The AFL Grand Final has drawn the biggest audience in TV all year at a massive 4.02m viewers in National TV audience as Brisbane Lions doubled the score of Sydney Swans. In Melbourne there were 980,000 on linear viewing followed by Sydney (464,000), Brisbane (456,000), Perth (344,000) and Adelaide (300,000).

The Brisbane Lions bounced back from a heartbreaking loss in last year’s Australian Football League grand final by thrashing the Sydney Swans by 60 points to claim their first Aussie rules premiership in more than two decades.