VFL/AFL Grand Final Day temperatures, 1898-2025

Ever since I studied the 1987 Grand Final in what was then Melbourne’s earliest 30˚C day on record, the relationship between the weather and football has always been on interest to me. The occasional very wet or very hot days are the usual scene of attention, given that the average weather in Melbourne in late September or early October is very pleasant — 17˚C to 19˚C with over 6 hours sunshine each day, or warm enough for a light cotton jumper and jeans, although frequent strong winds make it feel cooler and require warmer clothing.

For this table I have tabulated the maximum temperature in Melbourne on every VFL/AFL Grand Final day since the first was played in 1898, except for 1924 when no grand final was played, and 2020 and 2021 when COVID caused the Grand Final to be played outside Melbourne. The 1948, 1977 and 2010 replays have been included, and weighted equally with the draws when calculating 5-year means. Temperatures have been colour-coded into bands thus:

Temperature band	Range
*“Frigid”	below -9.4˚C	below 15˚F
*“Freezing”	-9.4˚C to 0˚C	15˚F to 32˚F
*“Chilly”	0˚C to 7.2˚C	32˚F to 45˚F
“Cold”	7.2˚C to 12.8˚C	45˚F to 55˚F
“Cool”	12.8˚C to 18.3˚C	55˚F to 65˚F
“Comfortable”	18.3˚C to 23.9˚C	65˚F to 75˚F
“Warm”	23.9˚C to 29.4˚C	75˚F to 85˚F
“Hot”	29.4˚C to 35˚C	85˚F to 95˚F
*“Sweltering”	above 35˚C	above 95˚F
* = not found in Grand Final Day sample

VFL/AFL Grand Final Day Maximum Temperatures (Second Games are Replays)

For this table, because the Bureau of Meteorology is reluctant to trust temperature data before 1910 — unfortunate given that the 1900s were globally likely the coolest decade since the last glacial period — I have italicised years before 1910. (Data on a first glance suggest that during the 1900s standard shelters were in use in Melbourne much earlier than in more newly established temperature stations).

Although maximum temperatures usually occur during the hours when the Grand Final is played, it must be noted that they do not necessarily occur at this time due to abrupt wind changes. This happened, for instance in 1960 when a vigorous frontal system produced heavy rainfall before the game and drove temperatures far below the tabulated maximum.

