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• Richmond has the highest percentage of Grand Finals from finals played. 25.81% of its 93 finals matches have been Grand Finals. The lowest are Fremantle's 6.67% of 15 Finals and WB/Footscray's 7.27%% of 55 finals. 
   
• Richmond has made the Grand Final in 60.0% of its 40 Finals Series -  the highest percentage of all clubs. WB/Footscray with Grand Finals being played in 10.71% of the 28 finals series it has contested has the lowest.
  Hawthorn have the 2nd highest percentage (54.29%) of Grand Finals played from finals series contested 
  

* Equal with round 14 v St Kilda and round 15 v Brisbane

* Equal lowest winning score for year.


 

Premiers with their biggest win for the year in the Grand Final.
1916 Fitzroy (29pts) v Carlton 1956 Melbourne (73pts) v Collingwood	1988 Hawthorn (96pts) v Melbourne

• Since 1925 when Premiers, Geelong were goalless in the last quarter of the Grand Final, 15 teams have failed to score a goal in the last quarter of the Grand Final. Three of them won and of the 12 who lost, 4 were opponents of Geelong.
  
  

  						Final  Result
  1927	Collingwood	0.4-4	v	Richmond	1.0-6	12
  1950	Nth Melbourne	0.3-3	v	Essendon	3.3-21	-38
  1952	Collingwood	0.7-7	v	Geelong	2.2-14	-46
  1957	Essendon	0.5-5	v	Melbourne	5.3-33	-61
  1958	Collingwood	0.1-1	v	Melbourne	2.4-16	18
  1960	Collingwood	0.2-2	v	Melbourne	1.2-8	-48
  1963	Hawthorn	0.3-3	v	Geelong	6.6-42	-49
  1968	Carlton	0.5-5	v	Essendon	2.1-13	3
  1969	Carlton	0.2-2	v	Richmond	4.7-31	-25
  1976	Nth Melbourne	0.2-2	v	Hawthorn	3.4-22	-30
  1981	Collingwood	0.2-2	v	Carlton	4.7-31	-20
  1990	Essendon	0-5-5	v	Collingwood	2.1-13	-48
  1998	Nth Melbourne	0.7-7	v	Adelaide	6.4-40	-35
  2009	St Kilda	0.3-3	v	Geelong	3.4-22	-12
  2011	Collingwood	0.3-3	v	Geelong	5.4-34	-38
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• In 2009,  before becoming the only team to win the Grand Final by only winning the last quarter, Geelong had won 12 consecutive first quarters in their finals matches.
   
• The biggest 2nd half turnaround in a Grand Final is 98 points - 1970, Carlton lost the first half to Collingwood by 44 points and won the 2nd half by 54 points. 
  
• The biggest turnaround in a Grand Final from the previous meeting of the grand finalists is 129 points in 1983. Hawthorn lost to Essendon by 46 points in round 19 but won the Grand Final by 83 points. (124 points in 2017 - Richmond lost to Adelaide by 76 in round 6 and won the Grand Final by 48 pts.)
  
• The only Grand Finals where the first and second half were won by equal margins were: 1935, Collingwood won both halves v Sydney/SM by 10 points and 1986, Hawthorn won both halves v Carlton by 21 points.
  
• The most common score in Grand Finals has been 89 points - eight times (last in 2016). (68 and 85 points have each occurred 7 times.)
  68 points been a winning score once, a losing score 4 times and was a drawn score twice. 
  85 points has won 3 and lost 4.
  89 points has won 4 and lost 4.
  
• Until 2018 no Grand Final winning margin had occurred more than 4 times. The Grand Final margin has now been 5 points in 5 matches - 1907, 1918, 1843, 1979 and 2018. (Those which have occurred 4 times are  35,33,15, 9, 4 and 1.point/s)
  
• Of teams that have played more than 5 Grand Finals in October, Geelong  (4/7)and, Collingwood  (8/14) have each won 57.14% and Richmond have won  55.56%% (5/9)
  
• Outside of the Grand Final the eventual Premiers have played the eventual Runners-up 280 times for 153  wins, 123 losses and 4 draws. (Win% 55.36%).
  
   

See Also:  Lesser Known Grand Final  Facts and Figures: Part 1 - Part 2