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The 2008 AFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football match contested between the Geelong Football Club and the Hawthorn Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 27 September 2008. It was the 112th annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League/Australian Football League,〔In 1897 and 1924 there were no Grand Finals and instead the Premier was decided by a finals play-off. In 1948 and 1977 there were Grand Final replays after initial draws.〕 staged to determine the Premiers for the 2008 AFL season. The game was the third Grand Final meeting between the two teams in their long history, having previously contested in the 1963 and 1989 VFL Grand Finals. The 2008 Grand Final was the first Grand Final contested by two Victorian-based teams since Essendon and Melbourne met in 2000. It was attended by 100,012 spectators, the first crowd to exceed 100,000 for a VFL/AFL game since the 1986 VFL Grand Final. Geelong entered the match as the favourites to win, however Hawthorn won by 26 points, earning its 10th Premiership, the Club's first since 1991. ==Background== (詳細は2007 Premiers, won 21 of 22 games during the home and away season to win its second consecutive McClelland Trophy, and tied the 2000 Essendon Bombers for most wins ever in a home and away season. They were convincing 58-point winners in their Qualifying Final against , earning them a week's rest and a home Preliminary Final. They then defeated the Western Bulldogs by 29 points to qualify for the Grand Final. Leading up to the Grand Final Geelong had won its past fifteen games. Hawthorn won its first nine games of the season, and sat atop the AFL ladder at Round 11. They began to lose a few games towards the end of the season, and finished in second place with a record of 17 wins and 5 losses; full-forward Lance Franklin won the Coleman Medal with 102 goals. They convincingly beat the Western Bulldogs by 51 points in their Qualifying Final, which earned them a week's rest and home Preliminary Final, in which they beat by 54 points. Hawthorn had won four games in a row leading into the Grand Final, all by more than 50 points. It was the team's first appearance in a Grand Final since winning the 1991 AFL Grand Final. The two teams had met only once during the season, in a Friday night game in Round 17. Geelong was missing defending and eventual Leigh Matthews Trophy winner Gary Ablett, Jr., but defeated Hawthorn 12.16 (88) to 11.11 (77). Geelong was the warm favourite to win the Grand Final, with Hawthorn attracting odds of $3.05 for the win at the opening bounce. It was a highly anticipated Grand Final, eliciting memories of the classic 1989 VFL Grand Final played between the same teams. 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「2008 AFL Grand Final」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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