AFL grand final 2024 celebrations LIVE updates: Brisbane Lions celebrate, Sydney Swans commiserates on day after grand final

Is there anything quite like waking up after a 60-point premiership victory?

For Lions fans looking to kick off the Sunday party early, they will be hosting premiership celebrations from 9-11am at Brunswick Street Oval, Fitzroy.

In the afternoon, the Lions will return home with the premiership cup in hand, to Brighton Homes Arena in Springfield Central from 5-6.30pm, for a homecoming celebration 21 years in the making.

The Brisbane Lions have franked a six-year period of contention, atoned for a string of near-misses and embarrassed an utterly inept Sydney to win the first grand final between the beacons of the AFL’s northern expansion.

In a game that was projected to be another close encounter in an extraordinary season of cliffhangers, the Lions produced a stunning performance, killing the contest – and probably the second-half television ratings in NSW – with a seven-goal romp in the second quarter that belied each team’s ladder position.

The Swans’ resistance was briefer than Katy Perry’s five-song set pregame – a matter of 15 minutes in the opening term – in what was a grand final that reprised the pattern of 2022, when Geelong annihilated the red and whites. This humiliation dented the resumes and reputations of several stars, headed by Isaac Heeney, Errol Gulden and Chad Warner.

The Brisbane victory, which seemed likely in the first quarter and inevitable mid-way through the second, was a triumph for avuncular coach Chris Fagan, who coached Brisbane to an agonising four-point grand final loss to Collingwood last year and had finished top five each year since 2019.