The 2015 AFL Grand Final was an
Australian rules football match contested between the
Hawthorn Football Club
The Hawthorn Football Club, nicknamed the Hawks, is a professional Australian rules football club based in Mulgrave, Victoria, that competes in the Australian Football League (AFL). The club was founded in 1902 in the inner-east suburb of Hawt ...
and the
West Coast Eagles
The West Coast Eagles are a professional Australian rules football club based in Perth, Western Australia. The club was founded in 1986 as one of two expansion teams in the Australian Football League (AFL), then known as the Victorian Football L ...
at the
Melbourne Cricket Ground on 3 October 2015. It was the 120th annual
Grand Final
Primarily in Australian sports, a grand final (sometimes colloquially abbreviated to "grannie") is a game that decides a sports league's premiership (or championship) winning team, i.e. the conclusive game of a finals (or play-off) series. S ...
of the
Australian Football League (formerly the Victorian Football League), staged to determine the
premiers
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A premier will normally be a head of governm ...
for the
2015 AFL season. The match, attended by 98,632 spectators, was won by Hawthorn by a margin of 46 points, marking the club's third consecutive premiership and thirteenth VFL/AFL premiership victory overall. Hawthorn's
Cyril Rioli
Cyril Rioli (born 14 July 1989) is a former Australian rules football player who played with the Hawthorn Football Club in the Australian Football League. Rioli was a member of four premiership teams and the Norm Smith Medallist from the 2015 ...
was awarded the
Norm Smith Medal
The Norm Smith Medal is an Australian rules football award presented annually to the player adjudged the best on ground in the Grand Final of the Australian Football League (AFL). Prior to 1990 the competition was known as the Victorian Football ...
as the best player on the ground.
Background
With the
Fremantle Dockers
The Fremantle Football Club, nicknamed the Dockers, is a professional Australian rules football club competing in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's elite competition. The team was founded in 1994 to represent the port city of Fr ...
and
West Coast Eagles
The West Coast Eagles are a professional Australian rules football club based in Perth, Western Australia. The club was founded in 1986 as one of two expansion teams in the Australian Football League (AFL), then known as the Victorian Football L ...
finishing first and second respectively on the AFL ladder at the conclusion of the home and away season (and both subsequently winning their qualifying finals to set up two home preliminary finals in
Perth
Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia. It is the fourth most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a population of 2.1 million (80% of the state) living in Greater Perth in 2020. Perth i ...
for the first time), it was widely anticipated during much of the latter part of the season that the 2015 Grand Final would be contested as a
western derby
The Western Derby () is the name given to the Australian rules football match between the West Coast Eagles and the Fremantle Dockers, who both participate in the Australian Football League (AFL). As both teams are based in Perth, the capit ...
between the two Western Australian teams for the first time at the MCG.
experienced an average start to the year, with a record of 4–4 after eight matches (including losses to non-finals teams , and ), but would lose just twice more for the remainder of the regular season to finish in the top three for the fifth consecutive year. The team then lost its Qualifying Final to at
Domain Stadium by 32 points, but rebounded to defeat and (in Perth) in their Semi and Preliminary Finals, by 74 and 27 points respectively, to qualify for its fourth consecutive AFL Grand Final.
West Coast entered the season low on expectations after finishing ninth the previous year and losing key defenders
Eric Mackenzie and
Mitch Brown to knee injuries early on. Losing two of their first three games, to the
Western Bulldogs
The Western Bulldogs are a professional Australian rules football team that competes in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's premier competition.
Founded in 1877 as the Footscray Football Club, and based in West Footscray in the o ...
and Fremantle, the Eagles finished the season with a record of 16–5–1 to finish in the top two for the first time since
2006. The Eagles received the week off after beating Hawthorn in the Qualifying Final by 32 points, and subsequently defeated by 25 points in the Preliminary Final to progress to their first Grand Final since
2006.
Hawthorn and West Coast also met once during the home-and-away season, in
round 19
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* Rounding, the shortening of a number to reduce the number ...
, also at West Coast's home ground
Domain Stadium, with Hawthorn winning by 14 points.
