Has an AFL game ever ended 56-30?
It has. 56-30 has been a AFL final 2 times in 16,622 games. The first was St Kilda beat Carlton on April 27, 1907; the latest was Footscray beat Geelong on June 18, 1988.
That makes 56-30 the 2421st most common final score out of 6,607 that have ever occurred in AFL. One point away, 57-30 has happened 1 times and 56-31 has happened 2 times. At one point the score disappeared for 81 years, between 1907 and 1988.