2000 AFL finals series

The 2000 AFL finals series took place between 11 August and 2 September in the 2000 AFL season. The eight clubs which participated were competing for the Australian Football League premiership. The Essendon Football Club would go through the series undefeated and claim their 16th premiership.

Overview

	Qualifying and elimination finals					Semi-finals						Preliminary finals					Grand final
	1	Essendon	31.12 (198)
	4	Kangaroos	11.7 (73)
						Kangaroos		16.14 (110)
						Hawthorn		15.10 (100)
	5	Geelong	12.11 (83)									Essendon		18.17 (125)
	8	Hawthorn	14.8 (92)									Carlton		12.8 (80)
																	Essendon		19.21 (135)
																	Melbourne		11.9 (75)
	6	Brisbane Lions	15.20 (110)									Melbourne		23.18 (156)
	7	Western Bulldogs	10.16 (76)									Kangaroos		17.4 (106)
						Carlton		23.13 (151)
						Brisbane Lions		10.9 (69)
	2	Carlton	12.15 (87)
	3	Melbourne	15.6 (96)

Week One

Elimination finals

Friday, 11 August	Geelong	def. by	Hawthorn	Colonial Stadium (crowd: 44,709)
	3.4 6.5 9.9 12.11 (83)	Q1 Q2 Q3 Final	4.2 6.3 11.5 14.8 (92)
Bizzell, Mensch, Riccardi 2 Burns, Chapman, Hocking, Houlihan, Milburn, Spriggs 1		Goals	Barker 4 Crawford, Dixon 2 Bowyer, Chick, Graham, Rock, Thompson, Woods 1

Hawthorn Football Club	Geelong Football Club
John Barker	Clint Bizzell
Kris Barlow	Ronnie Burns
Glen Bowyer	Paul Chapman
Daniel Chick	David Clarke
Shane Crawford	Ben Graham
Trent Croad	Tom Harley
Ben Dixon	Garry Hocking
Mark Graham	Adam Houlihan
Daniel Harford	Glenn Kilpatrick
Jonathan Hay	Steven King
Nick Holland	Tim McGrath
Angelo Lekkas	David Mensch
Luke McCabe	Darren Milburn
Lance Picioane	Peter Riccardi
Jade Rawlings	Brenton Sanderson
Anthony Rock	Matthew Scarlett
Paul Salmon	Brad Sholl
Joel Smith	Jason Snell
Rayden Tallis	David Spriggs
Nathan Thompson	Carl Steinfort
Tony Woods	Barry Stoneham
Barry Young	David Wojcinski

Saturday, 12 August	Brisbane Lions	def.	Western Bulldogs	Gabba (crowd: 25,925)
	3.6.24 7.10.52 11.15.81 15.20 (110)	Q1 Q2 Q3 Final	3.3.21 5.7.37 7.13.55 10.16 (76)
Lynch, Power 5 M. Voss 2 Akermanis, Molloy, B. Voss 1		Goals	Grant 3 Cox 2 Bartlett, Hudson, Hunter, Mahoney, Smith 1

Brisbane Lions	Western Bulldogs
Jason Akermanis	Trent Bartlett
Marcus Ashcroft	Nathan Brown
Simon Black	Adam Contessa
Craig Bolton	Simon Cox
Daniel Bradshaw	Matthew Croft
Jonathan Brown	Todd Curley
Shaun Hart	Luke Darcy
Des Headland	Nathan Eagleton
Chris Johnson	Simon Garlick
Trent Knobel	Chris Grant
Nigel Lappin	Paul Hudson
Steven Lawrence	Kingsley Hunter
Justin Leppitsch	Brad Johnson
Alastair Lynch	Steven Kolyniuk
Beau McDonald	Steven Kretiuk
Jarrod Molloy	Tony Liberatore
Luke Power	Josh Mahoney
Ben Robbins	Matthew Robbins
Chris Scott	Jose Romero
Brett Voss	Rohan Smith
Michael Voss	Scott West
Darryl White	Scott Wynd

Qualifying finals

Saturday, 12 August	Essendon	def.	Kangaroos	MCG (crowd: 68,443)
	9.1.55 15.6.96 25.9.159 31.12 (198)	Q1 Q2 Q3 Final	4.2.26 6.3.39 9.4.58 11.7 (73)
Lloyd 7 Hird 5 Misiti 4 Moorcroft 3 Bewick, Caracella, Lucas 2 Alessio, Blumfield, Johnson, Long, Mercuri, Wellman 1		Goals	King 7 Carey, Grant, Harvey, McKernan 1

