2007 AFL season - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

The 2007 AFL Season was the 111th season of the Australian Football League

Australian Football League

The Australian Football League is both the governing body and the major professional competition in the sport of Australian rules football...

, the highest-level professional Australian rules football

Australian rules football

Australian rules football, officially known as Australian football, also called football, Aussie rules or footy is a sport played between two teams of 22 players on either...

league in Australia. The regular season commenced on 30 March 2007, and concluded with the 2007 AFL Grand Final

2007 AFL Grand Final

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 VFL/AFL, staged to determine the...

on 29 September 2007, with defeating by 119 points, the highest winning-margin in an AFL Grand Final

AFL Grand Final

The AFL Grand Final is an annual Australian rules football match, traditionally held on the final Saturday in September at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne, Australia to determine the Australian Football League premiership champions for that year...

, to claim the 2007 AFL premiership.

National Cup

Round 1 (season launch)

Melbourne Cricket Ground

The Melbourne Cricket Ground is an Australian sports stadium located in Yarra Park, Melbourne and is home to the Melbourne Cricket Club. It is the tenth largest stadium in the world, the largest in Australia, the largest stadium for playing cricket, and holds the world record for the highest light...

|49,490
|Friday, 30 March
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|10.19 (79)
|
|12.10 (82)
|MCG

Melbourne Cricket Ground

|44,760
|Saturday, 31 March
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|16.9 (105)
|
|19.7 (121)
|Subiaco Oval

Subiaco Oval

Subiaco Oval , known colloquially as Subi, is the highest capacity sports stadium in Perth, Western Australia...

|37,425
|Saturday, 31 March
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|9.15 (69)
|
|6.8 (44)
|The Gabba
|27,104
|Saturday, 31 March
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|10.13 (73)
|
|11.8 (74)
|Telstra Stadium

Telstra Stadium

Stadium Australia, currently also known as ANZ Stadium due to naming rights, formerly known as Telstra Stadium, is a multi-purpose stadium located in the Sydney Olympic Park precinct of Homebush Bay...

|62,586
|Saturday, 31 March
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|10.14 (74)
|
|16.9 (105)
|AAMI Stadium

AAMI Stadium

Football Park is an Australian rules football stadium located in West Lakes, a western suburb of Adelaide, South Australia...

|43,064
|Sunday, 1 April
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|17.11 (113)
|
|13.15 (93)
|Telstra Dome

Telstra Dome

Docklands Stadium is a multi-purpose sports and entertainment stadium in the Docklands precinct of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia...

|42,626
|Sunday, 1 April
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|15.25 (115)
|
|15.8 (98)
|MCG

Melbourne Cricket Ground

|59,847
|Sunday, 1 April
|AFL.com.au

Round 2 (Easter)

Melbourne Cricket Ground

|37,985
|Saturday, 7 April
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|24.18 (162)
|
|12.12 (84)
|Telstra Dome

Telstra Dome

Docklands Stadium is a multi-purpose sports and entertainment stadium in the Docklands precinct of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia...

|41,113
|Saturday, 7 April
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|12.15 (87)
|
|11.9 (75)
|Subiaco Oval

Subiaco Oval

Subiaco Oval , known colloquially as Subi, is the highest capacity sports stadium in Perth, Western Australia...

|40,413
|Saturday, 7 April
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|17.20 (122)
|
|15.14 (104)
|AAMI Stadium

AAMI Stadium

Football Park is an Australian rules football stadium located in West Lakes, a western suburb of Adelaide, South Australia...

|25,054
|Sunday, 8 April
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|19.8 (122)
|
|17.10 (112)
|Telstra Dome

Telstra Dome

Docklands Stadium is a multi-purpose sports and entertainment stadium in the Docklands precinct of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia...

|32,623
|Sunday, 8 April
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|11.6 (72)
|
|16.14 (110)
|MCG

Melbourne Cricket Ground

|27,199
|Sunday, 8 April
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|17.14 (116)
|
|14.10 (94)
|MCG

Melbourne Cricket Ground

|43,197
|Monday, 9 April
|AFL.com.au

Round 3 (Rivalry Round
AFL team rivalries
AFL team rivalries are matches in the Australian Football League which typically draw large crowds and interest regardless of both teams' positions on the ladder...

)

Melbourne Cricket Ground

|70,569
|Friday, 13 April
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|18.17 (125)
|
|17.20 (122)
|MCG

Melbourne Cricket Ground

|64,710
|Saturday, 14 April
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|8.15 (63)
|
|13.9 (87)
|AAMI Stadium

AAMI Stadium

Football Park is an Australian rules football stadium located in West Lakes, a western suburb of Adelaide, South Australia...

|36,959
|Saturday, 14 April
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|17.14 (116)
|
|9.12 (66)
|Telstra Dome

Telstra Dome

Docklands Stadium is a multi-purpose sports and entertainment stadium in the Docklands precinct of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia...

|38,474
|Saturday, 14 April
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|11.4 (70)
|
|14.17 (101)
|Subiaco Oval

Subiaco Oval

Subiaco Oval , known colloquially as Subi, is the highest capacity sports stadium in Perth, Western Australia...

|42,051
|Saturday, 14 April
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|13.18 (96)
|
|10.9 (69)
|SCG

Sydney Cricket Ground

The Sydney Cricket Ground is a sports stadium in Sydney in Australia. It is used for Australian football, Test cricket, One Day International cricket, some rugby league and rugby union matches and is the home ground for the New South Wales Blues cricket team and the Sydney Swans of the Australian...

|24,854
|Sunday, 15 April
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|8.9 (57)
|
|15.19 (109)
|MCG

Melbourne Cricket Ground

|38,438
|Sunday, 15 April
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|10.10 (70)
|
|13.13 (91)
|Telstra Dome

Telstra Dome

Docklands Stadium is a multi-purpose sports and entertainment stadium in the Docklands precinct of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia...

|28,481
|Sunday, 15 April
|AFL.com.au

Round 4

Melbourne Cricket Ground

|36,821
|Friday, 20 April
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|9.12 (66)
|
|12.12 (84)
|MCG

Melbourne Cricket Ground

|35,355
|Saturday, 21 April
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|9.14 (68)
|
|15.9 (99)
|Telstra Dome

Telstra Dome

Docklands Stadium is a multi-purpose sports and entertainment stadium in the Docklands precinct of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia...

|47,605
|Saturday, 21 April
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|9.7 (61)
|
|5.14 (44)
|AAMI Stadium

AAMI Stadium

Football Park is an Australian rules football stadium located in West Lakes, a western suburb of Adelaide, South Australia...

|43,752
|Saturday, 21 April
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|12.15 (87)
|
|8.15 (63)
|Carrara Stadium

Carrara Stadium

Carrara Stadium is a sporting venue on the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia, located in the suburb of Carrara....

|11,133
|Saturday, 21 April
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|10.16 (76)
|
|9.18 (72)
|Aurora Stadium

Aurora Stadium

York Park is a sports ground in the Inveresk and York Park Precinct, Launceston, Australia. Holding 20,000 people—more than any other stadium in Tasmania—York Park has been known as Aurora Stadium under a six-year naming rights agreement signed with Aurora Energy in 2004...

|17,120
|Sunday, 22 April
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|13.14 (92)
|
|21.11 (137)
|MCG

Melbourne Cricket Ground

|16,654
|Sunday, 22 April
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|14.16 (100)
|
|4.15 (39)
|Subiaco Oval

Subiaco Oval

Subiaco Oval , known colloquially as Subi, is the highest capacity sports stadium in Perth, Western Australia...

|41,016
|Sunday, 22 April
|AFL.com.au

Round 5

Melbourne Cricket Ground

|90,508
|Wednesday, 25 April
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|14.12 (96)
|
|6.7 (43)
|AAMI Stadium

AAMI Stadium

Football Park is an Australian rules football stadium located in West Lakes, a western suburb of Adelaide, South Australia...

|24,438
|Friday, 27 April
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|11.10 (76)
|
|14.15 (99)
|MCG

Melbourne Cricket Ground

|27,326
|Saturday, 28 April
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|18.16 (124)
|
|21.10 (136)
|Telstra Dome

Telstra Dome

Docklands Stadium is a multi-purpose sports and entertainment stadium in the Docklands precinct of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia...

|33,598
|Saturday, 28 April
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|17.7 (109)
|
|8.12 (60)
|SCG

Sydney Cricket Ground

|23,354
|Saturday, 28 April
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|13.15 (93)
|
|16.14 (110)
|MCG

Melbourne Cricket Ground

|31,982
|Sunday, 29 April
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|15.12 (102)
|
|18.10 (118)
|Skilled Stadium
|20,906
|Sunday, 29 April
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|7.16 (58)
|
|8.9 (57)
|Subiaco Oval

Subiaco Oval

Subiaco Oval , known colloquially as Subi, is the highest capacity sports stadium in Perth, Western Australia...

|37,172
|Sunday, 29 April
|AFL.com.au

Round 6

Telstra Dome

Docklands Stadium is a multi-purpose sports and entertainment stadium in the Docklands precinct of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia...

|45,513
|Friday, 4 May
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|15.6 (96)
|
|20.11 (131)
|MCG

Melbourne Cricket Ground

|52,047
|Saturday, 5 May
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|10.17 (77)
|
|9.8 (62)
|Subiaco Oval

Subiaco Oval

Subiaco Oval , known colloquially as Subi, is the highest capacity sports stadium in Perth, Western Australia...

|40,668
|Saturday, 5 May
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|16.15 (111)
|
|14.11 (95)
|Telstra Dome

Telstra Dome

Docklands Stadium is a multi-purpose sports and entertainment stadium in the Docklands precinct of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia...

|27,045
|Saturday, 5 May
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|9.8 (62)
|
|11.20 (86)
|AAMI Stadium