Season	Grand Final Day Tmax
1898	69.3 ˚F	20.7 ˚C
1899	57.7 ˚F	14.3 ˚C
1900	61.0 ˚F	16.1 ˚C
1901	70.7 ˚F	21.5 ˚C
1902	53.8 ˚F	12.1 ˚C
1903	76.8 ˚F	24.9 ˚C
1904	68.0 ˚F	20.0 ˚C
1905	53.8 ˚F	12.1 ˚C
1906	57.4 ˚F	14.1 ˚C
1907	72.9 ˚F	22.7 ˚C
1908	64.0 ˚F	17.8 ˚C
1909	61.0 ˚F	16.1 ˚C
1910	70.5 ˚F	21.4 ˚C
1911	60.6 ˚F	15.9 ˚C
1912	70.7 ˚F	21.5 ˚C
1913	64.8 ˚F	18.2 ˚C
1914	57.0 ˚F	13.9 ˚C
1915	61.2 ˚F	16.2 ˚C
1916	68.7 ˚F	20.4 ˚C
1917	63.9 ˚F	17.7 ˚C
1918	59.2 ˚F	15.1 ˚C
1919	79.5 ˚F	26.4 ˚C
1920	63.9 ˚F	17.7 ˚C
1921	63.9 ˚F	17.7 ˚C
1922	74.5 ˚F	23.6 ˚C
1923	69.3 ˚F	20.7 ˚C
1925	64.9 ˚F	18.3 ˚C
1926	73.9 ˚F	23.3 ˚C
1927	55.2 ˚F	12.9 ˚C
1928	61.0 ˚F	16.1 ˚C
1929	68.5 ˚F	20.3 ˚C
1930	69.6 ˚F	20.9 ˚C
1931	61.3 ˚F	16.3 ˚C
1932	61.7 ˚F	16.5 ˚C
1933	61.5 ˚F	16.4 ˚C
1934	64.0 ˚F	17.8 ˚C
1935	63.5 ˚F	17.5 ˚C
1936	69.6 ˚F	20.9 ˚C
1937	68.9 ˚F	20.5 ˚C
1938	73.9 ˚F	23.3 ˚C
1939	65.8 ˚F	18.8 ˚C
1940	54.1 ˚F	12.3 ˚C
1941	76.1 ˚F	24.5 ˚C
1942	66.7 ˚F	19.3 ˚C
1943	59.2 ˚F	15.1 ˚C
1944	85.5 ˚F	29.7 ˚C
1945	69.8 ˚F	21.0 ˚C
1946	57.2 ˚F	14.0 ˚C
1947	76.1 ˚F	24.5 ˚C
1948	59.5 ˚F	15.3 ˚C
	55.2 ˚F	12.9 ˚C
1949	57.0 ˚F	13.9 ˚C
1950	70.0 ˚F	21.1 ˚C
1951	68.0 ˚F	20.0 ˚C
1952	66.9 ˚F	19.4 ˚C
1953	62.1 ˚F	16.7 ˚C
1954	57.9 ˚F	14.4 ˚C
1955	57.9 ˚F	14.4 ˚C
1956	64.9 ˚F	18.3 ˚C
1957	65.5 ˚F	18.6 ˚C
1958	52.3 ˚F	11.3 ˚C
1959	63.1 ˚F	17.3 ˚C
1960	71.1 ˚F	21.7 ˚C
1961	66.6 ˚F	19.2 ˚C
1962	57.2 ˚F	14.0 ˚C
1963	76.1 ˚F	24.5 ˚C
1964	69.4 ˚F	20.8 ˚C
1965	76.3 ˚F	24.6 ˚C
1966	56.1 ˚F	13.4 ˚C
1967	61.0 ˚F	16.1 ˚C
1968	70.5 ˚F	21.4 ˚C
1969	73.9 ˚F	23.3 ˚C
1970	57.7 ˚F	14.3 ˚C
1971	66.0 ˚F	18.9 ˚C
1972	19.3 ˚C	66.7 ˚F
1973	23.8 ˚C	74.8 ˚F
1974	17.5 ˚C	63.5 ˚F
1975	19.6 ˚C	67.3 ˚F
1976	15.8 ˚C	60.4 ˚F
1977	15.2 ˚C	59.4 ˚F
	17.1 ˚C	62.8 ˚F
1978	20.7 ˚C	69.3 ˚F
1979	15.8 ˚C	60.4 ˚F
1980	18.3 ˚C	64.9 ˚F
1981	17.7 ˚C	63.9 ˚F
1982	16.3 ˚C	61.3 ˚F
1983	13.5 ˚C	56.3 ˚F
1984	12.4 ˚C	54.3 ˚F
1985	13.3 ˚C	55.9 ˚F
1986	14.7 ˚C	58.5 ˚F
1987	30.7 ˚C	87.3 ˚F
1988	18.4 ˚C	65.1 ˚F
1989	21.7 ˚C	71.1 ˚F
1990	14.0 ˚C	57.2 ˚F
1991	16.6 ˚C	61.9 ˚F
1992	15.1 ˚C	59.2 ˚F
1993	17.4 ˚C	63.3 ˚F
1994	17.8 ˚C	64.0 ˚F
1995	21.5 ˚C	70.7 ˚F
1996	18.5 ˚C	65.3 ˚F
1997	19.6 ˚C	67.3 ˚F
1998	20.7 ˚C	69.3 ˚F
1999	17.5 ˚C	63.5 ˚F
2000	17.7 ˚C	63.9 ˚F
2001	25.9 ˚C	78.6 ˚F
2002	11.9 ˚C	53.4 ˚F
2003	13.7 ˚C	56.7 ˚F
2004	18.2 ˚C	64.8 ˚F
2005	15.9 ˚C	60.6 ˚F
2006	17.8 ˚C	64.0 ˚F
2007	17.5 ˚C	63.5 ˚F
2008	24.0 ˚C	75.2 ˚F
2009	14.2 ˚C	57.6 ˚F
2010	19.9 ˚C	67.8 ˚F
	21.0 ˚C	69.8 ˚F
2011	14.0 ˚C	57.2 ˚F
2012	13.5 ˚C	56.3 ˚F
2013	16.4 ˚C	61.5 ˚F
2014	23.4 ˚C	74.1 ˚F
2015	31.3 ˚C	88.3 ˚F
2016	18.6 ˚C	65.5 ˚F
2017	15.4 ˚C	59.7 ˚F
2018	14.0 ˚C	57.2 ˚F
2019	14.9 ˚C	58.8 ˚F
2022	14.7 ˚C	58.5 ˚F
2023	29.7 ˚C	85.5 ˚F
2024	22.0 ˚C	71.6 ˚F
2025	19.5 ˚C	67.1 ˚F

