101st season of the Australian Football League (AFL)
For the 1997 season of the Arena Football League, see 1997 Arena Football League season.
1997 AFL premiership season
Teams
16
Premiers
Adelaide 1st premiership
Minor premiers
St Kilda 2nd minor premiership
Pre-season cup
Carlton 1st pre-season cup win
Brownlow Medallist
Robert Harvey (St Kilda)
Leading goalkicker
Tony Modra (Adelaide)
Attendance
Matches played
185
Total attendance
6,402,997 (34,611 per match)
Highest
99,645 (Grand Final, Adelaide vs. St Kilda)
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The 1997 AFL season was the 101st season of the Australian Football League (AFL), the highest level senior Australian rules football competition in Australia, which was known as the Victorian Football League until 1989. The season ran from 27 March until 27 September, and comprised a 22-game home-and-away season followed by a finals series featuring the top eight clubs.
Before the season, the Port Adelaide Football Club (SANFL) was admitted to the league, increasing the South Australian membership to two clubs. Foundation club Fitzroy, which had gone into administration in 1996, merged with the Brisbane Bears to form a new Queensland-based club known as the Brisbane Lions. The Footscray Football Club changed its name to the Western Bulldogs. With these changes, the league's size remained at sixteen clubs.
The premiership was won by the Adelaide Football Club for the first time, after it defeated St Kilda by 31 points in the 1997 AFL Grand Final.
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