AAMI Stadium

Football Park is an Australian rules football stadium located in West Lakes, a western suburb of Adelaide, South Australia...

|43,915
|Saturday, 5 May
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|17.18 (120)
|
|10.15 (75)
|The Gabba
|27,175
|Sunday, 6 May
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|9.17 (71)
|
|10.16 (76)
|MCG

Melbourne Cricket Ground

|16,266
|Sunday, 6 May
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|9.11 (65)
|
|35.12 (222)
|Telstra Dome

Telstra Dome

Docklands Stadium is a multi-purpose sports and entertainment stadium in the Docklands precinct of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia...

|34,584
|Sunday, 6 May
|AFL.com.au

Round 7

Telstra Dome

Docklands Stadium is a multi-purpose sports and entertainment stadium in the Docklands precinct of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia...

|42,730
|Friday, 11 May
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|17.17 (119)
|
|14.11 (95)
|MCG

Melbourne Cricket Ground

|77,321
|Saturday, 12 May
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|16.19 (115)
|
|10.15 (75)
|AAMI Stadium

AAMI Stadium

Football Park is an Australian rules football stadium located in West Lakes, a western suburb of Adelaide, South Australia...

|26,232
|Saturday, 12 May
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|9.15 (69)
|
|14.16 (100)
|The Gabba
|26,978
|Saturday, 12 May
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|15.7 (97)
|
|11.5 (71)
|Telstra Dome

Telstra Dome

Docklands Stadium is a multi-purpose sports and entertainment stadium in the Docklands precinct of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia...

|37,816
|Saturday, 12 May
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|16.13 (109)
|
|10.10 (70)
|Skilled Stadium
|22,014
|Sunday, 13 May
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|16.16 (112)
|
|16.10 (106)
|Telstra Dome

Telstra Dome

Docklands Stadium is a multi-purpose sports and entertainment stadium in the Docklands precinct of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia...

|24,584
|Sunday, 13 May
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|14.12 (96)
|
|11.14 (80)
|Subiaco Oval

Subiaco Oval

Subiaco Oval , known colloquially as Subi, is the highest capacity sports stadium in Perth, Western Australia...

|36,481
|Sunday, 13 May
|AFL.com.au

Round 8

AAMI Stadium

Football Park is an Australian rules football stadium located in West Lakes, a western suburb of Adelaide, South Australia...

|40,742
|Friday, 18 May
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|18.19 (127)
|
|8.15 (63)
|Telstra Dome

Telstra Dome

Docklands Stadium is a multi-purpose sports and entertainment stadium in the Docklands precinct of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia...

|35,034
|Saturday, 19 May
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|14.10 (94)
|
|10.9 (69)
|Skilled Stadium
|20,435
|Saturday, 19 May
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|10.12 (72)
|
|6.8 (44)
|MCG

Melbourne Cricket Ground

|36,063
|Saturday, 19 May
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|22.15 (147)
|
|20.10 (130)
|Carrara Stadium

Carrara Stadium

Carrara Stadium is a sporting venue on the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia, located in the suburb of Carrara....

|11,649
|Saturday, 19 May
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|17.16 (118)
|
|13.9 (87)
|SCG

Sydney Cricket Ground

|25,423
|Sunday, 20 May
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|20.15 (135)
|
|14.18 (102)
|Telstra Dome

Telstra Dome

Docklands Stadium is a multi-purpose sports and entertainment stadium in the Docklands precinct of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia...

|46,990
|Sunday, 20 May
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|19.23 (137)
|
|9.6 (60)
|Subiaco Oval

Subiaco Oval

Subiaco Oval , known colloquially as Subi, is the highest capacity sports stadium in Perth, Western Australia...

|40,068
|Sunday, 20 May
|AFL.com.au

Round 9 (Indigenous
Indigenous Australians
Indigenous Australians are the original inhabitants of the Australian continent and nearby islands. The Aboriginal Indigenous Australians migrated from the Indian continent around 75,000 to 100,000 years ago....

Round)

Subiaco Oval

Subiaco Oval , known colloquially as Subi, is the highest capacity sports stadium in Perth, Western Australia...

|39,034
|Friday, 25 May
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|12.14 (86)
|
|15.15 (105)
|Telstra Dome

Telstra Dome

Docklands Stadium is a multi-purpose sports and entertainment stadium in the Docklands precinct of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia...

|27,504
|Saturday, 26 May
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|15.9 (99)
|
|8.16 (64)
|Aurora Stadium

Aurora Stadium

|18,112
|Saturday, 26 May
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|13.9 (87)
|
|18.12 (120)
|The Gabba
|32,225
|Saturday, 26 May
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|12.12 (84)
|
|12.20 (92)
|MCG

Melbourne Cricket Ground

|61,837
|Saturday, 26 May
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|8.9 (57)
|
|15.10 (100)
|Manuka Oval

Manuka Oval

Manuka Oval is a 13,550 capacity ground located in the suburb of Griffith, adjacent to Manuka, a business district of Canberra, Australia's capital....

|14,517
|Sunday, 27 May
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|11.12 (78)
|
|10.19 (79)
|MCG

Melbourne Cricket Ground

|30,662
|Sunday, 27 May
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|8.12 (60)
|
|16.20 (116)
|AAMI Stadium

AAMI Stadium

Football Park is an Australian rules football stadium located in West Lakes, a western suburb of Adelaide, South Australia...

|26,465
|Sunday, 27 May
|AFL.com.au

Round 10

Melbourne Cricket Ground

|44,480
|Friday, 1 June
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|13.11 (89)
|
|10.12 (72)
|MCG

Melbourne Cricket Ground

|23,657
|Saturday, 2 June
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|18.13 (121)
|
|7.13 (55)
|Subiaco Oval

Subiaco Oval

Subiaco Oval , known colloquially as Subi, is the highest capacity sports stadium in Perth, Western Australia...

|40,751
|Saturday, 2 June
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|10.13 (73)
|
|10.13 (73)
|Telstra Dome

Telstra Dome

Docklands Stadium is a multi-purpose sports and entertainment stadium in the Docklands precinct of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia...

|28,093
|Saturday, 2 June
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|11.7 (73)
|
|11.8 (74)
|SCG

Sydney Cricket Ground

|26,647
|Saturday, 2 June
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|10.15 (75)
|
|17.7 (109)
|AAMI Stadium

AAMI Stadium

Football Park is an Australian rules football stadium located in West Lakes, a western suburb of Adelaide, South Australia...

|23,945
|Sunday, 3 June
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|21.12 (138)
|
|19.14 (128)
|MCG

Melbourne Cricket Ground

|37,535
|Sunday, 3 June
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|9.11 (65)
|
|19.11 (125)
|Telstra Dome

Telstra Dome

Docklands Stadium is a multi-purpose sports and entertainment stadium in the Docklands precinct of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia...

|42,188
|Sunday, 3 June
|AFL.com.au

Round 11

Telstra Dome

Docklands Stadium is a multi-purpose sports and entertainment stadium in the Docklands precinct of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia...

|48,913
|Friday, 8 June
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|9.12 (66)
|
|11.9 (75)
|MCG

Melbourne Cricket Ground

|48,398
|Saturday, 9 June
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|10.12 (72)
|
|13.17 (95)
|The Gabba
|29,873
|Saturday, 9 June
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|22.9 (141)
|
|14.18 (102)
|Telstra Dome

Telstra Dome

Docklands Stadium is a multi-purpose sports and entertainment stadium in the Docklands precinct of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia...

|29,678
|Saturday, 9 June
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|9.8 (62)
|
|9.15 (69)
|AAMI Stadium

AAMI Stadium

Football Park is an Australian rules football stadium located in West Lakes, a western suburb of Adelaide, South Australia...

|43,108
|Sunday, 10 June
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|8.10 (58)
|
|11.14 (80)
|Telstra Dome

Telstra Dome

Docklands Stadium is a multi-purpose sports and entertainment stadium in the Docklands precinct of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia...

|34,569
|Sunday, 10 June
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|18.15 (123)
|
|15.12 (102)
|Subiaco Oval

Subiaco Oval

Subiaco Oval , known colloquially as Subi, is the highest capacity sports stadium in Perth, Western Australia...

|37,177
|Sunday, 10 June
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|13.16 (94)
|
|11.15 (81)
|MCG

Melbourne Cricket Ground

|70,660
|Monday, 11 June
|AFL.com.au

Round 12 (Split Round)

Telstra Dome

Docklands Stadium is a multi-purpose sports and entertainment stadium in the Docklands precinct of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia...

|53,459
|Friday, 15 June
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|7.12 (54)
|
|15.10 (100)
|Carrara Stadium

Carrara Stadium

Carrara Stadium is a sporting venue on the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia, located in the suburb of Carrara....

|11,178
|Saturday, 16 June
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|22.9 (141)
|
|16.19 (115)
|TIO Stadium
|11,449
|Saturday, 16 June
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|12.13 (85)
|
|5.5 (35)
|Skilled Stadium
|21,212
|Sunday, 17 June
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|19.12 (126)
|
|13.17 (95)
|AAMI Stadium

AAMI Stadium

Football Park is an Australian rules football stadium located in West Lakes, a western suburb of Adelaide, South Australia...

|25,242
|Sunday, 17 June
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|18.16 (124)
|
|11.9 (75)
|MCG

Melbourne Cricket Ground

|46,161
|Friday, 22 June
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|8.9 (57)
|
|10.16 (76)
|Telstra Stadium

Telstra Stadium

|64,222
|Saturday, 23 June
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|11.10 (76)
|
|15.9 (99)
|Subiaco Oval

Subiaco Oval

Subiaco Oval , known colloquially as Subi, is the highest capacity sports stadium in Perth, Western Australia...