Graph of Grand Final Day Temperatures and 5-Year Mean:

Maximum Temperatures in ˚C on Each VFL/AFL Grand Final Day in Melbourne (all data courtesy of Australian Bureau of Meteorology)

If we look at this graph, it is difficult to detect the global warming produced by the huge fossil fuel production for the profit of Australian coal barons and Persian Gulf oil sheikhs. This, of course, is substantially a reflection of small sample size. There are, indeed, many cases where a change of merely one day would produce a radically different temperature. For instance, in 1928 and 2008, the preceding Friday exceeded 29˚C.

However, very hot Grand Final days seem to have become more frequent, as seen by two such days in 2015 and 2023 equalling the total before 2015 [from 1944 and 1987].

One interesting fact is that both the hottest and the coolest Grand Final days seem to occur mostly in years of widespread droughts. The very hot Grand Finals of 1944 and 2015, and the very cool Grand Finals of 1902, 1940, and 2002, all occurred in years of extreme drought in various parts of Victoria and adjacent states. So did several slightly less hot or cool Grand Finals like 1946 (cool) and 1965 (hot). A plausible explanation for this is that exceptionally hot and exceptionally cool temperatures are both dependent on dominant anticyclones driving air from Central Australia (very hot weather) or Antarctica (very cool).

Another notable fact is that changes in the date of the Grand Final (not shown) do not seem to have had much effect upon temperatures. The earlier Grand Final (1916, September 2) was very nearly so hot as the latest one (1923, October 20) whilst the two hottest pre-Kyōtō Protocol Grand Finals were both played in September not October. Of other Grand Finals played with temperatures above 23.9˚C — well and truly warm enough to wear shorts and a T-shirt — only 1919 and 1963 were played in October, whilst 1903, 1941, 1947 and 1965 were played in September. [Regarding the reliability of temperature data from 1903, newspaper reports do suggest strongly the weather was very warm].

The amazing figures of Jack Owens in 1926 and 1930

Although I have ever since childhood been interested in (Australian rules) football statistics, it is only since reading the Full Points Footy site in the 2000s that my interest was extended beyond the VFL/AFL. Whilst I did have some background knowledge of other football competitions, it was only with Full Points Footy that I gained any detailed knowledge of the SANFL and WA(N)FL before the national completion began in the late 1980s.

One of the most remarkable things I discovered from reading the SANFL season scores of the middle to late 1920s was the extent to which Jack Owens monopolised scoring for Glenelg in some seasons. In his book Goals, Goals, Goals: A Study of League and Association Full-Forwards, Marc Fiddian paid limited attention to cases of players kicking all their team’s goals in a match, in favour of focusing on the extremely large goal tallies common in the VFA during my childhood. Nevertheless, there is an attraction to cases where one player monopolises scoring to an unusual degree — the team is totally dependent upon one player to score, and that naturally affects the attention granted to that player, and may make that player work much harder knowing that nobody else can do his job. (The phenomenon is well known to me from such county bowlers as “Tich” Freeman and George Dennett, who often took over half their team’s wickets for an entire season, feasible for a spin bowler under conditions not rigged against them by covering and “log bats”.)

