Fixture 2025 AFL Fixture

[The Feeder Club]

2x Thursday and 2x Friday night games in the first 16 rounds is unheard of for us, that 3 week stretch will be massive! Need to go at least 2/3 there.

Also anyone else heard that Collingwood are contracted to play at least 5 away games at the MCG per year? Something about a deal with the AFL and the Vic government and money for the MCG redevelopment.

Strictly speaking it's a deal that guarantees minimum of 14 H&A games featuring Collingwood are played at the MCG oer year. It was part of the concessions the AFL gave to get out of the deal forcing them to play at least one preliminary final at the MCG each year, which led to Brisbane having to play their home prelim at the MCG back in the day. Another part of the deal I think was to guarantee scheduling a minimum of 10 of the 12 highest attendance H&A games (based on historical averages) at the MCG each year. Rumour has it the AFL were opposed to a 80000 capacity stadium at Optus, and that was one of the reasons, so as not to derail their cosy MCG deal

 

[pK75]

Strictly speaking it's a deal that guarantees minimum of 14 H&A games featuring Collingwood are played at the MCG oer year. It was part of the concessions the AFL gave to get out of the deal forcing them to play at least one preliminary final at the MCG each year, which led to Brisbane having to play their home prelim at the MCG back in the day. Another part of the deal I think was to guarantee scheduling a minimum of 10 of the 12 highest attendance H&A games (based on historical averages) at the MCG each year. Rumour has it the AFL were opposed to a 80000 capacity stadium at Optus, and that was one of the reasons, so as not to derail their cosy MCG deal

Not sure how that would limit the Burswood to only 60k seats, even if it were 80k only the Derbies would fill it and they’d be the 2 of 12 not at the G.

 

[Quay Club]

Just sayin....

“Pretty favourable”: Has Carlton been handed a top-four draw by the AFL?

“Let’s be honest you want the easiest fixture possible.”

www.sen.com.au

 

[The Feeder Club]

Not sure how that would limit the Burswood to only 60k seats, even if it were 80k only the Derbies would fill it and they’d be the 2 of 12 not at the G.

I don't know wittout research what the attendance of the 12 biggest H&A games is, I assume most are marquee games involving Collingwood anyway. And I also don't know if the rumours are true, but it was rumoured at the time that the AFL was making it known it was worried and was keen for Optus to be no rival to the pre-eminence of the MCG.

 

[MadMundy]

We've played Geelong in Round 1 a couple of times from memory, we beat them in 2012 in that absolute thriller at Subiaco Oval, they annihilated us in 2017, there may be some others that I'm not remembering.