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determined the top eight final positions of the
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. It began on the weekend of 7 September 2007 and ended with the 111th
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were crowned the 2007 AFL Premiers, beating the
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by 119 points to win their first premiership since 1963. The eight teams qualified for the finals series by finishing in the top eight positions of the premiership ladder at the completion of the home and away series.


Ladder

Geelong was easily the minor premier in 2007 and undisputed favourite coming into the Finals Series.


Summary of results


The finals system

The system is a final eight system. This system is different to the McIntyre final eight system, which was previously used by the AFL. The top four teams in the eight receive what is popularly known as the "double chance" when they play in week-one qualifying finals; this means that if a top-four team loses in the first week, it still has a chance to redeem itself by getting a chance to play in a semi-final the next week against the winner of an elimination final. The bottom four of the eight are forced to play what are called elimination finals, in which only the winners survive and move on to week two to play the losers of the qualifying finals. In the second week, the winners of the qualifying finals receive a bye to the third week, while the losers of those qualifying finals must play the winners of the elimination finals for a chance to play the qualifying finals winners. Home-ground advantage goes to the team with the higher seed. In the third week, the winners of the semi-finals from week two play the winners of the qualifying finals in the first week, with the latter receiving home-ground advantage. The winners of those matches move on to the
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Week One


First Qualifying Final (Geelong vs. North Melbourne)


Second Qualifying Final (Port Adelaide vs. West Coast)


First Elimination Final (Hawthorn vs. Adelaide)


Second Elimination Final (Collingwood vs. Sydney)


Week Two


First Semi-final (North Melbourne vs. Hawthorn)


Second semi final (West Coast vs Collingwood)

Scores were tied at the end of regulation time, with both teams having scored 10.12 (72). Two five-minute periods of
extra time Overtime (OT) or extra time (ET) is an additional period of play to bring a game to a decision and avoid declaring the match a tie or draw where the scores are the same. In some sports, this extra period is played only if the game is required t ...
were played to decide a winner. This was only the second time that extra time had been implemented since the provision to do so was introduced in the early 1990s. In two coincidences, it was the drawn qualifying final between these two teams in
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which most directly led to the introduction of the extra time provision in the first place, and; it was the pairing of the weekend's other game, Hawthorn and the
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, who contested the only previous game to require extra time.


Week Three


First Preliminary Final (Geelong vs. Collingwood)


Second Preliminary Final (Port Adelaide vs. North Melbourne)


Week Four


Grand Final (Geelong vs. Port Adelaide)


See also

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2007 AFL Season The 2007 AFL season was the 111th season of the Australian Football League (AFL), the highest level senior Australian rules football competition in Australia, which was known as the Victorian Football League until 1989. The season featured sixt ...


Notes and references

AFL final eight system The AFL final eight system is an eight-team championship playoff tournament developed and adopted by the Australian Football League in the 2000 season. The eight teams, which are ranked or seeded in advance of the tournament, participate in a fo ...


External links


AFL official website

RealFooty by The Age (Melbourne) Online

SportsAustralia (news and views)
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