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20
Goals - 1899 to 2011
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Hawthorn
first scored 20 goals against Port Adelaide round
21, 2011 - 31.11-197 v 5.2-32..
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Melbourne are yet to score 20 goals against Port Adelaide. The nearest
were -
18, round 13, 2006 and 18, round 4, 2004.
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Port Adelaide
are yet to score 20 goals against Collingwood.
The nearest was 17, round 16, 1997.
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Richmond are yet to score 20 goals against Adelaide.
The nearest was 19, round 22, 1995, 19, round 12, 1996 and 19,
round 2, 1997.
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St Kilda are yet to score 20 goals against Fremantle.
The nearest was 19, round 20, 2007.
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West
Coast are yet to score 20 goals against Sydney. The
nearest was 19, round 5, 1990.
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WB/Footscray
didn’t manage to score 20 goals against Collingwood until
round 22, 2005. They defeated the Magpies, 21.15-141 to 14.16-100.
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Of
the original 8 clubs, Geelong was the first to score 20
goals against Carlton, 22.12-144 v 10.12-72, round 5, 1925.
St Kilda didn't manage 20 goals against Carlton
until round 20, 1989. They lost 20.12-132 to 20.13-133. St
Kilda's first win against Carlton scoring 20 goals was
round 21, 1991 23.17-155 to 15.11-101.
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Carlton has had 20 goals scored against them on
104
occasions, 52 of them have been scored since round 6, 1997.
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Adelaide, Fremantle and West Coast are yet to kick
20 goals at Kardinia Park.
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Melbourne and West Coast are yet kick 20
goals at Football Park.
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Adelaide, Fremantle, Port Adelaide and Richmond are
yet to kick 20 goals at the Gabba.
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Port Adelaide is yet to kick 20 goals at the
SCG.
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Adelaide,
Hawthorn, St Kilda and Sydney/SM
are yet to kick 20 goals at Subiaco. Of visiting clubs, Geelong
has the highest tally of 20 goals plus scores – 4.
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Gold
Coast is yet to kick 20 goals in a match, their highest
tally is 18, round 7, 2011 v Brisbane.
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The first match where both teams scored 20 goals was St Kilda
21.16-142 v Collingwood 20.8-128, round 17 1931.
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The
two teams who have played the most matches against each
other where both teams have scored 20 goals are Collingwood and St
Kilda - 5 times - 1931, 1975, 1982, 1983, 1985
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There have only been 63 matches where both teams scored 20 goals.
The most in one season has been 4 in 1983, 1985, 1987 and 1989.
There were 14 before 1980, 27 occurred 1980-1989. The last occurrence
was Essendon
23.12-150 v Carlton 21.8-134, round 3 2008.
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There
have been only two rounds where two matches produced two scores of
20 goals:
R15 1979: Melbourne 24.23-167 v Sydney/SM
24.10-154
Richmond 22.20-152 v Fitzroy 20.15-135
R22 1987 Collingwood 23.6-144 v Essendon
21.13-139
Sydney/SM 20.21-141 v Fitzroy 20.13-133
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The
biggest loss by a team scoring 20 goals in a match is 63 pts.
R6 1978 Melbourne 21.15-141 v St Kilda
31.18-204
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The
lowest 3/4 time score for a team that scored 20 goals is
9.5-58 by St Kilda in round 12 of 1956. In the last
quarter they scored 11.4-70 to Nth. Melbourne's 0.1-1
to win 20.9-129 to 7.9-51.
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The
team that has played the highest percentage of matches where
both teams scored 20 goals is Nth. Melbourne - 0.94% of
matches played (17). Next highest is Melbourne - 0.67%
of matches played (15).
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If
your team scores twenty goals or more in a match it is
almost always a winning score. It is also something of a
benchmark of relative success against particular opponents
as the facts below illustrate.
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Twenty
goals (or more) have been scored 2,122 times (7.6% of all scores).
Nearly half of these scores (1,032) date from 1988. Teams
scoring 20 or more goals have won 2,055 matches, drawn 3 and lost
64.
All 40 scores of 20 goals or more in 2011 were winning scores.
(20 or more behinds have been scored 1,729 times.)
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Geelong scored
the first tally of 20 goals or more in the Section B match of 1899,
23.24-162 v St Kilda 0.1-1, but then didn't reach the 20 plus amount of
goals again until round 5, 1925 - 22.12-144 v Carlton 10.12-72.
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In
the first quarter of VFL/AFL history, 1897-1924, 20 plus goal
scores were only achieved on 12 occasions.
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20
+ |
Total
scores. |
% |
| 1897-1924 |
12 |
4,192 |
0.29 |
| 1925-1952 |
273 |
6,234 |
4.38 |
| 1953-1980 |
417 |
6,890 |
6.05 |
| 1981-2008 |
1,331 |
9468 |
14.06 |
| 2009-2010 |
89 |
1134 |
7.85 |
| Total |
2,122 |
27,918 |
7.60 |
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Prepared using
TMRdb © |
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most 20 goal scores in 1 season is 66, in both 1982 and
1991. In 2009 there were 22, 2010 there were 27, 2011 there
were 40. (The most 20 behind scores was in 1982 - 46, there
were 8 in 2009, 9 in 2010 and 15 in 2011).
