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The 2011 AFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Collingwood Football Club and the Geelong Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on 1 October 2011. It was the 115th 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, 1977 and 2010, there were Grand Final replays after initial draws.〕 staged to determine the premiers for the 2011 AFL season. The match, attended by 99,537 spectators, was won by Geelong by a margin of 38 points, marking the club's ninth VFL/AFL premiership victory. Geelong's Jimmy Bartel was awarded the Norm Smith Medal as the best player on the ground. ==Background== (詳細は2011 season as the reigning premiers, having defeated in the 2010 AFL Grand Final Replay by 56 points.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=24 Sep 2011 )〕 Collingwood were the best performed side of the home and away season, winning 14 games in a row in the latter part of the season, to finish with a record of 20–2.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=24 Sep 2011 )〕 Collingwood won its second consecutive minor premiership and McClelland Trophy whilst registering the highest overall scoring percentage in over a century. Collingwood progressed to the Grand Final after two hard-fought finals matches; beating by 20 points in a qualifying final, then coming back from a four-goal deficit to defeat by three points in a preliminary final.〔 Geelong entered the season after finishing second in 2010 home and away season, having lost to Collingwood by 41 points in the 2010 preliminary finals.〔 Geelong appointed a new coach, Chris Scott, in the off-season after dual premiership coach Mark Thompson moved to . Geelong won their first 13 games in 2011, before finishing with a record of 19–3 to sit second on the ladder. The Cats had comfortable finals wins, over by 31 points and by 48 points, to qualify for the Grand Final.〔 Collingwood and Geelong met twice during the 2011 home and away season, with Geelong winning both games; these were Collingwood's only two losses for the home-and-away season. In Round 8, Geelong won a close game in spite of inaccurate goalkicking, with the final score 8.17 (65) to 9.8 (62). In Round 24, Geelong inflicted Collingwood's heaviest defeat for more than six years, winning 22.17 (149) to 8.5 (53) by 96 points; the minor premiership and the opponents Geelong and Collingwood were to face in the first week of the finals were decided by the end of Round 23, so the Round 24 match could be seen as a dead rubber.〔 This Grand Final marked the 41st season in which Collingwood contested an VFL/AFL Grand Final. The club was attempting to win its 16th VFL/AFL premiership, which would have drawn it level with and for the most premierships in league history.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Collingwood Season Summary )〕 It was Geelong's 17th Grand Final appearance, with the club attempting to win its ninth premiership overall. It was Geelong's fourth Grand Final appearance in five seasons, with the club attempting to win its third of those contests.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Geelong Season Summary )〕 It was the first time since 1998 that the premiers from the two preceding seasons played in the Grand Final. This match was the sixth Grand Final contested between Collingwood and Geelong and the first since 1953. Three of the previous encounters were won by Geelong (1925, 1937 and 1952) and two were won by Collingwood (1930 and 1953). The two clubs had met in a preliminary final in three of the previous four seasons, with Geelong winning two (2007 and 2009) and Collingwood winning one (2010), but this was the first time in the recent success of both clubs that they had met in the Grand Final. When betting markets opened on the Sunday before the game, Collingwood were a slight favourite, with major bookmaker TAB Sportsbet offering $1.80 for a Collingwood victory, compared with $2.00 for a Geelong victory. However, punters backed Geelong heavily and, by Monday, Geelong had become the slight favourite; on Thursday, Sportsbet was offering $1.80 for Geelong and $2.00 for Collingwood. 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「2011 AFL Grand Final」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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