Fixture 2025 Fixture

[WillemDaDrew]

AFL's quantum computer processors currently working out the 2025 fixture.

 

[Chewy316]

Yet another reason to ditch Vic sides to get 16 sides and 8 games a round. For regular rounds:

2 x Friday night (one FTA, one Pay tv)
2 x Saturday afternoon
2 x Saturday night
1 x Sunday afternoon

With the last game of the round floating between Thursday night, Monday night or a second Sunday afternoon game. Thursday night games to be run during school holidays and before public holidays, similar Monday nights on Monday public holidays. With if it isn't those situations, then a second Sunday afternoon game. No more Sunday twilight 'timeslot of shit' games.

Don't think this is practical given the exclusive standalone games on Thursday and Friday night are in part a huge reason as to why channel 7 spend so much on the broadcast rights.

 

[jdeezy]

As a childless man who lives just out of the city I love Thursday Night games and would happily have 23 of them and all of you that hate them are old fuddy duddies.

 

[Holden Hillbilly]

Mt. Barker SNUBBED!

The Barossa Valley will host both of Gather Round’s regional games next year.
Mount Barker staged the only matches outside of Adelaide across the first two footy festivals and was in the mix to get one in 2025, but organisers were understood to have opted for a fresh start in South Australia’s famous wine region 75km north of the CBD.
Barossa town Lyndoch is set to hold two games in two days – one on Saturday, the other on Sunday – during the April event. Adelaide Oval is slated to have five matches, including one double-header, while Norwood will keep the other two.

 

[Schulzenfest]

Call me crazy but i still much rather be 5 and 0 then 0 and 5.

We won't be 0-5 or 5-0. We'll be like, 3-2 or something. And we'll keep up a similar ratio all year, finish 6th or something and maybe make a semi final. Koch will re-sign Hinkley.

We're never good enough to threaten to win anything and we're never bad enough to lose anyone a job at No Ambition FC. This pattern is long established by now.

 

[Papa G]

I genuinely don't give a flying fcuk.

 

[ibd77]

Just shorten the season and take away the double up games. Solves so many problems.

Less is more.

I'm sort of leaning towards an 17 round season, then segregate the clubs into 3 groups of 6 for the final 6 rounds before finals. Where the top 3rd, mid 3rd & bottom 3rd all play against each other in their groups for final spots in the top 8.

 

[philreich]

Who really cares about the draw while Donuts is still here.

The real stuff starts in September and we all know how that ends.

Rinse and repeat.

We could play North Melbourne 14 times in a row, but it wouldn't change anything, because of our record in finals.

 

[Expat power]

Thursday and Sunday nights are not only completely crap for those with kids but pretty much impossible for country members.

 

[Willsy10]

I'm old school, I like saturday afternoons.

 

[Lefti93]

I'm old school, I like saturday afternoons.

twilight Saturday is my favourite timeslot. Haven't gotten any in a couple years now. Sucks.

 

[Willsy10]

twilight Saturday is my favourite timeslot. Haven't gotten any in a couple years now. Sucks.

agreed. Late afternoon start is best.

 

[Duckimus Prime]

twilight Saturday is my favourite timeslot. Haven't gotten any in a couple years now. Sucks.

The AFL has figured out its a great timeslot, so now its reserved for the big Melbourne teams.

 

[RossFC]

We should be winning more night games since our full forward isn't blind.

 

[RossFC]

 

[DaTBird187]

INTEGRITY!!!

 

[Andy_B]

Ive sold NM games to the Sydney, Carrara, Manuka, Hobart and by god we kept North South!!!

 

[rogerjames]

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What a crock. All about the Vic teams as usual.

 

[rogerjames]

Thursday night football set to dominate 2025 AFL fixture​

By Sam Edmund

Thursday night football is set to dominate the new AFL fixture.

The increasingly popular time slot is poised to feature in record numbers in 2025, coinciding with the first year of the league’s historic broadcast rights deal.

