The 2009 NAB Cup

Australian Football League pre-season competition

The Australian Football League pre-season competition, which is known at present as the NAB Cup, is a competition held before the beginning of the Australian Football League premiership season...

is the Australian Football League

Australian Football League

The Australian Football League is both the governing body and the major professional competition in the sport of Australian rules football...

 pre-season competition that was played before the Australian Football League

Australian Football League

The Australian Football League is both the governing body and the major professional competition in the sport of Australian rules football...

's 2009 Premiership season

2009 AFL season

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 begins. It culminated with the Final on 13 March 2009 played between Geelong

Geelong Football Club

The Geelong Football Club, nicknamed The Cats, is a professional Australian rules football club, named after and based in the city of Geelong, playing in the Australian Football League . The club has been the VFL/AFL premiers nine times, with a record equalling 3 in the AFL era. Geelong has also...

 and Collingwood

Collingwood Football Club

The Collingwood Football Club, nicknamed The Magpies, is an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League...

 and was won by Geelong. The Final was originally scheduled for 14 March 2009 but was moved by the AFL so that the match did not clash with the Sound Relief benefit concert for the Victorian bushfires.

First round

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Final

Summary of results

Info

The NAB Cup of 2009 has generated a greater amount of interest than previous years. The 2nd game of Round 1 featured an Essendon v Western Bulldogs match at Etihad Stadium dedicated to the Black Saturday bushfires. The competition also created headlines for a scheduling error that saw the upcoming 2nd round match between Collingwood v Richmond (at Etihad Stadium) clash with the A-League Grand Final 2009

A-League Grand Final 2009

The 2009 A-League Grand Final took place at Telstra Dome in Melbourne, Australia on 28 February 2009.It was the final match in the A-League 2008–09 season, and was played between premiers and runners-up...

, with the AFL

Australian Football League

The Australian Football League is both the governing body and the major professional competition in the sport of Australian rules football...

 handing over the right to Melbourne Victory

Melbourne Victory

Melbourne Victory Football Club is an Australian professional football club based in Melbourne, Victoria, that plays in the A-League....

. This match was later transferred to a Thursday Night, and featured the long awaited return of fallen AFL star Ben Cousins

Ben Cousins

Benjamin Luke "Ben" Cousins is a former Australian rules footballer, best known for his 270-game career with and in the Australian Football League ....

, for the Richmond Tigers.

See also

• List of Australian Football League night premiers
• 2009 AFL season
  2009 AFL season
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• 2009 Australian football code crowds
  2009 Australian football code crowds
  Australia is home to 4 professional football codes. This is a comprehensive list of crowd figures for Australian football codes in 2009. It includes several different competitions and matches from Australian rules football, rugby league, football and rugby union...