1992 AFL season

Foster's Cup

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Home-and-away season

Round 1

Round 2

Round 3

Round 4

Round 5

Round 6

• trailed by 41 points at three-quarter time, and by 47 points after five minutes of the final quarter, before kicking the last eight goals of the match to win by one point.

Round 7

• Jason Dunstall () kicked 17 goals and 5 behinds against . It was the most goals by a player in a match since Fred Fanning kicked a record 18 goals in 1947.
• 's score of 37.17 (239) against broke the record held by since 1979 for the highest score in VFL/AFL history.

Round 8

• The Thursday night match between and formed part of the Collingwood Football Club's centenary celebrations. It was scheduled to be played on the 100th anniversary of Collingwood's inaugural senior game, which was played against Carlton on Saturday 7 May 1892.

Round 9

|- style="background:#ccf;" | Home team | Home team score | Away team | Away team score | Ground | Crowd | Date |- style="background:#fff;" ||| 9.12 (66) |||| 15.15 (105) ||MCG || 17,371 ||Friday 15, May |- style="background:#fff;" ||| 11.16 (82) |||| 15.16 (106) ||Princes Park|| 19,077 ||Saturday 16, May |- style="background:#fff;" ||| 17.22 (124) |||| 28.13 (181) ||MCG || 41,244 ||Saturday 16, May |- style="background:#fff;" ||| 18.12 (120) |||| 7.6 (48) ||Waverley Park || 22,686 ||Saturday 16, May |- style="background:#fff;" ||| 6.6 (42) |||| 11.18 (84) ||Carrara Stadium || 3,059 ||Sunday 17, May |- style="background:#fff;" ||| 19.20 (134) |||| 14.18 (102) ||MCG || 17,487 ||Sunday 17, May |- style="background:#fff;" ||| 9.10 (64) ||****|| 9.15 (69) ||Football Park || 44,723 ||Sunday 17, May

Round 10

|- style="background:#ccf;" | Home team | Home team score | Away team | Away team score | Ground | Crowd | Date |- style="background:#fff;" ||| 17.16 (118) |||| 11.12 (78) ||WACA|| 23,046 ||Friday 22, May |- style="background:#fff;" ||| 18.8 (116) |||| 7.22 (64) ||Princes Park|| 27,993 ||Saturday 23, May |- style="background:#fff;" ||| 9.12 (66) |||| 12.9 (81) ||Waverley Park || 60,228 ||Saturday 23, May |- style="background:#fff;" ||| 16.11 (107) |||| 13.12 (90) ||Whitten Oval || 18,508 ||Saturday 23, May |- style="background:#fff;" ||| 21.14 (140) |||| 16.8 (104) ||MCG || 18,634 ||Saturday 23, May |- style="background:#fff;" ||| 25.18 (168) |||| 9.6 (60) ||Moorabbin Oval || 18,360 ||Saturday 23, May |- style="background:#fff;" ||| 12.13 (85) ||****|| 21.20 (146) ||SCG|| 12,217 ||Sunday 24, May

Round 11

|- style="background:#ccf;" | Home team | Home team score | Away team | Away team score | Ground | Crowd | Date |- style="background:#fff;" ||| 10.5 (65) |||| 14.15 (99) ||Waverley Park || 30,177 ||Saturday 30, May |- style="background:#fff;" ||| 13.14 (92) |||| 13.11 (89) ||Princes Park|| 25,343 ||Saturday 30, May |- style="background:#fff;" ||| 19.15 (129) |||| 18.18 (126) ||Kardinia Park || 22,429 ||Saturday 30, May |- style="background:#fff;" ||| 22.10 (142) |||| 11.17 (83) ||MCG || 13,174 ||Saturday 30, May |- style="background:#fff;" ||| 16.20 (116) |||| 10.13 (73) ||MCG || 20,476 ||Sunday 31, May |- style="background:#fff;" ||| 16.13 (109) |||| 11.9 (75) ||Whitten Oval || 25,829 ||Sunday 31, May |- style="background:#fff;" |****|| 21.16 (142) |||| 16.11 (107) ||Football Park || 36,312 ||Sunday 31, May

Round 12

• defeated by one point in front of just over 80,000 spectators at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on the Queen's Birthday holiday. The game was marred by a half-time brawl involving both teams as well as angry spectators who were locked out before the game, some of whom climbed over a fence and forced their way in.

Round 13

• Tony Lockett () kicked 15 goals and 4 behinds against .

