Has an AFL game ever ended 73-68?
It has. 73-68 has been a AFL final 6 times in 17,056 games. The first was Hawthorn beat Footscray on May 9, 1936; the latest was Gold Coast beat Footscray on April 7, 2019.
That makes 73-68 the 374th most common final score out of 6,649 that have ever occurred in AFL. One point away, 74-68 has happened 8 times and 73-69 has happened 9 times. At one point the score disappeared for 33 years, between 1964 and 1997.
Every 73-68 in AFL history
| Date | Result | Season | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-04-07 | Gold Coast over Footscray | 2019 | |
| 1997-08-10 | Essendon over Geelong | 1997 | |
| 1964-05-23 | Melbourne over Hawthorn | 1964 | |
| 1961-07-29 | Geelong over St Kilda | 1961 | |
| 1943-08-14 | Hawthorn over Richmond | 1943 | |
| 1936-05-09 | Hawthorn over Footscray | 1936 |
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