Essendon Football Club	Kangaroos
Steven Alessio	Winston Abraham
Paul Barnard	Glenn Archer
John Barnes	Peter Bell
Darren Bewick	John Blakey
Justin Blumfield	Matthew Burton
Blake Caracella	Matthew Capuano
Dustin Fletcher	Wayne Carey
Damien Hardwick	Brett Chandler
Chris Heffernan	Shane Clayton
James Hird	Stuart Cochrane
Jason Johnson	Leigh Colbert
Mark Johnson	Shannon Grant
Matthew Lloyd	Brent Harvey
Michael Long	David King
Scott Lucas	Troy Makepeace
Mark Mercuri	Mick Martyn
Joe Misiti	Jason McCartney
Gary Moorcroft	Corey McKernan
Adam Ramanauskas	Shannon Motlop
Dean Solomon	Byron Pickett
Dean Wallis	Adam Simpson
Sean Wellman	Anthony Stevens

Sunday, 13 August	Carlton	def. by	Melbourne	MCG (crowd: 75,570)
	4.4.28 8.8.56 10.14.74 12.15 (87)	Q1 Q2 Q3 Final	3.4.22 6.4.40 8.5.53 15.6 (96)
Lappin, Whitnall 3 Brown, Hamill, Houlihan, Hulme, Porter, Ratten 1		Goals	Green 4 Bruce, Powell, Schwarz 2 Leoncelli, McDonald, Neitz, Walsh, Yze 1

Melbourne Football Club	Carlton Football Club
Cameron Bruce	Matthew Allan
Matthew Collins	Simon Beaumont
Jeff Farmer	Fraser Brown
Steven Febey	Scott Camporeale
Brad Green	Brendan Fevola
Brent Grgic	Simon Fletcher
Anthony Ingerson	Anthony Franchina
Travis Johnstone	Scott Freeborn
Andrew Leoncelli	Aaron Hamill
Anthony McDonald	Adrian Hickmott
David Neitz	Trent Hotton
Alistair Nicholson	Ryan Houlihan
Stephen Powell	Darren Hulme
Guy Rigoni	Matthew Lappin
Russell Robertson	Michael Mansfield
David Schwarz	Glenn Manton
Troy Simmonds	Andrew McKay
Peter Walsh	Mark Porter
Daniel Ward	Brett Ratten
Jeff White	Dean Rice
Shane Woewodin	Stephen Silvagni
Adem Yze	Lance Whitnall

Week Two

Semi-finals

Friday, 18 August	Kangaroos	def.	Hawthorn	MCG (crowd: 50,027)
	6.1.37 10.7.67 12.11.83 16.14 (110)	Q1 Q2 Q3 Final	2.2.14 5.3.33 9.7.61 15.10 (100)
Grant 4 Carey 3 Abraham 2 Bell, Burton, Capuano, Cochrane, McKernan, Pickett, Stevens 1		Goals	Holland 3 Crawford, Croad, Thompson 2 Bowyer, Chick, Dixon, Hartford, Rawlings, Salmon 1

Kangaroos	Hawthorn Football Club
Winston Abraham	John Barker
Glenn Archer	Glen Bowyer
Peter Bell	Daniel Chick
John Blakey	Shane Crawford
Matthew Burton	Trent Croad
Matthew Capuano	Ben Dixon
Wayne Carey	Mark Graham
Stuart Cochrane	Daniel Harford
Leigh Colbert	Jonathan Hay
Shannon Grant	Nick Holland
Brent Harvey	Brett Johnson
David King	Angelo Lekkas
Adam Lange	Luke McCabe
Troy Makepeace	Lance Picioane
Jason McCartney	Jade Rawlings
Corey McKernan	Anthony Rock
Shannon Motlop	Paul Salmon
Byron Pickett	Joel Smith
Martin Pike	Rayden Tallis
Craig Sholl	Nathan Thompson
Adam Simpson	Tony Woods
Anthony Stevens	Barry Young

Saturday, 19 August	Carlton	def.	Brisbane Lions	MCG (crowd: 56,924)
	3.3.21 10.5.65 18.9.117 23.13 (151)	Q1 Q2 Q3 Final	3.1.19 4.4.28 9.4.58 10.9 (69)
Hamill 7 Fevola 4 Allan 3 Lappin, Whitnall 2 Bradley, Camporeale, Freeborn, Porter, Ratten 1		Goals	Leppitsch 4 Akermanis, Lynch 2 Bolton, Lappin 1