While the exact number is yet to be locked in, industry sources said the AFL was planning on as many as 21 weeks of Thursday night football next season after years of cautious increases. Thursday night football was played in the first 14 weeks of the 2024 season before surprisingly being put on ice until the first week of finals.

In 2023 it featured 12 times across two home-and-away blocks and a final, while 2022 had nine regular season Thursday night games and one final.

But 2025 could see it played most weeks of a 24-round campaign.

Thursday night football has proven to be a raging success in recent seasons, both in attendance and TV ratings numbers.
Both AFL chief executive Andrew Dillon and head of football Laura Kane have spoken in favour of the concept.

The Thursday night footy explosion coincides with the first year of the league’s $4.5 billion broadcast rights deal – the biggest sports rights deal in Australian history – which runs until 2031.

Separately, it’s understood Channel 7 is pushing for several Sunday night games at the start of the season. The network will broadcast games on Thursday nights, Friday nights and Sundays next year, but would like a collection of Sunday night games in the first third of the season.

Is Thursday night popular attendance wise? I would be very surprised. I'm sure its popular watching on TV or an app though.

 

[FishingRick04]

Is Thursday night popular attendance wise? I would be very surprised. I'm sure its popular watching on TV or an app though.

Thursday night before June would be popular. June and July I’d assume more suited to Marvel, but no Victorian wishes to watch footy there

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

The AFL has figured out its a great timeslot, so now its reserved for the big Melbourne teams.

I dont know about that, but after a couple of huge crowd drawing games at the MCG in that time slot this year, Fox Footy have pushed it as a great time slot in the lead up to the new TV deal starting next year, where all games played on a Saturday - day, twilight or night - in the first 8 rounds are only available on Fox Footy.

So they build it up as Super Saturday for the last part of this season, and expect it to become their catch phrase in 2025, so they will push for big games to move into that twilight time slot, especially in the first 8 rounds.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Is Thursday night popular attendance wise? I would be very surprised. I'm sure its popular watching on TV or an app though.

When its warm or mild in March, April and early May the attendance figures hold up. Its as the weather gets colder that attendance isnt as high, but it depends which timeslot you are comparing it to - eg Sunday 4.10 / 4 4.40 games crowd attendance drops away.

 

[Watto71]

Just shorten the season and take away the double up games. Solves so many problems.

Less is more.

Shorten the season by having 2 divisions
Top 9 play each other twice then finals
Bottom 9 play twice then finals
Give us to grand finals 1 at MCG other elsewhere.
Top 2 from Bottom 9 get promoted Bottom 2 from top 9 demoted
Equals more games over the season but over a shorter period.
Also means if in Div1/2 in the grand final it's Port v Brisbane it's not played at the MCG

 

[jdeezy]

I dont know about that, but after a couple of huge crowd drawing games at the MCG in that time slot this year, Fox Footy have pushed it as a great time slot in the lead up to the new TV deal starting next year, where all games played on a Saturday - day, twilight or night - in the first 8 rounds are only available on Fox Footy.

So they build it up as Super Saturday for the last part of this season, and expect it to become their catch phrase in 2025, so they will push for big games to move into that twilight time slot, especially in the first 8 rounds.

Found out the other day that in Victoria that it's even longer, the first 15 Saturdays are locked to Fox only.

So you would imagine Fox would be arguing for some big drawing SA, WA, NSW and QLD team games on Saturdays in the first 8 rounds, forcing supporters to sign up to them. But they'd be also pushing for big Vic matches on Saturdays for the first 15 rounds as well. Rounds 9 and beyond the interstate club matches would hold less value, so that's when they'll want plenty of Vic matches on Saturdays. Thing is, Channel 7 will want the exact opposite.

It'll be interesting to see how it falls, but I reckon we'll end up with a couple of marquee matchups versus big Vic clubs on Saturdays to start the season, but in that 9-15 period they'll prioritise Victorian teams in the twilight and night Saturday slots.

 

[Greasyrhys]

Wouldn’t mind getting swans, lions and hawks away plus the pies and giants at home in our first 6 games to really test the mettle. Maybe even have us start badly to help get the fraud sacked?