2003 AFL season

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Results and statistics for the Australian Football League season of 2003.

See List of Australian Football League premiers for a complete list.

[edit] AFL Draft

See 2003 AFL Draft for more information.

[edit] National Cup

The 2003 Wizard Home Loans Cup saw Adelaide Crows defeat Collingwood 15.14 (104) to 10.13 (73) in the Final. (For an explanation of pre-season scoring see Pre-season rule changes)

[edit] Premiership Season

[edit] Round 1 (Season Launch)

[edit] Round 2

[edit] Round 3

[edit] Round 4 (Easter)

[edit] Round 5 (ANZAC Day)

[edit] Round 6

[edit] Round 7 (Mother's Day)

[edit] Round 8

[edit] Round 9

[edit] Round 10

[edit] Round 11 (Queen's Birthday)

• The Kangaroos-Tigers game was especially notable as the comeback of Kangaroos player Jason McCartney from life-threatening burns suffered in the 2002 Bali bombing. McCartney retired immediately after the match.

[edit] Round 12

[edit] Round 13

[edit] Round 14

[edit] Round 15

[edit] Round 16

[edit] Round 17

[edit] Round 18

[edit] Round 19 (Heritage Round)

[edit] Round 20

[edit] Round 21

The Sydney-Collingwood game is notable as it is the highest attended Aussie Rules match ever played outside of Victoria.

[edit] Round 22

[edit] Final series

[edit] Qualifying and Elimination Finals (Father's Day)

[edit] Semi Finals

[edit] Preliminary Finals

[edit] Grand Final

This was the third consecutive Grand Final won by the Brisbane Lions during a three-year streak.

[edit] Ladder

This marks the first time that Fremantle played a finals match and the first time that all interstate teams played in a finals series.

[edit] Match attendance

Total match attendance for all games was 5,872,352 people. Attendance at the Grand Final was 79,451 people. The largest non-finals attendance was 72,393 people for the Collingwood v Sydney game of Round 21.

[edit] Awards

• The Brownlow Medal was awarded to Mark Ricciuto of Adelaide, Nathan Buckley of Collingwood, and Adam Goodes of Sydney.
• The Leigh Matthews Trophy was awarded to Michael Voss of the Brisbane Lions.
• The Coleman Medal was awarded to Matthew Lloyd of Essendon.
• The Norm Smith Medal was awarded to Simon Black of the Brisbane Lions.
• The AFL Rising Star award was awarded to Sam Mitchell of Hawthorn.
• The Wooden Spoon was "awarded" to the Western Bulldogs for coming last.

[edit] References

• 2003 Season - AFL Tables