Rule: The Grand Final shall be hosted at the home ground of the participating side that finishes highest in the regular season and wins all its finals.
| Result | HGA* | Adjusted venue | Adjusted HGA | Adjusted result | |
| 1991 | HAW by 53 | HAW +6.3 | Waverley Park |
Disaster in the west as the Eagles, seemingly on track to host the first ever Grand Final outside Victoria, lose their Qualifying Final at Subiaco to Hawthorn. It delivers the Hawks the right to host the Grand Final at their home ground of Waverley Park, which, in a convenient twist of fate, is where it would have been held anyway, as the M.C.G. is unavailable due to renovations.
Hawthorn duly defend Victorian pride, keeping both the premiership and the Grand Final a local affair for one more year.
| Result | HGA | Adjusted venue | Adjusted HGA | Adjusted result | |
| 1992 | WCE by 28 | GEE +3.7 | Subiaco | WCE +12.1 | WCE by 44 |
A series of unexpected results sends the Grand Final to Perth after the Eagles upset the Cats in a semi-final. A fortnight later, the Eagles repeat the performance and set Perth alight with a historic home premiership.
| Result | HGA | Adjusted venue | Adjusted HGA | Adjusted result | |
| 1993 | ESS by 44 | ESS +1.0 | MCG | ||
| 1994 | WCE by 80 | GEE +3.6 | WACA | WCE +12.6 | WCE by 96 |
After an all-Victorian affair in 1993, West Coast win the right to host the 1994 Grand Final. But with Subiaco unavailable, it’s a debut for the W.A.C.A. The Eagles enter the match as strong favourites and are never challenged, belting the travelling Cats by 96 points.
| Result | HGA | Adjusted venue | Adjusted HGA | Adjusted result | |
| 1995 | CAR by 61 | CAR +2.7 | MCG | ||
| 1996 | NOR by 43 | NOR +8.4 | SCG | SYD +13.3 | NOR by 21 |
For the third time in five years, the Grand Final heads out of Victoria, this time to Sydney. Unrest in Victoria centers around how North Melbourne, who finished only half a game behind the Swans after an arguably tougher fixture, must play a Grand Final at a venue they haven’t visited all year. But the Kangaroos rise to the occasion, breaking away late to win by 21 points.
| Result | HGA | Adjusted venue | Adjusted HGA | Adjusted result | |
| 1997 | ADE by 31 | STK +6.1 | Waverly Park | STK +7.9 | ADE by 29 |
The Grand Final returns to Waverley Park with the Saints hosting. But they can’t stop Adelaide from becoming the first non-Victorian club to win a flag on Victorian soil.
| Result | HGA | Adjusted venue | Adjusted HGA | Adjusted result | |
| 1998 | ADE by 35 | NOR +7.9 | MCG |
The Crows seal their reputation as road warriors by winning the flag in Victoria for the second year in a row, this time from 5th place.
| Result | HGA | Adjusted venue | Adjusted HGA | Adjusted result | |
| 1999 | NOR by 35 | CAR +1.1 | MCG | ||
| 2000 | ESS by 60 | ESS +0.4 | MCG | ||
| 2001 | BRI by 26 | ESS +8.7 | MCG | ||
| 2002 | BRI by 9 | COL +8.7 | Gabba | BRI+13.4 | BRI by 30 |
After four successive Grand Finals at the MCG, the reigning premiers, Brisbane, take the Grand Final to the Gabba for the first time. They’re too strong there for Collingwood, recording a comfortable 30-point victory.
| Result | HGA | Adjusted venue | Adjusted HGA | Adjusted result | |
| 2003 | BRI by 50 | COL +8.7 | MCG | ||
| 2004 | POR by 40 | BRI +1.2 | Football Park | POR +12.1 | POR by 53 |
Brisbane clinch a threepeat on the road against Collingwood, but can’t make it four in a row at the first ever South Australian Grand Final. It’s the Lions’ first match at Football Park since Round 2 and they can’t match a rampaging Port Adelaide, who delight an ebullient local crowd with a 53-point win.
| Result | HGA | Adjusted venue | Adjusted HGA | Adjusted result | |
| 2005 | SYD by 4 | SYD +0.8 | Subiaco | WCE +11.3 | WCE by 8 |
After a nail-biting Qualifying Final, West Coast and Sydney face off again in the Grand Final, which returns to Perth for the first time in 11 years. In a gripping, see-sawing match, the Eagles triumph by 8 points, with a late Leo Barry grab unrewarded by the umpires.
