2026 fixture wishlist/discussion

[Cousin Jed]

We make the grand final every year we are off Broadway in SA so may as well keep that up

 

[mikey127]

Not 100% confirmed but possibly Crows ANZAC day weekend at the Gabba

 

[BuntonRules]

Showdown, Sydney Derby headline run of SIX Friday night double-headers

Love to have watched both games, personally.

 

[scoman]

Thought occurred to me this morning that other clubs will be reluctant to play us twice. As much as the AFL might like to give us double ups against Geelong and Collingwood, their administration would fight pretty hard against it. I can see us doubling up against teams with less influence like Freo, Adelaide and GWS. Maybe?

 

[mikey127]

Why would they get rid of the Sunday night Qclash?

 

[irish]

Round 14 lions v tigers in Hobart , Richmond replacing north in playing one game next two seasons at Ninja stadium in Hobart

 

[braddsey]

Showdown, Sydney Derby headline run of SIX Friday night double-headers

I thought the point to a double-header was to put games in back-to-back so you keep people watching for double the time, rather than making them choose which game to watch - splitting the audience?!?

 

[GenericUsername202]

The ironic thing is, Brisbane is one of the highest drawing teams in terms of tv audiences. You figured 7 would want more of that given our games smash tv ratings records. Then again, every lions game is on 7 in QLD, so I can understand why they would spread our games out given Queenslanders will always be given access to our games.

 

[Perrip]

 

[Bucking Beads]

This AFL adminstration really is garbage.

 

[dlanod]

The whole thing is in on the AFL website.

AFL Fixtures and Results - AFL.com.au

AFL fixtures, results and scores from the Toyota AFL Premiership Season, NAB Women's and State Leagues seasons by round.

www.afl.com.au

Bye in week 2.

Double ups are Sydney, Suns, Pies, Carlton, Geelong and Bombers.

Hawthorn are coming to the Gabba.

One trip to Perth, one trip to SA (Gather Round only).

The aforementioned trip to Tassie.

 

[Thomasno]

****ing lmao, the Sunday night pre-public holiday
QClash was very successful the last two years, now the suns are competitive too, so the AFL does the natural thing and… scraps it

Only 2 MCG games as well, down on the last few years. That’s our reward for back to back, AFL don’t want a non vic team to win again clearly.

Time someone from the club pulls up the agreement from the merger that they signed with the AFL. It mandates 7+ games at the MCG every year. How’s that working out?

On the plus side our double ups are suspiciously easy looking…

 

[Squizz89]

Not sure what others think, but a quick review of the draw, imo I thought it was a quite a bit softer than last years which I'm not complaining about.

 

[GenericUsername202]

Before a lot of people melt, remember that Brisbane usually requests more saturday games because it's not competing with the broncos. Giving us clear airway in Brisbane has always been the biggest priority of the club

 

[McLuggages]

The whole thing is in on the AFL website.

AFL Fixtures and Results - AFL.com.au

AFL fixtures, results and scores from the Toyota AFL Premiership Season, NAB Women's and State Leagues seasons by round.

www.afl.com.au

Bye in week 2.

Double ups are Sydney, Suns, Pies, Carlton, Geelong and Bombers.

Hawthorn are coming to the Gabba.

One trip to Perth, one trip to SA (Gather Round only).

The aforementioned trip to Tassie.

It's an easy fixture no? Easiest I could imagine.

 

[Warwick]

Almost best possible double ups IMO.

We can’t be too unhappy with those.

 

[Warwick]

****ing lmao, the Sunday night pre-public holiday
QClash was very successful the last two years, now the suns are competitive too, so the AFL does the natural thing and… scraps it

Only 2 MCG games as well, down on the last few years. That’s our reward for back to back, AFL don’t want a non vic team to win again clearly.

Time someone from the club pulls up the agreement from the merger that they signed with the AFL. It mandates 7+ games at the MCG every year. How’s that working out?

On the plus side our double ups are suspiciously easy looking…

I thought it was 6 games in Melbourne? Not MCG

 

[DevRoboGun]

It's an easy fixture no? Easiest I could imagine.

I agree, I think top 4 is staring us in the face with this fixture. I’ll take all the shitty time slots during the season if it means we get to 3-peat.

 

[CarterS]

Easy fixture in terms of difficulty relatively, but stitched up in terms of prime time games.

 

[CarterS]

Who are our double ups?

 

[McLuggages]

Lots of Saturday early and Sunday afternoon games. Don't love that.

 

[CarterS]

We don't play Adelaide Oval at all, and one trip to Perth which is against West Coast? That's good

 

[mighty_lions]

this would have to be the worst fixture ive ever seen, why on earth would you take away the qclash public holiday it was a massive success

11.35am vs st Kilda sounds exciting cant wait

 

[Section 5]

Winners and losers: Every AFL team’s 2026 fixture ranked from easiest to hardest

Winners and losers: Every AFL team’s 2026 fixture ranked from easiest to hardest

www.foxsports.com.au

Brisbane Lions: Carlton, Collingwood, Essendon, Geelong, Gold Coast Suns, Sydney Swans (x3 top six, x2 middle six, x1 bottom six)

AFL 2026 FIXTURE DIFFICULTY

Based on the 2025 percentage of the teams they play twice in 2026

 

[Dom PC]

If Thursday and Friday night games are considered the prime time games... I'd love to know how the back to back premiers have only received 3 Thu/Fri games in the first 16 rounds.... bit odd. Lowest amount amongst any of the top 10 teams from last year...