AFL Fixture 2025

[Strapping Young Lad]

 

[TylerDurden]

Didn’t they smash carlton for a few years in a row though?

Will be 100 pts. They literally have no one.

 

[Walshawk]

The AFL has waited until after the NRL the past few years.

 

[RobHawk]

Richmond will probably get progressively worse through the year.
The many young players they are forced to play will tire out.
Let Carlton have first dibs and falsely think they are world beaters

 

[Ned Ryerson]

Richmond will probably get progressively worse through the year.
The many young players they are forced to play will tire out.
Let Carlton have first dibs and falsely think they are world beaters

If Richmond are within 10 goals at half time it will honestly be a miracle. Richmond are going to field sides next year that would make the original Suns and Giants teams look competitive by comparison.

 

[peetoo]

If Richmond are within 10 goals at half time it will honestly be a miracle. Richmond are going to field sides next year that would make the original Suns and Giants teams look competitive by comparison.

They used to say the same about us. Sometimes it fires them up

 

[madhawksfan]

I believe it will come out soon, as the AFL don’t want to have the lag that they did last year in getting the fixture out.

I also believe we will be playing on Round Zero or opening round, and will have the Friday night game in Round 1 after the Thursday night game, which we will play Essendon at the MCG.

The usual Round 1 opener of Richmond v Carlton will take place on the Thursday, but I will not be at all surprised if this gets changed between now and when the fixture is released because that is already looking like being a 15+ goal belting waiting to happen, which makes no sense to have in prime time.

If we play Round 0, imagine we’ll get Swams in Sydney. AFL will be giving us the toughest possible fixture. Double ups will feature Geelong and Port for sure. Most likely GWS as well.

 

[Strapping Young Lad]

If we play Round 0, imagine we’ll get Swams in Sydney. AFL will be giving us the toughest possible fixture. Double ups will feature Geelong and Port for sure. Most likely GWS as well.

Put the tinfoil hat away

 

[eldorado]

If we play Round 0, imagine we’ll get Swams in Sydney. AFL will be giving us the toughest possible fixture.

"Behold! Your fixture, Hawks!! Mwahahaha!"

(Evil AFL fixturing guy, yesterday)

 

[The Golden Glenferrie]

If we play Round 0, imagine we’ll get Swams in Sydney. AFL will be giving us the toughest possible fixture. Double ups will feature Geelong and Port for sure. Most likely GWS as well.

Port in Gather round as a home game and a rd 24 away game.

 

[peetoo]

All the other finalists in the first seven rounds?

They wouldn’t? They did in 2013 I think. Not even subtle.

 

[spudmaster]

Put the tinfoil hat away

I've got mine at the ready. I think Dinsdale has one floating about somewhere also?

 

[Dinsdale]

I've got mine at the ready. I think Dinsdale has one floating about somewhere also?

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[Goatie]

We could play 3 of the prelim finalist from this year in the first 5 rounds.
Round 0 - Syd or Bris (Thurs/Fri night)
Round 1 - Essendon (Sat night)
Round 2 - ?
Round 3 - Geelong (Easter Mon)
Round 4 - Port (Gather round)

 

[extractasam]

Port in Gather round as a home game and a rd 24 away game.

Home and away game against the saints at Marvel again

 

[LRobbo]

Round 1 vs * is a lock

Port to open gather round will surely happen as well.

Rather we don’t end up in the farcical Opening Round crap but we will be, hopefully not vs the Suns as they always smash us up there.

We’ll be loaded with prime time slots

 

[TylerDurden]

Round 1 vs * is a lock

Port to open gather round will surely happen as well.

Rather we don’t end up in the farcical Opening Round crap but we will be, hopefully not vs the Suns as they always smash us up there.

We’ll be loaded with prime time slots

Opening round can't be Port.
Will be a home team in their own state. Either Swans or GC for mine.

 

[Walshawk]

We could play 3 of the prelim finalist from this year in the first 5 rounds.
Round 0 - Syd or Bris (Thurs/Fri night)
Round 1 - Essendon (Sat night)
Round 2 - ?
Round 3 - Geelong (Easter Mon)
Round 4 - Port (Gather round)

Easter Monday is Round 6. Doubt we will play a SA team @ GR. It is round 5, most likely a Sat night or Sunday game.

 

[Crankyhawk]

Put the tinfoil hat away

aren't we legitimately due to play them twice though (swans) so why not round 0? And port and cats doubles are kind of marketing no brainers. Its not for tin foil hat "screw hawthorn" reasons but commercial ones

 

[Ned Ryerson]

If we play Round 0, imagine we’ll get Swams in Sydney. AFL will be giving us the toughest possible fixture. Double ups will feature Geelong and Port for sure. Most likely GWS as well.

Sounds good to me - after Port's trade period I would be happy to bank those two wins.

 

[DogDaySonny]

Can we just call round 0 round 1, please? We're not all C/C++ programmers anymore.

 

[wahawk]

Round 1 vs * is a lock

Port to open gather round will surely happen as well.

Rather we don’t end up in the farcical Opening Round crap but we will be, hopefully not vs the Suns as they always smash us up there.

We’ll be loaded with prime time slots

Opening round can't be Port.
Will be a home team in their own state. Either Swans or GC for mine.

LRobbo didnt say Port in opening round.

They suggest Port V Hawks to open Gather Round

 

[Coburghawk]

The three clubs who could be the AFL’s ‘prime time darlings’ in 2025​

By Lachlan Geleit 8 hours ago

The 2025 AFL fixture is set to be released next month and with that in mind, SEN’s Sam Edmund pondered who next year’s ‘prime time darlings’ will be.
With the way the AFL fixture now works, the league will release the first 15 weeks of the season before releasing the rest of the schedule as the top eight begins to take shape and the best and most watchable teams emerge.

Leading into the 2024 AFL season, the league scheduled 2023 Grand Finalists Collingwood and Brisbane seven times on Thursday and Friday nights, while Carlton, who made a Prelim that year, and Adelaide, who played some seriously exciting footy the year prior, were scheduled in eight prime time slots.
With that in mind, Edmund asked his SEN Breakfast co-host Kane Cornes who he thinks should be looked after when the first part of the 2025 AFL fixture is released in November.

Edmund: “The fixture is going to come out soon. Who should be the prime time darlings next year?
“Thursday night football is back, Friday night football is the commercial holy grail.
“Let's rope them (Thursday and Friday) together under the umbrella of prime time darlings.
“So of the first 15 rounds in the 2024 fixture, the Blues featured eight times across Thursday and Friday, Collingwood and Brisbane featured seven times, and the league this time last year fell completely head over heels in love with the Adelaide Crows, and they scheduled them for eight across the two nights as well - that was of only the 15 weeks that are scheduled.
“So this year, who should be the prime time darling?”
Cornes: “Well, it’ll be the Hawks. I'm pretty certain that it'll be the prime time Hawks, which is hilarious because they have been shunted for a couple of years, they hardly played a night game in 2024.
“So I’m going to go with the Hawks and I'm going to go with the Pies.”
Edmund: “They (Collingwood) are always thereabouts.”
Cornes: “I mean, we just were interested in them and I think this trade period says that they're all in. I think that they're going to be the story of the year.
“So I’m going to go Hawthorn one, Collingwood two … and I’m happy with the Blues (third).
“I think the Blues will be there (in prime time fixtures).”
According to the AFL, the fixture will be released in late November.

 

[The Golden Glenferrie]

All Friday Night and Saturday Twilight TYVM

 

[Walshawk]

According to Fox we will open our season Rnd 1 v Essendon, not Rnd 0.

 

[Strapping Young Lad]