2000 AFL season

AFL Draft

Ansett Australia Cup

Premiership season

Round 1

Round 2

Round 3

Round 4

Round 5

Round 6

Round 7

Round 8

Round 9

Round 10

Round 11

Round 12

Round 13

Round 14

Round 15

Round 16

Round 17

Round 18

Round 19

Round 20

Round 21

Round 22

Ladder

Ladder progression

Finals series

Week one

Week two

Week three

Week four

Match attendance

Awards

• The Brownlow Medal was awarded to Shane Woewodin of Melbourne.
• The Coleman Medal was awarded to Matthew Lloyd of Essendon.
• The Norm Smith Medal was awarded to James Hird of Essendon.
• The AFL Rising Star award was awarded to Paul Hasleby of Fremantle.
• The wooden spoon was “awarded” to St Kilda.

  Notable events

• The AFL season started and ended four weeks early, with the grand final taking place on the first Saturday in September to avoid scheduling conflicts with the 2000 Summer Olympics, which began in Sydney on 15 September.
• The first ever AFL match held at Docklands Stadium for premiership points was played on 9 March 2000, with defeating by 94 points in front of a crowd of 43,012.
• Essendon won the most home-and-away games and total games in a single season in the history of the VFL/AFL, breaking the records set by Carlton in 1995, and broke Collingwood's 1929 record when it won its first twenty games; if the pre-season cup is included, Essendon won 30 games out of 31. All of these records still stand; in 2008 Geelong won 21 of 22 in the home and away season to equal that record, but lost the grand final.
• Essendon's grand final win was the last by a Victorian side until Geelong won in 2007.
• The McIntyre "Final Eight" system, which had operated from 1994 to 1999, was replaced by the AFL's Amended "Final Eight" system. The AFL's Amended "Final Eight" system has operated continuously from 2000 until today.
• In Round 18, Carlton played against Collingwood at Princes Park for the first time since round 13, 1982. Carlton recorded its highest score and greatest winning margin against Collingwood.
• The WACA Ground hosted its 72nd and last game of AFL football when Richmond defeated Fremantle in round 19.
• Essendon's qualifying final winning margin of 125 points and their score of 198 points was the greatest ever winning margin in a qualifying final and highest ever score in any final in AFL/VFL history, it was also Essendon's highest ever score and biggest ever win over the Kangaroos.
• The round 14 match between St. Kilda and Hawthorn was moved from Colonial Stadium to the MCG, as the surface of the ground was so poor it had been deemed a workplace hazard.