1995 AFL season

Round 1

Round 2

Round 3

Round 4

• This was the first ANZAC Day clash
  The ANZAC Day clash
  The Anzac Day clash is an annual Australian rules football match between Australian Football League teams Collingwood and Essendon, held on Anzac Day at the Melbourne Cricket Ground .-Early history of Australian rules on Anzac Day:...
  
   held between Collingwood and Essendon which famously ended in a draw.

Round 5

Round 6

Round 7

Round 8

Round 9

Round 10

Round 11

Round 12

Round 13

Round 14

Round 15

Round 16

Round 17

Round 18

Round 19

Round 20

Round 21

Round 22

Qualifying Finals

Semi finals

Preliminary Finals

Grand final

Awards

• The Brownlow Medal
  Brownlow Medal
  The Chas Brownlow Trophy, better known as the Brownlow Medal , is awarded to the "fairest and best" player in the Australian Football League during the regular season as determined by votes cast by the officiating field umpires after each game...
  
   was awarded to Paul Kelly
  Paul Kelly (footballer)
  Paul Kelly is a former Australian rules footballer, winner of the Brownlow Medal and captain of the Sydney Swans for ten seasons. He was and still is known to Swans fans everywhere as "Captain Courageous"....
  
   of .
• The Leigh Matthews Trophy
  Leigh Matthews Trophy
  The Leigh Matthews Trophy is an annual award given by the AFL Players Association to the Most Valuable Player in the Australian Football League. It is named in honour of Leigh Matthews, who won the first MVP award in 1982, when the league was still known as the Victorian Football League...
  
   was awarded to Wayne Carey
  Wayne Carey
  Wayne Carey is a former Australian rules footballer who played with the North Melbourne and Adelaide Football Clubs in the Australian Football League ....
  
   of .
• The Coleman Medal
  Coleman Medal
  The Coleman Medal is awarded yearly to the Australian Football League player who kicks the most goals in regular-season matches in that year...
  
   was awarded to Gary Ablett of .
• The Norm Smith Medal
  Norm Smith Medal
  The Norm Smith Medal is the award given in the AFL Grand Final to the player adjudged by an independent panel of experts to have been the best player in the match.-History:The Norm Smith Medal is named after former Melbourne player and coach, Norm Smith...
  
   was awarded to Greg Williams of .
• The AFL Rising Star award was awarded to Nick Holland
  Nick Holland
  Nick Holland is a former Australian rules football player. He played 179 games for the Hawthorn Football Club between 1994 and 2005, serving as Vice Captain between 1999 and 2003. He is a previous winner of the AFL Rising Star, Hawthorn's Best & Fairest award, Hawthorn's leading goal kicker in...
  
   of .
• The Wooden Spoon was "awarded" to .

Notable events

• The Fremantle Dockers
  Fremantle Football Club
  The Fremantle Football Club, nicknamed The Dockers, is an Australian rules football team which plays in the Australian Football League . The club is based in the port city of Fremantle at the mouth of the Swan River in Western Australia...
  
   made their debut in the competition.
  • They played their first game against at the MCG
    McG
    Joseph McGinty Nichol , better known as McG, is an American director and producer of film and television, as well as a former record producer....
    
     and won their first game against at Whitten Oval
    Whitten Oval
    Whitten Oval is a stadium in the inner-western suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia located at 417 Barkly Street, West Footscray. It is the training and administrative headquarters of the Western Bulldogs Football Club, which competes in the Australian Football League.Formerly known as the...
    
    .
• The first ANZAC Day clash
  The ANZAC Day clash
  The Anzac Day clash is an annual Australian rules football match between Australian Football League teams Collingwood and Essendon, held on Anzac Day at the Melbourne Cricket Ground .-Early history of Australian rules on Anzac Day:...
  
   between and was held in round 4 which famously ended in a draw. won a record 16th premiership, winning twenty games for the home-and-away season, also a new record (subsequently surpassed by Essendon in 2000). They won their 16th consecutive match in the grand final, comfortably beating 21.15 (141) to 11.14 (80).
  • Amidst these records, they also suffered the rare ignominy of losing to the bottom team while atop the ladder in their Round 9 game. In this game, they failed to score a goal in the first half and became the fifth (and to date last) premier team to have kicked a season's lowest score (also in 1923
    1923 VFL season
    Results and statistics for the Victorian Football League season of 1923.-Premiership season:In 1923, the VFL competition had nine teams of 18 on-the-field players each, with no "reserves", although any of the 18 players who had left the playing field for any reason could later resume their place on...
    
    , 1968
    1968 VFL season
    Results and statistics for the Victorian Football League season of 1968.-Premiership season:In 1968, the VFL competition consisted of twelve teams of 18 on-the-field players each, plus two substitute players, known as the 19th man and the 20th man...
    
    , 1970
    1970 VFL season
    -Premiership season:In 1970, the VFL competition consisted of twelve teams of 18 on-the-field players each, plus two substitute players, known as the 19th man and the 20th man...
    
     and 1992
    1992 AFL season
    Results and statistics for the Australian Football League season of 1992. The AFL Grand Final this year was won by the West Coast Eagles, who became the first non-Victorian club to win a Premiership.-Ladder:...
    