Owens, who came from Broken Hill to Glenelg at a time when the club had not won a game in three seasons, would established himself very quickly around the time the club finally opened its account in the first game of 1925. He would set SA(N)FL goalkicking records — that would almost immediately be broken by North Adelaide’s Ken Farmer — in 1927 and 1928. Although Glenelg would improve substantially from their first three seasons, this improvement would during the period under discussion not be sufficient to lift them above seventh in an eight-club competition. What has attracted my attention for some years, though, is the proportion of Glenelg’s goals Owens kicked. The 1989 3AW Book of Footy Records, which I discarded many years ago, noted Ted Tyson’s goalkicking feats for the West Perth team of 1938 and 1939, who lost 27 consecutive games. Whilst these are remarkable, my study of the scores and season goalkicking figures for the SA(N)FL seasons between 1925 and 1932 shows that Owens actually surpassed Tyson’s monopolisation of the scoring. In fact, in the seasons of 1926 and 1930, Owens kicked over half of all Glenelg’s goals, a feat which the 2000s AFL Record encyclopedias show never to have been achieved over a full season in the VFL/AFL. The closest approach occurred in 1944 when Melbourne’s Fred Fanning kicked 48.33 percent of the team’s goals in the fourteen games he played. Fanning, though, missed four through suspension.

1926:

Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	Total
Owens	0	1	5	4	6	6	7	1	5	7	7	3	6	6	64
	0.00%	20.00%	55.56%	44.44%	75.00%	50.00%	70.00%	14.29%	71.43%	63.64%	43.75%	75.00%	66.67%	66.67%	54.24%
C. Sallis			1	1		3	1	3	1	2					12
Drew			1					1		2	2	1		1	8
Hack			1	1		1	1								4
P. Leverington		1						1			2				4
C. Hoft											1		2	1	4
Lyne	1	1				1									3
W. Hill				2	1										3
Gun						1		1	1						3
Exley		1					1							1	3
L. Sallis			1								1				2
L. Leverington											2				2
J. Davies											1		1		2
Toms	1														1
Lloyd		1													1
C. Hill				1											1
Barbary					1										1
Total	2	5	9	9	8	12	10	7	7	11	16	4	9	9	118

1930:

Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	Total
Owens	5	6	4	10	1	5	8	5	5	1	5	3	4	10	8	11	8	99
	71.43%	60.00%	44.44%	90.91%	11.11%	41.67%	53.33%	55.56%	71.43%	16.67%	35.71%	33.33%	40.00%	83.33%	80.00%	68.75%	80.00%	56.25%
Thompson						1	2		1	3	3				1	1		12
Link		2			1		2			2			3					10
Sallis								1			2	3		1		1		8
Rosewarne		1			2	2										2	1	8
Coller			3		2	2												7
Winkler				1	2						1	1	1					6
Morrow					1	1		1										3
Hill			1				1	1										3
Drew							2		1									3
Griffiths		1									1		1					3
K. Oliver												1		1			1	3
Johnston								1				1						2
Whitehead											1		1					2
Guiney			1													1		2
Edwards	1																	1
Percy	1																	1
Wickham						1												1
Lloyd											1							1
Wright															1			1
Total	7	10	9	11	9	12	15	9	7	6	14	9	10	12	10	16	10	176

From these two tables, we can see that:

1. in the last four games of 1930, Owens kicked 37 of Glenelg’s 48 goals —more than 75 percent, a proportion unrivalled for so long a period
2. in 1926, Owens kicked at least half of Glenelg’s goals in nine of fourteen matches (64.28 percent)
3. in 1930, Owens kicked at least half of Glenelg’s goals in ten of seventeen matches (58.82 percent)

With Tyson, John Coleman, Austin Robertson junior, Peter Hudson, Tony Lockett, and Brendan Fevola, scoring monopolisation was never as pronounced as 1), although, apart from “Ocker”, I have not thoroughly checked. It is odd that 3AW did not notice this.

25-scoring-shot quarter aggregates

Ten years ago, I did a post on cases of 100 points being scored in a quarter in VFL/AFL football. A few weeks ago, I listed all 37 cases in a tabulated manner.

