The 1993 Australian Football League season was the 97th season of the elite Australian rules football competition and the 4th under the name 'Australian Football League', having switched from 'Victorian Football League' after 1989.
Foster's Cup
14.18 defeated 11.13 in the final.
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
Finals
Elimination Finals
Qualifying Final
Semi finals
Preliminary Final
Grand final
Ladder
All teams played 20 games during the home and away season, for a total of 150. Each team also had two byes. An additional 7 games were played during the finals series.
Following the release of the Crawford Report, prepared by insolvency expert David Crawford, the clubs voted to make significant changes to the administrative structure of the AFL during the 1993 season:
* The AFL Commission was expanded from six members to eight, and was given the power to make most administrative decisions relating to the league unilaterally.
* The AFL Board of Directors, after 96 years of operation, voted itself out of existence.
* The clubs retained the right to veto any Commission decision by a two-thirds vote.
* With several Victorian clubs, Brisbane and Sydney all worried about their long-term viability at the time, a stipulation was also included that any decisions relating to the expulsion, merger or relocation of a club required ratification by a simple majority of all clubs and the agreement of the club in question. This was changed to a two-thirds vote of all clubs from 1998.
At the conclusion of their Round 4 game against, 's Nicky Winmar responded to racial vilification from the Collingwood cheer squad by declaring, "I'm black and proud of it!" while raising his jumper and pointing to his skin, an image which has since become famous. This was also St Kilda's first win at Victoria Park in two decades.
and both set club-record high scores in this season. North Melbourne's 35.19 in Round 6 was then the fifth-highest score of all time, and Brisbane's 33.21 in Round 8 was then the tenth-highest of all time. The opponent in both of these games was.
In the Round 8 game, set the record for the highest score at three-quarter time, 27.17. This remained the record until 2007.
In Round 18, a piglet with the word "PLUGA" and the number four painted on it was released onto the Sydney Cricket Ground during the match between and ; play was held up for two to three minutes as it managed to evade capture from trainers, security guards and players. The idea to release the pig had been devised by a small group of Sydney supporters and players the previous week, and was intended as a tactic to put dangerous St Kilda full-forward Tony "Plugger" Lockett off his game. As it happened, Lockett missed the game with injury, but was reportedly enraged when he saw the incident on television.
