature a team (West Coast) based outside the state of Victoria.