Has an AFL game ever ended 87-61?
It has. 87-61 has been a AFL final 8 times in 16,622 games. The first was Fitzroy beat Geelong on July 10, 1909; the latest was St Kilda beat Gold Coast on April 16, 2022.
That makes 87-61 the 87th most common final score out of 6,607 that have ever occurred in AFL. One point away, 88-61 has happened 8 times and 87-62 has happened 3 times. At one point the score disappeared for 38 years, between 1957 and 1995.
Every 87-61 in AFL history
| Date | Result | Season | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-04-16 | St Kilda over Gold Coast | 2022 | |
| 2019-03-23 | Port Adelaide over Melbourne | 2019 | |
| 1998-04-26 | Adelaide over Geelong | 1998 | |
| 1995-07-16 | Footscray over West Coast | 1995 | |
| 1957-07-13 | Geelong over North Melbourne | 1957 | |
| 1948-07-03 | Sydney over Hawthorn | 1948 | |
| 1931-07-04 | Geelong over Hawthorn | 1931 | |
| 1909-07-10 | Fitzroy over Geelong | 1909 |