124th season of the Australian Football League (AFL)
For the 2020 season of the AFL Women's competition, see 2020 AFL Women's season.
2020 AFL premiership season
Date
19 March – 24 October
Teams
18
Premiers
Richmond 13th premiership
Runners-up
Geelong (10th runners-up)
Minor premiers
Port Adelaide 4th minor premiership
Brownlow Medallist
Lachie Neale (Brisbane Lions – 31 votes)
Coleman Medallist
Tom Hawkins (Geelong – 42 goals)
Attendance
Matches played
162
Total attendance
1,033,037 (6,377 per match)
Highest
32,865 (First Elimination Final, West Coast vs Collingwood)
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2021 →
The 2020 AFL season was the 124th season of the Australian Football League (AFL), the highest level senior men's Australian rules football competition in Australia, which was known as the Victorian Football League until 1989. The season featured eighteen clubs.
Played during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, the season commenced on 19 March and was suspended four days later; it resumed on 11 June and ran until 24 October. A shortened season was played, comprising a 17-game home-and-away season followed by a finals series featuring the top eight clubs; all matches were shortened to 80% of their usual length. Virus outbreaks and interstate travel restrictions precluded games in many states for much of the season, with all clubs spending parts of the season temporarily relocated to quarantine hubs, particularly in South East Queensland where almost half of all matches were played – including the Grand Final, the first time it had been played outside Victoria. Health directives resulted in restricted match attendances throughout the year, including thirty matches played behind closed doors.
The premiership was won by the Richmond Football Club for the 13th time and second time consecutively, after it defeated Geelong by 31 points in the 2020 AFL Grand Final.
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