{"id":43915,"date":"2020-09-02T13:19:18","date_gmt":"2020-09-02T03:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/?p=43915"},"modified":"2020-09-02T13:21:27","modified_gmt":"2020-09-02T03:51:27","slug":"this-years-afl-grand-final-will-be-a-night-game-for-the-first-time-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/this-years-afl-grand-final-will-be-a-night-game-for-the-first-time-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"This Year\u2019s AFL Grand Final Will Be A Night Game For The First Time Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">AFL CEO Gillon McLachlan has confirmed this year\u2019s historic GF will be a night game played at the Gabba.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The 2020 Toyota AFL Grand Final will be played at The Gabba in Brisbane, Queensland on Saturday October 24 \ud83c\udfc6<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AFLGF?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AFLGF<\/a><\/p>&mdash; AFL (@AFL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AFL\/status\/1301002487789281287?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 2, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">McLachlan said on Wednesday:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cIt is my pleasure to formally announce the 2020 AFL Grand Final will be played in QLD at the Gabba.\u201d<\/p><p>\u201cFor the first ever time we will play a Grand Final at night giving us the opportunity to make it a truly unique event.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The game will be played on Saturday 24 October with the exact start time TBC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The game will be played in front of \u201cat least 30,000\u201d people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the case of a COVID outbreak the crowd number could be reduced or the game moved to Adelaide Oval.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LIVE?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#LIVE<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AFL?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AFL<\/a> CEO Gillon McLachlan is making a major announcement about the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AFL?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AFL<\/a> Grand Final. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/9News?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#9News<\/a><br>Latest: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UtJSnd3xiy\">https:\/\/t.co\/UtJSnd3xiy<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Bf7NlXY7Pr\">https:\/\/t.co\/Bf7NlXY7Pr<\/a><\/p>&mdash; 9News Australia (@9NewsAUS) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/9NewsAUS\/status\/1301001271441145858?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 2, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFL CEO Gillon McLachlan has confirmed this year\u2019s historic GF will be a night game played at the Gabba. McLachlan said on Wednesday: \u201cIt is my pleasure to formally announce the 2020 AFL Grand Final will be played in QLD at the Gabba.\u201d\u201cFor the first ever time we will play a Grand Final at night [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[143],"tags":[248],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-43915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sport","tag-sport"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>This Year\u2019s AFL Grand Final Will Be A Night Game For The First Time Ever - FIVEAA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/this-years-afl-grand-final-will-be-a-night-game-for-the-first-time-ever\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"This Year\u2019s AFL Grand Final Will Be A Night Game For The First Time Ever\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"AFL CEO Gillon McLachlan has confirmed this year\u2019s historic GF will be a night game played at the Gabba. 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