2010 AFL season

Pre-season

NAB Cup

Results

Premiership season

• Six teams played each other for the first time in round 21;
• Of the Victorian-based teams played six games interstate while travelled only three times;
• Of the six games played in Melbourne, none were at the MCG, while defending premiers played seven games at the MCG despite not being one of the tenants at this ground;
• and played only two of 2009's top eight teams twice, while and played five of these teams twice.

Round 8

Round 16

Win/loss table

Ladder

Finals series

Weeks four/five

Grand final replay

Season records

• Biggest margin: 116 points –, 24.11 vs 5.9, Aurora Stadium, round 21
• Smallest margin : 1 point –
• *, 12.14 vs 12.13, MCG, round 2
• *, 8.13 vs 8.12, AAMI Stadium, round 20
• Drawn games:
• * 11.10 vs 9.22, MCG, round 12
• * 14.3 vs 13.9, Etihad Stadium, round 17
• * 9.14 vs 10.8, MCG, Grand Final
• Highest score: 24.18 –, 10.4 vs 24.18 , MCG, round 20
• Highest aggregate score: 40.17 – 16.6 vs 24.11, MCG, round 6
• Lowest score: 3.12 –, 3.12 vs 10.17, AAMI Stadium, round 10
• Lowest aggregate score: 13.17 – 6.10 vs 7.7, Etihad Stadium, round 6
• Longest winning streak: 9 games –, rounds 13–21
• Longest losing streak: 9 games –
• *, rounds 1–9
• *, rounds 8–16
• Most goals kicked by a player in a match: 12.2 – Mark LeCras, Final score: 14.16 vs 20.12 , Etihad Stadium, round 16

Awards

• The Brownlow Medal was awarded to Chris Judd of who received 30 votes.
• The Norm Smith Medal was awarded to Lenny Hayes of for the drawn Grand Final. Scott Pendlebury was awarded the second medal in the Replay.
• The AFL Rising Star was awarded to Dan Hannebery of, who received the maximum number of votes.
• The Coleman Medal was awarded to Jack Riewoldt of, who kicked 78 goals during the home and away season.
• The Wooden Spoon was "awarded" to the West Coast Eagles.
• The McClelland Trophy was awarded to.
• The AFL [Players Association awards] were as follows:
• *The Leigh Matthews Trophy was awarded to Dane Swan of, for being the Most Valuable Player throughout the premiership season.
• *The Robert Rose Award went to Luke Hodge of, for being the Most Courageous Player throughout the premiership season.
• *The Best Captain award went to Brett Kirk of, in his final season.
• *The best first year player award was won by Michael Barlow of, despite only playing 13 games for the season.

AFL Rising Star

• Round 1 – Chris Yarran
• Round 2 – Dan Hannebery
• Round 3 – Ryan Bastinac
• Round 4 – Nic Naitanui
• Round 5 – Jack Trengove
• Round 6 – Todd Banfield
• Round 7 – Tom Scully
• Round 8 – Jake Melksham
• Round 9 – Nathan Fyfe
• Round 10 – Dustin Martin†
• Round 11 – Jordan Gysberts
• Round 12 – Ben Reid
• Round 13 – Tom Rockliff
• Round 14 – Ben Stratton
• Round 15 – Jack Redden
• Round 16 – Phil Davis
• Round 17 – Jarrad Grant†
• Round 18 – Michael Hurley
• Round 19 – Jeff Garlett
• Round 20 – Jackson Trengove
• Round 21 – Sam Wright
• Round 22 – Anthony Morabito

• Dan Hannebery – 45
• Tom Scully – 35
• Tom Rockliff – 24
• Jack Trengove – 11
• Ryan Bastinac – 6
• Jeff Garlett – 5
• Nathan Fyfe – 3
• Michael Hurley – 2
• Nic Naitanui – 2
• Ben Reid – 1
• Ben Stratton – 1

Goal of the Year

• Round 1 – Brendan Fevola
• Round 2 – Michael Osborne
• Round 3 – Matthew Pavlich
• Round 4 – Carl Peterson
• Round 5 – Stephen Milne
• Round 6 – Daniel Bradshaw
• Round 7 – Jamie Bennell
• Round 8 – Brent Harvey
• Round 9 – Brendan Fevola
• Round 10 – Marc Murphy
• Round 11 – Stephen Milne
• Round 12 – Stephen Milne
• Round 13 – Lance Franklin
• Round 14 – Patrick Dangerfield
• Round 15 – Rhyce Shaw
• Round 16 – Mark LeCras
• Round 17 – Mark LeCras
• Round 18 – Alan Didak
• Round 19 – Chance Bateman
• Round 20 – Liam Jurrah
• Round 21 – Cyril Rioli
• Round 22 – Lynden Dunn

Mark of the Year