St Kilda won the 1996 pre-season competition.

They became the first team in AFL history to win the pre-season competition and then finish last in the season proper.

Richmond, in their 75th year, won the pre-season competition.

In 1984, Essendon won the pre-season competition and completed the regular season on top of the ladder.

Pre-season guernsey (1996-98) The club briefly used an alternate design in the pre-season competition.

In the last two decades TUL Cup has been played as a pre-season competition.

This table shows how many goals the two grand finalists have scored throughout the entire pre-season competition.

He missed the whole pre-season competition and returned as the substitute again in the opening two games against Geelong and Sydney.

The team won the 1999 pre-season competition but missed out on the finals of the premiership season.

The union also managed to scalp the 1993 and 1994 M-Net night series, a pre-season warm up competition.