St Kilda can claim the slightest of home-ground advantages for their MCG elimination final against Greater Western Sydney.

The AFL’s week-one finals schedule for September 7-9 was confirmed on Monday morning, after GWS narrowly failed to secure a home elimination final.

The Giants ended Carlton’s nine-game winning streak on Sunday night with a 32-point victory but did not boost their percentage enough to snatch sixth spot from the Saints.

St Kilda ended on 107.8 per cent to finish sixth, with GWS taking seventh on 107.1.

The only details the AFL had to confirm on Monday morning were the two Saturday finals.

The Saints would have preferred to play at their Marvel Stadium home ground but that was only a possibility if all four week-one finals were in Melbourne.

St Kilda have played at the MCG twice this year, for a win and a loss, while the Giants’ only previous visit there this season ended in defeat.

Their elimination final will be a day game, ahead of the Brisbane Lions hosting Port Adelaide on Saturday night in their qualifying final.

The match will be the first time St Kilda have met GWS in a final.

If Carlton win their Friday night home elimination final against Sydney, and Collingwood open the finals series on September 7 with a qualifying final loss to Melbourne, it will set up a Blues-Magpies semi.

The league’s two fiercest rivals have not played in a final since 1988.

WEEK ONE FINALS SCHEDULE (all times AEST)

First Qualifying Final: Collingwood v Melbourne, MCG, Thursday 7 September, 7.20pm

First Elimination Final: Carlton v Sydney, MCG, Friday 8 September, 7.50pm

Second Elimination Final: St Kilda v GWS, MCG, Saturday 9 September, 3.20pm

Second Qualifying Final: Brisbane Lions v Port Adelaide, Gabba, Saturday 9 September, 7.25pm