Has an AFL game ever ended 98-61?
It has. 98-61 has been a AFL final 5 times in 17,053 games. The first was Footscray beat Melbourne on August 8, 1953; the latest was Adelaide beat Richmond on May 10, 2026.
That makes 98-61 the 633rd most common final score out of 6,649 that have ever occurred in AFL. One point away, 99-61 has happened 2 times and 98-62 has happened 3 times. At one point the score disappeared for 31 years, between 1965 and 1996.