Round 14

|- style="background:#ccf;" | Home team | Home team score | Away team | Away team score | Ground | Crowd | Date |- style="background:#fff;" ||| 20.17 (137) |||| 16.6 (102) ||MCG || 6,396 ||Friday 19, June |- style="background:#fff;" ||| 20.13 (133) |||| 17.12 (114) ||Princes Park|| 21,405 ||Saturday 20, June |- style="background:#fff;" ||| 8.12 (60) |||| 11.8 (74) ||Waverley Park || 26,346 ||Saturday 20, June |- style="background:#fff;" ||| 15.18 (108) |||| 24.13 (157) ||MCG || 30,922 ||Saturday 20, June |- style="background:#fff;" ||| 11.16 (82) |||| 11.10 (76) ||MCG || 67,835 ||Sunday 21, June |- style="background:#fff;" ||| 11.17 (83) |||| 24.14 (158) ||SCG|| 11,132 ||Sunday 21, June |- style="background:#fff;" ||| 14.8 (92) ||****|| 21.10 (136) ||Football Park || 43,163 ||Sunday 21, June

Round 15

• Peter Sumich () kicked 11 goals and 8 behinds against .

Round 16

|- style="background:#ccf;" | Home team | Home team score | Away team | Away team score | Ground | Crowd | Date |- style="background:#fff;" ||| 15.19 (109) |||| 13.9 (87) ||WACA|| 23,182 ||Friday 3, July |- style="background:#fff;" ||| 27.17 (179) |||| 12.8 (80) ||Princes Park|| 11,693 ||Saturday 4, July |- style="background:#fff;" ||| 24.17 (161) |||| 14.14 (98) ||Victoria Park|| 31,168 ||Saturday 4, July |- style="background:#fff;" ||| 16.15 (111) |||| 11.17 (83) ||MCG || 42,461 ||Saturday 4, July |- style="background:#fff;" ||| 22.11 (143) |||| 8.8 (56) ||Waverley Park || 13,235 ||Saturday 4, July |- style="background:#fff;" ||| 14.11 (95) |||| 16.18 (114) ||Kardinia Park || 26,257 ||Saturday 4, July |- style="background:#fff;" ||| 11.17 (83) ||****|| 21.10 (136) ||SCG|| 7,329 ||Sunday 5, July

Round 17

|- style="background:#ccf;" | Home team | Home team score | Away team | Away team score | Ground | Crowd | Date |- style="background:#fff;" ||| 7.12 (54) |||| 9.12 (66) ||Waverley Park || 52,481 ||Saturday 11, July |- style="background:#fff;" ||| 11.18 (84) |||| 15.7 (97) ||Moorabbin Oval || 27,347 ||Saturday 11, July |- style="background:#fff;" ||| 21.10 (136) |||| 8.15 (63) ||Kardinia Park || 19,829 ||Saturday 11, July |- style="background:#fff;" ||| 18.11 (119) |||| 17.16 (118) ||Princes Park|| 11,089 ||Saturday 11, July |- style="background:#fff;" ||| 9.10 (64) |||| 14.19 (103) ||Carrara Stadium || 13,053 ||Saturday 11, July |- style="background:#fff;" ||| 10.17 (77) |||| 11.14 (80) ||North Hobart Oval || 10,265 ||Sunday 12, July |- style="background:#fff;" |****|| 16.11 (107) |||| 8.6 (54) ||Subiaco Oval || 28,397 ||Sunday 12, July

Round 18

|- style="background:#ccf;" | Home team | Home team score | Away team | Away team score | Ground | Crowd | Date |- style="background:#fff;" ||| 14.12 (96) |||| 17.12 (114) ||SCG|| 15,240 ||Friday 17, July |- style="background:#fff;" ||| 13.15 (93) |||| 10.17 (77) ||MCG || 44,142 ||Saturday 18, July |- style="background:#fff;" ||| 10.13 (73) |||| 16.18 (114) ||Princes Park|| 6,461 ||Saturday 18, July |- style="background:#fff;" ||| 20.13 (133) |||| 14.12 (96) ||Waverley Park || 17,096 ||Saturday 18, July |- style="background:#fff;" ||| 12.11 (83) |||| 24.21 (165) ||MCG || 26,131 ||Sunday 19, July |- style="background:#fff;" ||| 9.13 (67) |||| 18.8 (116) ||Football Park || 31,963 ||Sunday 19, July |- style="background:#fff;" |****|| 15.5 (95) |||| 3.11 (29) ||Waverley Park || 24,691 ||Sunday 19, July

