The 2000 AFL season was the 104th season of the Australian Football League (AFL), the highest-level senior Australian rules football competition in Australia. The season featured 16 clubs and ran from 8 March until 2 September, comprising a 22-match home-and-away season followed by a finals series featuring the top eight clubs. The season was scheduled earlier than usual to avoid a clash with the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.
won the premiership, defeating by 60 points in the 2000 AFL Grand Final; it was Essendon's 16th VFL/AFL premiership. Essendon also won the minor premiership by finishing atop the home-and-away ladder with a 21–1 win–loss record, with its home-and-away and overall (24–1) win–loss records standing as the best in the league's history. Melbourne's Shane Woewodin won the Brownlow Medal as the league's best and fairest player, and Essendon's Matthew Lloyd won the Coleman Medal as the league's leading goalkicker.
Ansett Australia Cup
The 2000 pre-season began with the 2000 Ansett Australia Cup. Unlike most pre-season competitions which start in February, the 2000 series started on 31 December 1999 with a one-off "Match of the Millennium" between and , which was notable for Brendan Fevola kicking twelve goals, a pre-season record. defeated the by 41 points in the grand final.
Home-and-away season All starting times are local time. Source: AFL Tables
Round 1
Round 2
Round 3
Round 4
Round 5
Round 6
Round 7
Round 8
Round 9
Round 10
Round 11
Round 12
Round 13
Round 14
Round 15
Round 16
Round 17
Round 18
Round 19
Round 20
Round 21
Round 22
Ladder (P) Premiers Qualified for finals
|- style=background:#FFFFBB | 1 || align=left | (P) || 22 || 21 || 1 || 0 || 2816 || 1770 || 159.1 || 84 |- style=background:#FFFFBB | 2 || align=left | || 22 || 16 || 6 || 0 || 2667 || 1979 || 134.8 || 64 |- style=background:#FFFFBB | 3 || align=left | || 22 || 14 || 8 || 0 || 2557 || 2159 || 118.4 || 56 |- style=background:#FFFFBB | 4 || align=left | || 22 || 14 || 8 || 0 || 2447 || 2304 || 106.2 || 56 |- style=background:#FFFFBB | 5 || align=left | || 22 || 12 || 9 || 1 || 2234 || 2306 || 96.9 || 50 |- style=background:#FFFFBB | 6 || align=left | || 22 || 12 || 10 || 0 || 2602 || 2222 || 117.1 || 48 |- style=background:#FFFFBB | 7 || align=left | || 22 || 12 || 10 || 0 || 2321 || 2241 || 103.6 || 48 |- style=background:#FFFFBB | 8 || align=left | || 22 || 12 || 10 || 0 || 2198 || 2251 || 97.6 || 48 |- | 9 || align=left | || 22 || 11 || 11 || 0 || 2068 || 2221 || 93.1 || 44 |- | 10 || align=left | || 22 || 10 || 12 || 0 || 2254 || 2219 || 101.6 || 40 |- | 11 || align=left | || 22 || 9 || 13 || 0 || 2255 || 2347 || 96.1 || 36 |- | 12 || align=left | || 22 || 8 || 14 || 0 || 1886 || 2618 || 72.0 || 32 |- | 13 || align=left | || 22 || 7 || 14 || 1 || 2216 || 2399 || 92.4 || 30 |- | 14 || align=left | || 22 || 7 || 14 || 1 || 1928 || 2295 || 84.0 || 30 |- | 15 || align=left | || 22 || 7 || 15 || 0 || 2089 || 2431 || 85.9 || 28 |- | 16 || align=left | || 22 || 2 || 19 || 1 || 1855 || 2631 || 70.5 || 10
Rules for classification: 1. premiership points; 2. percentage; 3. points forAverage score: 103.4Source: AFL Tables
Progression by round
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22
Source: AFL Tables
