1991 AFL season
The 1991 AFL season was the 95th season of the Australian Football League (AFL), which was known previously as the Victorian Football League until 1989. The season ran from 22 March until 28 September, and comprised a 22-game home-and-away season followed by a finals series featuring the top six clubs – an increase from the five clubs which had contested the finals in previous years. The season saw expansion of the league to fifteen clubs, with the admission of the newly established Adelaide Crows, based in Adelaide, South Australia. With representation for the first time  across all major states, the league was now the highest level senior Australian rules football competition across Australia, as well as the top administrative body for football in Victoria. The premiership was won by the Hawthorn Football Club for the ninth time, after it defeated by 53 points in the 1991 AFL Grand Final. Foster's Cup. defeated 14.19 (103) to 7.12 (54) in the final. Premiership season. The league expanded to 15 teams with the admission of the Adelaide Crows, meaning byes were required for the first time since 1943. Each team played 22 games for the season with  two byes: seven teams had a bye in round 1, and one team had a bye in each subsequent round. Ladder. All teams played 22 games during the home and away season, for a total of 165. An additional 7 games were played during the finals series. A team based in the state of South Australia, christened the "Adelaide Crows" after the epithet bestowed upon those from South Australia by those living in other Australian states was admitted to the AFL competition in 1991. <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> Match attendance. Total match attendance for the home-and-away season was 3,810,868  people. Total attendance for the finals series was 381,707 people. Attendance at the Grand Final was 75,230 people. The largest non-finals attendance was 55,735 people for the v game of Round 6.