2007 AFL premiership season
Teams	16
Premiers	Geelong 7th premiership
Minor premiers	Geelong 12th minor premiership
Pre-season cup	Carlton 3rd pre-season cup win
Brownlow Medallist	Jimmy Bartel Geelong (29 votes)
Coleman Medallist	Jonathan Brown (Brisbane Lions)
Attendance
Matches played	185
Total attendance	7,049,945 (38,108 per match)
Highest	98,002(First Preliminary Final,Geelong vs.Collingwood)
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The2007 AFL season was the 111th season of theAustralian Football League (AFL), the highest level seniorAustralian rules football competition in Australia, which was known as the Victorian Football League until 1989. The season featured sixteen clubs, ran from 30 March until 29 September, and comprised a 22-game home-and-away season followed by afinals series featuring the top eight clubs.

The premiership was won by theGeelong Football Club for the seventh time, after it defeatedPort Adelaide by a record 119 points in theAFL Grand Final.

Bold – Home game
X – Bye
Opponent for round listed above margin

• The2007 Brownlow Medal for theAFL's best and fairest player was awarded toJimmy Bartel, ofGeelong, who polled 29 votes.
• The AFL Players Association'sLeigh Matthews Trophy for the most valuable player was awarded toGary Ablett, Jr., ofGeelong.
• TheColeman Medal was awarded toJonathan Brown ofBrisbane Lions, who kicked 77 goals.
• TheNorm Smith Medal as the player adjudged best afield in theAFL Grand Final was awarded toSteve Johnson, ofGeelong.
• TheAFL Rising Star award (Ron Evans Medal) was awarded toJoel Selwood, ofGeelong.
• TheMcClelland Trophy was awarded toGeelong for holding top position on the ladder after 22 rounds.
• TheWooden Spoon was awarded toRichmond for coming in last place on the ladder after 22 rounds.
• Andrew McLeod fromAdelaide was named the captain of the2007 All-Australian Team.
• TheAFL Mark of the Year was awarded toMichael Newton ofMelbourne.
• TheAFL Goal of the Year was awarded toMatthew Lloyd ofEssendon.
• TheAFL Army Award was awarded toAlwyn Davey ofEssendon as the footballer who displayed the most courageous and/or team related act of the season.

• On Thursday 8 February it was announced that theSeven Network (who had not broadcast AFL for five years) and Ten Network had reached an agreement to on-sell four games per round to pay-TV provider Foxtel.
• Inround 6,Geelong scored 35.12 (222) againstRichmond, which was at the time the highest score kicked in an AFL game since quarters were shortened from twenty-five to twenty minutes in 1994. It was also the first time a team has scored over 200 points sinceround 22, 1995. Their winning margin of 157 points also broke the record for the same period, and they scored an all-time record 23 more goals than behinds, and an all-time record three-quarter time score of 29.9 (183). This was also Richmond’s biggest loss in its 99-year VFL/AFL history and as of 2022 remains the biggest winning margin for any game atDocklands Stadium.
• Inround 8,Hawthorn andSt Kilda were widely criticised for their game, which in perfect weather yielded only seven goals in the first three-quarters (before opening up in the final quarter, where nine goals were kicked), and was described as boring by Essendon coach Kevin Sheedy.^[17]
• Round 12's game betweenCarlton andHawthorn attracted 53,459 fans, breaking the record for the highest AFL crowd atTelstra Dome. In the same game, Hawthorn kicked their highest ever score against Carlton: 27.18 (180), and also achieved their greatest winning margin against Carlton, 100 points.^[18]
• Robert Harvey became just the 10th player in VFL/AFL history to reach 350 games, helpingSt Kilda defeatWest Coast. The win was the second time in 60 games that a Victorian team had beaten West Coast at Subiaco Oval.^[19]
• Theround 16 game between theBrisbane Lions andCarlton atthe Gabba sawJonathan Brown become the firstBrisbane Lions player to kick 10 goals in a match. He kicked 10.1 for the game. This surpassedDaniel Bradshaw's 9 goals in2005 vMelbourne at the Gabba. After this matchDenis Pagan was sacked as the coach of Carlton.^[20]
• On 24 August, theSeven Network broadcast some details obtained from players' confidential medical records on its nightly news program relating to the use of non-performance-enhancing drugs. It allegedly purchased these details for $3000 from a woman who found them in a gutter outside a medical clinic in Melbourne. The name of the club involved, Hawthorn, was revealed by Seven on air, but before the end of the news program (at which time Seven had promised to actually reveal the names of the players), the AFL obtained a court injunction from theSupreme Court of Victoria which prevented this – and which continues to suppress the publication of any part of the records, including the name of the club.^[21] Because anonymity was guaranteed under the AFL's "three-strikes" drugs policy, the AFL players responded by boycotting the Seven Network, refusing to answer any questions posed by its journalists, including in matches broadcast by the network.^[22] Shortly after the completion of round 22, faced with the possibility of ongoing player boycotts – including of theBrownlow Medal count^[23] – the Seven Network issued a statement "regretting" any harm the broadcast may have caused to the AFL, the clubs and the players, and promised not to broadcast or reveal any of the details of the medical records in future.^[24] TheAFL Players Association took the "statement of regret" as an apology and the boycott was lifted.^[25] The scandal came to be known as"Guttergate".^[26]
• The final game of the home-and-away season was particularly controversial as two teams,Melbourne andCarlton, each had records of 4–17, and had no chance of winning thewooden spoon, which had been won by Richmond (record of 3-18-1). Underpriority draft pick rules, this meant that whichever team won the game would lose a potential priority draft pick (which would have been the first overall selection if Carlton had it, or pick No. 18 if Melbourne had it). Melbourne won by five goals in a game noted for a lack of defensive pressure, while many in the crowd openly supported their teams to defeat.
• Thesecond semi-final betweenWest Coast andCollingwood went intoextra time after scores were level at the end of regulation. This was only the second time that extra time has been used in an AFL game, and was also the second time that these teams had drawn in a final.
• Geelong set a new record for the highest winning margin in a grand final againstPort Adelaide,winning by 119 points.

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