|39,401
|Sunday, 24 June
|AFL.com.au

Round 13

Telstra Dome

Docklands Stadium is a multi-purpose sports and entertainment stadium in the Docklands precinct of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia...

|47,552
|Friday, 29 June
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|13.9 (87)
|
|10.9 (69)
|Skilled Stadium
|23,040
|Saturday, 30 June
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|27.11 (173)
|
|13.8 (96)
|Subiaco Oval

Subiaco Oval

Subiaco Oval , known colloquially as Subi, is the highest capacity sports stadium in Perth, Western Australia...

|36,307
|Saturday, 30 June
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|15.15 (105)
|
|17.10 (112)
|The Gabba
|22,124
|Saturday, 30 June
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|17.15 (117)
|
|15.10 (100)
|Telstra Dome

Telstra Dome

Docklands Stadium is a multi-purpose sports and entertainment stadium in the Docklands precinct of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia...

|38,689
|Saturday, 30 June
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|10.14 (74)
|
|14.11 (95)
|AAMI Stadium

AAMI Stadium

Football Park is an Australian rules football stadium located in West Lakes, a western suburb of Adelaide, South Australia...

|42,127
|Sunday, 1 July
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|17.9 (111)
|
|11.19 (85)
|MCG

Melbourne Cricket Ground

|39,433
|Sunday, 1 July
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|12.15 (87)
|
|15.5 (95)
|Telstra Dome

Telstra Dome

Docklands Stadium is a multi-purpose sports and entertainment stadium in the Docklands precinct of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia...

|50,248
|Sunday, 1 July
|AFL.com.au

Round 14 (Heritage Round
AFL Heritage Round
Heritage Round was a round of matches in the Australian Football League in which all the teams wore guernseys from their past. The first Heritage Round was in 2003 and had been continuing every year until 2008....

)

Telstra Dome

Docklands Stadium is a multi-purpose sports and entertainment stadium in the Docklands precinct of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia...

|51,156
|Friday, 6 July
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|12.17 (89)
|
|12.8 (80)
|MCG

Melbourne Cricket Ground

|57,247
|Saturday, 7 July
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|20. 13 (133)
|
|17.11 (113)
|Telstra Dome

Telstra Dome

Docklands Stadium is a multi-purpose sports and entertainment stadium in the Docklands precinct of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia...

|22,691
|Saturday, 7 July
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|9.10 (64)
|
|13.13 (91)
|Subiaco Oval

Subiaco Oval

Subiaco Oval , known colloquially as Subi, is the highest capacity sports stadium in Perth, Western Australia...

|40,763
|Saturday, 7 July
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|15.12 (102)
|
|4.7 (31)
|AAMI Stadium

AAMI Stadium

Football Park is an Australian rules football stadium located in West Lakes, a western suburb of Adelaide, South Australia...

|34,733
|Saturday, 7 July
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|11.23 (89)
|
|9.7 (61)
|SCG

Sydney Cricket Ground

|25,493
|Sunday, 8 July
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|14.17 (101)
|
|19.10 (124)
|MCG

Melbourne Cricket Ground

|33,085
|Sunday, 8 July
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|11.13 (79)
|
|14.20 (104)
|Telstra Dome

Telstra Dome

Docklands Stadium is a multi-purpose sports and entertainment stadium in the Docklands precinct of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia...

|33,583
|Sunday, 8 July
|AFL.com.au

Round 15

Telstra Dome

Docklands Stadium is a multi-purpose sports and entertainment stadium in the Docklands precinct of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia...

|32,210
|Friday, 13 July
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|11.14 (80)
|
|9.10 (64)
|MCG

Melbourne Cricket Ground

|85,497
|Saturday, 14 July
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|22.21 (153)
|
|9.8 (62)
|AAMI Stadium

AAMI Stadium

Football Park is an Australian rules football stadium located in West Lakes, a western suburb of Adelaide, South Australia...

|27,879
|Saturday, 14 July
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|14.14 (98)
|
|20.11 (131)
|Telstra Dome

Telstra Dome

Docklands Stadium is a multi-purpose sports and entertainment stadium in the Docklands precinct of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia...

|45,283
|Saturday, 14 July
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|12.10 (82)
|
|18.18 (126)
|The Gabba
|22,708
|Saturday, 14 July
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|25.12 (162)
|
|15.10 (100)
|SCG

Sydney Cricket Ground

|24,858
|Sunday, 15 July
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|19.15 (129)
|
|11.10 (76)
|MCG

Melbourne Cricket Ground

|41,770
|Sunday, 15 July
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|11.12 (78)
|
|12.10 (82)
|Subiaco Oval

Subiaco Oval

Subiaco Oval , known colloquially as Subi, is the highest capacity sports stadium in Perth, Western Australia...

|37,002
|Sunday, 15 July
|AFL.com.au

Round 16

Telstra Dome

Docklands Stadium is a multi-purpose sports and entertainment stadium in the Docklands precinct of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia...

|44,688
|Friday, 20 July
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|18.14 (122)
|
|14.9 (93)
|MCG

Melbourne Cricket Ground

|65,531
|Saturday, 21 July
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|15.11 (101)
|
|20.6 (126)
|AAMI Stadium

AAMI Stadium

Football Park is an Australian rules football stadium located in West Lakes, a western suburb of Adelaide, South Australia...

|40,190
|Saturday, 21 July
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|16.16 (112)
|
|15.10 (100)
|Subiaco Oval

Subiaco Oval

Subiaco Oval , known colloquially as Subi, is the highest capacity sports stadium in Perth, Western Australia...

|40,014
|Saturday, 21 July
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|14.11 (95)
|
|11.12 (78)
|Telstra Dome

Telstra Dome

Docklands Stadium is a multi-purpose sports and entertainment stadium in the Docklands precinct of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia...

|37,847
|Saturday, 21 July
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|25.13 (163)
|
|6.10 (46)
|The Gabba
|27,163
|Sunday, 22 July
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|15.10 (100)
|
|24.11 (155)
|MCG

Melbourne Cricket Ground

|22,395
|Sunday, 22 July
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|19.12 (126)
|
|9.8 (62)
|Telstra Dome

Telstra Dome

Docklands Stadium is a multi-purpose sports and entertainment stadium in the Docklands precinct of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia...

|20,187
|Sunday, 22 July
|AFL.com.au

Round 17

Telstra Dome

Docklands Stadium is a multi-purpose sports and entertainment stadium in the Docklands precinct of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia...

|30,900
|Friday, 27 July
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|15.11 (101)
|
|16.15 (111)
|Telstra Dome

Telstra Dome

Docklands Stadium is a multi-purpose sports and entertainment stadium in the Docklands precinct of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia...

|32,327
|Saturday, 28 July
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|10.12 (72)
|
|20.20 (140)
|Subiaco Oval

Subiaco Oval

Subiaco Oval , known colloquially as Subi, is the highest capacity sports stadium in Perth, Western Australia...

|36,741
|Saturday, 28 July
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|7.14 (56)
|
|22.17 (149)
|MCG

Melbourne Cricket Ground

|45,096
|Saturday, 28 July
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|21.12 (138)
|
|10.12 (72)
|SCG

Sydney Cricket Ground

|23,199
|Saturday, 28 July
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|10.11 (71)
|
|16.12 (108)
|Aurora Stadium

Aurora Stadium

|19,144
|Sunday, 29 July
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|18.9 (117)
|
|16.9 (105)
|Telstra Dome

Telstra Dome

Docklands Stadium is a multi-purpose sports and entertainment stadium in the Docklands precinct of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia...

|35,010
|Sunday, 29 July
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|25.13 (163)
|
|11.8 (74)
|AAMI Stadium

AAMI Stadium

Football Park is an Australian rules football stadium located in West Lakes, a western suburb of Adelaide, South Australia...

|23,485
|Sunday, 29 July
|AFL.com.au

Round 18

Telstra Dome

Docklands Stadium is a multi-purpose sports and entertainment stadium in the Docklands precinct of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia...

|33,600
|Friday, 3 August
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|14.12 (96)
|
|18.12 (120)
|MCG

Melbourne Cricket Ground

|56,341
|Saturday, 4 August
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|21.13 (139)
|
|11.3 (69)
|Skilled Stadium
|21,951
|Saturday, 4 August
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|10.17 (77)
|
|5.10 (40)
|The Gabba
|29,233
|Saturday, 4 August
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|9.19 (73)
|
|10.5 (65)
|AAMI Stadium

AAMI Stadium

Football Park is an Australian rules football stadium located in West Lakes, a western suburb of Adelaide, South Australia...

|42,335
|Saturday, 4 August
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|9.10 (64)
|
|17.10 (112)
|Manuka Oval

Manuka Oval

Manuka Oval is a 13,550 capacity ground located in the suburb of Griffith, adjacent to Manuka, a business district of Canberra, Australia's capital....

|11,266
|Sunday, 5 August
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|17.17 (119)
|
|7.14 (56)
|MCG

Melbourne Cricket Ground

|55,019
|Sunday, 5 August
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|14.13 (97)
|
|19.10 (124)
|Subiaco Oval

Subiaco Oval

Subiaco Oval , known colloquially as Subi, is the highest capacity sports stadium in Perth, Western Australia...

|43,096
|Sunday, 5 August
|AFL.com.au

Round 19

Melbourne Cricket Ground

|49,550
|Friday, 10 August
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|17.13 (115)
|
|13.13 (91)
|MCG

Melbourne Cricket Ground

|39,007
|Saturday, 11 August
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|17.14 (116)
|
|14.9 (93)
|AAMI Stadium

AAMI Stadium

Football Park is an Australian rules football stadium located in West Lakes, a western suburb of Adelaide, South Australia...

|27,603
|Saturday, 11 August
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|19.15 (129)
|
|12.15 (87)
|Telstra Dome

Telstra Dome

Docklands Stadium is a multi-purpose sports and entertainment stadium in the Docklands precinct of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia...

