Has an AFL game ever ended 118-97?
It has. 118-97 has been a AFL final 3 times in 17,053 games. The first was Footscray beat Hawthorn on April 16, 1983; the latest was Brisbane Lions beat Footscray on April 12, 2025.
That makes 118-97 the 1599th most common final score out of 6,649 that have ever occurred in AFL. One point away, 119-97 has happened never and 118-98 has happened 2 times. At one point the score disappeared for 38 years, between 1987 and 2025.