The Grand Final was held on the first Saturday in October, rather than its traditional date on the last Saturday of September, because the
2015 Cricket World Cup
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delayed access to some AFL grounds early in the season. The game was held at the
Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG), as is traditional. The MCG serves as Hawthorn's main home ground for the home and away season, and media commentators suggested that Hawthorn would have an advantage playing there over West Coast who had only played there once during the season compared to Hawthorn's 11 matches. It was the second time that the two sides had met in a Grand Final; the first was in
1991
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, a contest which Hawthorn won by a margin of 53 points.
The 2015 AFL Grand Final was the last AFL match to utilise
substitutions until the
2021 season; the AFL reverting to a four-man interchange bench from the 2016 AFL season onwards. The last AFL substitution occurred in the 27 minute mark of the match's 3rd quarter, with
Matt Suckling
Matthew Suckling (born 25 July 1988) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Hawthorn Football Club and Western Bulldogs in the Australian Football League (AFL). Suckling is known as a player with precision kicking and link ...
replacing
David Hale.
Media coverage
The match was televised by the
Seven Network
The Seven Network (commonly known as Channel Seven or simply Seven) is a major Australian commercial free-to-air television network. It is owned by Seven West Media Limited, and is one of five main free-to-air television networks in Australia ...
. The match commentary was conducted by
Bruce McAvaney
Bruce William McAvaney OAM (born 22 June 1953) is an Australian sports broadcaster with the Seven Network. McAvaney has presented high-profile events including the AFL Grand Final, Melbourne Cup, Australian Open, Test cricket and both Winter a ...
and
Dennis Cometti
Dennis John Cometti (born 26 March 1949) is an Australian retired sports commentator, player and coach of Australian rules football. In a career spanning 51 years, his smooth voice, dry humour and quick wit became his trademark. Until his reti ...
for the Seven Network, marking the duo's seventh grand final appearance together as commentators since
2008
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and their eleventh overall. Individually, it was Cometti's seventeenth grand final and McAvaney's fifteenth.
The match was shown on Seven's main channel and also their high-definition channel,
7mate
7mate is an Australian free-to-air digital television multichannel, which was launched by the Seven Network on 25 September 2010. The channel contains sport and regular programs aimed primarily to a male audience, with programming drawn from a c ...
. A total of 2,640,000 people across the two channels watched the match, making the Grand Final the most viewed television broadcast of the day.
Pre-match entertainment
![2015 AFL Grand Final Hawthorn banner](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/46/2015_AFL_Grand_Final_Hawthorn_banner.JPG)
Similar to previous grand finals, the 2015 AFL Grand Final provided both pre-match and post-match entertainment. On 7 September 2015, it was announced that English singer
Ellie Goulding, Canadian musician
Bryan Adams
Bryan Guy Adams (born 5 November 1959) is a Canadian musician, singer, songwriter, composer, and photographer. He has been cited as one of the best-selling music artists of all time, and is estimated to have sold between 75 million and mor ...
and American musician
Chris Isaak
Christopher Joseph Isaak (born June 26, 1956) is an American singer, songwriter, guitarist and occasional actor. He is widely known for his breakthrough hit and signature song " Wicked Game", as well as other songs such as "Blue Hotel", " Baby ...
would be performing on the day. On 17 September 2015, the league announced that Australian singer
Kate Ceberano
Catherine Yvette Ceberano ( or , born 17 November 1966) is an Australian singer and actress who performs in the soul, jazz, and pop genres, as well as in film and musicals such as ''Jesus Christ Superstar''. Her song "Pash" received a gold sa ...
would perform
the national anthem, while musician
Mike Brady would perform his famous football song, "
Up There Cazaly
"Up There Cazaly" is 1979 song by Mike Brady, written to promote Channel Seven's coverage of the Victorian Football League (VFL). It was first performed by the Two-Man Band, a duo of Brady and Peter Sullivan, and has since become an unofficial ...
".
For the first time, the day before the Grand Final was declared a
public holiday
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Sovereign nations and territories observe holidays based on events of significance to their history ...
in Victoria by the incoming
Daniel Andrews government, as promised during the campaigning for the
2014 Victorian state election
The 2014 Victorian state election, held on Saturday, 29 November 2014, was for the 58th Parliament of Victoria. All 88 seats in the Victorian Legislative Assembly and 40 seats in the Victorian Legislative Council were up for election. The incumb ...