Home matches and membership Team Home match attendance Membership Hosted Total Highest Lowest Average 1999 2000 Change 1999 2000 Change 11 423,171 42,659 30,350 39,393 38,470 42,120 42,896 11 301,470 34,743 21,956 21,890 27,406 16,931 20,295 11 378,551 91,571 16,415 35,037 34,414 25,719 27,571 11 495,134 88,390 29,072 39,126 45,012 32,358 28,932 11 531,879 67,172 34,567 57,309 48,353 29,858 34,278 11 245,928 37,710 10,826 23,972 22,357 24,896 24,925 11 305,014 47,071 17,399 24,840 27,729 21,032 25,595 11 378,592 53,776 16,004 34,864 34,417 32,120 26,879 11 243,017 36,514 7,334 25,890 22,092 22,080 22,156 11 413,153 75,033 16,120 31,955 37,559 19,713 18,227 11 290,149 41,101 19,511 31,269 26,377 37,166 34,925 11 484,132 73,465 23,578 40,533 44,012 29,047 26,869 11 268,638 38,151 17,509 33,182 24,422 20,793 17,855 11 281,190 34,687 19,789 30,539 25,563 31,175 30,177 11 364,500 40,519 22,232 30,868 33,136 36,212 38,868 11 336,293 45,527 18,134 24,023 30,572 20,491 18,056 Total 176 5,740,811 91,571 7,334 32,793 32,618 175 441,711 438,504 3,207
Source: AFL Tables
Finals series
All starting times are local time. Source: AFL Tables
Finals week 1
Finals week 2
Finals week 3
Grand final
Win/loss table The following table can be sorted from biggest winning margin to biggest losing margin for each round. If two or more matches in a round are decided by the same margin, these margins are sorted by percentage (i.e. the lowest-scoring winning team is ranked highest and the lowest-scoring losing team is ranked lowest). Opponents are listed above the margins and home matches are in bold.
Team Home-and-away season Finals series 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 F1 F2 F3 GF 11(9–13–0) 6(12–10–0) 2(16–6–0) 15(7–15–0) 1(21–1–0) 12(8–14–0) 5(12–9–1) 8(12–10–0) 4(14–8–0) 3(14–8–0) 14(7–14–1) 9(11–11–0) 16(2–19–1) 10(10–12–0) 13(7–14–1) 7(12–10–0)
Source: AFL Tables
Season notes became the first team in VFL/AFL history to win 21 matches in a home-and-away season. By winning the grand final, Essendon set a new record for the most wins in a season (24); the club also set a new record for the highest average winning margin in a season (51 points). Due to a major upgrade of the Gabba, the Brisbane Lions played their first four regular season games away from home. They were also the only non-Victorian club to qualify for the finals. This is the season when the current finals format was introduced. Awards
Major awards The Brownlow Medal was awarded to Shane Woewodin of Melbourne. The Coleman Medal was awarded to Matthew Lloyd of Essendon. The Norm Smith Medal was awarded to James Hird of Essendon. The AFL Rising Star was awarded to Paul Hasleby of Fremantle. The wooden spoon was "awarded" to St Kilda.
Leading goalkickers
! rowspan=2 style=width:2em | # ! rowspan=2 | Player ! rowspan=2 | Team ! colspan=22 | Home-and-away season (Coleman Medal) ! colspan=4 | Finals series ! rowspan=2 | Total ! rowspan=2 | Games ! rowspan=2 | Average |- ! 1 !! 2 !! 3 !! 4 !! 5 !! 6 !! 7 !! 8 !! 9 !! 10 !! 11 !! 12 !! 13 !! 14 !! 15 !! 16 !! 17 !! 18 !! 19 !! 20 !! 21 !! 