Has an AFL game ever ended 51-46?
It has. 51-46 has been a AFL final 6 times in 17,056 games. The first was Essendon beat Fitzroy on June 2, 1906; the latest was Footscray beat Gold Coast on July 23, 2020.
That makes 51-46 the 374th most common final score out of 6,649 that have ever occurred in AFL. One point away, 52-46 has happened 2 times and 51-47 has happened 1 times. At one point the score disappeared for 75 years, between 1937 and 2012.
Every 51-46 in AFL history
| Date | Result | Season | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-07-23 | Footscray over Gold Coast | 2020 | |
| 2012-04-21 | West Coast over Hawthorn | 2012 | |
| 1937-05-08 | St Kilda over Footscray | 1937 | |
| 1919-07-12 | Richmond over Essendon | 1919 | |
| 1917-07-14 | Carlton over Richmond | 1917 | |
| 1906-06-02 | Essendon over Fitzroy | 1906 |
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