|18,946
|Saturday, 11 August
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|12.10 (82)
|
|9.11 (65)
|Telstra Stadium

Telstra Stadium

|63,369
|Saturday, 11 August
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|15.12 (102)
|
|17.17 (119)
|Telstra Dome

Telstra Dome

Docklands Stadium is a multi-purpose sports and entertainment stadium in the Docklands precinct of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia...

|26,113
|Sunday, 12 August
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|15.13 (103)
|
|10.10 (70)
|Skilled Stadium
|21,267
|Sunday, 12 August
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|21.14 (140)
|
|11.11 (77)
|Subiaco Oval

Subiaco Oval

Subiaco Oval , known colloquially as Subi, is the highest capacity sports stadium in Perth, Western Australia...

|38,274
|Sunday, 12 August
|AFL.com.au

Round 20

Melbourne Cricket Ground

|46,277
|Friday, 17 August
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|18.10 (118)
|
|16.12 (108)
|MCG

Melbourne Cricket Ground

|48,638
|Saturday, 18 August
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|19.12 (126)
|
|14.12 (96)
|Telstra Dome

Telstra Dome

Docklands Stadium is a multi-purpose sports and entertainment stadium in the Docklands precinct of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia...

|24,041
|Saturday, 18 August
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|9.9 (63)
|
|8.15 (63)
|The Gabba
|33,077
|Saturday, 18 August
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|18.9 (117)
|
|12.14 (86)
|Subiaco Oval

Subiaco Oval

Subiaco Oval , known colloquially as Subi, is the highest capacity sports stadium in Perth, Western Australia...

|39,752
|Saturday, 18 August
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|12.10 (82)
|
|12.15 (87)
|Aurora Stadium

Aurora Stadium

|15,264
|Sunday, 19 August
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|13.13 (91)
|
|17.16 (118)
|Telstra Dome

Telstra Dome

Docklands Stadium is a multi-purpose sports and entertainment stadium in the Docklands precinct of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia...

|48,501
|Sunday, 19 August
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|15.17 (107)
|
|11.7 (73)
|AAMI Stadium

AAMI Stadium

Football Park is an Australian rules football stadium located in West Lakes, a western suburb of Adelaide, South Australia...

|41,437
|Sunday, 19 August
|AFL.com.au

Round 21

Telstra Dome

Docklands Stadium is a multi-purpose sports and entertainment stadium in the Docklands precinct of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia...

|38,183
|Friday, 24 August
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|11.13 (79)
|
|24.17 (161)
|Telstra Dome

Telstra Dome

Docklands Stadium is a multi-purpose sports and entertainment stadium in the Docklands precinct of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia...

|29,334
|Saturday, 25 August
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|22.12 (144)
|
|12.13 (85)
|Subiaco Oval

Subiaco Oval

Subiaco Oval , known colloquially as Subi, is the highest capacity sports stadium in Perth, Western Australia...

|34,549
|Saturday, 25 August
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|15.11 (101)
|
|11.10 (76)
|MCG

Melbourne Cricket Ground

|63,842
|Saturday, 25 August
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|12.14 (86)
|
|8.12 (60)
|AAMI Stadium

AAMI Stadium

Football Park is an Australian rules football stadium located in West Lakes, a western suburb of Adelaide, South Australia...

|46,507
|Saturday, 25 August
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|10.7 (67)
|
|22.19 (151)
|Telstra Dome

Telstra Dome

Docklands Stadium is a multi-purpose sports and entertainment stadium in the Docklands precinct of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia...

|32,734
|Sunday, 26 August
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|15.11 (101)
|
|16.10 (106)
|Skilled Stadium
|24,331
|Sunday, 26 August
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|13.14 (92)
|
|17.17 (119)
|MCG

Melbourne Cricket Ground

|88,468
|Sunday, 26 August
|AFL.com.au

Round 22

Telstra Dome

Docklands Stadium is a multi-purpose sports and entertainment stadium in the Docklands precinct of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia...

|47,915
|Friday, 31 August
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|13.14 (92)
|
|14.18 (102)
|MCG

Melbourne Cricket Ground

|42,472
|Saturday, 1 September
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|21.6 (132)
|
|19.10 (124)
|Subiaco Oval

Subiaco Oval

Subiaco Oval , known colloquially as Subi, is the highest capacity sports stadium in Perth, Western Australia...

|42,761
|Saturday, 1 September
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|17.15 (117)
|
|12.13 (85)
|AAMI Stadium

AAMI Stadium

Football Park is an Australian rules football stadium located in West Lakes, a western suburb of Adelaide, South Australia...

|39,270
|Saturday, 1 September
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|15.13 (103)
|
|22.13 (145)
|The Gabba
|34,107
|Saturday, 1 September
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|22.9 (141)
|
|10.9 (69)
|SCG

Sydney Cricket Ground

|27,498
|Sunday, 2 September
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|14.9 (93)
|
|23.19 (157)
|Telstra Dome

Telstra Dome

Docklands Stadium is a multi-purpose sports and entertainment stadium in the Docklands precinct of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia...

|29,261
|Sunday, 2 September
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|21.13 (139)
|
|15.18 (108)
|MCG

Melbourne Cricket Ground

|26,156
|Sunday, 2 September
|AFL.com.au

Qualifying and Elimination Finals

AAMI Stadium

Football Park is an Australian rules football stadium located in West Lakes, a western suburb of Adelaide, South Australia...

|37,750
|Friday, 7 September
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|15.15 (105)
|
|15.12 (102)
|Telstra Dome

Telstra Dome

Docklands Stadium is a multi-purpose sports and entertainment stadium in the Docklands precinct of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia...

|36,534
|Saturday, 8 September
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|18.17 (125)
|
|13.9 (87)
|MCG

Melbourne Cricket Ground

|64,645
|Saturday, 8 September
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|23.18 (156)
|
|8.2 (50)
|MCG

Melbourne Cricket Ground

|77,630
|Sunday, 9 September
|AFL.com.au

Semi Finals

Subiaco Oval

Subiaco Oval , known colloquially as Subi, is the highest capacity sports stadium in Perth, Western Australia...

|43,627
|Friday, 14 September
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|14.9 (93)
|
|8.12 (60)
|MCG

Melbourne Cricket Ground

|74,981
|Saturday, 15 September
|AFL.com.au

Preliminary Finals

Melbourne Cricket Ground

|98,002
|Friday, 21 September
|AFL.com.au
|- style="background:#fff;"
|
|20.13 (133)
|
|5.16 (46)
|AAMI Stadium

AAMI Stadium

Football Park is an Australian rules football stadium located in West Lakes, a western suburb of Adelaide, South Australia...

|43,953
|Saturday, 22 September
|AFL.com.au

Grand Final

Melbourne Cricket Ground

|97,302
|Saturday, 29 September
|AFL.com.au

Awards

The 2007 Brownlow Medal
2007 Brownlow Medal
Round 2 Round 3 Round 4Round 5-Rounds 6–10:Round 6Round 7Round 8Round 9 Round 10-Rounds 11–15:Round 11Round 12 Round 13Round 14 Round 15-Rounds 16–20:...

for the AFL
Australian Football League
The Australian Football League is both the governing body and the major professional competition in the sport of Australian rules football...

's best and fairest player was awarded to Jimmy Bartel
Jimmy Bartel
James 'Jimmy' Bartel is an Australian rules footballer for the Geelong Football Club in the Australian Football League . A midfielder at and , Bartel is a Brownlow Medallist, two-time All-Australian, and was part of the Cats' AFL premiership-winning teams in 2007, 2009 and 2011, being named the...

, of , who polled 29 votes.
The Leigh Matthews Trophy
Leigh Matthews Trophy
The Leigh Matthews Trophy is an annual award given by the AFL Players Association to the Most Valuable Player in the Australian Football League. It is named in honour of Leigh Matthews, who won the first MVP award in 1982, when the league was still known as the Victorian Football League...

as the AFL's most valuable player was awarded to Gary Ablett, Jr.
Gary Ablett, Jr.
Gary Ablett, Jr. is a professional Australian rules football player and current captain of the Gold Coast Football Club in the Australian Football League ....

, of .
The Coleman Medal
Coleman Medal
The Coleman Medal is awarded yearly to the Australian Football League player who kicks the most goals in regular-season matches in that year...

was awarded to Jonathan Brown of , who kicked 77 goals.
The Norm Smith Medal
Norm Smith Medal
The Norm Smith Medal is the award given in the AFL Grand Final to the player adjudged by an independent panel of experts to have been the best player in the match.-History:The Norm Smith Medal is named after former Melbourne player and coach, Norm Smith...

as the player adjudged best afield in the AFL Grand Final
AFL Grand Final
The AFL Grand Final is an annual Australian rules football match, traditionally held on the final Saturday in September at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne, Australia to determine the Australian Football League premiership champions for that year...

was awarded to Steve Johnson, of .
The AFL Rising Star award
AFL Rising Star award
The NAB AFL Rising Star award is given annually to a standout young player in the Australian Football League. Since 2007 the winner has been presented with the Ron Evans Medal and was first awarded in 1993...

(Ron Evans Medal) was awarded to Joel Selwood
Joel Selwood
Joel Anthony Selwood is an Australian rules footballer for the Geelong Football Club in the Australian Football League...

, of .
The McClelland Trophy
McClelland Trophy
The McClelland Trophy is an Australian rules football trophy, currently awarded to the minor premiers in the Australian Football League each year...

was awarded to for holding top position on the ladder after 22 rounds.
The Wooden Spoon
Wooden spoon (award)
A wooden spoon is a mock or real award, usually given to an individual or team which has come last in a competition, but sometimes also to runners-up. Examples range from the academic to sporting and more frivolous events...

was awarded to for coming in last place on the ladder after 22 rounds.
Andrew McLeod
Andrew McLeod
Andrew Luke McLeod is a former Australian rules footballer for the Adelaide Football Club. He is the games record holder for Adelaide, having played 340 games....

from was named the captain of the 2007 All-Australian Team
2007 All-Australian Team
The 2007 Australian rules football All-Australian selection committee will provide the 40 leading players of the year in their playing positions at the conclusion of the home and away season before announcing the final 22 at a later date during the All Australian Presentation Dinner...

