The 1999 AFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Kangaroos and Carlton at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on 25 September 1999. It was the 103rd annual grand final of the Australian Football League (formerly the Victorian Football League), staged to determine the premiers for the 1999 AFL season. The match, attended by 94,228 spectators, was won by the Kangaroos by a margin of 35 points (the second consecutive year in which the premiership decider was determined by that margin). It was the club's fourth and (as of 2022) most recent premiership victory. Background This was the ' second consecutive appearance in a grand final, whilst it was Carlton's first since winning the 1995 AFL Grand Final. It was not a grand final matchup that was widely anticipated prior to the finals, with the top placed Essendon Bombers clearly the standout team of the home & away season and heavily backed to reach the grand final against another top four aspirant. While the second placed qualified for the grand final with a preliminary final victory over the Brisbane Lions, the sixth placed Carlton Blues upset the Bombers to qualify as their grand final opponents in one of the biggest boilovers in finals history. The finished the 1999 home-and-away season in second position with 17 wins and 5 losses, although they had still conceded the most points against out of the top-10 teams on the ladder. They were a game behind , with the Brisbane Lions, Western Bulldogs, West Coast, Carlton, and making up the final eight. Carlton had finished with a record of 12 wins and ten losses, becoming only the third club (after in 1900) and South Melbourne in 1899 to reach the grand final after finishing sixth on the ladder. The Kangaroos progressed to the grand final after a 45-point win over Brisbane in the preliminary final. Carlton's unexpected preliminary final win against Essendon meant that North Melbourne went into the grand final as heavy favourites. Teams Match summary Despite the Kangaroos entering the match as the strong short-priced favourite, Carlton seemed the better team in the opening 10 minutes and scored the first goal of the match when Brett Ratten seized an opportunity at the six minute mark after an errant kickout from the Kangaroos David King. This, however, was all they had to show for their efforts, as Glenn Archer, Byron Pickett