Having long been interested in the length of [Australian rules] football games and quarters, I have recently considered whether aggregate scoring shots rather than aggregate points scored would provide a better indication of how long a quarter or match is likely to last.

For this reason, I have looked for quarters in VFL/AFL football with at least 25 aggregate scoring shots. As a first note, I have tabulated such quarters in pink below:

Round	Home Team	¼ time	½ time	¾ time		Away Team	¼ time	½ time	¾ time
Round 1, 1934	Essendon	8.2 (50)	12.5 (77)	15.9 (99)	19.11 (125)	Footscray	8.7 (55)	10.13 (73)	13.15 (93)	16.18 (114)
Round 6, 1935	Carlton	2.4 (16)	12.11 (83)	15.13 (103)	20.16 (136)	North Melbourne	2.5 (17)	6.9 (45)	8.12 (60)	9.14 (68)
Round 2, 1939	South Melbourne	3.4 (22)	8.11 (59)	10.14 (74)	15.17 (107)	Collingwood	8.12 (60)	11.13 (79)	17.18 (120)	21.20 (146)
Round 3, 1940	Collingwood	5.4 (34)	6.8 (44)	13.18 (96)	18.19 (127)	Carlton	2.4 (16)	5.6 (36)	7.13 (55)	12.18 (90)
Round 19, 1945	Carlton	5.3 (33)	12.9 (81)	14.13 (97)	23.23 (161)	Geelong	1.2 (8)	2.6 (18)	7.8 (50)	9.13 (67)
Round 15, 1969	Collingwood	3.3 (21)	6.5 (41)	12.13 (85)	15.16 (106)	Carlton	4.2 (26)	7.6 (48)	14.10 (94)	17.14 (116)
Round 19, 1975	South Melbourne	4.4 (28)	7.13 (55)	10.17 (77)	13.20 (98)	Fitzroy	6.1 (37)	10.10 (70)	12.14 (86)	16.19 (115)
Round 1, 1977	Fitzroy	8.5 (53)	13.11 (89)	16.13 (109)	21.17 (143)	Richmond	5.3 (33)	13.10 (88)	16.17 (113)	18.21 (129)
Round 6, 1977	Hawthorn	5.11 (41)	10.24 (84)	15.32 (122)	25.41 (191)	St. Kilda	2.0 (12)	10.3 (63)	11.5 (71)	16.7 (103)
Round 2, 1978	Melbourne	4.7 (31)	14.15 (99)	20.20 (140)	24.23 (167)	Fitzroy	5.3 (33)	8.7 (55)	16.13 (109)	23.19 (157)
Round 6, 1978	Melbourne	6.2 (38)	8.5 (53)	15.8 (98)	21.15 (141)	St. Kilda	8.7 (55)	19.12 (126)	23.13 (151)	31.18 (204)
Round 13, 1978	Essendon	1.6 (12)	2.12 (24)	7.16 (58)	12.26 (98)	Collingwood	3.2 (20)	9.8 (62)	11.14 (80)	14.21 (105)
Round 14, 1978	Richmond	3.5 (23)	11.15 (81)	16.15 (111)	17.20 (122)	Geelong	5.3 (33)	11.4 (70)	15.8 (98)	18.9 (117)
Round 7, 1979	Footscray	4.3 (27)	10.7 (67)	13.10 (88)	22.17 (149)	South Melbourne	4.4 (28)	9.6 (60)	10.12 (72)	14.17 (101)
Round 15, 1979	Melbourne	5.3 (33)	9.11 (65)	17.17 (119)	24.23 (167)	South Melbourne	4.5 (29)	10.5 (65)	18.8 (116)	24.10 (154)
Round 5, 1980	Richmond	6.1 (37)	13.8 (86)	18.19 (127)	29.25 (199)	Fitzroy	4.3 (27)	4.8 (32)	9.13 (67)	11.15 (81)
Round 9, 1980	Collingwood	2.8 (20)	10.18 (78)	13.23 (101)	18.28 (136)	Geelong	0.7 (7)	6.10 (46)	10.13 (73)	15.15 (105)
Round 22, 1980	Carlton	5.5 (35)	9.11 (65)	19.17 (131)	21.20 (146)	Fitzroy	3.5 (23)	5.11 (41)	11.14 (80)	20.22 (142)