.
The AFL Mark of the Year was awarded to Michael Newton
Michael Newton (Australian rules footballer)
Michael Newton is an Australian rules footballer who played for Melbourne in the Australian Football League .-Career:Originally from Whorouly, Newton was taken at pick 43 in the 2004 AFL Draft...

of .
The AFL Goal of the Year was awarded to Matthew Lloyd
Matthew Lloyd
Matthew James Lloyd is a former Australian rules footballer who played for and was the captain of the Essendon Football Club in the Australian Football League...

of .
The AFL Army Award
AFL Army Award
From 2007 until 2009 the Australian Football League produced the AFL Army Award to recognise players who produced significant acts of bravery or selflessness to promote the cause of their team during a game...

was awarded to Alwyn Davey
Alwyn Davey
Alwyn Davey is a professional Australian rules footballer who currently plays for the Essendon Football Club of the Australian Football League.-Early life:...

of as the footballer who displayed the most courageous and/or team related act of the season.

Best and Fairest
Best and Fairest
Best and Fairest is the term commonly used in Australian sport to describe the player adjudged to have had the best performance in a game or over a season for a given sporting club or competition while not receiving a suspension for misconduct or breaching the rules during that season.In the...

s

Adelaide: Andrew McLeod
Andrew McLeod
Andrew Luke McLeod is a former Australian rules footballer for the Adelaide Football Club. He is the games record holder for Adelaide, having played 340 games....
Brisbane: Jonathan Brown
Carlton: Andrew Carrazzo
Andrew Carrazzo
Andrew Carrazzo is an Australian rules footballer for Carlton in the Australian Football League .- Early career :...
Collingwood: Travis Cloke
Travis Cloke
Travis Cloke is a professional Australian rules footballer playing in the Australian Football League. Cloke was drafted under the father-son rule by Collingwood in the 3rd round of the 2004 AFL Draft...
Essendon: James Hird
James Hird
James Hird is a former professional Australian rules footballer and the current coach of the Essendon Football Club in the Australian Football League....
Fremantle: Matthew Pavlich
Matthew Pavlich
Matthew Pavlich is a professional Australian rules footballer currently playing with the Fremantle Football Club in the Australian Football League ....
Geelong: Gary Ablett, Jr.
Gary Ablett, Jr.
Gary Ablett, Jr. is a professional Australian rules football player and current captain of the Gold Coast Football Club in the Australian Football League ....
Hawthorn: Brad Sewell
Brad Sewell
Brad Sewell is an Australian rules footballer with the Hawthorn Football Club in the Australian Football League . He was selected with pick number 6 in the Rookie Draft in 2003...

Kangaroos: Brent Harvey
Brent Harvey
Brent "Boomer" Harvey is an Australian rules footballer and the current captain of the North Melbourne Football Club in the Australian Football League ....
Melbourne: James McDonald
James McDonald (footballer)
James McDonald is an Australian rules footballer, currently contracted to in the Australian Football League . He previously played for and captained the Melbourne Football Club.- Career :...
Port Adelaide: Kane Cornes
Kane Cornes
Kane Graham Cornes in an Australian rules football player who plays for Port Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League.-Early life:...
Richmond: Matthew Richardson
Matthew Richardson (Australian rules footballer)
Matthew "Richo" Richardson , is a retired professional Australian rules footballer who played for Richmond in the Australian Football League...
St Kilda: Nick Riewoldt
Nick Riewoldt
Nick Riewoldt is an Australian rules footballer who is the current captain of the St Kilda Football Club in the Australian Football League . He was the first draft selection in the 2000 AFL Draft.-Early life:...
Sydney: Brett Kirk
Brett Kirk
Brett Kirk is a former Australian rules football player of the Sydney Swans, and is known colloquially as "Kirky", "Captain Kirk", during the 2005 AFL Finals Series, "Captain Blood" and by teammates as "Hippy". Kirk is a hard working and onfield leader who has played in a premiership with the...
West Coast: Darren Glass
Darren Glass
Darren Glass is an Australian rules footballer for the AFL's West Coast Eagles. He wears number 23 guernsey.He was recruited as the number 11 draft pick in the 1999 AFL Draft from Perth...
Western Bulldogs: Brian Harris

Notable events

On Thursday 8 February it was announced that the Seven Network
Seven Network
The Seven Network is an Australian television network owned by Seven West Media Limited. It dates back to 4 November 1956, when the first stations on the VHF7 frequency were established in Melbourne and Sydney.It is currently the second largest network in the country in terms of population reach...

(who had not broadcast AFL for five years) and Ten Network had reached an agreement to on-sell four games per round to pay-TV provider Foxtel.
In Round 6, scored 35.12 (222) against , the highest score kicked in an AFL game since quarters were shortened from twenty-five to twenty minutes in 1994 and the first time a team has scored over 200 points since Round 22, 1995. Their winning margin of 157 points also broke the record for the same period, and they scored an all-time record 23 more goals than behinds, and an all-time record three-quarter time score of 29.9 (183). This was also Richmond's biggest loss in its 99 year history.
In Round 8, and were widely criticised for their game, which in perfect weather yielded only seven goals in the first three quarters (before opening up in the final quarter), and was described as boring by Essendon coach Kevin Sheedy.
Round 12's game between and attracted 53,459 fans, breaking the record for the highest AFL crowd at Telstra Dome
Telstra Dome
Docklands Stadium is a multi-purpose sports and entertainment stadium in the Docklands precinct of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia...

. In the same game, Hawthorn kicked their highest ever score against Carlton: 27.18 (180), and also achieved their greatest winning margin against Carlton, 100 points.
Robert Harvey
Robert Harvey (footballer)
Robert Jeffrey Harvey is a former Australian rules football player for the St Kilda Football Club in the Australian Football League...

became just the 10th player in VFL/AFL history to reach 350 games, helping defeat . The win was the second time in 60 games that a Victorian Team had beaten West Coast at Subiaco Oval.
The Round 16 game between against at The Gabba saw Jonathan Brown become the first player to kick 10 goals in a match, booting 10.1 for the game. This surpassed Daniel Bradshaw
Daniel Bradshaw
Daniel Mark Bradshaw is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Sydney Swans and the Brisbane Lions in the Australian Football League....

's 9 goals in 2005 v at The Gabba. After this match Denis Pagan
Denis Pagan
Denis Pagan is a former Australian rules football coach and player in the VFL/AFL. He is current coach of Northern Knights in TAC Cup.-Playing career:...

was sacked as the coach of Carlton.
The final game of the home-and-away season became particularly controversial through circumstance. The two teams, and , each had records of 4–17, and had no chance of winning the wooden spoon
Wooden spoon (award)
A wooden spoon is a mock or real award, usually given to an individual or team which has come last in a competition, but sometimes also to runners-up. Examples range from the academic to sporting and more frivolous events...

. Under priority draft pick
Priority draft pick
The priority draft pick is a type of draft selection in the Australian Football League's AFL Draft. Priority draft picks are additional draft picks, located at or near the start of the draft, which are given only to the poorest performing teams, to provide additional help for those teams to improve...

rules, this meant that whichever team won the game would lose a potential priority draft pick (which would have been the first overall selection if Carlton had it, or pick #18 if Melbourne had it). Melbourne won by five goals in a game noted for a lack of defensive pressure, while many in the crowd openly supported their teams to defeat.
In Round 22 a total of 263 goals and 198 behinds were scored for a total of 1776 points, making the Round the fifth highest scoring Round in VFL/AFL history.
The second semi-final
2007 AFL finals series
- The finals system :The system is a final eight system. This system is different to the McIntyre Final Eight System, which was previously used by the AFL, and is currently used by the National Rugby League....

between and went into extra time after scores were level at the end of regulation. This was only the second time that extra time has been used in an AFL game. It was also the second time that these teams had drawn in a final. set a new record for the highest winning margin in a Grand Final against , winning by 119 points. were minor premiers, breaking a streak of 5 consecutive years that a non-victorian team had finished on top of the ladder.
2007 AFL Grand Final
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 VFL/AFL, staged to determine the...

Drugs scandal ("Guttergate")

On Friday 24 August, the Seven Network

Seven Network

The Seven Network is an Australian television network owned by Seven West Media Limited. It dates back to 4 November 1956, when the first stations on the VHF7 frequency were established in Melbourne and Sydney.It is currently the second largest network in the country in terms of population reach...

broadcast some details obtained from players' confidential medical records on its nightly news program. It allegedly purchased these details for $3000 from a woman who found them in a gutter outside a medical clinic in Melbourne. The network said that these records contained details of illicit drug-taking by players at a particular club in the AFL

Australian Football League

The Australian Football League is both the governing body and the major professional competition in the sport of Australian rules football...

, including both the name of the club and the players involved.

The woman in question and a male accomplice have since been charged with "theft-by-finding" and faced Heidelberg Magistrates' Court on 6 December 2007. They subsequently pleaded guilty and were sentenced to a 12-month good behaviour bond and ordered to pay the money they received from Channel 7 into a court fund.

The AFL currently has a "three-strikes" drugs policy (for non-performance-enhancing drugs), under which only the player and the club doctor are aware of any positive tests until a "third strike" is received. After the third strike, the club is made aware of the situation and the player may face disciplinary action. This policy has faced criticism for leniency from anti-doping bodies, particularly the World Anti-Doping Agency

World Anti-Doping Agency

The World Anti-Doping Agency , , is an independent foundation created through a collective initiative led by the International Olympic Committee . It was set up on November 10, 1999 in Lausanne, Switzerland, as a result of what was called the "Declaration of Lausanne", to promote, coordinate and...

