2007 AFL Grand Final | ||||||||||||||||
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Date | 29 September 2007 | |||||||||||||||
Stadium | Melbourne Cricket Ground | |||||||||||||||
Attendance | 97,302 | |||||||||||||||
Favourite | Geelong | |||||||||||||||
Umpires | Stephen McBurney (3), Shane McInerney (30), Scott McLaren (11) | |||||||||||||||
Coin toss won by | Geelong | |||||||||||||||
Kicked toward | City End | |||||||||||||||
Ceremonies | ||||||||||||||||
Pre-match entertainment | Natalie Bassingthwaighte, Jet | |||||||||||||||
National anthem | Natalie Bassingthwaighte | |||||||||||||||
Accolades | ||||||||||||||||
Norm Smith Medallist | Steve Johnson (Geelong) | |||||||||||||||
Jock McHale Medallist | Mark Thompson (Geelong) | |||||||||||||||
Broadcast in Australia | ||||||||||||||||
Network | Network Ten | |||||||||||||||
Commentators | Anthony Hudson (Host) Tim Lane (Commentator) Michael Voss (Special Comments) Robert Walls (Special Comments) Malcolm Blight (Special Comments) Corey Wingard (boundary Rider) Andrew Maher (Boundary Rider) | |||||||||||||||
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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 greatest winning margin in VFL/AFL grand final history and the only one by 100 points or more. The victory marked Geelong's seventh premiership win, and ended its 44-year premiership drought.