The Killers say they will play at the 2017 AFL Grand Final but shocked at the crowd size

THE Killers have confirmed that they will play at this year’s AFL Grand Final but singer Brandon Flowers jokes it should be Bruno Mars.

The Killers are coming back to Australia for the AFL Grand Final and talk about a tour the following year.

THE Killers have confirmed they will play this year’s AFL Grand Final.

Front man for the Las Vegas rockers, Brandon Flowers, has told News Corp Australia exclusively that the band will provide the entertainment for the biggest day on the Aussie Rules calendar.

“I can say that we’re going to be playing the AFL game,” he said in New York while promoting the band’s first single in five years, The Man, which is released tomorrow.

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Despite being regular visitors to Australia for headline tours and festivals including the now defunct Big Day Out, Flowers said that the local football code remained a mystery.

“I don’t know much about AFL,” he said. “But I know it’s like the Superbowl.”

The Killers, who have a dedicated fanbase in Australia thanks to hits such as Mr Brightside and When We Were Young and a string of hit albums, will be following in the footsteps of music greats such as Sting, Lionel Richie and the disastrous Meat Loaf when they play the MCG in the season decider on Saturday, September 30.

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The Killers (from left Mark Stoermer, Dave Keuning, Brandon Flowers and Ronnie Vannucci Junior), will release their first album in five years a week before playing the AFL Grand Final.

But Flowers was stunned to hear of the magnitude of the event, jokingly questioning as to whether the band was up to the high-profile, high-pressure gig.

“There’ll be 100,000 people there? Holy shit. They should have got Bruno Mars — he’s much better at that sort of thing than me,” he said with a laugh.

The band will hit the US festival circuit in coming months ahead of the release of its eagerly anticipated fifth album, titled Wonderful Wonderful a week before their flying visit for the Grand Final performance. The band is planning to tour Australia extensively next year for the first time since 2013.

“We’re excited to go back even if it’s just for a minute [for the Grand Final],” said drummer Ronnie Vannucci Jr. “We’re planning a full-on assault of Australia next year. We love Australia. I could live there.”

The Killers at the Big Day Out music festival at Wayville Showgrounds, Adelaide, in 2012.

Other bands believed to be also in the frame for the entertainment are the re-formed Midnight Oil, who finish the New Zealand leg of their world tour on September 11 and don’t start their Australian tour until Monday October 2 in Alice Springs. Melbourne’s The Smith Street Band are another act linked to the 2017 event.

A spokeswoman for promoter Michael Gudinski, who books the Grand Final entertainment, declined to comment. The AFL has been approached for comment.