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2005 AFL Grand Final
2005 AFL Grand Final
	The Sydney Swans walk onto the field before the game. The Swans would win the game with a 4-point margin, winning their first premiership in 72 years.
8.10 (58)	7.12 (54)
Date	24 September 2005
Stadium	Melbourne Cricket Ground
Attendance	91,828
Favourite	Sydney
Umpires	Scott McLaren (11), Brett Allen (10), Darren Goldspink (32)
Coin toss won by	Sydney
Kicked toward	City End
Ceremonies
Pre-match entertainment	Delta Goodrem, Silvie Paladino, Michael Bublé, Dame Edna Everage, Melbourne Gospel Choir and Australian Girls' Choir
National anthem	Silvie Paladino
Accolades
Norm Smith Medallist	Chris Judd (West Coast)
Jock McHale Medallist	Paul Roos
Broadcast in Australia
Network	Network Ten

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The 2005 AFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Sydney Swans and West Coast Eagles at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on 24 September 2005. It was the 109th annual grand final of the Australian Football League (formerly the Victorian Football League), staged to determine the premiers for the 2005 AFL season. The match, attended by 91,828 spectators, was won by Sydney by a margin of four points. It was the club's fourth VFL/AFL premiership, and its first since 1933, breaking a league-record 72-year premiership drought.

As of 2024, the 2005 AFL Grand Final is the highest-rating AFL game of all time since the current OzTam measurement system was introduced in 2001. A total average of 4.449 million people watched the game on TV nationally, including 3.4 million metropolitan viewers.^[1]^[2] It is one of the most-watched television broadcasts in Australia since 2001, ranked 8th overall.

Background

This was West Coast's first appearance in a grand final since winning the 1994 premiership, whilst it was Sydney's first since losing in 1996, and the Swans had not won a premiership since 1933 (as South Melbourne).

Two players from the Eagles' last premiership in 1994 were appearing in this grand final: Drew Banfield for the Eagles and Jason Ball for the Swans in his last AFL game.

At the conclusion of the home-and-away season, West Coast finished second on the AFL ladder behind Adelaide with 17 wins and five losses. Sydney finished third with 15 wins and seven losses. They met in the qualifying final at Subiaco Oval, and West Coast won by four points.

A major turning point in the Swans' season came when they lost to St Kilda at Telstra Dome in round ten, after which Swans coach Paul Roos came under heavy criticism from the entire AFL for his side's game plan.^[3]

The Eagles qualified for the grand final by defeating minor premiers Adelaide in their preliminary final by 16 points. Meanwhile, Nick Davis famously rescued Sydney in their semi-final at the SCG against Geelong with four 4th-quarter goals, including one just seconds before the final siren. The Swans then overcame St Kilda in their preliminary final at the MCG after overturning a 7-point deficit going into the last quarter into a 31-point win with seven final quarter goals.

In the week leading up to the grand final, West Coast's Ben Cousins was awarded the Brownlow Medal. There was controversy over the fact that Barry Hall was allowed to play, as he had escaped suspension for punching St Kilda's Matt Maguire in the preliminary final when similar incidents had drawn suspensions during the year. Hall later admitted in 2017 that he exploited a loophole in the rules, saying: "I shouldn’t have played. If rules are rules, I shouldn’t have played the Grand Final."^[4]^[5]

Match summary

West Coast opened the game shaky, with Sydney be aggressive to get the ball into their forward fifty. However, the West Coast defensive line held strong, only making Sydney kick two goals. The term ended with Sydney leading by 13 points.

In the second quarter Sydney appeared just as strong, kicking three goals. West Coast however, also kicked three goals while kicking accurate. Unfortunately for Sydney they kicked for behinds then goals, kicks four.

