Changes: 1992 AFL season

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Revision as of 08:51, 6 November 2014

Although the league was still called the VFL until the start of the 1990 season, the 1992 season was the unofficial 6th AFL season as the league expanded from 12 clubs to 14 clubs in 1987.

The new clubs were West Coast Eagles and Brisbane Bears. Last season, Adelaide Crows joined the AFL to bring the number of clubs to 15. With the additional clubs, 6 clubs now participate in the finals series.

Club Changes

After leaving Hawthorn at the end of the 1990 season, Allan Jeans returned to coaching at Richmond, replacing Kevin Bartlett.
Gary Buckenara replaced Col Kinnear as coach at Sydney Swans.

Essendon started playing their home matches at MCG, leaving Windy Hill.

Footscray climbed 8 places which took them into the Preliminary Final. Melbourne fell 6 places to not qualify for the finals series for the 1st time during the AFL years.

Titles

After being runners-up in 1991, the West Coast Eagles went one step better and won their 1st AFL Premiership. Geelong were minor premiers. Whilst Sydney Swans won the wooden spoon.

Medals

The Coleman Medal for the leading goalscorer was awarded to Jason Dunstall of Hawthorn, the third time in 5 seasons. Scott Wynd of Footscray won the Brownlow Medal.

Ladder

#	1991	Team	Home Ground	Coach	Captain
1	▲ 2	Geelong	Kardinia Park	Malcolm Blight	Mark Bairstow
2	▲ 8	Footscray	Western Oval	Terry Wheeler	Doug Hawkins
3	▲ 4	Collingwood	Victoria Park	Leigh Matthews	Tony Shaw
4	▼ 3	West Coast Eagles	WACA/Subiaco Oval	Mick Malthouse	John Worsfold
5	▼ 3	Hawthorn	Princes Park	Alan Joyce	Gary Ayres
6	▼ 2	St Kilda	Moorabbin Oval	Ken Sheldon	Danny Frawley
7	▲ 4	Carlton	Princes Park	David Parkin	Stephen Kernahan
8	▼ 2	Essendon	MCG	Kevin Sheedy	Mark Thompson
9	—	Adelaide	Football Park	Graham Cornes	Chris McDermott
10	▲ 4	Fitzroy	Princes Park	Robert Shaw	Paul Roos
11	▼ 6	Melbourne	MCG	John Northey	Garry Lyon
12	▼ 4	North Melbourne	MCG	Wayne Schimmelbusch	Matthew Larkin
13	—	Richmond	MCG	Allan Jeans	Dale Weightman
14	▲ 1	Brisbane Bears	Carrara Stadium	Robert Walls	Roger Merrett
15	▼ 3	Sydney Swans	SCG	Gary Buckenara	Dennis Carroll

Finals Series

Elimination Final

5

Hawthorn

4

West Coast Eagles

Qualifying Semi Final

West Coast Eagles

Grand Final

Qualifying Final

Geelong

Preliminary Final

West Coast Eagles

1

Geelong

Geelong

2

Footscray

Eliminating Semi Final

Footscray

Footscray

Elimination Final

St Kilda

6

St Kilda

3

Collingwood

Key:

