2000 AFL Premiership Season
AFL logo (2000 - Present)
Teams	16
Premiers	Essendon (16th premiership)
Minor Premiers	Essendon (18th minor premiership)
AFL Cup Winner	Essendon (4th pre-season cup win)
Coleman Medallist	Matthew Lloyd (Essendon) (109 goals)
Brownlow Medallist	Shane Woewodin (Melbourne)

Results and statistics for the Australian Football League season of 2000.

See List of Australian Football League premiers for a complete list.

[edit] AFL Draft

See 2000 AFL Draft for more information.

[edit] National Cup

Essendon defeated Kangaroos 16.21 (117) to 11.10 (76) in the Final.

[edit] Premiership season

[edit] Round 1

[edit] Round 2

[edit] Round 3

[edit] Round 4

[edit] Round 5

[edit] Round 6

[edit] Round 7

[edit] Round 8

[edit] Round 9

[edit] Round 10

[edit] Round 11

[edit] Round 12

[edit] Round 13

[edit] Round 14

[edit] Round 15

[edit] Round 16

[edit] Round 17

[edit] Round 18

[edit] Round 19

[edit] Round 20

[edit] Round 21

[edit] Round 22

[edit] Qualifying and elimination finals

[edit] Semi finals

[edit] Preliminary finals

[edit] Grand final

[edit] Ladder

All teams played 22 games during the home and away season, for a total of 176. An additional 9 games were played during the finals series.

[edit] Match attendance

Total match attendance for the home-and-away season was 5,731,091 people. Total attendance for the finals season was 566,562 people. Attendance at the Grand Final was 96,249 people. The largest non-finals attendance was 91,571 people for the Essendon v Carlton game of Round 20.

[edit] Awards

• The Brownlow Medal was awarded to Shane Woewodin of Melbourne.
• The Coleman Medal was awarded to Matthew Lloyd of Essendon.
• The Norm Smith Medal was awarded to James Hird of Essendon.
• The AFL Rising Star award was awarded to Paul Hasleby of Fremantle.

[edit] Notable events

• The AFL season started and ended three weeks early to avoid scheduling conflicts with the 2000 Summer Olympics which were held in Sydney that year.
• Essendon won the most home-and-away games (21) and total games (24) in a single season in the history of the VFL/AFL, breaking the records set by Carlton in 1995 (20 and 23 respectively). If one includes its pre-season cup, it won 30 games. All records still stand. In 2008 Geelong won 21 of 22 in the home and away season to equal that record, but lost the Grand Final.
• Essendon's Grand Final win was the last by a Victorian side until Geelong won in 2007.
• The Brisbane Lions were the only non-Victorian side to make the finals.
• The McIntyre "Final Eight" system, which had operated from 1994 and 1999, was replaced by the AFL's Amended "Final Eight" system. The AFL's Amended "Final Eight" system has operated continuously from 2000 until today.
• Round 5 and 6 is recognised for the fact that every winner of both weeks had scored over 105 points in both weeks and 3 losing teams in the weeks still scored over 100 points (2 including Sydney, who lost both weeks).

[edit] See also

• AFL's Amended "Final Eight" system (2000)

[edit] References

• 2000 Season - AFL Tables