Round 3, 1982	Richmond	4.7 (31)	12.14 (86)	15.18 (108)	25.22 (172)	Essendon	6.3 (39)	12.9 (81)	14.13 (97)	16.14 (110)
Round 17, 1983	Fitzroy	2.4 (16)	14.10 (94)	16.12 (108)	20.18 (138)	St. Kilda	7.6 (48)	14.7 (91)	19.14 (128)	22.17 (149)
Round 5, 1985	Hawthorn	4.8 (32)	9.16 (70)	14.18 (102)	21.23 (149)	Richmond	5.5 (35)	13.10 (88)	23.11 (149)	29.14 (188)
Round 14, 1985	Geelong	7.9 (51)	10.13 (73)	14.19 (103)	17.22 (124)	Footscray	7.3 (45)	12.6 (78)	17.8 (110)	23.8 (146)
Round 21, 1985	Sydney	8.10 (58)	14.15 (99)	20.17 (137)	24.21 (165)	Melbourne	2.5 (17)	5.10 (40)	10.11 (71)	14.13 (97)
Round 5, 1988	North Melbourne	3.2 (20)	7.8 (50)	12.11 (83)	19.14 (128)	Hawthorn	7.3 (45)	14.7 (91)	25.14 (164)	31.19 (205)
Round 1, 1989	Carlton	1.2 (8)	2.6 (18)	8.10 (58)	10.13 (73)	Footscray	5.3 (33)	9.6 (60)	17.13 (115)	19.18 (132)
Round 1, 1989	North Melbourne	2.5 (17)	11.9 (75)	14.14 (98)	18.17 (125)	Geelong	6.3 (39)	9.12 (66)	14.17 (101)	17.21 (123)
Round 5, 1989	North Melbourne	3.1 (19)	8.9 (57)	10.12 (72)	20.14 (134)	Richmond	7.3 (45)	9.5 (59)	18.10 (118)	26.15 (171)
Round 6, 1989	Hawthorn	5.3 (33)	9.5 (59)	16.9 (105)	26.15 (171)	Geelong	8.4 (52)	17.6 (108)	19.10 (124)	25.13 (163)
Round 8, 1989	West Coast	3.4 (22)	7.13 (55)	9.20 (74)	12.21 (93)	Melbourne	1.3 (9)	7.10 (52)	8.12 (60)	13.17 (95)
First Semi-Final, 1989	Geelong	3.3 (21)	8.8 (56)	12.11 (83)	22.21 (153)	Melbourne	1.5 (11)	3.11 (29)	8.16 (64)	12.18 (90)
Round 4, 1991	Richmond	5.8 (38)	9.10 (64)	14.12 (96)	19.13 (127)	Sydney	9.4 (58)	13.8 (86)	16.14 (110)	24.20 (164)
Round 4, 1991	Brisbane	2.1 (13)	8.8 (56)	10.11 (71)	12.16 (88)	Geelong	4.9 (33)	11.16 (82)	21.21 (147)	27.28 (190)
Round 6, 1991	North Melbourne	5.7 (37)	13.12 (90)	19.18 (132)	27.26 (188)	Sydney	9.3 (57)	19.6 (120)	21.8 (134)	21.8 (134)
Round 21, 1991	Hawthorn	7.6 (48)	11.15 (81)	22.25 (157)	28.27 (195)	Fitzroy	2.2 (14)	4.5 (29)	7.6 (48)	10.9 (69)
Round 22, 1991	Fitzroy	7.5 (47)	14.9 (93)	17.14 (116)	22.16 (148)	North Melbourne	4.2 (26)	14.6 (90)	16.12 (108)	21.21 (147)
Round 13, 1992	North Melbourne	4.2 (26)	5.6 (36)	14.8 (92)	17.13 (115)	Geelong	7.5 (47)	16.8 (104)	23.16 (154)	29.18 (192)
Round 23, 1992	Adelaide	5.6 (36)	14.17 (101)	17.21 (123)	24.25 (169)	Geelong	1.9 (9)	4.5 (29)	8.9 (57)	11.12 (78)
Round 7, 1994	Geelong	7.3 (45)	13.9 (87)	15.12 (102)	18.16 (124)	Collingwood	0.1 (1)	4.10 (34)	12.14 (86)	13.18 (96)
Round 22, 1995	North Melbourne	7.11 (53)	16.13 (109)	25.21 (171)	30.24 (204)	Fitzroy	6.1 (37)	8.2 (50)	12.6 (78)	15.11 (101)
Round 5, 2001	Brisbane	3.4 (22)	9.9 (63)	12.15 (87)	25.21 (171)	Fremantle	6.2 (38)	8.4 (52)	15.6 (96)	19.8 (122)

