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2003 AFL Premiership Season
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Teams	16
Premiers	Brisbane (3rd premiership)
Minor Premiers	Port Adelaide (2nd minor premiership)
Pre-season Cup Winner	Adelaide (1st pre-season cup win)
Coleman Medallist	Matthew Lloyd (Essendon)
Brownlow Medallist	Nathan Buckley (Collingwood) Mark Ricciuto (Adelaide) Adam Goodes (Sydney Swans)

Results and statistics for the Australian Football League season of 2003.

See List of Australian Football League premiers for a complete list.

AFL Draft

See 2003 AFL Draft for more information.

National Cup

The 2003 Wizard Home Loans Cup saw Adelaide Crows defeat Collingwood 15.14 (104) to 10.13 (73) in the Final. (For an explanation of pre-season scoring see Pre-season rule changes)

Premiership Season

Round 1 (Season Launch)

Round 2

Round 3

Round 4 (Easter)

Round 5 (ANZAC Day)

Round 6

Round 7 (Mother's Day)

Round 8

Round 9

Round 10

Round 11 (Queen's Birthday)

• The Kangaroos-Tigers game was especially notable as the comeback of Kangaroos player Jason McCartney from life-threatening burns suffered in the 2002 Bali bombing. McCartney retired immediately after the match.

Round 12

Round 13

Round 14

Round 15

Round 16

Round 17

Round 18

Round 19 (Heritage Round)

Round 20

Round 21

The Sydney-Collingwood game is notable as it is the highest attended Aussie Rules match ever played outside of Victoria.

Round 22

Final series

Qualifying and Elimination Finals (Father's Day)

Semi Finals

Preliminary Finals

Grand Final

Main article: 2003 AFL Grand Final

This was the third consecutive Grand Final won by the Brisbane Lions during a three-year streak.

Ladder

This marks the first time that Fremantle played a finals match and the first time that all interstate teams played in a finals series.

Match attendance

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.

Awards

• The Brownlow Medal was awarded to Mark Ricciuto of Adelaide, Nathan Buckley of Collingwood, and Adam Goodes of Sydney.
• The Leigh Matthews Trophy was awarded to Michael Voss of the Brisbane Lions.
• The Coleman Medal was awarded to Matthew Lloyd of Essendon.
• The Norm Smith Medal was awarded to Simon Black of the Brisbane Lions.
• The AFL Rising Star award was awarded to Sam Mitchell of Hawthorn.
• The Wooden Spoon was "awarded" to the Western Bulldogs for coming last.

References

• 2003 Season - AFL Tables

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