Losing team progressing

Winning team progressing

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 | style="border-bottom:2px solid green" | &nbsp;
 | style="border:1px solid #aaa;" bgcolor="#f9f9f9"| &nbsp;{{{QSF-team1|'''West Coast Eagles'''}}} <!--Qualifying Semi Final team 1-->
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+| colspan="4" style="border-bottom:2px solid green" |
+| |
-| style="border:1px solid #aaa;" bgcolor="#f9f9f9"| &nbsp;{{{GF-team1|'''West Coast Eagles'''}}} <!--Grand Final team 1-->
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-| style="border:1px solid #aaa;" bgcolor="#f9f9f9"| &nbsp;{{{QSF-team2|Geelong}}} <!--Qualifying Semi Final team 2-->
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-| style="border:1px solid #aaa;" bgcolor="#f9f9f9"| &nbsp;{{{GF-team2|Geelong}}} <!--Grand Final team 2-->
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 | | Qualifying Final
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+| style="border-top:2px solid green" |
+| style="border:1px solid #aaa;" bgcolor="#f9f9f9"| &nbsp;{{{QSF-team2|Geelong}}} <!--Qualifying Semi Final team 2-->
+| rowspan="2" style="border-top:2px solid red; border-right:2px solid red;" |
+| |
 | | Preliminary Final
+| rowspan="2" style="border-bottom:1px solid green; border-right:2px solid green;" |
+| style="border-bottom:2px solid green" |
+| style="border:1px solid #aaa;" bgcolor="#f9f9f9"| &nbsp;{{{GF-team1|'''West Coast Eagles'''}}} <!--Grand Final team 1-->
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 | style="border:1px solid #aaa;" bgcolor="#f9f9f9"| &nbsp;{{{QF-team1|'''Geelong'''}}} <!--Qualifying team 1-->
-| colspan="3" | &nbsp;
+| colspan="3" |
-| style="border-bottom:2px solid red" | &nbsp;
+| style="border-bottom:2px solid red" |
 | style="border:1px solid #aaa;" bgcolor="#f9f9f9"| &nbsp;{{{PF-team1|'''Geelong'''}}} <!--Preliminary Final team 1-->
+| style="border-top:2px solid green" |
+| style="border:1px solid #aaa;" bgcolor="#f9f9f9"| &nbsp;{{{GF-team2|Geelong}}} <!--Grand Final team 2-->
 |-
 |
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 | style="border:1px solid #aaa;" bgcolor="#f9f9f9"| &nbsp;{{{QF-team2|Footscray}}} <!--Qualifying team 2-->
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+| rowspan="2" style="border-top:2px solid red; border-right:2px solid red;" |
+| |
-| colspan="2" | &nbsp;
+| | Eliminating Semi Final
-| rowspan="3" style="border-bottom:2px solid green; border-right:2px solid green;" | &nbsp;
-| style="border-top:2px solid green" | &nbsp;
+| rowspan="2" style="border-bottom:1px solid green; border-right:2px solid green;" |
+| style="border-top:2px solid green" |
 | style="border:1px solid #aaa;" bgcolor="#f9f9f9"| &nbsp;{{{PF-team2|Footscray}}} <!--Preliminary Final team 2-->
+| style="border-top:1px solid green" |
 |-
-| colspan="5" | &nbsp;
+| colspan="4" |
+| style="border-bottom:2px solid red" |
-| | Eliminating Semi Final
-|-
-| colspan="4" | &nbsp;
-| style="border-bottom:2px solid red" | &nbsp;
 | style="border:1px solid #aaa;" bgcolor="#f9f9f9"| &nbsp;{{{ESF-team1|'''Footscray'''}}} <!--Eliminating Semi Final team 1-->
 |-
-| colspan="3" | &nbsp;
+| colspan="2" |
+| | Elimination Final
-| rowspan="3" style="border-bottom:2px solid green; border-right:2px solid green;" | &nbsp;
-| style="border-top:2px solid green" | &nbsp;
+| rowspan="2" style="border-bottom:1px solid green; border-right:2px solid green;" |
+| style="border-top:2px solid green" |
 | style="border:1px solid #aaa;" bgcolor="#f9f9f9"| &nbsp;{{{ESF-team2|St Kilda}}} <!--Eliminating Semi Final team 2 -->
+| style="border-top:1px solid green" |
-|-
-| colspan="2" | &nbsp;
-| | Elimination Final
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 | style="border:1px solid #aaa;" bgcolor="#f9f9f9"| &nbsp;{{{EF-team6|Collingwood}}} <!--Elimination team 6-->
+| style="border-top:1px solid green" |
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