2010_AFL_season

2010 AFL season

2010 AFL season

114th season of the Australian Football League (AFL)


The 2010 AFL season was the 114th season of the Australian Football League (AFL), the highest level senior Australian rules football competition in Australia, which was known as the Victorian Football League until 1989. The season featured sixteen clubs, ran from 25 March until 2 October, and comprised a 22-game home-and-away season followed by a finals series featuring the top eight clubs.

Quick Facts Teams, Premiers ...

The premiership was won by the Collingwood Football Club for the 15th time, after it defeated St Kilda by 56 points in the 2010 AFL Grand Final Replay.

Pre-season

AFL pre-season draft

AFL rookie draft

NAB Cup

Summary of results

Round One Quarterfinals Semifinals Final
West Coast 117
Essendon 82   West Coast 70
Adelaide 67   Port Adelaide 158
Port Adelaide 123   Port Adelaide 89
Hawthorn 135   Western Bulldogs 92
Richmond 62   Hawthorn 54
Western Bulldogs 53   Western Bulldogs 111
Brisbane Lions 45   Western Bulldogs 104
St Kilda 100   St Kilda 64
Collingwood 99   St Kilda 79
Sydney 71   Sydney 78
Carlton 59   St Kilda 115
Geelong 81   Fremantle 45
North Melbourne 95   North Melbourne 90
Fremantle 97   Fremantle 94
Melbourne 50

Premiership season

The draw for the 2010 AFL Premiership Season was produced by the AFL with the intention of producing a balanced draw while also providing the fans and television networks with blockbuster games. In a competition with 16 teams and 22 rounds, it is not possible for all teams to play each other twice. These factors combine to create some of the following anomalies:[1]

  • Six teams played each other for the first time in round 21;
  • Of the Victorian-based teams St Kilda played six games interstate while Essendon travelled only three times;
  • Of the six games Fremantle played in Melbourne, none were at the MCG, while defending premiers Geelong played seven games at the MCG despite not being one of the tenants at this ground;
  • North Melbourne and Port Adelaide played only two of 2009's top eight teams twice, while Essendon and Collingwood played five of these teams twice.

Round 1

More information Round 1 (season launch) ...

Round 2

More information Round 2 (Easter) ...

Round 3

More information Round 3 ...

Round 4

More information Round 4 ...

Round 5

More information Round 5 (ANZAC Day) ...

Round 6

More information Round 6 ...

Round 7

More information Round 7 ...

Round 8

More information Round 8 ...

Round 9

More information Round 9 ...

Round 10

More information Round 10 ...

Round 11

More information Round 11 ...

Round 12

More information Round 12 (Queen's Birthday) ...

Round 13

More information Round 13 (Week one) ...
More information Round 13 (Week two) ...

Round 14

More information Round 14 ...

Round 15

More information Round 15 ...

Round 16

More information Round 16 ...

Round 17

More information Round 17 ...

Round 18

More information Round 18 ...

Round 19

More information Round 19 ...

Round 20

More information Round 20 ...

Round 21

More information Round 21 ...

Round 22

More information Round 22 ...

Win/loss table

More information Team, F1 ...
+WinQualified for finals
-LossXBye
DrawEliminated

Bold – Home game

Ladder

More information Pos, Team ...
Source: AFL ladder
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) percentage; 3) number of points for.
(P) Premiers

Ladder progression

  Numbers highlighted in green indicate that the team finished the round inside the top 8.
  Numbers highlighted in blue indicates the team finished first on the ladder in that round.
  Numbers highlighted in red indicates the team finished in last place on the ladder in that round.
More information Team ╲ Round, Collingwood ...
Source: [citation needed]

Finals series

Week one

More information Qualifying Finals ...
More information Elimination Finals ...

Week two

More information Semi-Finals ...

Week three

More information Preliminary Finals ...

Weeks four/five

More information Grand final ...

Grand final replay

More information Grand final Replay ...

Season records

Awards

Best and fairest

AFL Rising Star

The AFL Rising Star is awarded to the best player who, as of the beginning of the season, is under the age of 21 and has played fewer than 10 games. Each week one player is nominated and at the end of the season a selection panel votes to select the overall winner.

Sydney's Dan Hannebery won the award for 2010, with the maximum 45 votes awarded to him.[31]

Nominations

† players ineligible due to tribunal sanction

Voting[31]
  • Dan Hannebery – 45
  • Tom Scully – 35
  • Tom Rockliff – 24
  • Jack Trengove – 11
  • Ryan Bastinac – 6
  • Jeff Garlett – 5
  • Nathan Fyfe – 3
  • Michael Hurley – 2
  • Nic Naitanui – 2
  • Ben Reid – 1
  • Ben Stratton – 1

Goal of the Year

The Australian Football League celebrates the best goal of the season through the annual Goal of the Year competition. From 2010 onwards, the commercial name for the award is the Panasonic Goal of the Year.

Lance 'Buddy' Franklin won the award for his running goal against Essendon in round 13. By winning the award Franklin became the fifth indigenous player to win the award since 2004.[54]

Nominations

Mark of the Year

The Australian Football League celebrates the best mark of the season through the annual Mark of the Year competition. From 2009 onwards, the commercial name for the award is the Hungry Jack's Mark of the Year.

Liam Jurrah, of the Melbourne Football Club, won the award for his mark over the top of Port Adelaide's Nick Salter, in round 21.[54] However, he hadn't been nominated as Mark of the Week, which was won by Brendon Goddard. This inconsistency arose because the Mark of the Week is decided by an online public vote, while the Mark of the Year is decided separately by a panel of experts.

Weekly winners

Club leadership

More information Club, Coach ...

Umpiring and rule changes

No major changes to the rules were introduced for the 2010 season. Minor adjustments to the tribunal rules were made, including adding a provision to report players for diving or staging.[64] The 2010 NAB Cup pre-season competition trialled three new rules: allowing boundary umpires to award free kicks, letting the players, not the umpire, decide if they want to use the advantage rule and penalising players who push the ball under another player.[65]

Coach changes

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