Both teams had seemingly easy goals that were missed, but the Eagles most clearly would remember theirs from the fourth quarter. With just under five minutes remaining in the match, West Coast's Brent Staker almost cost his team the match following a 50-metre penalty to the Swans sending them out of their defensive 50 in a very costly play. With the Swans holding a five-point lead in the closing moments, Sydney's Tadhg Kennelly rushed a behind to blunt a ferocious Eagles attack. After the ensuing kick in, West Coast regained control of the ball and sent a long kick back to the half-forward line by Dean Cox. Sydney's Leo Barry responded by taking a mark in the midst of the pack full of Eagles players (with the commentator Stephen Quartermain saying a sequence of words made famous through frequent replays: "Leo Barry, you star!"), denying the Eagles an opportunity to kick a game-winner on or after the final siren, thus ensuring that the Swans would win their first premiership in 72 years (when they were South Melbourne), ending the longest premiership drought in VFL/AFL history.

The match has been labelled as a 'classic',^[6] with the final margin being the closest since the 1977 drawn grand final. This was the first time since the 1989 VFL Grand Final that the grand final was decided by a goal or less.

Eagles player Chris Judd was awarded the Norm Smith Medal for being judged the best player afield, although he finished on the losing side; this is one of only four instances of a Grand Final player having won a Norm Smith Medal without being on the winning premiership team.

The same teams met again in the 2006 AFL Grand Final, in another close match, with the Eagles emerging victors by one point.

Norm Smith Medal

Norm Smith Medal Voting Tally
Position	Player	Club	Total Votes	Vote Summary
1st (winner)	Chris Judd	West Coast Eagles	11	2,3,3,1,2
2nd	Nic Fosdike	Sydney Swans	6	0,0,0,3,3
3rd	Brett Kirk	Sydney Swans	4	0,2,2,0,0
3rd	Amon Buchanan	Sydney Swans	4	3,0,0,0,1
5th	Ben Cousins	West Coast Eagles	2	0,0,0,2,0
6th	David Wirrpunda	West Coast Eagles	1	0,0,1,0,0
6th	Leo Barry	Sydney Swans	1	0,1,0,0,0
6th	Lewis Roberts-Thomson	Sydney Swans	1	1,0,0,0,0


Voter	Role	3 Votes	2 Votes	1 Vote
Graeme Bond	3AW	Amon Buchanan	Chris Judd	Lewis Roberts-Thomson
David Reed	West Australian	Chris Judd	Brett Kirk	Leo Barry
Mark Robinson	Herald Sun	Chris Judd	Brett Kirk	David Wirrpunda
Michaelangelo Rucci	Adelaide Advertiser	Nic Fosdike	Ben Cousins	Chris Judd
Stephen Quartermain	Network 10	Nic Fosdike	Chris Judd	Amon Buchanan

Teams

Sydney Swans

West Coast Eagles

Sydney
B:	28 Jared Crouch	21 Leo Barry	30 Lewis Roberts-Thomson
HB:	4 Ben Mathews	6 Craig Bolton	17 Tadhg Kennelly
C:	26 Sean Dempster	37 Adam Goodes	32 Amon Buchanan
HF:	5 Ryan O'Keefe	1 Barry Hall (c)	24 Jude Bolton
F:	10 Paul Williams	19 Michael O'Loughlin	2 Nick Davis
Foll:	16 Darren Jolly	31 Brett Kirk	20 Luke Ablett
Int:	27 Jason Ball	42 Paul Bevan	13 Adam Schneider
Int:	12 Nic Fosdike
Coach:	Paul Roos

West Coast
B:	39 Adam Hunter	23 Darren Glass	44 David Wirrpanda
HB:	17 Daniel Chick	11 Travis Gaspar	6 Drew Banfield
C:	5 Tyson Stenglein	9 Ben Cousins (c)	32 Andrew Embley
HF:	4 Daniel Kerr	29 Ashley Hansen	41 Brent Staker
F:	35 Kasey Green	1 Michael Gardiner	28 Ashley Sampi
Foll:	20 Dean Cox	3 Chris Judd	7 Chad Fletcher
Int:	37 Adam Selwood	31 Mark Nicoski	26 Sam Butler
Int:	14 Mark Seaby
Coach:	John Worsfold

