Fixture 2026 Fixture

[Mentallo]

2-3 after round 5

I wish lol.

 

[Whiskers]

Considering we know 2 of the games. We can probably assume Collingwood is Friday.
With the same 5 game at AO setup as last year, we can work out one of Hawks, Cats or bombers are going to be away from AO.
Cats and hawks can’t play Friday, Essendon won’t play Collingwood and the AO game on Sunday is Port v Saints.

I’m guessing Essendon gets shunted. If not maybe us cats

 

[theprospector]

Considering we know 2 of the games. We can probably assume Collingwood is Friday.
With the same 5 game at AO setup as last year, we can work out one of Hawks, Cats or bombers are going to be away from AO.
Cats and hawks can’t play Friday, Essendon won’t play Collingwood and the AO game on Sunday is Port v Saints.

I’m guessing Essendon gets shunted. If not maybe us cats

Feels like Pies will play Dogs or Cats at AO

 

[Seattle Mariners]

Round 2 in Perth according to Ryan Daniels:

WC V North
Freo V Melbourne

Should mean round 1 VIC games for North and Melbourne.

 

[jwikked]

So Carlton you think will be...

Round 0 v Swans (Thurs night confirmed)
Round 1 v Tigers (Thurs night)
Round 2 BYE?
Round 3 ???
Round 4 v Nth Melb (Good Fri)
Round 5 v Crows (Thurs night)

Thought Carlton weren’t getting much prime time love this year, seems crazy to follow that up with their first 4 games being prime time

 

[Blackhawk42]

Considering we know 2 of the games. We can probably assume Collingwood is Friday.
With the same 5 game at AO setup as last year, we can work out one of Hawks, Cats or bombers are going to be away from AO.
Cats and hawks can’t play Friday, Essendon won’t play Collingwood and the AO game on Sunday is Port v Saints.

I’m guessing Essendon gets shunted. If not maybe us cats

Could always be two Adelaide Oval games on the Sunday? Have they ever said they won't do this?

Would be silly to fixture Hawthorn away from AO in my opinion. We're in a pretty sweet spot for bigger attendances now we're challenging again, and have a strong following in South Australia.

 

[theprospector]

Could always be two Adelaide Oval games on the Sunday? Have they ever said they won't do this?

Would be silly to fixture Hawthorn away from AO in my opinion. We're in a pretty sweet spot for bigger attendances now we're challenging again, and have a strong following in South Australia.

They did it in year one but people were leaving after the game they wanted to watch. So it was a sell out but a half empty stadium on TV

 

[eastfreo75]

Round 2 in Perth according to Ryan Daniels:

WC V North
Freo V Melbourne

Should mean round 1 VIC games for North and Melbourne.

Therefore, Fremantle will play the Roos in round 3.

 

[Blackhawk42]

They did it in year one but people were leaving after the game they wanted to watch. So it was a sell out but a half empty stadium on TV

I actually feel like they need to discourage people from attempting to get tickets to EVERY game anyway.

We frustratingly missed out on seeing the Dogs vs Brisbane at Norwood, but there were people posting on here about how they were leaving games super early just to get to the start of another one. We would have enjoyed having those tickets far more than others who were just trying to win some endurance attendance challenge.

 

[Seattle Mariners]

Any danger of them releasing the Gather Rd fixture....

 

[doppleganger]

Feels like Pies will play Dogs or Cats at AO

Cats v Pies at AO as a nominal Cats home game would be a good way of AFL avoiding sending us to Cat Park again, and not using a Geel home game against us at the G.

 

[The Feeder Club]

Feels like Pies will play Dogs or Cats at AO

Multiple rumours over here of pies vs freo friday night in gather round

 

[hawks25]

Gather round fixture so far
Crows v Blues
Thursday - AO 7.20

Pies v Dockers
Friday night - AO 7.40

Brisbane v ?
Barossa - 12.35

? v ?
Saturday - AO 1.45 ( Likely)

? v ?
Norwood 4.15 (Likely)

Saturday
Hawks v ? - AO (Very likely)

Sunday - ? v ? - Barossa 12.35

Cats v WCE
Sunday Arvo - Norwood - 3.20

Port v saints
Sunday night - AO - 7.20

My guess is hawks v dogs, lions v north, gws v tigers and swans v bombers and maybe gc v melb
Not the greatest gather round fixture we have seen

 

[Millsie69]

Considering we know 2 of the games. We can probably assume Collingwood is Friday.
With the same 5 game at AO setup as last year, we can work out one of Hawks, Cats or bombers are going to be away from AO.
Cats and hawks can’t play Friday, Essendon won’t play Collingwood and the AO game on Sunday is Port v Saints.

I’m guessing Essendon gets shunted. If not maybe us cats

I could see Melb playing either Barossa or Norwood.

Maybe Melbourne v North at the Parade?

Sounds like Geelong are playing West Coast again. That could be a game at the Parade on the Saturday or Sunday.

Will depend if they do the two separate games/tickets for AO on the Saturday, or go back to the double header.

Essendon v Sydney on Saturday arvo and Hawks v Dogs on the Saturday night.

My predicted Gather Round fixture is:

Thursday Night (AO): Adelaide vs Carlton
Friday Twilight (Norwood): Melbourne vs North Melbourne (Could also be on Saturday, but hate there being that much overlap)
Friday Night (AO): Collingwood vs Freo
Saturday Arvo (Barossa): Richmond vs Gold Coast
Saturday Arvo (AO): Essendon vs Sydney
Saturday Night (AO): Hawks vs Dogs
Sunday Arvo (Barossa): GWS vs Brisbane
Sunday Arvo (Norwood): Geelong vs West Coast
Sunday Night (AO): Port vs Saints

 

[Giant YoYo]

 

[ep12]

4 gather rounds, Melbourne v Essendon at Adelaide oval in 2023, 2025, 2026. What a joke

 

[Bulldog Brent]

4 gather rounds, Melbourne v Essendon at Adelaide oval in 2023, 2025, 2026. What a joke

Melb play Bris in 26?

 

[ep12]

Melb play Bris in 26?

I think you’ll need to read the tweet again lol.

 

[Boyohboywowwee]

Norf v Brisbane has happened a few times

 

[Giant YoYo]

Now with times!

 

[Millsie69]

Bris v North for the 3rd time lol

 

[CarterS]

NSW, QLD and WA teams largely been given the ass on gather round, apart from Freo.

 

[Boyohboywowwee]

NSW, QLD and WA teams largely been given the ass on gather round, apart from Freo.

Swans get the Friday night slot at AO every second season

 

[fl4gd0n5]

Bris v North for the 3rd time lol

Essendon and Melbourne third time too

 

[Boyohboywowwee]

I feel the games v sa teams should be shared equally with all the vic teams