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2003 AFL season

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Teams
  
16

Matches played
  
185

Premiers
  
Brisbane (3rd premiership)

Minor premiers
  
Port Adelaide (2nd minor premiership)

Pre-season cup
  
Adelaide (1st pre-season cup win)

Attendance
  
6,351,655 (34,333 per match)

The 2003 Australian Football League season was the 107th season of the elite Australian rules football competition.

Contents

See List of Australian Football League premiers for a complete list.

AFL Draft

See 2003 AFL Draft for more information.

National Cup

The 2003 Wizard Home Loans Cup saw Adelaide Crows defeat Collingwood 15.14 (104) to 10.13 (73) in the Final. (For an explanation of pre-season scoring see Pre-season rule changes)

Round 11 (Queen's Birthday)

  • The Kangaroos-Tigers game was especially notable as the comeback of Kangaroos player Jason McCartney from life-threatening burns suffered in the 2002 Bali bombing. McCartney retired immediately after the match.

    • Round 21

    The Sydney-Collingwood game is notable as it is the highest attended Aussie Rules match ever played outside of Victoria.

    This marks the first time that Fremantle played a finals match and the first, and only time to date that all non-Victorian teams played in a finals series.

    Ladder progression

  • Numbers highlighted in green indicate that the team finished the round inside the top 8.
  • Numbers highlighted in blue indicates the team finished first on the ladder in that round.
  • Numbers highlighted in red indicates the team finished in last place on the ladder in that round.

    • Match attendance

    Total match attendance for all games was 5,872,352 people. Attendance at the Grand Final was 79,451 people. The largest non-finals attendance was 72,393 people for the Collingwood v Sydney game of Round 21.

    Awards

  • The Brownlow Medal was awarded to Mark Ricciuto of Adelaide, Nathan Buckley of Collingwood, and Adam Goodes of Sydney.
  • The Leigh Matthews Trophy was awarded to Michael Voss of the Brisbane Lions.
  • The Coleman Medal was awarded to Matthew Lloyd of Essendon.
  • The Norm Smith Medal was awarded to Simon Black of the Brisbane Lions.
  • The AFL Rising Star award was awarded to Sam Mitchell of Hawthorn.
  • The Wooden Spoon was "awarded" to the Western Bulldogs for coming last.

    • References

    2003 AFL season Wikipedia
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