. As this would reduce the number of workers in the
Melbourne City Centre
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, the traditional route for the Grand Final Parade was changed to leave from the
Old Treasury Building and finish at
Yarra Park
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, adjacent to the
Melbourne Cricket Ground. A record crowd of 150,000 people turned up to watch the parade.
Match summary
The game was played on a very hot day, with the temperature reaching 31.3 degrees Celsius at 3:28 pm. This broke the previous record high for a Grand Final of 30.7 degrees Celsius recorded at the
1987 VFL Grand Final
The 1987 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Carlton Football Club and Hawthorn Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 26 September 1987. It was the 91st annual Grand Final of ...
. Prior to the game it was widely thought that the conditions would favour West Coast after Hawthorn had played a tough finals campaign of three successive finals, including travelling to
Perth
Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia. It is the fourth most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a population of 2.1 million (80% of the state) living in Greater Perth in 2020. Perth i ...
twice, without having a week off. The Eagles, being based in Perth, were also generally more used to playing in warmer conditions than Hawthorn.
First quarter
Luke Shuey
Luke Shuey (born 2 June 1990) is an Australian rules footballer and the captain of the West Coast Eagles in the Australian Football League (AFL).
Shuey was recruited from the Oakleigh Chargers with pick 20 in the 2008 National Draft. After a ...
kicked the first goal two minutes into the game from a free kick awarded against
Jordan Lewis
Jordan Michael Lewis (born 24 April 1986) is a former Australian rules football player who played with the Hawthorn Football Club and Melbourne Football Club in the Australian Football League.
AFL career Hawthorn
Lewis was drafted by Hawthorn ...
.
Hawthorn's
Cyril Rioli
Cyril Rioli (born 14 July 1989) is a former Australian rules football player who played with the Hawthorn Football Club in the Australian Football League. Rioli was a member of four premiership teams and the Norm Smith Medallist from the 2015 ...
responded only 90 seconds later and the Hawks kicked the next four goals of the quarter, with
Ben McEvoy
Ben “Big Boy” McEvoy (born 11 July 1989) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the St Kilda Football Club and Hawthorn Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).
Early career
McEvoy is an Austr ...
, Rioli,
Grant Birchall
Grant Birchall (born 28 January 1988) is a former Australian rules football player who played with the Hawthorn Football Club and Brisbane Lions in the Australian Football League.
Career Early career (2006–2008)
Birchall had an exceptiona ...
and
Bradley Hill each kicking majors. Meanwhile, the Eagles wasted opportunities, with Shuey ignoring a handball to an open
Jamie Cripps in front of goal in preference to a dribbled kick that missed. West Coast's
Jack Darling
Jack Darling (born 13 June 1992) is an Australian rules footballer who plays for the West Coast Eagles in the Australian Football League (AFL). Additionally, he was recruited from West Perth in the WAFL with pick 26 in the 2010 AFL Draft.
...
also missed a goal at the thirteen-minute mark. At the first change the Hawks led by 19 points.
Second quarter
The Hawks completely dominated the first half of the second quarter. Hawthorn captain
Luke Hodge
Luke Hodge (born 15 June 1984) is a former Australian rules football player who played with the Hawthorn Football Club and the Brisbane Lions in the Australian Football League (AFL). He played for the Hawthorn Football Club from 2002 to 2017, ...
kicked the first goal in the first minute of the term with a remarkable checkside kick from hard against the boundary line in the forward pocket.
The Eagles continued to waste opportunities, with captain
Shannon Hurn
Shannon William Hurn (born 4 September 1987) is an Australian rules footballer playing for the West Coast Eagles in the Australian Football League (AFL). From South Australia, he excelled at both cricket and football at junior level, and at one ...
hitting the post from directly in front of goals to make the scoreline 1.6 to 6.1 at the six-minute mark. This was followed by a burst of three goals from the Hawks in quick succession, with
Jack Gunston
Jack Gunston (born 16 October 1991) is a professional Australian footballer who plays for the Brisbane Lions in the Australian Football League (AFL).
Early life
Gunston was raised in Melbourne in Beaumaris and attended Haileybury College, play ...
kicking two and
Isaac Smith one, resulting in Hawthorn taking a stranglehold on the game.
