Has an AFL game ever ended 58-43?
It has. 58-43 has been a AFL final 3 times in 17,053 games. The first was Fitzroy beat Melbourne on July 9, 1904; the latest was St Kilda beat Melbourne on August 23, 1992.
That makes 58-43 the 1599th most common final score out of 6,649 that have ever occurred in AFL. One point away, 59-43 has happened never and 58-44 has happened never. At one point the score disappeared for 60 years, between 1932 and 1992.