Total match attendance for all games was 5,872,352 people. Attendance at the Grand Final was 79,451 people. The largest non-finals attendance was 72,393 people for the Collingwood v Sydney game of Round 21.
Australian rules football (also known as Aussie Rules) is a game played between two teams of 18 players, generally played on cricket ovals during the winter months.
In Queensland and New South Wales the main winter sports are rugby league and rugby union, although with the establishment of successful AustralianFootballLeague teams in Sydney and Brisbane, and hence the growth of amateur football in those areas, this is changing to some degree.
Meanwhile, a rift in the Victorian Football Association (VFA) led to the formation of the Victorian FootballLeague (VFL), which commenced play in 1897 as an eight-team breakaway of the stronger clubs in the VFA competition: Carlton, Collingwood, Essendon, Fitzroy, Geelong, Melbourne, St Kilda and South Melbourne.
In 2005 the AFL Premiership Season had a total regular season attendance of 6,283,788, and the average attendance of 35,703 was the third highest of any professional sports league in the world.
Although the Victorian FootballLeague and the Victorian Football Association continued to compete for spectator interest for many years, the VFL quickly established itself as the premier competition in Victoria.
The West AustralianFootballLeague and Queensland AustralianFootballLeague were awarded licences to join the VFL and the West Coast Eagles and Brisbane Bears were formed.
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