After trailing by 44 points at the 14-minute mark of the term,
Sam Butler
Samuel Butler (born 14 January 1986) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the West Coast Eagles in the Australian Football League (AFL). A talented underage soccer player from Gawler, South Australia, who only ...
and
Matt Priddis
Matthew Harley Priddis (born 21 March 1985) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the West Coast Eagles in the Australian Football League (AFL).
Prior to being drafted, Priddis won two premierships with the Subiac ...
missed shots at goal, but West Coast briefly threatened to get back into the game when
Josh Hill and
Elliot Yeo kicked the final two goals of the quarter, the latter from a set shot after the siren. The Hawks enjoyed a 31-point lead at half time.
Third quarter
The two teams traded goals in the first half of the quarter as the Eagles made a challenge to get back into the game. Darling kicked the first goal of the third quarter for the Eagles, but then the Eagles squandered 2 golden opportunities for goals inside 50 to close the margin further. Shuey turned the ball over by foot when he had a simple handball option available before Darling dropped a simple chest mark that would’ve given him another set shot on goal. The Hawks then made the Eagles pay through the agency of
Ryan Schoenmakers
Ryan Schoenmakers (born 8 November 1990) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Hawthorn Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He was selected with the last pick of the first round selection ...
.
Three minutes later
Mark Hutchings
Mark Hutchings (born 25 May 1991) is an Australian rules footballer who last played for the West Coast Eagles in the Australian Football League (AFL) and currently plays for West Perth Football Club. From Perth, Western Australia, Hutchings c ...
kicked truly for the Eagles to again close the margin and give the Eagles some hope. However this proved to be a false dawn as the Hawks then effectively killed the contest by kicking four unanswered goals through Gunston (two goals), Smith and substitute
Matt Suckling
Matthew Suckling (born 25 July 1988) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Hawthorn Football Club and Western Bulldogs in the Australian Football League (AFL). Suckling is known as a player with precision kicking and link ...
, to take a commanding 50-point break into the final period.
Final quarter
Hawthorn began the last quarter where they left off in the third, with a goal to
Jarryd Roughead
Jarryd Roughead (born 23 January 1987) is an Australian rules football coach and former player. He is currently an assistant coach with the St Kilda Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He played for the Hawthorn Football C ...
just two minutes in and another to Smith two minutes later. In a moment that was said to epitomise Hawthorn's attitude on the day, full-back
Brian Lake made a diving smother to prevent a certain Josh Hill goal for the Eagles, despite the game being effectively over. The next fifteen minutes of the term were goalless before the Eagles restored some respectability to the scoreline with the final three goals of the game (one to
Mark LeCras and two to
Jeremy McGovern
Jeremy McGovern (born 15 April 1992) is an Australian rules footballer who plays for the West Coast Eagles in the Australian Football League (AFL). He is a tall key-position player who has spent most of his career as a defender, although he occa ...
).
Overall report
![Cyril Rioli](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1d/Cyril_Rioli.jpg)
Hawthorn clearly beat the opposition across the ground, with 19 more inside 50s, 16 more contested possessions, 115 more disposals and 14 more tackles. The Eagles were largely tentative and paid for poor ball use, frequently making skill errors and turning the ball over.
Hawthorn's goalkicking was also accurate when it mattered - early in the final quarter they had scored 16.5, but added a further six behinds after that.
Amongst the best for Hawthorn were Rioli (18 disposals, 12 marks, two goals and four goal assists),
Sam Mitchell (34 touches, six clearances),
James Frawley
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(22 disposals, 11 marks and kept Eagles forward
Josh Kennedy goalless), Hodge (30 disposals, 8 marks), Smith (three goals and 23 disposals),
Shaun Burgoyne
Shaun Playford Burgoyne (born 21 October 1982) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with the Port Adelaide Football Club in the SANFL, and Port Adelaide and Hawthorn Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).
Burgoyne ...
(26 disposals),
Josh Gibson
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(29 disposals and 8 marks) and Gunston (four goals).
Andrew Gaff was the best for the Eagles with 34 disposals.
The Hawks became only the fifth club and sixth team in VFL/AFL history to win a
hat-trick
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of premierships, and the first to do so since the
Brisbane Lions
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The club was formed in late 1996 via a merger of the Melbourne-based 1883 foundation VFL c ...
in
2001,
2002 and
2003 Grand Finals. Seven Hawks players became four-time premiership winners: Rioli, Lewis, Mitchell, Roughead, Birchall and Hodge all with Hawthorn, and Burgoyne adding a third Hawthorn premiership medallion to his premiership won with
Port Adelaide in 2004.
