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2018 AFL Grand Final

2018 AFL Grand Final
Date29 September 2018, 2:30pmStadiumMelbourne Cricket GroundAttendance100,022FavouriteCollingwoodUmpiresBrett Rosebury, Shaun Ryan
Matt StevicCeremoniesPre-match entertainmentThe Black Eyed Peas, Jimmy Barnes, Mike BradyNational anthemMahalia BarnesPost-match entertainmentJimmy BarnesAccoladesNorm Smith MedallistLuke ShueyJock McHale MedallistAdam SimpsonBroadcast in AustraliaNetworkSeven NetworkCommentatorsBruce McAvaney (host and commentator)
Hamish McLachlan (host and master of ceremonies)
Brian Taylor (commentator)
Wayne Carey (expert commentator)
Cameron Ling (expert commentator)
Daisy Pearce (boundary rider)
Matthew Richardson (boundary rider)
Leigh Matthews (analyst)
Jimmy Bartel (analyst)

The 2018 AFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the West Coast Eagles and the Collingwood Football Club at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on 29 September 2018. It was the 123rd annual grand final of the Australian Football League (formerly Victorian Football League), staged to determine the premiers for the 2018 AFL season. The match, attended by 100,022 spectators, was won by West Coast by a margin of five points, marking the club's fourth premiership and first since 2006. West Coast's Luke Shuey won the Norm Smith Medal as the player judged best on ground.

It is regarded as one of the greatest grand finals as well as one of the greatest games in AFL history, finishing first in a public poll of the AFL's 50 greatest games of the last 50 years in 2020.

The presentation ceremony following the match was the most-watched television program in Australia for the 2018 calendar year, marking the fifth year running the AFL grand final topped television viewership, with 2.62 million viewers across the five largest Australian metropolitan cities.