2012 AFL season

2012 AFL premiership season
Teams	18
Premiers	Sydney 5th premiership
Minor premiers	Hawthorn 8th minor premiership
Pre-season cup	Adelaide 2nd pre-season cup win
Brownlow Medallist	Sam Mitchell Hawthorn Trent Cotchin Richmond (both 26 votes)
Coleman Medallist	Jack Riewoldt Richmond (65 goals)
Attendance
Matches played	207
Total attendance	6,778,559 (32,747 per match)
Highest (H&A)	86,932 (round 5, Collingwood v Essendon)
Highest (finals)	99,683 (Grand Final, Hawthorn vs. Sydney)
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The 2012 AFL season was the 116th season of the Australian Football League (AFL), the highest level senior Australian rules football competition in Australia, which was known as the Victorian Football League until 1989.

The season featured eighteen clubs, with addition of the newly established Greater Western Sydney Giants, which was based in Western Sydney and split its home games between Sydney and Canberra.

The season ran from 24 March until 29 September, and comprised a 22-game home-and-away season followed by a finals series featuring the top eight clubs.

The premiership was won by the Sydney Swans for the fifth time, after it defeated Hawthorn by ten points in the 2012 AFL Grand Final.