Alastair Clarkson
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also won his fourth premiership as coach of Hawthorn, making him the 12th four-time VFL/AFL premiership coach.
As of 2022, this is Hawthorn's last finals victory.
Norm Smith Medal
Cyril Rioli was named the
Norm Smith Medal
The Norm Smith Medal is an Australian rules football award presented annually to the player adjudged the best on ground in the Grand Final of the Australian Football League (AFL). Prior to 1990 the competition was known as the Victorian Football ...
list (best on ground). Rioli polled 13 votes out of a possible 15, beating his teammate Sam Mitchell who had nine votes. Rioli emulated his uncles
Maurice Rioli
Maurice Joseph Rioli Sr. (1 September 195725 December 2010) was an Australian rules footballer who represented St Mary's Football Club in the Northern Territory Football League (NTFL), in the West Australian Football League (WAFL) and in th ...
—who won the medal for
Richmond
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in
1982 in their loss to
Carlton—and
Essendon Essendon may refer to:
Australia
*Electoral district of Essendon
*Electoral district of Essendon and Flemington
* Essendon, Victoria
**Essendon railway station
**Essendon Airport
* Essendon Football Club in the Australian Football League
United Ki ...
's
Michael Long, who was awarded the medal in their win over Carlton in
1993
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.
Chaired by
Peter Bell, the voters and their choices were as follows:
Teams
The teams were announced on 1 October 2015. Hawthorn made one change to its lineup from the previous week's preliminary final, with
Jack Gunston
Jack Gunston (born 16 October 1991) is a professional Australian footballer who plays for the Brisbane Lions in the Australian Football League (AFL).
Early life
Gunston was raised in Melbourne in Beaumaris and attended Haileybury College, play ...
returning from an ankle injury and
Billy Hartung omitted. West Coast named an unchanged team from its preliminary final.
Matt Rosa was the substitute for West Coast and
Matt Suckling
Matthew Suckling (born 25 July 1988) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Hawthorn Football Club and Western Bulldogs in the Australian Football League (AFL). Suckling is known as a player with precision kicking and link ...
filled that role for Hawthorn.
;Umpires
The umpiring panel, comprising three field umpires, four boundary umpires, two goal umpires and an emergency in each position is given below. The most notable appointment was field umpire
Jeff Dalgleish's selection for his first grand final.
''Numbers in brackets represent the number of Grand Finals umpired, including 2015.''
Scorecard
Strikes in the lead-up
More than 180
brewery
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workers at the
Carlton & United Breweries
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(CUB) factory in
Abbotsford, Victoria
Abbotsford ( wyi, Carran-carramulk) is an inner-city suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, north-east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Yarra local government area. Abbotsford recorded a population of 9 ...
voted to go on
strike
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People
* Strike (surname)
Physical confrontation or removal
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in the lead up to the 2015 AFL Grand Final. It was feared that this could potentially affect the production of
Carlton Draught and
Victoria Bitter
Victoria Bitter (VB) is a lager produced by Carlton & United Breweries, a subsidiary of Asahi, in Melbourne, Victoria. It was first and brewed by Thomas Aitken at Victoria Brewery in 1854 and is one of the best selling beers in Australia.
Hi ...
in the lead up to the game,
although the brewery stated that a strike would not cause any loss of production, and that Carlton & United could potentially request supplies from its other factories during a strike if production was lost.
Also affecting Melbourne in late 2015 was a series of transport strikes. Strikes by tram and train drivers against
Yarra Trams
Yarra Trams is the trading name of the operator of the tram network in Melbourne, Australia, which is owned by VicTrack and leased to Yarra Trams by the Victorian Department of Transport. The current franchise is operated by Keolis Downer. ...
and
Metro Trains Melbourne
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during finals were threatened, with
CFMEU
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Secretary
John Setka
John Setka (born September 1964) is an Australian trade unionist and professional cyclist. He is the Victorian state secretary of the Construction, Forestry, Maritime, Mining and Energy Union.
Biography
John Setka was born to a Croatian labo ...
declaring that the finals were a "wonderful time to have some industrial action".
References
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VFL/AFL Grand Finals
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