Has an AFL game ever ended 47-44?
Yes. AFL has seen a final score of 47-44 3 times. It first happened on May 11, 1901, when Fitzroy beat Essendon, and most recently on June 28, 2020, when Geelong beat Melbourne.
That makes 47-44 the 1534th most common final score out of 6,607 that have ever occurred in AFL. One point away, 48-44 has happened 2 times and 47-45 has happened 1 times. At one point the score disappeared for 113 years, between 1907 and 2020.