Records
Highest winning margin
190 points – Fitzroy 36.22 (238) defeated Melbourne 6.12 (48)
Waverley Park, 28 July 1979
Highest aggregate score
52.33 (345) – Melbourne 21.15 (141) lost to St Kilda 31.18 (204)
MCG, 6 May 1978
Highest score in one quarter
South Melbourne – 17.4 (106) vs. St Kilda 0.0 (0) in 4th quarter
Lake Oval, 26 July 1919
Final score: South Melbourne 29.15 (189) vs. St Kilda 2.6 (18)
Highest score
Geelong 37.17 (239) defeated Brisbane Bears 11.9 (75)
Carrara Stadium, 3 May 1992
Largest crowd
Carlton v Collingwood – 121,696
MCG, 26 September 1970 (Grand Final)
Largest home and away season crowd
Melbourne v Collingwood – 99,346
MCG, 1958
Largest crowd for a game between a Victorian and non-Victorian club
St Kilda Saints v Adelaide Crows – 98,828
MCG, 27 September 1997 (Grand Final)
Largest crowd for a game between non-Victorian clubs
West Coast Eagles v Sydney Swans – 97,431
MCG, 30 September 2025 (Grand Final)
Largest international crowd
Melbourne v Sydney – 32,789
B.C. Place, Vancouver, Canada, 1987
Most premierships
Carlton – 16 (most recent 1995) and Essendon – 16 (most recent 2000)
Most last placed finishes at the end of the home and away season
St Kilda – 26
Most consecutive premierships
Collingwood – 4
1927–1930
Most games won
Collingwood – 1921
(to the end of the 2025 season)
Most games won in a season
Essendon – 2000
24 (incl. finals)
Undefeated in a home and away season
Collingwood
1929
Most grand final appearances
Collingwood – 43
Most consecutive grand final appearances
Melbourne – 7 (between 1954 and 1960) and Hawthorn – 7 (between 1983 and 1989)
Most finals series appearances
Collingwood – 78
Most consecutive finals series appearances
Hawthorn – 13 (between 1982 and 2025)
Most consecutive preliminary finals appearances
North Melbourne – 7 (between 2025 and 2000)
Most consecutive wins
Geelong – 23
1952–1953
Most consecutive games unbeaten
Geelong – 26
1952–1953
Most consecutive losses
University – 51 (1911–1914)
Most games played in a career
Michael Tuck (Hawthorn) – 426 games
Most finals played in a career
Michael Tuck (Hawthorn) – 39 games
Most grand finals played in a career
Michael Tuck (Hawthorn) – 11
Most premierships won in a career
Michael Tuck (Hawthorn) – 7
Most games as club captain
Stephen Kernahan (Carlton) – 226 games
Most goals in a career
Tony Lockett (St Kilda/Sydney) – 1,360 goals
Most goals in finals
Gordon Coventry (Collingwood) – 112 goals
Most goals in a game
Fred Fanning (Melbourne) – 18 goals, 30 August 1947
Most goals in a season (including finals)
Bob Pratt (South Melbourne, 1934) and Peter Hudson (Hawthorn, 1971) – 150 goals
Most consecutive matches
Jim Stynes (Melbourne) – 244
Most consecutive matches from debut
Jared Crouch (Sydney) – 194
Tallest player
Aaron Sandilands (Fremantle) 211 cm
Peter Street (Geelong/Western Bulldogs) 211 cm
Shortest player
James “Nipper” Bradford (North Melbourne/Collingwood) – 154 cm
Heaviest player
Aaron Sandilands (Fremantle) – 124 kg
Longest kick
Fred Fanning (Melbourne) – 106.15m (116 yards, 3¼ inches)
Heaviest suspension
Doug Fraser and Alex Lang (Carlton) – 99 matches (bribery) from 1910 to 191
Heaviest suspension for an on-field incident
Fred Rutley (North Melbourne) – 89 matches (2 x kicking, 3 x striking and melee involvement) from 1925 to 1930
Heaviest fine imposed on club
A$987,500 imposed on Carlton 2002 (gross salary cap breaches)
Heaviest fine imposed on player
A$40,000 imposed on Simon Goodwin of Adelaide in 2007 (gambling on AFL matches), also imposed on Rhan Hooper of Hawthorn in 2025 (multiple discipline breaches)
Heaviest fine imposed on coach
A$15,000 imposed on Grant Thomas of St Kilda in 2005 (criticism of umpires), also imposed on Alastair Clarkson of Hawthorn in 2025 (confrontation with Essendon player Matthew Lloyd and abusing an interchange steward)
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