Spectators streamed onto the ground before Essendon's Dave McNamara took a place kick after the final bell in the first VFA final, and he missed by six feet, handing Brunswick a two-point win.
Essendon protested that the crowd had interfered, but the protest was dismissed because he had chosen to kick without waiting for space to be cleared.
Oddities
Fitzroy's Chris Kiernan, one of the more gifted players of the era, failed to show up for the 1899 grand final against South Melbourne, and the veteran Bill Cleary stripped in his place.
One report put it down to injury. The match was played at the Junction Oval in rain and mud.
Oddities
Carlton played an 18 of Lake Tyers Aboriginal men at Cuninghame (now Lakes Entrance) during a Gippsland Lakes holiday, after the Lake Tyers side walked nearly 10 miles to the ground and back the same day.
The visitors started in boots without studs, soon discarded them, and Carlton's manager gave them the ball to carry home.
Indigenous football
Southport sent nineteen men onto the field at the start of the NEAFL grand final's last quarter, and Sydney's head count request could have cost Southport its whole score.
Officials let the score stand, and Southport won by 55 points.
Oddities
A red-bellied black snake found on the ground at Blacktown International Sportspark delayed the AFLW match between Greater Western Sydney and Richmond by 30 minutes.
A snake catcher removed it, and Giants football head Briana Harvey said play was halted for everyone's safety.
Oddities
Grand Final
VFL · Junction Oval · crowd 4,823
Semi Final
AFL · Adelaide Oval · crowd 45,520
Preliminary Final
AFL · MCG · crowd 77,677
Semi Final
AFL · Spotless Stadium · crowd 14,865
Semi Final
AFL · MCG · crowd 87,823
Semi Final
AFL · MCG · crowd 55,198
Semi Final
AFL · Subiaco Oval · crowd 43,219
Preliminary Final
AFL · MCG · crowd 73,344
Semi Final
AFL · MCG · crowd 88,308
Semi Final
VFL · Waverley Park · crowd 66,003
Semi Final
VFL · MCG · crowd 76,514
Semi Final
VFL · MCG · crowd 91,933
300th AFL game, Sydney v Hawthorn
300th AFL game, Western Bulldogs v West Coast
300th AFL game, Western Bulldogs v West Coast
Melbourne v Fitzroy, first of 204 VFL/AFL games
Western Bulldogs, 22 games (2023-2025)
Port Adelaide, 12 games (2025-2026)
Fremantle
Melbourne, 176 games (1951-1960)
Melbourne, 67 games (2017-2025)
Essendon, 63 games (2017-2025)
