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The 1995 AFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Geelong Football Club and Carlton Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 30 September 1995. It was the 99th annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League/Australian Football League, staged to determine the premiers for the 1995 AFL season. The match was attended by 93,670 spectators, the second most attended match of the season behind the 1995 ANZAC day clash between Essendon and Collingwood. The 1995 Grand final was won by Carlton by a margin of 61 points. It was Carlton's 16th premiership victory, making it the most successful club in the league's history (a record subsequently tied by Essendon in 2000). The game also marked Carlton's sixteenth consecutive win and twenty-third win for the year overall, then a record. ==Background== (詳細は1993 AFL Grand Final, while Geelong were back having lost the previous year's premiership decider. The Cats had finished runners-up in three of the past six Grand Finals (in 1989, 1992 and 1994), and were looking for its first flag since winning the 1963 VFL Grand Final. At the conclusion of the home and away season, Carlton had finished first on the AFL ladder with 20 wins and 2 losses, winning the McClelland Trophy. Geelong had finished second with 16 wins and 6 losses. In the lead-up to the Grand Final, Carlton defeated the Brisbane Bears by 13 points in the Fourth Qualifying Final, thereby earning the week off, and subsequently defeated North Melbourne by 62 points in the Second Preliminary Final. Geelong defeated Footscray by 82 points in the Third Qualifying Final before defeating Richmond by 89 points in the First Preliminary Final. The Grand Final billed as having the potential to be the best Grand Final in years, when the top two sides of 1995 were due to clash in their first Grand Final. Geelong looked like it had its best chance of winning a premiership since claiming the 1963 flag, after crushing Footscray and Richmond in the previous two weeks of the finals. Carlton, on the other hand, were the standout team of 1995 - the first team ever to win 20 home and away matches. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1995 AFL Grand Final」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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