<Table> <Tr> <Td> ← 2000 </Td> <Td> AFL Grand Final </Td> <Td> 2002 → </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> ← 2000 </Td> <Td> AFL Grand Final </Td> <Td> 2002 → </Td> </Tr> <P> The 2001 AFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Essendon Football Club and the Brisbane Lions, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 29 September 2001 . It was the 105th annual Grand Final of the Australian Football League (formerly the Victorian Football League), staged to determine the premiers for the 2001 AFL season . The match, attended by 91,482 spectators, was won by Brisbane by a margin of 26 points, marking that club's first premiership victory . </P> <P> Essendon were defending their 2000 premiership, and went into the game having finished on top of the ladder on percentage ahead of second placed Brisbane (both had won 17 games). Brisbane had won fifteen consecutive games leading up to the Grand Final, a streak which commenced with a major upset of Essendon at the Gabba in Round 10 . It was the Brisbane Lions first appearance in a Grand Final . Essendon were the dominant team between 1999 and 2001, losing just 11 games from the start of 1999 until the 2001 Grand Final . </P>

Who played in the 2001 afl grand final