Scorecard


	Grand final
Saturday, 24 September (2:40 pm)	Sydney	def.	West Coast	MCG (crowd: 91,898)
	3.0 (18) 6.3 (39) 6.5 (41) 8.10 (58)	Q1 Q2 Q3 Final	2.4 (16) 2.7 (19) 5.9 (39) 7.12 (54)	Umpires: Allen, McLaren, Goldspink Norm Smith Medal: Chris Judd (West Coast) Television broadcast: Network Ten National anthem: Silvie Paladino


Hall 2 Jolly, Schneider, O'Loughlin, Kennelly, Goodes, Buchanan 1		Goals	2 Hunter 1 Nicoski, Cox, Embley, Hansen, Cousins
Roberts-Thomson, Goodes, Buchanan, Kennelly, Fosdike, Kirk		Best	Judd, Wirrpunda, Cousins, Cox, Fletcher
Ball (cut head), C. Bolton (nose), Crouch (ankle)		Injuries	Kerr (ankle), Gardiner (cut head)
Nil		Reports	Nil

Sydney won its fourth premiership, and its first since relocating to Sydney from South Melbourne. The club's last premiership as South Melbourne was in 1933, and as of 2024 its 72-year premiership drought is the longest in VFL/AFL history. Tadhg Kennelly became the first Irishman to become an AFL premiership player. Later in 2009, Kennelly became the first man to be both an AFL premiership player and an All-Ireland Senior Football Championship winner, achieving this with his native Kerry.^[7] Chris Judd became the fourth player to win the Norm Smith Medal despite being on the grand final losing team, joining Maurice Rioli (Richmond 1982), Gary Ablett Sr. (Geelong 1989) and Nathan Buckley (Collingwood 2002). Only 112 points were scored in total, making this the lowest-scoring grand final since 1968.

Match statistics

Team Stats	(Syd)	(WCE)
Kicks	188	182
Marks	84	68
Handballs	105	104
Tackles	62	59
Hitouts	29	43
Frees	12	13

Entertainment

National Anthem	Silvie Paladino
Entertainment	Delta Goodrem (I Am Australian) Australian Idol finalists (Waltzing Matilda) Silvie Paladino (There You'll Be) Michael Bublé Dame Edna Everage Melbourne Gospel Choir Australian Girls' Choir
Television broadcaster	Network Ten
Television announcers	Stephen Quartermain, Tim Lane — play-by-play Robert Walls, Stephen Silvagni — analysts Christi Malthouse — sideline reporter Anthony Hudson — studio host Leigh Matthews, Malcolm Blight — studio analysts

References

^ "2005 AFL Grand Final TV ratings - regional figures included". BigFooty. 29 September 2005. Retrieved 27 September 2021.
^ "Grand Final TV viewership biggest in 10 years". westernbulldogs.com.au. 3 October 2016. Retrieved 27 September 2021.
^ Cowley, Michael (13 April 2006). "Roos v Walls: the war of words continues". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 13 September 2019.
^ "Barry Hall: I should have been suspended for 2005 Grand Final | Sporting News Australia". www.sportingnews.com. 21 June 2017. Retrieved 5 April 2024.
^ Baum, Greg (21 June 2017). "Barry Hall: I shouldn't have played 2005 grand final". The Age. Retrieved 5 April 2024.
^ Jim Main, Aussie Rules: For Dummies (2nd edition, 2008) p 10.
^ "Grand Final joy for Tuohy and O'Connor as Geelong destroy Sydney". RTÉ. 24 September 2022.

[1] "2005 AFL Grand Final TV ratings - regional figures included". BigFooty. 29 September 2005. Retrieved 27 September 2021.

[2] "Grand Final TV viewership biggest in 10 years". westernbulldogs.com.au. 3 October 2016. Retrieved 27 September 2021.

[3] Cowley, Michael (13 April 2006). "Roos v Walls: the war of words continues". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 13 September 2019.

