Has an AFL game ever ended 87-38?
It has. 87-38 has been a AFL final 5 times in 16,622 games. The first was Richmond beat Fitzroy on July 7, 1917; the latest was Port Adelaide beat Adelaide on May 8, 2021.
That makes 87-38 the 589th most common final score out of 6,607 that have ever occurred in AFL. One point away, 88-38 has happened 2 times and 87-39 has happened 2 times. At one point the score disappeared for 39 years, between 1981 and 2020.
Every 87-38 in AFL history
| Date | Result | Season | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-05-08 | Port Adelaide over Adelaide | 2021 | |
| 2020-07-04 | Footscray over North Melbourne | 2020 | |
| 1981-08-29 | St Kilda over Footscray | 1981 | |
| 1953-04-18 | Geelong over Hawthorn | 1953 | |
| 1917-07-07 | Richmond over Fitzroy | 1917 |