Carlton Football Club	Brisbane Lions
Matthew Allan	Jason Akermanis
Brett Backwell	Marcus Ashcroft
Simon Beaumont	Simon Black
Craig Bradley	Craig Bolton
Scott Camporeale	Jonathan Brown
Brendan Fevola	Damian Cupido
Simon Fletcher	Shaun Hart
Anthony Franchina	Des Headland
Scott Freeborn	Chris Johnson
Aaron Hamill	Trent Knobel
Adrian Hickmott	Nigel Lappin
Trent Hotton	Steven Lawrence
Ryan Houlihan	Justin Leppitsch
Darren Hulme	Alastair Lynch
Matthew Lappin	Beau McDonald
Michael Mansfield	Jarrod Molloy
Glenn Manton	Tim Notting
Andrew McKay	Marcus Picken
Mark Porter	Ben Robbins
Brett Ratten	Brett Voss
Stephen Silvagni	Michael Voss
Lance Whitnall	Darryl White

Week Three

Preliminary finals

Friday, 25 August	Kangaroos	def. by	Melbourne	MCG (crowd: 63,937)
	5.1.31 9.1.55 10.4.64 17.4 (106)	Q1 Q2 Q3 Final	6.5.41 14.10.94 18.14.122 23.18 (156)
Sholl 7 Carey 3 Archer, Bell 2 Abraham, King, McKernan 1		Goals	Farmer 8 Powell 4 Robertson 3 Neitz 2 Green, Grgic, Schwarz, White, Woewodin, Yze 1

Melbourne Football Club	Kangaroos
Cameron Bruce	Winston Abraham
Matthew Collins	Glenn Archer
Jeff Farmer	Peter Bell
Steven Febey	John Blakey
Brad Green	Matthew Burton
Brent Grgic	Matthew Capuano
Anthony Ingerson	Wayne Carey
Travis Johnstone	Shane Clayton
Andrew Leoncelli	Stuart Cochrane
Anthony McDonald	Leigh Colbert
David Neitz	Shannon Grant
Alistair Nicholson	Brent Harvey
Stephen Powell	David King
Guy Rigoni	Troy Makepeace
Russell Robertson	Mick Martyn
David Schwarz	Jason McCartney
Troy Simmonds	Corey McKernan
Peter Walsh	Byron Pickett
Daniel Ward	Martin Pike
Jeff White	Craig Sholl
Shane Woewodin	Adam Simpson
Adem Yze	Anthony Stevens

Saturday, 26 August	Essendon	def.	Carlton	MCG (crowd: 84,778)
	4.2.26 8.7.55 14.13.97 18.17 (125)	Q1 Q2 Q3 Final	2.3.15 5.4.34 6.7.43 12.8 (80)
Lloyd 4 Mercuri 3 Blumfield, Caracella, Lucas 2 Alessio, Barnard, Hird, Long, Solomon 1		Goals	Hickmott 3 Camporeale, Fevola 2 Allan, Bradley, Hamill, Hulme, Ratten 1

Essendon Football Club	Carlton Football Club
Steven Alessio	Matthew Allan
Paul Barnard	Simon Beaumont
John Barnes	Craig Bradley
Darren Bewick	Fraser Brown
Justin Blumfield	Scott Camporeale
Blake Caracella	Brendan Fevola
Dustin Fletcher	Simon Fletcher
Damien Hardwick	Anthony Franchina
Chris Heffernan	Scott Freeborn
James Hird	Aaron Hamill
Jason Johnson	Adrian Hickmott
Mark Johnson	Trent Hotton
Matthew Lloyd	Ryan Houlihan
Michael Long	Darren Hulme
Scott Lucas	Matthew Lappin
Mark Mercuri	Michael Mansfield
Joe Misiti	Glenn Manton
Gary Moorcroft	Andrew McKay
Adam Ramanauskas	Mark Porter
Dean Solomon	Brett Ratten
Dean Wallis	Dean Rice
Sean Wellman	Lance Whitnall

Week Four

Grand final

Main article: 2000 AFL Grand Final

Home team	Score	Away team	Score	Venue	Attendance	Date
Essendon	19.21 (135)	Melbourne	11.9 (75)	MCG	96,249	Saturday, 2 September

References

• AFL Tables: 2000 Finals Results