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last season without any 20 goal scores was 1924. Since then the
lowest number has been 1 in 1956.
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Geelong
holds the record for the greatest number of consecutive tallies of
20 goals or more - 6, Rounds 3 to 9, 1992 (they had a bye in round
5). The next best is Sydney/SM - 5, Rounds 11 to 15, 1934.
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The
most consecutive tallies of 20 goals conceded: 7 by Sydney/SM
rounds 2 to 8, 1993. Next most: 6 by Richmond round
19 1986 to round 2 1987
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Geelong
also scored 20 goals first against more of their
opponents than any other team. (See table)
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Adelaide, Fremantle
and Port Adelaide have never lost a
game where they have kicked 20 or more goals. Brisbane (1/68) and West Coast (1/53) have lost
only once and Collingwood over a much longer span, only
twice (2/167).
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Of
current teams, Melbourne has lost the highest percentage of games when
scoring 20 goals or more, (10/147 or 6.8%)
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Only on
4 occasions have 20 goals been kicked in the first
half of a match, 1982 round 16, Hawthorn 20.7-127 v Nth
Melbourne 6.8-44, 1999
round 20, Brisbane 21.5-131 v Fremantle 2.6-18, 2007 round 6, Geelong 20.6-126 v Richmond 2.7-19
and 2011 round 19, Geelong 20.4-124 v Melbourne
1.4-10.
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On
11 occasions a team has kicked 20 goals in the second half of
a match. The first occurred in 1919 - Sydney/SM
23.8-146 v St Kilda 0.4-4, the next 9 occurred from
1979 to 1993 with the last being in round 17, 2004 - Brisbane
21.4-130 v Adelaide 2.6-18. The most goals after half
time is Hawthorn's 25.7-157 v Geelong 3.7-25,
round 21 1986.
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There
have only been 6 matches where both teams kicked exactly 20 goals
each. None were draws. The last being: Round 5, 1994 - Fitzroy
20.17-137 v Sydney/SM 20.9-129
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Fremantle
are yet to score 20 goals against Geelong, and Hawthorn. The nearest were -
Geelong, 18, round 5, 2004 and 18 round 3,
2010. Hawthorn, 16,
round 18, 2001. They scored their first 20 goal tally v West Coast,
24, round 18, 2010.
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No. |
Year |
% |
| Geelong |
13 |
1992 |
50.00 |
| Essendon |
12 |
1985 |
50.00 |
| Hawthorn |
11 |
1991 |
44.00 |
| Nth
Melbourne |
10 |
1983 |
41.67 |
| Carlton |
10 |
2000 |
40.00 |
| Carlton |
10 |
1986 |
40.00 |
| Sydney/SM |
9 |
1987 |
37.50 |
| Richmond |
9 |
1982 |
37.50 |
| Fitzroy |
8 |
1979 |
33.00 |
| Collingwood |
8 |
2011 |
32.00 |
| Brisbane |
8 |
2004 |
32.00 |
| Melbourne |
8 |
2000 |
32.00 |
| St
Kilda |
7 |
1991 |
30.43 |
| Port
Adelaide |
7 |
2002 |
28.00 |
| WB/Footscray |
7 |
1985 |
28.00 |
| Adelaide |
6 |
1996 |
27.27 |
| Adelaide |
6 |
1992 |
27.27 |
| Fremantle |
5 |
2007 |
22.73 |
| West
Coast |
5 |
1987 |
22.73 |
| Gold
Coast |
0 |
2011 |
0.00 |
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Prepared
using TMRdb © |
Each team's highest
percentage of 20 goal + scores from matches in a season.
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No. |
Year |
% |
| Adelaide |
6 |
1995 |
27.27 |
| Collingwood |
6 |
1982 |
27.27 |
| Gold
Coast |
6 |
2011 |
27.27 |
| Port
Adelaide |
6 |
2011 |
27.27 |
| Hawthorn |
5 |
1950 |
27.78 |
| Essendon |
7 |
1977 |
31.82 |
| Essendon |
7 |
2008 |
31.82 |
| Geelong |
6 |
1944 |
33.33 |
| Fremantle |
8 |
2000 |
36.36 |
| Nth
Melbourne |
8 |
1984 |
36.36 |
| Nth
Melbourne |
8 |
1988 |
36.36 |
| Brisbane |
9 |
1991 |
40.91 |
| Carlton |
9 |
2007 |
40.91 |
| Melbourne |
9 |
1978 |
40.91 |
| Melbourne |
9 |
1981 |
40.91 |
| Melbourne |
9 |
1982 |
40.91 |
| West
Coast |
9 |
2001 |
40.91 |
| Richmond |
11 |
1992 |
50.00 |
| WB/Footscray |
11 |
1982 |
50.00 |
| Fitzroy |
12 |
1996 |
54.55 |
| Sydney/SM |
11 |
1993 |
55.00 |
| St
Kilda |
13 |
1982 |
59.09 |
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Prepared
using TMRdb © |
Each team's
highest percentage of 20 goal + scores conceded from matches in a
season.
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