<Table> <Tr> <Td> ← 1989 </Td> <Td> AFL Grand Final </Td> <Td> 1991 → </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> ← 1989 </Td> <Td> AFL Grand Final </Td> <Td> 1991 → </Td> </Tr> <P> The 1990 AFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Collingwood Football Club and the Essendon Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 6 October 1990 . It was the 94th annual Grand Final of the Australian Football League (formerly the Victorian Football League), staged to determine the premiers for the 1990 AFL season . The match, attended by 98,944 spectators, was won by Collingwood by a margin of 48 points, marking that club's 14th premiership victory . </P> <P> Collingwood had made nine unsuccessful Grand Final attempts (including the famous draw in the 1977 VFL Grand Final against North Melbourne), in the previous 32 years, not having won a premiership since the 1958 VFL Grand Final . Essendon had last played a Grand Final in 1985, which it had won against Hawthorn; that match was the last game of Collingwood coach and then - Hawthorn forward Leigh Matthews' playing career . </P>

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