22 !! F1 !! F2 !! F3 !! GF |- ! scope=row style=text-align:center | 1 | align=left | Matthew Lloyd || align=left | || bgcolor=C9F0FF | 77 || bgcolor=C9F0FF | 714 || 418 || 422 || 325 || 328 || bgcolor=C9F0FF | 533 || bgcolor=C9F0FF | 538 || bgcolor=C9F0FF | 644 || bgcolor=C9F0FF | 145 || bgcolor=C9F0FF | 752 || bgcolor=C9F0FF | 658 || bgcolor=C9F0FF | 159 || bgcolor=C9F0FF | 463 || bgcolor=C9F0FF | 366 || bgcolor=C9F0FF | 369 || bgcolor=C9F0FF | 473 || bgcolor=C9F0FF | 982 || bgcolor=C9F0FF | 587 || bgcolor=C9F0FF | 188 || bgcolor=C9F0FF | 290 || bgcolor=CCFFCC | 494 || 7101 || X101 || 4105 || 4109 || 109 || 25 || 4.36 |- ! scope=row style=text-align:center | 2 | align=left | Jeff Farmer || align=left | || 22 || 13 || 36 || 511 || 112 || 416 || 723 || –23 || –23 || 326 || 228 || 129 || 029 || 938 || 745 || 247 || 148 || 452 || 254 || 862 || 062 || 365 || 065 || X65 || 873 || 376 || 76 || 23 || 3.30 |- ! scope=row style=text-align:center | 3 | align=left | Lance Whitnall || align=left | || 11 || 56 || 511 || 112 || 416 || 420 || 222 || 022 || 022 || 325 || 227 || 330 || 333 || 639 || 645 || 954 || 155 || 560 || 060 || 363 || 063 || 265 || 368 || 270 || 070 || || 70 || 25 || 2.80 |- ! scope=row style=text-align:center | 4 | align=left | Wayne Carey || align=left | || 22 || –2 || 24 || 04 || 37 || 411 || 112 || –12 || 618 || 725 || 126 || 531 || 132 || 537 || 340 || 242 || 547 || 451 || 354 || 458 || 159 || 362 || 163 || 366 || 369 || || 69 || 23 || 3.00 |- ! scope=row style=text-align:center | 5 | align=left | Alastair Lynch || align=left | || –0 || 00 || 44 || 37 || 512 || 214 || 014 || –14 || 418 || 624 || 529 || 332 || 436 || 238 || 341 || 445 || 247 || 249 || 352 || 254 || 357 || 461 || 566 || 268 || colspan=2 | || 68 || 22 || 3.09 |- ! scope=row style=text-align:center | 6 | align=left | Scott Lucas || align=left | || –0 || –0 || 22 || 57 || 310 || 616 || 622 || 123 || 124 || 327 || 431 || 031 || 334 || 236 || 137 || 340 || 242 || 547 || 451 || 051 || 051 || 253 || 255 || X55 || 257 || 057 || 57 || 23 || 2.48 |- ! scope=row style=text-align:center | 7 | align=left | Daniel Bradshaw || align=left | || 44 || 711 || 213 || 316 || 016 || 319 || 019 || 019 || –19 || –19 || –19 || –19 || 726 || 329 || 433 || 437 || 542 || 143 || 548 || 452 || 254 || 256 || 056 || –56 || colspan=2 | || 56 || 19 || 2.95 |- ! scope=row style=text-align:center rowspan=2 | 8 | align=left | Clive Waterhouse || align=left | || 22 || 35 || 16 || 28 || 19 || 211 || 213 || 417 || 623 || 124 || 428 || 129 || –29 || 433 || 538 || 038 || 240 || 040 || 242 || 345 || 752 || 153 || colspan=4 | || 53 || 21 || 2.52 |- | align=left | Michael O'Loughlin || align=left | || 55 || 05 || 38 || 08 || 210 || 212 || 012 || 012 || 113 || 114 || 317 || 017 || 522 || 325 || 126 || 430 || 232 || 335 || 641 || 445 || 348 || 553 || colspan=4 | || 53 || 22 || 2.41 |- ! scope=row style=text-align:center | 10 | align=left | Luke Power || align=left | || 11 || 12 || 13 || 03 || –3 || 36 || 17 || 18 || 614 || 216 || 319 || 524 || 226 || 228 || 331 || 233 || 134 || 337 || 138 || 341 || 344 || 347 || 552 || –52 || colspan=2 | || 52 || 22 || 2.36 |- | colspan=32 | |- ! scope=row style=text-align:center | | align=left | Peter Everitt || align=left | || 44 || 913 || bgcolor=C9F0FF | 720 || bgcolor=C9F0FF | 323 || bgcolor=C9F0FF | 528 || bgcolor=C9F0FF | 331 || 031 || 334 || 236 || 036 || 339 || 039 || –39 || –39 || –39 || –39 || –39 || –39 || –39 || 039 || 039 || 140 || colspan=4 | || 40 || 15 || 2.67
Source: AFL Tables
References
Sources 2000 AFL season at AFL Tables 2000 AFL season at Australian Football