Round 19

|- style="background:#ccf;" | Home team | Home team score | Away team | Away team score | Ground | Crowd | Date |- style="background:#fff;" ||| 10.23 (83) |||| 8.13 (61) ||MCG || 88,066 ||Friday 24, July |- style="background:#fff;" ||| 15.18 (108) |||| 15.11 (101) ||Princes Park|| 17,079 ||Saturday 25, July |- style="background:#fff;" ||| 15.13 (103) |||| 8.9 (57) ||Whitten Oval || 12,742 ||Saturday 25, July |- style="background:#fff;" ||| 12.5 (77) |||| 15.6 (96) ||Kardinia Park || 25,585 ||Saturday 25, July |- style="background:#fff;" ||| 7.13 (55) |||| 19.16 (130) ||Waverley Park || 43,132 ||Saturday 25, July |- style="background:#fff;" ||| 23.12 (150) |||| 10.15 (75) ||MCG || 20,184 ||Saturday 25, July |- style="background:#fff;" |****|| 21.6 (132) |||| 7.5 (47) ||Football Park || 25,597 ||Saturday 25, July

Round 20

• Jason Dunstall () kicked 12 goals and 8 behinds against .
• The match between and was the last VFL/AFL game played at Moorabbin Oval; St Kilda moved its home ground to Waverley Park in 1993.

Round 21

|- style="background:#ccf;" | Home team | Home team score | Away team | Away team score | Ground | Crowd | Date |- style="background:#fff;" ||| 15.21 (111) |||| 11.14 (80) ||MCG || 9,739 ||Friday 7, August |- style="background:#fff;" ||| 11.16 (82) |||| 8.15 (63) ||Waverley Park || 53,369 ||Saturday 8, August |- style="background:#fff;" ||| 13.16 (94) |||| 19.12 (126) ||MCG || 25,508 ||Saturday 8, August |- style="background:#fff;" ||| 10.8 (68) |||| 17.18 (120) ||Princes Park|| 11,871 ||Saturday 8, August |- style="background:#fff;" ||| 12.15 (87) |||| 18.14 (122) ||Waverley Park || 50,883 ||Sunday 9, August |- style="background:#fff;" ||| 15.14 (104) |||| 12.12 (84) ||Subiaco Oval || 23,245 ||Sunday 9, August |- style="background:#fff;" ||| 11.11 (77) ||****|| 17.8 (110) ||Carrara Stadium || 4,603 ||Sunday 9, August

Round 22

|- style="background:#ccf;" | Home team | Home team score | Away team | Away team score | Ground | Crowd | Date |- style="background:#fff;" ||| 14.22 (106) |||| 10.16 (76) ||WACA|| 23,016 ||Friday 14, August |- style="background:#fff;" ||| 19.22 (136) |||| 7.12 (54) ||Princes Park|| 31,375 ||Saturday 15, August |- style="background:#fff;" ||| 23.13 (151) |||| 9.4 (58) ||Kardinia Park || 17,187 ||Saturday 15, August |- style="background:#fff;" ||| 13.8 (86) |||| 25.20 (170) ||MCG || 20,423 ||Saturday 15, August |- style="background:#fff;" ||| 14.8 (92) |||| 14.14 (98) ||MCG || 35,253 ||Sunday 16, August |- style="background:#fff;" ||| 13.10 (88) |||| 21.13 (139) ||SCG|| 8,656 ||Sunday 16, August |- style="background:#fff;" |****|| 13.15 (93) |||| 10.17 (77) ||Football Park || 38,675 ||Sunday 16, August

Round 23

|- style="background:#ccf;" | Home team | Home team score | Away team | Away team score | Ground | Crowd | Date |- style="background:#fff;" ||| 12.14 (86) |||| 15.12 (102) ||Waverley Park || 77,357 ||Saturday 22, August |- style="background:#fff;" ||| 20.19 (139) |||| 10.11 (71) ||MCG || 21,044 ||Saturday 22, August |- style="background:#fff;" ||| 20.13 (133) |||| 14.14 (98) ||Princes Park|| 9,244 ||Saturday 22, August |- style="background:#fff;" ||| 19.15 (129) |||| 9.16 (70) ||Carrara Stadium || 4,349 ||Saturday 22, August |- style="background:#fff;" ||| 7.11 (53) |||| 3.5 (23) ||Whitten Oval || 15,695 ||Sunday 23, August |- style="background:#fff;" ||| 24.25 (169) |||| 11.12 (78) ||Football Park || 46,543 ||Sunday 23, August |- style="background:#fff;" ||| 6.7 (43) ||****|| 8.10 (58) ||MCG || 30,548 ||Sunday 23, August