Some notable facts about 25-scoring-shot quarters:

1. the total number of 43 is six more than the 37 century-aggregate quarters
2. the most in one season is six in 1989
3. the second-most is five in 1978 and five in 1991
4. other seasons with multiple cases are 1977 (three), 1979, 1980 (three), 1985 (three), 1992 and 1995 (two in one match)
5. the most 25-scoring-shot quarters played by any club is 11 by Fitzroy and Geelong
6. Port Adelaide, Gold Coast and Greater Western Sydney have played no 25-scoring-shot quarters; Adelaide, Fremantle and West Coast just one
7. Essendon have the fewest by any pre-1987 club with just three
8. unlike century-aggregate quarters, three matches have seen two 25-scoring-shot-aggregate quarters:
1. Hawthorn v St. Kilda, Round 6, 1977 (second and final)
2. Melbourne v Fitzroy, Round 2, 1978 (second and third)
3. North Melbourne v Fitzroy, Round 22, 1995 (first and third)
9. unlike century-aggregate quarters, there has been one case in a finals match of 25 scoring shots in a quarter, between Geelong and Melbourne in the last quarter of the 1989 First Semi-Final
• although not reching the century aggregate, this last quarter is the highest-scoring quarter ever recorded in a finals match – remarkably it was quite a rainy day
10. of the 43 25-scoring-shot-aggregate quarters, a total of twelve were also century-aggregate quarters
1. these twelve quarters constitute 32.43 percent of all century-aggregate quarters and 27.91 percent of all 25-scoring-shot-aggregate quarters
11. there have been six of the consistent 22 rounds since 1970 without a 25-scoring-shot-aggregate quarter:
1. Round 10
2. Round 11
3. Round 12
4. Round 16
5. Round 18
6. Round 20
12. Contrariwise, there have been six cases on Round 6, five cases on Round 5, and four cases on Round 1 and Round 22
13. This pattern is broadly similar to those of century-aggregate quarters, though with a larger drop occurring at the height of the season in the coolest and darkest winter weather
14. unlike century-aggregate quarters, there have been two rounds – Round 1, 1989 and Round 4, 1991 – with two games featuring a 25-scoring-shot aggregate quarter
15. the lowest aggregate for a 25- or more-scoring-shot-quarter is 7.18 (60) between South Melbourne and Fitzroy in Round 19, 1975
16. the lowest match aggregate with a 25-scoring-shot quarter is 25.38 (188) between West Coast and Melbourne in Round 8, 1989
17. of the 43 quarters with 25 scoring shots, 23 have had exactly 25 scoring shots, 15 had 26 aggregate scoring shots, four had 27 aggregate scoring shots, none had 28 aggregate scoring shots, and one (the second quarter between Hawthorn and St. Kilda in Round 6, 1977) had 29 aggregate scoring shots
18. of the 20 quarters with 26 or more scoring shots, there were three (two in one match) in 1977 and 1991. Two occurred in 1980, 1985, and 1989
19. all of the five quarters with 27 or more aggregate scoring shots were first or second quarters – four being second quarters alone
20. the previous point does suggest that accuracy improving as players are exhausted may be a factor in causing century-aggregate quarters to concentrate in the final quarter when players are most weary