List of VFL/AFL pre-season and night series premiers
Season Premier Runner Up Score Venue Attendance Premiership
1984 Essendon Sydney Swans 13.11 ( 89 ) - 5.8 ( 38 ) Waverley Park 30,824 Night series
1984 Essendon Hawthorn 14.21 ( 105 ) - 12.9 ( 81 ) MCG 92,685 VFL Grand Final
1986 Hawthorn Carlton 9.12 ( 66 ) - 5.6 ( 36 ) Waverley Park 19,627 Night series
1986 Hawthorn Carlton 16.14 ( 110 ) - 9.14 ( 68 ) MCG 101,861 VFL Grand Final
1988 Hawthorn Geelong 10.10 ( 70 ) - 9.13 ( 67 ) Waverley Park 35,803 Pre-Season Cup
1988 Hawthorn Melbourne 22.20 ( 152 ) - 6.20 ( 56 ) MCG 93,754 VFL Grand Final
1991 Hawthorn North Melbourne 14.19 ( 103 ) - 7.12 ( 54 ) Waverley Park 46,629 Pre-Season Cup
1991 Hawthorn West Coast 20.19 ( 139 ) - 13.8 ( 86 ) P 75,230 AFL Grand Final
1993 Essendon Richmond 14.18 ( 102 ) - 11.13 ( 79 ) Waverley Park 75,533 Pre-Season Cup
1993 Essendon Carlton 20.13 ( 133 ) - 13.11 ( 89 ) MCG 96,862 AFL Grand Final
2000 Essendon North Melbourne 16.21 ( 117 ) - 11.10 ( 76 ) MCG 56,720 Pre-Season Cup
2000 Essendon Melbourne 19.21 ( 135 ) - 11.9 ( 75 ) MCG 96,249 AFL Grand Final
2009 Geelong Collingwood 0.18.19 ( 127 ) - 1.6.6 ( 51 ) Etihad Stadium 37,277 Pre-Season Cup
2009 Geelong St Kilda 12.8 ( 80 ) - 9.14 ( 68 ) MCG 99,251 AFL Grand Final
Double premiership teams
The double premiership of winning both the night/pre-season and main premiership competitions has been achieved on seven occasions , by three clubs . In 2007 , the AFL announced that if a club won both titles , they would win a $ 1 million bonus . [ 6 ] The offer was not extended past that season , so neither St Kilda , who won the 2008 NAB Cup and made the preliminary final of the 2008 AFL season [ 7 ] nor Geelong , who achieved the double in 2009 were eligible for the extra prizemoney . Three teams have won the pre-season premiership immediately after winning the main season premiership . Carlton won the main VFL Premiership in 1982 and back up with a night premiership in 1983 . Hawthorn won the AFL Premiership in 1991 , then backed the following year to win the pre-season competition in 1992 . Collingwood won the 2010 AFL Grand Final and then also won the 2011 NAB Cup .
This page is a complete chronological listing of the pre-season and night series premiers of the Australian Football League (AFL), known as the Victorian Football League (VFL) until 1990. Although it spans three different competitions, the premierships are considered historically equivalent. From 1956 to 1971, the first VFL Night Series was a consolation knock-out competition held in September at the Lake Oval in Albert Park amongst the eight teams who failed to reach the finals in the VFL premiership season, apart from 1957, when all twelve teams competed. There were no official VFL night series held during the 1972 to 1976 seasons, however in 1976 the National Football League (the national governing body at the time) held their own night series mid-week during the season, known as the NFL Wills Cup. In 1977, the VFL revived their own night series, also held mid-week during the season and televised on Channel 7 to rival the NFL series that was shown on Channel 10. Whilst the 1977 series only featured the twelve VFL teams, between 1978 and 1986 a selection of teams from the SANFL, WAFL and representative teams from Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland and Tasmania also competed. This became known as the Australian Football Championships Night Series and ran until 1987. With the national expansion of the VFL to include teams from Western Australia and Queensland the 1987 series was restricted to only the 14 VFL teams and commenced during the pre-season period, but was completed mid-week between rounds 5 and 6 of the 1987 VFL season. From 1988 until 2013, the competition was played in its entirety before the premiership season began and is competed for by only the VFL or AFL teams (the VFL was renamed the AFL in 1990), and became the Australian Football League pre-season competition. The preseason competition was abandoned in 2014, and replaced with discrete practice matches.