Round 24

|- style="background:#ccf;" | Home team | Home team score | Away team | Away team score | Ground | Crowd | Date |- style="background:#fff;" ||| 13.17 (95) |||| 18.17 (125) ||SCG|| 7,466 ||Friday 28, August |- style="background:#fff;" ||| 13.9 (87) |||| 11.16 (82) ||Victoria Park|| 28,990 ||Saturday 29, August |- style="background:#fff;" ||| 16.14 (110) |||| 9.10 (64) ||Waverley Park || 42,968 ||Saturday 29, August |- style="background:#fff;" ||| 14.12 (96) |||| 19.16 (130) ||Princes Park|| 8,830 ||Saturday 29, August |- style="background:#fff;" ||| 19.17 (131) |||| 11.8 (74) ||Whitten Oval || 15,390 ||Saturday 29, August |- style="background:#fff;" ||| 20.10 (130) |||| 22.17 (149) ||MCG || 42,549 ||Saturday 29, August |- style="background:#fff;" |****|| 18.12 (120) |||| 12.15 (87) ||Subiaco Oval || 40,441 ||Sunday 30, August

Ladder

|- style=background:#FFFFBB | 1 || align=left | || 22 || 16 || 6 || 0 || 3057 || 2099 || 145.6 || 64 |- style=background:#FFFFBB | 2 || align=left | || 22 || 16 || 6 || 0 || 2384 || 1836 || 129.8 || 64 |- style=background:#FFFFBB | 3 || align=left | || 22 || 16 || 6 || 0 || 2195 || 1911 || 114.9 || 64 |- style=background:#FFFFBB | 4 || align=left | (P) || 22 || 15 || 6 || 1 || 2206 || 1752 || 125.9 || 62 |- style=background:#FFFFBB | 5 || align=left | || 22 || 14 || 8 || 0 || 2579 || 2098 || 122.9 || 56 |- style=background:#FFFFBB | 6 || align=left | || 22 || 14 || 8 || 0 || 2415 || 2009 || 120.2 || 56 |- | 7 || align=left | || 22 || 14 || 8 || 0 || 2362 || 2103 || 112.3 || 56 |- | 8 || align=left | || 22 || 12 || 10 || 0 || 2241 || 2414 || 92.8 || 48 |- | 9 || align=left | || 22 || 11 || 11 || 0 || 2317 || 2286 || 101.4 || 44 |- | 10 || align=left | || 22 || 9 || 13 || 0 || 2166 || 2398 || 90.3 || 36 |- | 11 || align=left | || 22 || 7 || 14 || 1 || 2083 || 2386 || 87.3 || 30 |- | 12 || align=left | || 22 || 7 || 15 || 0 || 2269 || 2535 || 89.5 || 28 |- | 13 || align=left | || 22 || 5 || 17 || 0 || 2160 || 2938 || 73.5 || 20 |- | 14 || align=left | || 22 || 4 || 17 || 1 || 1770 || 2742 || 64.6 || 18 |- | 15 || align=left | || 22 || 3 || 18 || 1 || 1997 || 2694 || 74.1 || 14 |}

Rules for classification: 1. premiership points; 2. percentage; 3. points for Average score: 103.6 Source: AFL Tables

Finals series

Main article: 1992 AFL finals series

The AFL used a modified version of the McIntyre final six, after criticism of the original final six system. The difference to the original version was that First Semi-final would be contested between the loser of the qualifying final and the Elimination Final winner which had finished in a lower qualifying position on the ladder, while the second Semi-final would be contested between the winner of the qualifying final and the Elimination Final winner which had finished in a higher qualifying position on the ladder. This system would be retained for the following season before being replaced by the McIntyre final eight system.

Elimination Finals

Matera 3 Pyke, Langdon 2 Heady, Kemp, Lewis 1 2 Hudson 1 Anderson, Jarman, Gowers, Platten Russell, Rowe 2 Francis, Brown, Starcevich 1 2 Dwyer, Loewe 1 Devonport, Morris, Fletcher, Kickett

Qualifying final

Ablett 5 Hocking 3 Scott, Mansfield, Barnes 2 Couch, Stoneham, Bews 1 2 Hawkins, Royal 1 Charles, Kellett, MacPherson, Grant, Atkins

Semi-finals

|- style="background:#ccf;" | Home team | Score | Away team | Score | Venue | Attendance | Date |- style="background:#fff;" | **** | 19.5 (119) | | 14.6 (90) | Waverley Park | 59,512 | Saturday, 12 September |- style="background:#fff;" | | 14.11 (95) | **** | 20.13 (133) | MCG | 71,745 | Sunday, 13 September

