Has an AFL game ever ended 116-79?
It has. 116-79 has been a AFL final 5 times in 16,622 games. The first was Collingwood beat Fitzroy on May 20, 1939; the latest was Fremantle beat Essendon on May 7, 2017.
That makes 116-79 the 589th most common final score out of 6,607 that have ever occurred in AFL. One point away, 117-79 has happened 4 times and 116-80 has happened 3 times. At one point the score disappeared for 44 years, between 1973 and 2017.
Every 116-79 in AFL history
| Date | Result | Season | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-05-07 | Fremantle over Essendon | 2017 | |
| 1973-09-01 | Hawthorn over Sydney | 1973 | |
| 1950-07-29 | Collingwood over Carlton | 1950 | |
| 1949-06-11 | Collingwood over Geelong | 1949 | |
| 1939-05-20 | Collingwood over Fitzroy | 1939 |