    ). reached the finals for the first time since 1982, finishing 4th and making the preliminary finals.
  • They won their first 7 games, winning their first five games for the first time since the early 1980s.
  • They were on top of the ladder for the first time since 1982 (from rounds 9 to 12). made an exceptional late season charge to reach the finals for the first time in team history.
  • The Bears sat 14th after 15 rounds with a win/loss record of 4-11 and a percentage of 83.2%.
  • In Round 16 at the Gabba against Hawthorn, the Bears trailed Hawthorn by 45 points at three-quarter time, but scored nine goals to one in the final quarter to pull off a seven point victory. It remains the largest three-quarter time deficit ever overcome in VFL/AFL history. The Bears were still in 14th place at the end of the game.
  • Brisbane won its next two games against bottom eight opposition to reach 12th place, but were to face Carlton, Richmond and Essendon (who then held the top three places respectively) in the following three weeks. Against all odds, Brisbane lost to Carlton by only 14 points, then thrashed the Tigers by 77 points and beat Essendon by 32 points.
  • At the start of the final round, Melbourne, Collingwood and Brisbane sat 8th, 9th and 10th respectively, all on nine wins. Brisbane needed to beat Melbourne, and rely on Sydney (12th place) beating Collingwood to reach the finals. Brisbane beat Melbourne by 21 points of Friday night, then watched on Sunday as Sydney scored eight final quarter goals to overhaul Collingwood by 23 points.
  • The Bears finals appearance was short-lived, as the eventual priemers Carlton beat them by 13 points in the first week of the finals in a very high standard gamehttp://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CCEQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.afl.com.au%2F&ei=VLj2TeacGaft0gGK8IWoCw&usg=AFQjCNHufLhKmtAcU8oMvPLCoeN1GbcroA.
  • It must be noted though, that the 10 wins and 12 losses of Brisbane in 1995, remains the worst record of a team in VFL/AFL history which qualified a team for the finals (excluding those seasons where more than half of teams qualified for the finals).
• Tony Lockett
  Tony Lockett
  Anthony Howard "Tony" Lockett is a former Australian rules football player. Lockett is the highest goal scorer in the history of the VFL/AFL with 1,360 goals in a career of 281 games, that commenced in 1983 with the St Kilda Football Club, and finished in 2002 with the Sydney Swans...
  
   transferred from St Kilda
  St. Kilda Football Club
  The St Kilda Football Club, nicknamed The Saints, is an Australian rules football club based in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The club plays in the Australian Football League, the sport's premier league....
  
   to ., VFL
  Victorian Football League
  The Victorian Football League which evolved from the former Victorian Football Association , taking its new name as from the 1996 season, is the premier Australian rules football league in Victoria The Victorian Football League (VFL) which evolved from the former Victorian Football Association...
  
   and State of Origin legend Ted Whitten
  Ted Whitten
  Edward James "EJ" Whitten was an Australian rules football player and media personality. He played a then-record 321 Victorian Football League games for the Footscray Football Club between 1951 and 1970...
  
   died.
  • He had been given a "lap of honour" during the 1995 State of Origin match between Victoria and South Australia. missed out on the finals for the first time since the early 1980s.
  • The team finished second last, failing to register a win for its last seven matches. continued to decline, failing to register a win from round 9 and finished on the bottom of the ladder with just 2 wins.
• There were many significant changes to incumbent AFL team coaches:
• After round 19, the coach Bernie Quinlan
  Bernie Quinlan
  Bernie Quinlan , was a former Australian rules footballer and coach, who enjoyed a lengthy career with Footscray and Fitzroy in the VFL. He played 366 league games in total.- Playing career :...
  
   was sacked and replaced by caretaker coach Alan McConnell
  Alan McConnell
  Alan McConnell is a former Australian rules footballer who played for Footscray in the VFL during the early 1980s and later coached Fitzroy....
  
   for the remaining three games of their season (Michael Nunan
  Michael Nunan
  Michael 'Mick' Nunan is a former Australian rules football player who played one match in the VFL for the Richmond Football Club in 1971. He was senior coach of the Fitzroy Football Club in 1996, their final year prior to merging with the Brisbane Bears to form the Brisbane Lions.Nunan was best...
  
   later was signed as coach for 1996).
• Peter Knights
  Peter Knights
  Peter Knights is a former Australian rules footballer and coach. He is widely regarded as one of the finest centre half-backs to have played the game, despite suffering numerous injuries...
  
   was sacked as coach of .
• John Northey
  John Northey
  John "Swooper" Northey is a former Australian rules football player and coach. He played from 1963 to 1970 with the Richmond Football Club....
  
   resigned from (he became coach of in 1996).
• Robert Walls
  Robert Walls
  Robert Walls is a former Australian rules footballer and coach who now works primarily as a television commentator and newspaper columnist on the sport. On 22 June 2006 he was inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame.- Carlton :...
  
   resigned as coach of and joined as coach in 1996.
• Ron Barassi
  Ron Barassi
  Ronald Dale Barassi, Jr AM is a former Australian rules football player and coach. During a long and decorated career, Barassi has been one of the most important figures in the history of Australian football. His father, Ron Barassi, Sr., was the first Australian footballer killed at Tobruk during...
  
   coached his last VFL/AFL match, resigning as coach of at the end of 1995.