(WADA), and as such has attracted much media scrutiny and public debate.

In this case, the name of the club involved was revealed by Seven on air, but not the names of the players. Before the end of the news program (at which time Seven had promised to actually reveal the names of the players), the AFL obtained a court injunction from the Supreme Court of Victoria

Supreme Court of Victoria

The Supreme Court of Victoria is the superior court for the State of Victoria, Australia. It was founded in 1852, and is a superior court of common law and equity, with unlimited jurisdiction within the state...

which prevented this – and will also continue to prevent the publication of any part of the records, including the name of the club (even though it had already been released) and players involved.

At first, Seven vigorously defended its broadcast and stated that it had done only for the purpose of "highlighting" the issue of drugs-in-sport. It challenged the injunction, then faced a backlash both from the AFL and the AFL players themselves. For the whole of the last round of the season, the AFL players boycotted Seven, refusing to answer any questions posed by its journalists. In one case, Seven was not invited to (and, had it still arrived, would have been actively denied entry to) an AFL Players' Association (AFLPA) press conference.

Shortly after the completion of Round 22, faced with ongoing player boycotts and the possibility of a Brownlow Medal

Brownlow Medal

The Chas Brownlow Trophy, better known as the Brownlow Medal , is awarded to the "fairest and best" player in the Australian Football League during the regular season as determined by votes cast by the officiating field umpires after each game...

snub, the Seven Network issued a statement "regretting" any harm the broadcast may have caused to the AFL, the clubs and the players, and promised not to broadcast or reveal any of the details of the medical records in future.

The AFLPA, which had previously demanded an apology from the network over the incident, said that it understood why Seven could never issue a full apology "for legal reasons" and that it would be taking the "statement of regret" as an apology instead. The player boycott has since been lifted.

The scandal has come to be known in the popular media as "Guttergate" (referring to the Watergate scandal

Watergate scandal

The Watergate scandal was a political scandal during the 1970s in the United States resulting from the break-in of the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C., and the Nixon administration's attempted cover-up of its involvement...

Ongoing impact of drugs

Three years later, the AFL suspended the first ever player to be charged under its "three-strikes" drugs policy. On 31 August 2010, 's Travis Tuck

Travis Tuck

Travis Tuck is an Australian rules footballer who played for the Hawthorn Hawks in the Australian Football League . Tuck was selected with a Father-Son selection in the 2005 AFL Draft...

was suspended by the AFL Tribunal for 12 matches and fined $5,000 after he was found in a car by police suffering from what appeared to be an alleged drug overdose.

Club captains

{| class="wikitable" style="font-size:90%"
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! Club
! Captain(s)
! Vice Captain(s)/Leadership Group
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| Mark Ricciuto

Mark Ricciuto

Mark Anthony Ricciuto is a former Australian rules football player, who played for the Adelaide Crows in the Australian Football League...

| Simon Goodwin

Simon Goodwin

Simon Goodwin is a former Australian rules footballer, who is a dual premiership player with the Adelaide Football Club and is now an assistant coach at the Essendon Football Club.-Early career :...

, Tyson Edwards, Nathan Bassett

Nathan Bassett

Nathan "Fred" Bassett is a former Australian rules footballer for the Adelaide Football Club of the Australian Football League....

and Brett Burton

Brett Burton

Brett Burton is a retired Australian rules footballer who played in the Australian Football League. He was picked up at Pick 16 in the 1998 AFL Draft by the Adelaide Football Club...

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| Simon Black

Simon Black

Simon Black is an Australian rules footballer playing for the Brisbane Lions in the Australian Football League.Black is a midfielder with a reputation for hard work and skill...

, Jonathan Brown, Chris Johnson, Nigel Lappin

Nigel Lappin

Nigel Lappin is a former professional Australian rules footballer.Lappin was born in Corowa, New South Wales, but grew up in Chiltern, Victoria and was drafted to play for the Brisbane Bears in the Australian Football League in 1993, playing his first AFL game the following year...

, Luke Power

Luke Power

Luke Power is an Australian rules footballer. He is currently contracted to play for Greater Western Sydney. He was a part of the Brisbane Lions's 2001, 2002, and 2003 premierships. He is known for his effective use of the ball disposals, rare mistakes and his deadly accurate left foot. Many AFL...

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| Lance Whitnall

Lance Whitnall

Lance Whitnall is a former Australian rules footballer, and the ex-captain of the Carlton Football Club.-Early career :...

| Nick Stevens

Nick Stevens

Nick Stevens is a former Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League.Originally from St Marys in the VMFL, Stevens was recruited in the 1997 AFL Draft to the Port Adelaide Football Club where he became a very prominent outside midfielder...

, Kade Simpson

Kade Simpson

Kade Simpson is an Australian rules footballer, currently playing with the Carlton Football Club in the Australian Football League....

(interim)
|-
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| Nathan Buckley

Nathan Buckley

Nathan Charles Buckley is a former professional Australian rules football player, commentator and coach, best known for his time as captain of the Collingwood Football Club in the Australian Football League ....

| James Clement

James Clement

James Clement is a former professional Australian rules footballer for Collingwood and Fremantle in the Australian Football League...

(Vice Captain), Josh Fraser

Josh Fraser

Josh Fraser is a professional Australian rules football player currently playing for the Gold Coast Football Club in the Australian Football League and formerly of the Collingwood Football Club....

(deputy VC), Ben Johnson (deputy VC)
|-
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| Matthew Lloyd

Matthew Lloyd

Matthew James Lloyd is a former Australian rules footballer who played for and was the captain of the Essendon Football Club in the Australian Football League...

| David Hille

David Hille

David Hille is an Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League.He debuted in 2001 with the Essendon Football Club and has been a solid ruckman for a number of years....

|-
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| Matthew Pavlich

Matthew Pavlich

Matthew Pavlich is a professional Australian rules footballer currently playing with the Fremantle Football Club in the Australian Football League ....

| Josh Carr

Josh Carr

Joshua "Josh" Carr is a former Australian rules footballer who played as a midfielder for Port Adelaide and Fremantle in the Australian Football League. After originally being drafted by Port Adelaide and playing in their 2004 premiership side he returned to Western Australia to play with his...

|-
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| Tom Harley

Tom Harley

Thomas 'Tom' Harley is a former Australian rules footballer for the Geelong Football Club in the Australian Football League...

| Cameron Ling

Cameron Ling

Cameron Ling is a former Australian rules footballer for the Geelong Football Club in the Australian Football League...

, Cameron Mooney

Cameron Mooney

Cameron Mooney was an Australian rules footballer who played with the North Melbourne and Geelong Football Clubs in the Australian Football League...

(deputy)
|-
|
| Richard Vandenberg
| Luke Hodge

Luke Hodge

Luke Hodge is a professional Australian rules footballer with the Hawthorn Football Club in the Australian Football League...

, Sam Mitchell

Sam Mitchell (footballer)

Samuel Mitchell is an Australian rules football player for the Hawthorn Football Club in the Australian Football League .- Debut season :...

|-
|
| Adam Simpson

Adam Simpson

Adam Simpson is a retired Australian rules footballer who is a former captain of North Melbourne.-Early life:Simpson grew up in the northern suburbs of Melbourne, where he played junior football with the Eltham Football Club and the Northern Knights-Early career:Debuting in 1995, he has won two...

| Brent Harvey

Brent Harvey

Brent "Boomer" Harvey is an Australian rules footballer and the current captain of the North Melbourne Football Club in the Australian Football League ....

|-
|
| David Neitz

David Neitz

David Neitz , nicknamed Neita, is a retired Australian rules footballer. The strongly built centre half back who became a full forward was the longest-serving captain in the history of the Melbourne Football Club and the first Melbourne player to achieve the 300-game milestone.Neitz was born in...

| Cameron Bruce

Cameron Bruce

Cameron Bruce is a professional Australian rules football player, who plays for the Hawthorn Football Club after being selected by the Hawks in the Pre-season Draft, as was widely speculated to occur after he quit playing for the Melbourne Football Club, with whom he had played for 11 seasons, and...

, Brad Green

Brad Green (footballer)

Brad Green is a professional Australian rules football player and the current captain of the Melbourne Football Club's in the Australian Football League .-Early life:...

, Brock McLean

Brock McLean

Brock "Chooka" McLean is a professional Australian rules footballer currently with the Carlton Football Club in the Australian Football League...

, James McDonald

James McDonald (footballer)

James McDonald is an Australian rules footballer, currently contracted to in the Australian Football League . He previously played for and captained the Melbourne Football Club.- Career :...

|-
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| Warren Tredrea

Warren Tredrea

Warren Gary Tredrea is retired Australian rules footballer with the Port Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League . A forward, tall and weighing , Tredrea is the son of former Collingwood and Port Adelaide player Gary Tredrea.Tredrea was zone selected for the inaugural Port...

| Shaun Burgoyne

Shaun Burgoyne

Shaun Playford Burgoyne is an Australian rules footballer playing with the Hawthorn Football Club in the Australian Football League...

, Brendon Lade

Brendon Lade

Brendon Lade is a former Australian rules footballer who spent his entire AFL career with the Port Adelaide Football Club.- Early Career :...

, Michael Wilson

Michael Wilson (footballer)

Michael Robert Wilson is a former Australian rules footballer who played for Port Adelaide Football Club.-Success :...

, Chad Cornes

Chad Cornes

Chad Studley Cornes is a Australian rules footballer, who is contracted to play for Greater Western Sydney in 2012, in the Australian Football League...

