A HUGE opening round of the 2017 season has drawn the biggest total crowd of any single round in VFL/AFL history. 

The attendance across the nine games of round one was 400,401, breaking the 400,000 mark for the first time and surpassing the previous high of 371,212 in round 13, 2015. 

The previous best for round one was 367,792 in 2012. 

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