| Result | HGA | Adjusted venue | Adjusted HGA | Adjusted result | |
| 2006 | WCE by 1 | SYD +0.6 | Stadium Australia | SYD +12.2 | SYD by 11 |
For the second year in a row, the Eagles and Swans wage an epic Qualifying Final at Subiaco, but this time the Swans emerge victorious. It sends the Grand Final to Stadium Australia, and at home the Swans exact revenge for the previous year. For the second year in a row, the Grand Final is decided by under two goals.
| Result | HGA | Adjusted venue | Adjusted HGA | Adjusted result | |
| 2007 | GEE by 119 | GEE +5.9 | Kardinia Park | GEE +11.7 | GEE by 125 |
Geelong’s epic 125-point demolition of Port Adelaide at Kardinia Park sparks calls for a review of the Grand Final hosting policy, with popular opinion holding that the unusual ground was responsible for Port Adelaide’s otherwise inexplicably poor performance.
| Result | HGA | Adjusted venue | Adjusted HGA | Adjusted result | |
| 2008 | HAW by 26 | HAW +2.6 | Kardinia Park | GEE +11.4 | HAW by 12 |
The Cats enter the Grand Final as the hottest of favourites, but talk of unfair home advantage ends as the Hawks pull off an extraordinary heist, winning 17.6 to 12.24 in the greatest premiership upset of the AFL era.
| Result | HGA | Adjusted venue | Adjusted HGA | Adjusted result | |
| 2009 | GEE by 12 | STK +1.8 | Docklands | STK +3.5 | GEE by 10 |
For the sixth year in a row, the MCG sits empty on Grand Final Day. Meanwhile, fifty thousand people watch Geelong defeat St Kilda in a classic at Docklands, the Cats leading by 4 points at the final siren before Rooke takes advantage of an unattended mark to push it to 10.
| Result | HGA | Adjusted venue | Adjusted HGA | Adjusted result | |
| 2010 | DRAW | COL +2.2 | MCG | ||
| 2011 | GEE by 38 | COL +3.5 | MCG | ||
| 2012 | SYD by 10 | HAW +8.4 | MCG | ||
| 2013 | HAW by 13 | HAW +8.6 | MCG | ||
| 2014 | HAW by 63 | HAW +8.5 | SCG | SYD +12.5 | HAW by 42 |
After four outings at the MCG, the Grand Final returns to Stadium Australia in Sydney. But the Hawks are too strong on the day, upsetting the Swans by 42.
| Result | HGA | Adjusted venue | Adjusted HGA | Adjusted result | |
| 2015 | HAW by 46 | HAW +9.1 | Subiaco | WCE +11.2 | HAW by 26 |
West Coast bring the Grand Final back to Subiaco and enter with high expectations, after defeating the Hawks at the same venue in the Qualifying Final. But they can’t repeat the performance, with the Hawks kicking away early to quieten the local crowd.
| Result | HGA | Adjusted venue | Adjusted HGA | Adjusted result | |
| 2016 | WBD by 22 | WBD +7.2 | SCG | SYD +11.7 | WBD by 3 |
The Western Bulldogs complete one of the most remarkable finals campaigns ever by defeating Sydney by 3 points at the S.C.G. It is the closest margin in a Grand Final of the AFL era.
| Result | HGA | Adjusted venue | Adjusted HGA | Adjusted result | |
| 2017 | RIC by 48 | RIC +8.8 | Adelaide Oval | ADE +11.2 | RIC by 28 |
For only the second time, the Grand Final comes to Adelaide. But the Crows wilt under the pressure, falling to a swarming Richmond by 28 points.
Grand Finals by Venue:
| MCG | 11 |
| Subiaco | 3 |
| SCG | 3 |
| Waverley Park | 2 |
| Kardinia Park | 2 |
| WACA | 1 |
| Stadium Australia | 1 |
| Gabba | 1 |
| Football Park | 1 |
| Docklands | 1 |
| Adelaide Oval | 1 |
Grand Final Alternate Winners: 2 (2005, 2006).
* Home Ground Advantage (HGA) is calculated from the Squiggle HGA model of ground familiarity.