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| Kane Johnson

Kane Johnson

Kane "Johno" Johnson is a former Australian rules footballer and former captain of the Richmond Football Club and dual premiership winner with the Adelaide Crows in the Australian Football League .-Career:...

| Nathan Brown, Joel Bowden

Joel Bowden

Joel Bowden was an Australian rules footballer with the Richmond Football Club in the AFL. In 2007, he was declared the new president of the AFL Players Association....

(deputy)
|-
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| Luke Ball

Luke Ball

Luke Patrick Ball is a professional Australian rules football player currently playing for in the Australian Football League....

, Lenny Hayes

Lenny Hayes

Lenny Hayes is a professional Australian rules footballer playing with St Kilda Football Club in the Australian Football League.Hayes is a former captain of St Kilda and continues to be an onfield leader in the Saints' midfield....

, Nick Riewoldt

Nick Riewoldt

Nick Riewoldt is an Australian rules footballer who is the current captain of the St Kilda Football Club in the Australian Football League . He was the first draft selection in the 2000 AFL Draft.-Early life:...

|
|-
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| Leo Barry

Leo Barry

Leo Barry is a retired Australian rules footballer in the AFL with the Sydney Swans.Originally from Deniliquin, New South Wales, he attended St Ignatius' College, Riverview before being drafted as a zone selection in the 1994 National Draft and making his debut in the final round of the 1995...

, Barry Hall

Barry Hall

Barry Hall is a former Australian rules footballer. Hall is considered to be one of the best forwards of the modern era, being named All-Australian, leading his club's goalkicking on nine occasions and captaining the Sydney Swans to their 2005 AFL Grand Final victory...

, Brett Kirk

Brett Kirk

Brett Kirk is a former Australian rules football player of the Sydney Swans, and is known colloquially as "Kirky", "Captain Kirk", during the 2005 AFL Finals Series, "Captain Blood" and by teammates as "Hippy". Kirk is a hard working and onfield leader who has played in a premiership with the...

|
|-
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| Chris Judd

Chris Judd

Christopher Dylan "Chris" Judd is a professional Australian rules footballer and current captain of the Carlton Football Club in the Australian Football League ....

| Andrew Embley

Andrew Embley

Andrew Embley is an Australian rules footballer currently playing for the West Coast Eagles in the Australian Football League.-Early life:Andrew Embley was born to Maurice and Anne Embley on 27 June, 1981, in Perth, Western Australia...

, Darren Glass

Darren Glass

Darren Glass is an Australian rules footballer for the AFL's West Coast Eagles. He wears number 23 guernsey.He was recruited as the number 11 draft pick in the 1999 AFL Draft from Perth...

, Dean Cox
|-
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| Brad Johnson

Brad Johnson (Australian rules footballer)

Brad Johnson is a former Australian rules footballer who was the captain of Australian Football League team Western Bulldogs...

| Scott West

Scott West

Scott West is a former Australian rules football player who played for the Western Bulldogs in the Australian Football League...

, Robert Murphy

Robert Murphy (Australian rules footballer)

Robert "Bob" Murphy is an Australian rules footballer who plays for the Western Bulldogs in the Australian Football League. Renowned for his silky skills and leadership qualities, Murphy has also proven himself a versatile player, equally capable of playing in attack or in defence depending on the...

, Daniel Cross and Daniel Giansiracusa

Daniel Giansiracusa

Daniel Giansiracusa is an Australian rules football player for the Western Bulldogs who plays in various positions such as the midfield, half back flanks and half forward flanks....

Umpires

Michael Avon
Michael Avon
Michael Avon is an Australian rules football field umpire in the Australian Football League. He has umpired 114 career games in the AFL....
Ray Chamberlain
Ray Chamberlain
Ray 'Razor' Chamberlain is an Australian rules football field umpire in the Australian Football League.Chamberlain grew up in the ACT and umpired his first Australian rules game as a teenager...
Chris Donlon
Chris Donlon
Christopher Donlon is an Australian rules football field umpire in the Australian Football League. He has umpired 66 career games in the AFL.Donlon umpired in the 2011 AFL Grand Final.-Footnotes:...
Martin Ellis
Martin Ellis
Martin Ellis is a former Australian rules football field umpire in the Australian Football League.He retired on the 2 September 2008 having umpired a total of 244 career games in the AFL over 13 seasons, including the 2001 AFL Grand Final....
Luke Farmer
Luke Farmer
Luke Farmer is an Australian rules football field umpire in the Australian Football League. He has umpired over 100 games in the AFL since his debut in the match between Adelaide and Essendon at AAMI Stadium on 1 April 2007....
Darren Goldspink
Darren Goldspink
Darren Goldspink is a veteran Australian rules football umpire in the Australian Football League.Goldspink was awarded the prestigious All Australian Umpire award three times over his career in 1993, 1995 and 2005, earning himself an AFL Grand Final appointment on each occasion...
Stefan Grun
Stefan Grun
Stefan Grun is an Australian rules football field umpire in the Australian Football League. He has umpired 42 career games in the AFL.Grun was one of two umpires injured during Round 6, 2004, which was the round that re-sparked debate about umpire-player collisions. Umpires had always been...
Matthew Head
Matthew Head
Matthew Head is a former Australian rules football umpire in the Australian Football League ....
Craig Hendrie
Craig Hendrie
Craig Robert Hendrie is an Australian rules football field umpire who umpired between 2003 and 2009 in the Australian Football League.-Junior football:...
Scott Jeffery
Scott Jeffery
Scott Jeffery is an Australian rules football field umpire in the Australian Football League. He has umpired 106 career games in the AFL.In April 2011 Jeffery made a controversial ruling in the final minutes of the match between St Kilda and Richmond that ended in a draw.Under pressure from St...
Chris Kamolins
Chris Kamolins
Chris Kamolins is an Australian rules football field umpire in the Australian Football League. He has umpired 20 career games in the AFL.Born in 1977 on Christmas Day as Christopher Charles Kamolins, Chris attended primary school at Greenhills Primary School in Greensborough, Melbourne, before...
Hayden Kennedy
Hayden Kennedy
Hayden Daniel Kennedy is an Australian rules football field umpire in the Australian Football League and is also a teacher at St Bernard's College Essendon...
Dean Margetts
Dean Margetts
Dean Margetts is an Australian rules football field umpire in the Australian Football League. He has umpired 93 career games in the AFL. He began his umpiring career with the South Suburban Junior Football Umpires Association , in Western Australia....

Stephen McBurney
Stephen McBurney
Stephen McBurney is an Australian rules football field umpire in the Australian Football League. He has umpired 300 career games in the AFL. ...
Shane McInerney
Shane McInerney
Shane McInerney is an Australian rules football field umpire in the Australian Football League. He has umpired 218 career games in the AFL.He umpired in the 2007 AFL Grand Final alongside Scott McLaren and Stephen McBurney.-Footnotes:...
Simon Meredith
Simon Meredith (umpire)
Simon Meredith is an Australian rules football field umpire in the Australian Football League. He has umpired 50 career games in the AFL.-Footnotes:...
Kieron Nicholls
Kieron Nicholls
Kieron Nicholls is an Australian rules football field umpire in the Australian Football League. He has umpired 124 career games in the AFL.-Footnotes:...
Matthew Nicholls
Matthew Nicholls
Mathew Nicholls is an Australian rules football field umpire in the Australian Football League. He has umpired 124 career games in the AFL.Nicholls was the umpire at the centre of Sirengate in 2006 when he failed to acknowledge the final siren in an AFL football match, resulting in the AFL deciding...
Troy Pannell
Troy Pannell
Troy Pannell is an Australian rules football field umpire in the Australian Football League. He has umpired 37 career games in the AFL. In 2004, before his AFL career began, he was awarded the Golden Whistle by the New South Wales Australian Football Umpires Association -Footnotes:...
Brett Rosebury
Brett Rosebury
Brett Rosebury is an Australian rules football field umpire in the Australian Football League. He has umpired 119 career games in the AFL since his debut in Round 13, 2000....
Shaun Ryan
Shaun Ryan
Shaun Ryan is an Australian rules football field umpire in the Australian Football League. He has umpired 110 career games in the AFL.He umpired his first AFL Grand Final in 2008 between Hawthorn and Geelong. He has since umpired Grand Finals in 2009, 2010 , and will umpire in 2011 as...
Matt Stevic
Matt Stevic
Matt Stevic is an Australian rules football field umpire in the Australian Football League. He has umpired 120 career games in the AFL....
Damien Sully
Damien Sully
Damien Sully is an Australian rules football field umpire in the Australian Football League. He has umpired 10 career games in the AFL.Sully was awarded the distinction of VFL Umpire of the Year in 2004....
Michael Vozzo
Michael Vozzo
Michael 'Billy' Vozzo is an Australian rules football field umpire in the Australian Football League. He has umpired 188 career games in the AFL....
Stuart Wenn
Stuart Wenn
Stuart Wenn is an Australian rules football field umpire in the Australian Football League. He has umpired 193 career games in the AFL.-Famous matches and reports:...
Derek Woodcock
Derek Woodcock
Derek Woodcock is an Australian rules football field umpire in the Australian Football League. He has umpired 113 career games in the AFL.-Footnotes:...

Retirements

The 2007 AFL season is notable for the unusually large number of players who retired, particularly senior and "champion" players.

{| border="1" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" style="text-align:left; font-size:95%; border-collapse:collapse; width:100%;"
|- style="background:#C1D8FF;"
! width=9%| Name
! width=9%| Club
! width=6%| Date Retired
! style="width:28%;"| Reason
|-
| Jonathan Hay
|
| 22 February
| Contractual problems resulting from bi-polar issues.
|-
| Darren Gaspar

Darren Gaspar

Darren Gaspar is a former Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League .-Sydney Swans career :...

|
| 4 May
| To help Richmond's younger players and go for a youth policy.
|-
| Brett Montgomery

Brett Montgomery

Brett Montgomery is a retired Australian rules football player and current assistant coach with the Western Bulldogs.-Early life:...