Preliminary final

|- style="background:#ccf;" | Home team | Score | Away team | Score | Venue | Attendance | Date |- style="background:#fff;" | **** | 22.17 (149) | | 12.13 (85) | MCG | 71,841 | Saturday, 19 September

Grand Final

Main article: 1992 AFL Grand Final

|- style="background:#ccf;" | Home team | Score | Away team | Score | Venue | Attendance | Date |- style="background:#fff;" | **** | 16.17 (113) | | 12.13 (85) | MCG | 95,007 | Saturday, 26 September

Awards

• The Brownlow Medal was awarded to Scott Wynd of .
• The Leigh Matthews Trophy was awarded to Jason Dunstall of .
• The Coleman Medal was awarded to Jason Dunstall of .
• The Norm Smith Medal was awarded to Peter Matera of .
• The Wooden Spoon was "awarded" to .

Notable events

• The minor grades and recruitment processes for Victorian clubs in the AFL competition underwent significant changes for the 1992 season:
  • Zone-based recruiting was abolished, firmly establishing the AFL draft as the primary mechanism for player recruitment.
  • The AFL ceased its role as the administrative body for football in Victoria after 95 years, with the Victorian State Football League (VSFL) being established as a new administrative body to oversee football in Victoria.
  • The VSFL also took control of the AFL reserves competition: this change was only administrative, with the VSFL serving as a continuation of the AFL reserves (main: 1992 AFL reserves season).
  • The AFL Under-19s competition and the twelve competing AFL clubs under-19s teams were dissolved, being replaced by the VSFL's new Under-18s competition (later known as the TAC Cup and currently as the Coates Talent League) that featured six district-based clubs not affiliated with any AFL club.
• The 1992 preseason saw Nigel Smart get his feet burned in an infamous firewalking incident (that he had suggested in the first place). Smart was nicknamed "Not So" after the incident.
• Geelong also set records for most points scored in a home-and-away season (3,057) and in all games (3,558), which have not been broken as of 2024. The Cats managed to score over 175 points in six different games.
• The round 9 match between the Brisbane Bears and Footscray on a rainy Sunday at Carrara saw only 3,059 attend. As of 2024, this is the lowest attendance at an VFL/AFL match not subject to crowd restrictions since the war-affected 1942 season.
• In Round 23, in torrential rain at the Western Oval, West Coast kicked only 0.2 (2) to three-quarter time. This is the lowest three-quarter time score since 1953.
• The first McIntyre "final six" system, which had operated in 1991, was replaced by the second McIntyre "final six" system. The second McIntyre "final six" system lasted two seasons; it was replaced by the McIntyre "final eight" system in 1994.
• The Round 20 match between St. Kilda and Fitzroy was the last senior AFL game to be played at Moorabbin Oval, which had been home to the Saints for twenty-eight seasons beginning in 1965. St. Kilda would play their home games at Waverley Park for the remainder of the 1990s before permanently moving to Docklands Stadium in 2000. St. Kilda's AFLW team has played its home games at Moorabbin since its 2019 formation.

References

Bibliography

Sources

• 1992 AFL season at AFL Tables
• 1992 AFL season at Australian Football

References

1. Rohan Connolly. (26 April 1992). "What a comeback". The Sunday Age.
2. "Miscellaneous goalkicking records". AFL Tables.
3. (9 May 1892). "Carlton v. Collingwood". The Argus.
4. (8 June 1992). "SAINTS PROVE A POINT IN WAR OF WORDS". [[The Sydney Morning Herald]].
5. Carter, Ron. (8 June 1992). "Angry fans force entry after lock-out at MCG". [[The Age]].
6. Lovett, 2012, p. 914
7. Geoff Poulter. (12 March 1991). "AFL rings in the changes". Herald-Sun.
8. Didz. (2024-10-06). "7 News Adelaide Flashback: Adelaide Crows 1992 - Nigel Smart Walking On Hot Coals".
9. "1992 Season Scores and Results".
10. [http://www.bom.gov.au/jsp/ncc/cdio/weatherData/av?p_display_type=dataDGraph&p_stn_num=040190&p_nccObsCode=136&p_month=05&p_startYear=1992 Southport Ridgeway Avenue (040190) May 1992 rainfall]
11. This excludes 2020 and 2021, when the COVID-19 pandemic severely limited attendance or saw matches played behind closed doors.
12. [http://afltables.com/afl/crowds/summary.html#03 AFL Tables: Lowest Attendances]