The following tables summarise the different premiership droughts for each club. Collingwood have won 15 and Hawthorn have won 13. How did they train to win them? The duration of the drought is given as the number of full seasons contested between premierships; the season in which the drought is broken is considered to be part of the drought, and if the drought began from a club's entry to the league, the club's inaugural season is also considered to be part of the drought. Grand final replays are not included in grand final appearances.The following table summarises the most common grand final match-ups (not including grand final replays). Again, not so fast. 1902: Revolution Now, this may come as a surprise to some, due to the Blues’ recent lack of on-field success, brought on primarily by the salary-cap scandal of the late 1990s and early 2000s for which it was severely penalised and forced to forfeit player picks across three drafts. Look at which club has won the most premierships!”So does this mean Hawthorn are actually the most successful VFL/AFL club of all-time?
It has since won 15 VFL/AFL premierships, second only to Carlton and Essendon (16). Since the AFL was formed the following teams have each won three premierships (in order of first to win): West Coast Eagles Brisbane Lions AFL Premiership Ladder AFL Premiership Ladder. Congratulations to CarltonWell, it sounds like a good place to start:Anyone can contribute to The Roar and have their work featured alongside some of Australia’s most prominent sports journalists.So does that mean they have been the most successful clubs in VFL/AFL history? Yes, bewilderingly, the Magpies have finished 27 seasons as runner-up. The following tables summarise the different premiership droughts for each club. The Magpies have played in more Grand Finals (43) than any other team, appearing in the decider on an average of once every two and a half years. In a way that’s more impressive than the younger Adelaide clubs’ clean-sheet but we can’t assume that one of them will get spooned anytime soon, so they certainly deserve their spots at the top of this table.Topping the table is Brisbane, but thanks solely to its 2001-2004 dynasty in which it contested four consecutive grand finals, winning the first three. Less than a month after doubting West Coast’s chops as a true title contender, controversial footy pundit Kane Cornes has back-flipped now pushing the Eagles as the clear “premiership favourites”. Carlton and Essendon are ranked second and third.West Coast round out the top four and show what a high-achieving club it has been since joining the competition in 1987. If we are going to look at how good a club has been at key times across its history, then we also need to look at how bad it’s been.At the other end of the table we see that the defunct University never played finals in its brief seven-year history, nor has Gold Coast in what, as mentioned earlier, has been a very disappointing start to its existence.The big fall from grace by this ranking system is Collingwood. Jump to ladder TEAMS: Premiership duo dumped, ex-Tiger to face old mates. They’re followed by Hawthorn (61.63%), Melbourne (58.62%), and Richmond (58.14%). Like Carlton, the Bombers have been set back by scandals of their own in recent seasons.While it’s simply not possible for a club to maintain such a reign of dominance for decades on end, I’ve been wondering which club has been the most successful across its entire VFL/AFL history. You have to take into account that Hawthorn didn’t enter the competition until 1925, whereas Essendon, Carlton, and Collingwood have been there since 1897.
From 2019, fans will no longer be able to subscribe to AFL Live Pass through the AFL website. However, you can still subscribe via the Apple App Store or the Google Play. If we look to the bottom, we see that Gold Coast (15.6) is well and truly last.Brisbane are the clear chart-toppers in this one, winning 68 per cent of their 25 finals. Only six clubs have made the finals more often than not – West Coast, Collingwood, Sydney, Carlton, Adelaide, and Essendon.As can be seen, West Coast (69.9%) have performed better at home than any other club. You must provide an email address to create a Roar accountAt the bottom of the table we see that the defunct University never qualified for the grand final, nor have the Giants and Suns.So Carlton and Essendon have won the most premierships with 16 each, followed by Collingwood with 15 and then Hawthorn with 13.Now we see a fairer picture, Hawthorn have actually won the most premierships per season with a 13.8 per cent strike rate – or 1.38 per ten years.