Has an AFL game ever ended 70-49?
It has. 70-49 has been a AFL final 5 times in 16,622 games. The first was Sydney beat Geelong on August 25, 1906; the latest was Sydney beat Brisbane Lions on July 12, 2015.
That makes 70-49 the 589th most common final score out of 6,607 that have ever occurred in AFL. One point away, 71-49 has happened 2 times and 70-50 has happened 4 times. At one point the score disappeared for 66 years, between 1949 and 2015.
Every 70-49 in AFL history
| Date | Result | Season | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-07-12 | Sydney over Brisbane Lions | 2015 | |
| 1949-07-16 | Essendon over North Melbourne | 1949 | |
| 1926-06-26 | Carlton over Collingwood | 1926 | |
| 1925-05-23 | Carlton over Hawthorn | 1925 | |
| 1906-08-25 | Sydney over Geelong | 1906 |