Luke Darcy

Luke Darcy is a former Australian rules footballer who played with the Western Bulldogs who now juggles roles in media and administration.-Early life:...

Anthony Koutoufides

Anthony Koutoufides is a former Australian rules footballer with the Carlton Football Club. One of the most powerful and athletic players of all-time, he played in almost every position and was often called the prototype of the modern footballer.Of Greek and Italian descent, Koutoufides has been...

Mark Ricciuto

Mark Anthony Ricciuto is a former Australian rules football player, who played for the Adelaide Crows in the Australian Football League...

Matthew Robbins (footballer)

Matthew Robbins is a former Australian rules footballer who played with both Geelong and the Western Bulldogs in the AFL.Recruited to the Geelong Football Club with pick 36 in the 1994 AFL Draft, Robbins played only 7 games in his 3 seasons at the Cats, being traded to the Western Bulldogs for the...

Josh Mahoney

Joshua William Paul "Josh" Mahoney , is a former professional Australian rules footballer.- VFL career :After beginning his career in the TAC Cup with the Western Jets, Mahoney moved to the Williamstown Seagulls in the VFL, playing 19 games with them in 1996...

Troy Cook

Troy Cook is an Australian rules footballer. Cook plays for the Perth Football Club in the West Australian Football League.-Early career:...

Shane Parker (footballer)

Shane Parker is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Fremantle Football Club. He made his debut in 1995, Fremantle's inaugural year in the Australian Football League....

Chris M. Scott

Christopher Michael "Chris" Scott is a former Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League best known as being a dual premiership player with the Brisbane Lions and is a current premiership AFL coach of the Geelong Football Club.-AFL career:Scott was picked by the Brisbane Bears...

Ray Hall (footballer)

Ray Hall is a former Australian rules football player who played for the Richmond Football Club.Hall grew up in New South Wales, playing for the Balmain Australian Football Club before moving to Woy Woy where he was recruited by the Tigers having played in the Under 18s state squad.Hall announced...

Trent Knobel

Trent Knobel is a former Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League.Knobel, a ruckman originally from the Gold Coast, was recruited to the AFL in his home state with the Brisbane Lions onto their rookie list. He made his debut in 2000 after a rookie elevation...

Kent Kingsley

Kent Kingsley is a former Australian rules footballer for the North Melbourne Football Club, the Geelong Football Club and the Richmond Football Club in the Australian Football League ....

Darryl Wakelin

Darryl Wakelin is a former Australian rules footballer who played for St Kilda and Port Adelaide in the Australian Football League as a defender.-St Kilda:...

Matthew Lappin

Matthew Lappin is a retired Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League . He was an assistant coach with the Carlton Football Club from 2007–2010, deciding not to renew his contract for 2011....

Clint Bizzell

Clinton "Clint" Bizzell was a professional Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League.He is currently a television extra.-Early life:...

Byron Pickett

Byron Pickett is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played with three clubs in the AFL. He was known as a big game player as well as for his strength, hard bumps and tough approach to the game. Pickett is one of 12 players with two premiership medallions, a Norm Smith Medal...

Fitzroy Football Club

The Fitzroy Football Club, formerly nicknamed The Lions, is an Australian rules football club formed in 1883 to represent the inner Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy, Victoria and was a foundation member club of the Victorian Football League on its inception in 1897...

player in the AFL.
|-
| Andrew Thompson

Andrew Thompson (footballer)

Andrew Charles Thompson is a retired Australian rules footballer for the St Kilda Football Club in the Australian Football League....

James Hird

James Hird is a former professional Australian rules footballer and the current coach of the Essendon Football Club in the Australian Football League....

Josh Wooden

Josh Wooden was an Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League.He was recruited as the number 24 draft pick in the 1996 AFL Draft from Lockhart. Josh made his debut for the West Coast Eagles in Round 1, 1997 against the Sydney Swans.Retired in 2007 at the age of 28, due to a...

Richie Vandenberg

Richard "Richie" Vandenberg was an Australian Rules Footballer who played for the Hawthorn Football Club in the Australian Football League. He was the captain of the Hawks for the final three years of his career 2005 -2007....

Brett Voss

Brett Charles Voss is a former Australian rules footballer who played with the Brisbane Lions and the St Kilda Football Club.He was drafted by the Brisbane Bears as a zone selection in 1995...

Rowan Jones

Rowan Jones is a retired Australian rules footballer who played for the West Coast Eagles in the Australian Football League....

Glenn Archer

Glenn Archer is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played his entire career with the North Melbourne Football Club.Archer had a reputation as one of the most courageous players ever to play the game...

James Clement

James Clement is a former professional Australian rules footballer for Collingwood and Fremantle in the Australian Football League...

Joel Smith

Joel Smith is a former Australian rules footballer.Beginning his career in 1995 as a bright young prospect for St Kilda, Smith was touted as the future of the club....

Kasey Green

Kasey Green is an Australian rules footballer formerly in the Australian Football League, now the current captain of East Fremantle in the Western Australian Football League ....

Chris Heffernan

Chris Joel Heffernan is a former Australian rules footballer who played in the Australian Football League .Known affectionately as "The Heff", Chris began his career in 1997 with the Essendon Football Club...

Scott Camporeale

Scott Camporeale is a former Australian rules footballer who spent the majority of his AFL career with the Carlton Football Club.-AFL career:...

Chris Grant

Christopher Lee "Chris" Grant is a former Australian rules football player in the Australian Football League, and a legend of the Western Bulldogs Football Club...

Aaron Hamill

Aaron "Sammy" Hamill is a former professional Australian rules footballer who is best known for his time at the St Kilda Football Club in the Australian Football League when he briefly captained the club....

Mark Bolton

Mark Bolton is a retired Australian rules footballer.He was recruited to Essendon with pick 4 in the 1997 National Draft, via Ringwood, Victoria and Eastern U18...

Nathan Buckley

Paul Licuria

Paul Licuria is an Australian rules footballer, formerly in the Australian Football League. His father is Italian and his mother is Spanish.-Sydney Football Club:...

Nathan Ablett

Nathan Ablett is an Australian rules footballer who played for Gold Coast and Geelong in the Australian Football League...

Justin Longmuir

Justin Longmuir is an Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League. He was a key position forward or ruckman who played for the Fremantle Football Club...

Stephen Doyle

Stephen Doyle is a South Australian Australian rules football player with the Sydney Swans of the AFL.Doyle was selected by the Swans under the father-son rule in the 1999 National Draft, as his father Robert had played 77 games for South Melbourne...

Lance Whitnall

Lance Whitnall is a former Australian rules footballer, and the ex-captain of the Carlton Football Club.-Early career :...

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Coaching changes

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Neale Daniher

Neale Francis Daniher is a former Australian rules footballer who played with the Essendon Football Club in the Australian Football League . Neale was also an Assistant Coach to the Essendon and Fremantle Football Clubs and the Coach of the Victorian State Team and the Melbourne Football Club...

Chris Connolly

Chris Connolly is the current Melbourne Football Club football manager as well as assistant coach.-Playing career:...

Denis Pagan

Denis Pagan is a former Australian rules football coach and player in the VFL/AFL. He is current coach of Northern Knights in TAC Cup.-Playing career:...

Brett Ratten

Brett "Ratts" Ratten is a former Australian rules footballer and the current coach of the Carlton Football Club in the Australian Football League....

Dean Bailey

Dean Bailey is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon, a former coach of the Melbourne Football Club, as well as a former assistant coach at Port Adelaide.-Coaching career:...

Mark Harvey

Mark Harvey is a former Australian rules football player who played for the Essendon Football Club. He played 206 games from 1984 to 1997, kicking 190 goals, and was assistant coach at Essendon from 1998 to 2005...

Matthew Knights

Matthew Knights is a former Australian rules football player, having played in the midfield for the Richmond Football Club from 1988 to 2002. He went on to a coaching career, most notably as head coach of the Essendon Football Club from 2008 to 2010...

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External links

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National Cup

Round 1 (season launch)

Round 2 (Easter)

Round 3 (Rivalry RoundAFL team rivalriesAFL team rivalries are matches in the Australian Football League which typically draw large crowds and interest regardless of both teams' positions on the ladder...)

Round 4

Round 5

Round 6

Round 7

Round 8

Round 9 (IndigenousIndigenous AustraliansIndigenous Australians are the original inhabitants of the Australian continent and nearby islands. The Aboriginal Indigenous Australians migrated from the Indian continent around 75,000 to 100,000 years ago.... Round)

Round 10

Round 11

Round 12 (Split Round)

Round 13

Round 14 (Heritage RoundAFL Heritage RoundHeritage Round was a round of matches in the Australian Football League in which all the teams wore guernseys from their past. The first Heritage Round was in 2003 and had been continuing every year until 2008....)

Round 15

Round 16

Round 17

Round 18

Round 19

Round 20

Round 21

Round 22

Qualifying and Elimination Finals

Semi Finals

Preliminary Finals

Grand Final

Awards

Notable events

Drugs scandal ("Guttergate")

Ongoing impact of drugs

Club captains

Umpires

Retirements

Sackings and delistings

Coaching changes

See also

External links

Round 3 (Rivalry Round
AFL team rivalries
AFL team rivalries are matches in the Australian Football League which typically draw large crowds and interest regardless of both teams' positions on the ladder...

)

Round 9 (Indigenous
Indigenous Australians
Indigenous Australians are the original inhabitants of the Australian continent and nearby islands. The Aboriginal Indigenous Australians migrated from the Indian continent around 75,000 to 100,000 years ago....

Round)

Round 14 (Heritage Round
AFL Heritage Round
Heritage Round was a round of matches in the Australian Football League in which all the teams wore guernseys from their past. The first Heritage Round was in 2003 and had been continuing every year until 2008....

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