The 1994 AFL season was the 98th season of the Australian Football League (AFL), the highest level senior Australian rules football competition in Australia, which was known as the Victorian Football League until 1989.
The season featured fifteen clubs, ran from 26 March until 1 October, and comprised a 22-game home-and-away season followed by a finals series featuring the top eight clubs – an increase from the six clubs which had contested the finals in previous years.
The premiership was won by the West Coast Eagles for the second time, after it defeated Geelong by 80 points in the 1994 AFL Grand Final.
Essendon 15.12 (102) defeated Adelaide 9.14 (68) in the final.
There were several significant alterations to the laws of the game brought in for the 1994 season: Rules for classification: 1. premiership points; 2. percentage; 3. points forAverage score: 94.4Source: AFL Tables The second McIntyre "final six" system, which had operated in 1992 and 1993, was replaced by the McIntyre "final eight" system.