[4] "Barry Hall: I should have been suspended for 2005 Grand Final | Sporting News Australia". www.sportingnews.com. 21 June 2017. Retrieved 5 April 2024.

[5] Baum, Greg (21 June 2017). "Barry Hall: I shouldn't have played 2005 grand final". The Age. Retrieved 5 April 2024.

[6] Jim Main, Aussie Rules: For Dummies (2nd edition, 2008) p 10.

[7] "Grand Final joy for Tuohy and O'Connor as Geelong destroy Sydney". RTÉ. 24 September 2022.

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-The '''2005 AFL Grand Final''' was an [[Australian rules football]] game contested between the [[Sydney Swans]] and [[West Coast Eagles]] at the [[Melbourne Cricket Ground]] on 24 September 2005. It was the 109th annual [[AFL Grand Final|grand final]] of the [[Australian Football League]] (formerly the Victorian Football League),<ref>In 1897 and 1924 there were no grand finals and instead the premier was decided by a round-robin system. In 1948 and 1977 there were grand final replays after initial draws.</ref> staged to determine the [[List of AFL premiers|premiers]] for the [[2005 AFL season]]. The match, attended by 92,764 spectators, was won by Sydney by a margin of four points, marking the club's fourth Premiership and their first since 1933.
+The '''2005 AFL Grand Final''' was an [[Australian rules football]] game contested between the [[Sydney Swans]] and [[West Coast Eagles]] at the [[Melbourne Cricket Ground]] on 24 September 2005. It was the 109th annual [[AFL Grand Final|grand final]] of the [[Australian Football League]] (formerly the Victorian Football League), staged to determine the [[List of AFL premiers|premiers]] for the [[2005 AFL season]]. The match, attended by 91,828 spectators, was won by Sydney by a margin of four points. It was the club's fourth VFL/AFL premiership, and its first since 1933, breaking a league-record 72-year premiership drought.
-It remains the highest-rating [[Australian Football League|AFL]] game of all time (including 3.4 million metropolitan viewers) since the current [[OzTAM|OzTam]] measurement system was introduced in 2001. All told, a total average of '''4.449 million''' people watched the game on TV nationally.<ref>{{Cite web|title=2005 AFL Grand Final TV ratings - regional figures included.|url=https://www.bigfooty.com/forum/threads/2005-afl-grand-final-tv-ratings-regional-figures-included.201661/|access-date=2021-09-27|website=BigFooty|date=29 September 2005 |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Grand Final TV viewership biggest in 10 years|url=https://www.westernbulldogs.com.au/news/341050/grand-final-tv-viewership-biggest-in-10-years|access-date=2021-09-27|website=westernbulldogs.com.au|date=3 October 2016 |language=en}}</ref> It is one of the [[List of most-watched television broadcasts#Australia|most-watched television broadcasts]] in Australia since 2001, ranked 8th overall. Put another way, one in every 4.5 Australians watched the game live (22.25% of all Australians).
+As of 2024, the 2005 AFL Grand Final is the highest-rating [[Australian Football League|AFL]] game of all time since the current [[OzTAM|OzTam]] measurement system was introduced in 2001. A total average of 4.449 million people watched the game on TV nationally, including 3.4 million metropolitan viewers.<ref>{{Cite web|title=2005 AFL Grand Final TV ratings - regional figures included.|url=https://www.bigfooty.com/forum/threads/2005-afl-grand-final-tv-ratings-regional-figures-included.201661/|access-date=2021-09-27|website=BigFooty|date=29 September 2005 |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Grand Final TV viewership biggest in 10 years|url=https://www.westernbulldogs.com.au/news/341050/grand-final-tv-viewership-biggest-in-10-years|access-date=2021-09-27|website=westernbulldogs.com.au|date=3 October 2016 |language=en}}</ref> It is one of the [[List of most-watched television broadcasts#Australia|most-watched television broadcasts]] in Australia since 2001, ranked 8th overall.
 ==Background==
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 A major turning point in the Swans' season came when they lost to {{AFL StK}} at [[Docklands Stadium|Telstra Dome]] in round ten, after which Swans coach Paul Roos came under heavy criticism from the entire AFL for his side's game plan.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.smh.com.au/sport/afl/roos-v-walls-the-war-of-words-continues-20060413-gdnctr.html|title=Roos v Walls: the war of words continues|work=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]]|first=Michael|last=Cowley|date=13 April 2006|access-date=13 September 2019}}</ref>
-The Eagles then punched their ticket to the grand final by defeating minor premiers Adelaide in their preliminary final by 16 points. Meanwhile, Nick Davis famously rescued Sydney in their semi-final at the SCG against Geelong with four 4th-quarter goals, including one just seconds before the final siren. The Swans then overcame [[St Kilda Football Club|St Kilda]] in their preliminary final at the MCG after overturning a 7-point deficit going into the last quarter into a 31-point win with a seven-goal barrage.
+The Eagles qualified for the grand final by defeating minor premiers Adelaide in their preliminary final by 16 points. Meanwhile, Nick Davis famously rescued Sydney in their semi-final at the SCG against Geelong with four 4th-quarter goals, including one just seconds before the final siren. The Swans then overcame [[St Kilda Football Club|St Kilda]] in their preliminary final at the MCG after overturning a 7-point deficit going into the last quarter into a 31-point win with seven final quarter goals.
-In the week leading up to the grand final, West Coast's [[Ben Cousins]] was awarded the [[Brownlow Medal]]. Additionally, there was controversy over the fact that [[Barry Hall]] was allowed to play, as he had escaped suspension for punching St Kilda's [[Matt Maguire]] in the preliminary final despite many punters and pundits alike expressing dismay over the lack of suspension. Hall later admitted in 2017 that he exploited a loophole in the rules, saying: "I shouldn’t have played. If rules are rules, I shouldn’t have played the Grand Final."<ref>{{Cite web |date=2017-06-21 |title=Barry Hall: I should have been suspended for 2005 Grand Final {{!}} Sporting News Australia |url=https://www.sportingnews.com/au/featured-content-sport/news/barry-hall-i-should-have-been-suspended-for-2005-grand-final-afl-sydney-west-coast/1i146k5chtkjk1le2dvkfnidus |access-date=2024-04-05 |website=www.sportingnews.com |language=en-au}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Baum |first=Greg |date=2017-06-21 |title=Barry Hall: I shouldn't have played 2005 grand final |url=https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/barry-hall-i-shouldnt-have-played-2005-grand-final-20170621-gwvjdg.html |access-date=2024-04-05 |website=The Age |language=en}}</ref>
+In the week leading up to the grand final, West Coast's [[Ben Cousins]] was awarded the [[Brownlow Medal]]. There was controversy over the fact that [[Barry Hall]] was allowed to play, as he had escaped suspension for punching St Kilda's [[Matt Maguire]] in the preliminary final when similar incidents had drawn suspensions during the year. Hall later admitted in 2017 that he exploited a loophole in the rules, saying: "I shouldn’t have played. If rules are rules, I shouldn’t have played the Grand Final."<ref>{{Cite web |date=2017-06-21 |title=Barry Hall: I should have been suspended for 2005 Grand Final {{!}} Sporting News Australia |url=https://www.sportingnews.com/au/featured-content-sport/news/barry-hall-i-should-have-been-suspended-for-2005-grand-final-afl-sydney-west-coast/1i146k5chtkjk1le2dvkfnidus |access-date=2024-04-05 |website=www.sportingnews.com |language=en-au}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Baum |first=Greg |date=2017-06-21 |title=Barry Hall: I shouldn't have played 2005 grand final |url=https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/barry-hall-i-shouldnt-have-played-2005-grand-final-20170621-gwvjdg.html |access-date=2024-04-05 |website=The Age |language=en}}</ref>
 ==Match summary==
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-*Sydney won their fourth Premiership – their first in Sydney, their first in the AFL era and their first since they won the VFL as South Melbourne in 1933.
+*Sydney won its fourth premiership, and its first since relocating to Sydney from South Melbourne. The club's last premiership as South Melbourne was in 1933, and as of 2024 its 72-year premiership drought is the longest in VFL/AFL history.
-*Tadhg Kennelly became the first Irishman to become an AFL Premiership player. [[2009 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final|In 2009]] Kennelly would go on to become the first man to be both an AFL Premiership player and an [[All-Ireland Senior Football Championship|All-Ireland Senior (Gaelic) Football Championship]] winner, achieving this with his native [[Kerry county football team|Kerry]]. It would be [[2022 AFL Grand Final|2022]] before the second and third Irishmen won an AFL Premiership ([[Zach Tuohy]] and [[Mark O'Connor (sportsman)|Mark O'Connor]]).<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.rte.ie/sport/other-sport/2022/0924/1325214-grand-final-joy-for-irish-duo-as-geelong-destroy-sydney/|title=Grand Final joy for Tuohy and O'Connor as Geelong destroy Sydney|publisher=RTÉ|date=24 September 2022}}</ref>
+*Tadhg Kennelly became the first Irishman to become an AFL premiership player. Later in [[2009 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final|2009]], Kennelly became the first man to be both an AFL premiership player and an [[All-Ireland Senior Football Championship]] winner, achieving this with his native [[Kerry county football team|Kerry]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.rte.ie/sport/other-sport/2022/0924/1325214-grand-final-joy-for-irish-duo-as-geelong-destroy-sydney/|title=Grand Final joy for Tuohy and O'Connor as Geelong destroy Sydney|publisher=RTÉ|date=24 September 2022}}</ref>
 *Chris Judd became the fourth player to win the Norm Smith Medal despite being on the grand final losing team, joining [[Maurice Rioli]] (Richmond 1982), [[Gary Ablett Sr.]] (Geelong 1989) and [[Nathan Buckley]] (Collingwood 2002).
+*Only 112 points were scored in total, making this the lowest-scoring grand final since [[1968 VFL Grand Final|1968]].
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v t e Sydney Swans 2005 AFL premiers
Sydney Swans 8.10 (58) defeated West Coast Eagles 7.12 (54), at the Melbourne Cricket Ground
1. Hall (c) 2. Davis 4. Mathews 5. O'Keefe 6. C. Bolton 10. Williams 12. Fosdike 13. Schneider 16. Jolly 17. Kennelly 19. O'Loughlin 20. Ablett 21. Barry 24. J. Bolton 26. Dempster 27. Ball 28. Crouch 30. Roberts-Thomson 31. Kirk 32. Buchanan 37. Goodes 42. Bevan
Coach: Roos

v t e West Coast Eagles
Nickname: Eagles History Records Players Current squad Captains Coaches Individual awards John Worsfold Medal Leading goalkickers AFL Captain: Luke Shuey AFL Coach: Adam Simpson AFLW Captain: Emma Swanson AFLW Coach: Michael Prior
AFL home grounds	Subiaco Oval (1987–2017) WACA (1987–2000) Perth Stadium (2018–)
AFL premierships (4)	1992 1994 2006 2018
VFL/AFL seasons (35)	1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024
AFLW home grounds	Lathlain Park (2020–)
AFLW Seasons (5)	2020 2021 2022 (S6) 2022 (S7) 2023
Related articles	Draft history Western Derby Sydney rivalry

v t e 2005 AFL season
Events	Wizard Home Loans Cup Premiership season Finals series Grand Final International Rules Series
Awards	AFL Players Association awards All-Australian team Brownlow Medal Coleman Medal Goal of the Year Leigh Matthews Trophy Mark of the Year Michael Tuck Medal Norm Smith Medal Rising Star
Club overviews	Adelaide Brisbane Lions Carlton Collingwood Essendon Fremantle Geelong Hawthorn Kangaroos Melbourne Port Adelaide Richmond St Kilda Sydney West Coast Western Bulldogs
Player changes	Debuts Retirements Trades