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2020 AFL premiership season
Teams18
Attendance
Matches played26
Total attendance4,892 (188 per match)
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The 2020 Australian Football League season is the ongoing 124th season of the elite Australian rules football competition and the 31st under the name "Australian Football League", having changed from "Victorian Football League" after the 1989 season. There will be 18 teams competing in the league, the same as the previous eight seasons.

On 22 March 2020, the season was suspended at the conclusion of round 1 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[1] The season resumed on 11 June 2020, and if there are no further disruptions would conclude with a grand final in late October.

Impact of COVID-19 pandemic

The 2020 season was disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, which was formally declared a pandemic by World Health Organization on 11 March 2020, eight days prior to the scheduled start of the premiership season.

  • Prior to the commencement of the season, the fixture was shortened from 22 matches per team to no more than 17, under the expectation that matches would be forced to stop at the peak of the disease, or if any player tests positive.[2]
  • The season commenced on 19 March as originally scheduled, but the introduction of restrictions (and later of formal quarantines) on interstate travel, resulted in suspension of the season after round one.[3] The season was suspended for more than two months, and resumed on 11 June with tighter quarantine controls. Thereafter, it is intended that positive COVID-19 tests among players will result in individual games being postponed, rather than suspending the entire competition.[4] As of Round 3, this has occurred once.
  • Matches were played in empty stadiums for the first time in the league's history, starting in Round 1 and not ending until at least after the government imposed restriction on non-essential public gatherings is lifted.[5] State governments gradually allowed small, restricted sized crowds into games, starting immediately from the resumption in Round 2 in South Australia and New South Wales, from Round 3 in Queensland, and not yet announced in other states.[6]
  • Matches were played for a shortened length of 16 minutes plus time on per quarter, instead of 20 minutes plus time on. This was originally done in the unfulfilled hope that more than one round would be played before a suspension of the season, and that playing shorter games could facilitate more frequent games than weekly until that suspension;[7] it was retained after the suspension to lighten the load on players through the season as a result of the compromised training schedule, and to allow make-up games to be more easily scheduled between rounds when matches were postponed due to positive COVID-19 cases among players.[8] As a result of this, it was a low-scoring season, and several records or long-standing marks in low scoring were set during the season.
  • St Kilda and Port Adelaide did not play a match at Jiangwan Stadium in Shanghai, China, as scheduled as part of the original Round 11 – this decision being made while the virus was still mostly prevalent within China and prior to its spread in Australia,[9][10][11] but would eventually have been mandated by restrictions on international travel.
  • Clubs placed restrictions on spectator access to training sessions or other public areas of club facilities, as well as media and press,[12] and made special arrangements, including seeking charter flights and cordoning off areas of airports or hotels, to protect players from external threats when travelling interstate.[13]
  • The starts of the VFL, SANFL, WAFL and NEAFL seasons were suspended due to the greater risk of external threats in the semi-professional state league environment; and AFL listed players were ultimately kept out of the state league systems for the whole year, resulting in there being no formal reserves system for the year.[14] Clubs based in the same state were, however, permitted to arrange ad hoc scratch matches for their unselected players against each other and in empty stadiums to enable some match practice; these could be stand alone games or curtain raisers to senior games.[15]
  • The two-test international rules football series against Ireland, planned to have been played in Ireland in November, was cancelled.[16]

When the season was suspended, the league and clubs were faced with an acute cash flow shortage, as the gate and broadcast revenues which had been budgeted for stopped immediately;[17] clubs deriving revenues from gaming and other public venues also saw those revenues drop when public gatherings were restricted.[18] The league and clubs all stood down or severely reduced hours for huge percentages of their staff during the suspension; and the AFL agreed with both the AFLPA and ALFUA to significant play cuts for the players and umpires for the season, amounting to 50% of their wage from the point of the suspension until the end of the season, and increasing to 70% for any period of suspension which extends beyond the end of May.[19][20] The league successfully obtained a $500–600m line of credit with the National Australia Bank and ANZ Bank, leveraged against its ownership of Marvel Stadium, to cover its and its clubs' cash shortfalls during the suspension.[21] The league renegotiated its $417m/yr broadcast deals with Network Seven and Foxtel ahead of the shortened season recommencing, resulting in a total television revenue reduction of approximately $150m over 2020–2022.[22]

During the peak of the hiatus, players were allowed to train only within the strict limits of the government restrictions on public gatherings; at the height of the pandemic in April and May, when gatherings larger than two were restricted, this means players could train only in pairs. Sixteen Adelaide players, as well as assistant coach Ben Hart, were sanctioned for inadvertently breaching these guidelines when training too close to each other on a quarantine camp in early May; Hart was suspended for six weeks and the players each received a suspended sentence of one week.[23]

On 15 May, as most states began easing restrictions, the league's plan to resume the season was announced. Clubs began non-contact training in groups of eight from 18 May, and full contact training from 25 May, ahead of resuming competitive matches from 11 June – either in empty stadiums or in front of small, restricted-sized crowds, depending on the guidelines of the individual state governments. Players, umpires and staff will be regularly tested for the virus, with strict enforceable protocols and monitoring in place to ensure the league does not suffer an outbreak;[4] these protocols, which extended to players' personal lives, were above and beyond the lockdown guidelines still in place for the general public, several players received suspensions for transgressions such as attending non-essential gatherings or riding in Ubers during the season.[24]

The league's plans required approval from the state governments, as the resumption of training and competition required close contact which contravened the states' official social distancing guidelines, and interstate travel contravened quarantine border controls. The necessary exemptions were granted to AFL clubs by the Victorian, New South Wales and Queensland governments; the Western Australian and South Australian government granted exemptions to return to contact training, but not for border controls. As such, the four affected clubs were relocated to the Palm Meadows and Royal Pines golf resorts on the Gold Coast – Adelaide and Port Adelaide shifting there after their Round 2 Showdown in Adelaide, and West Coast and Fremantle shifting before Round 2. All four clubs are expect to remain at the Gold Coast 'hub' for at least the first month after the resumption, and will play their home games at Metricon Stadium. Players' immediate families were permitted to join them at the league's expense, but are subject to the same virus testing regime.[4][25]

Pre-season

Marsh Community Series

Main article: 2020 Marsh Community Series

The pre-season series of games returned as the 2020 Marsh Community Series, with teams playing two games each. The games were stand-alone, with no overall winner of the series. Each team played two games, many at suburban or regional venues, while all games were televised on Fox Footy.[26]

State of Origin for Bushfire Relief Match

Main article: State of Origin for Bushfire Relief Match

A one-off benefit match was played on 28 February 2020, as a fundraiser for the relief effort for the 2019–20 Australian bushfire season.[27] The league donated $2.5 million to disaster relief funds in association with the match.[28] Selection for the two teams was under state of origin rules, and it was the first interstate representative match featuring AFL-listed players since the AFL Hall of Fame Tribute Match held in 2008.


State of Origin for Bushfire Relief Match
Friday, 28 February 2020 7:50 pm Victoria def. All-Stars Marvel Stadium (crowd: 51,052) Report
4.1 (25)
10.2 (62)
15.7 (97)
 24.10 (154) 		Q1
Q2
Q3
 Final 		4.7 (31)
9.14 (68)
15.16 (106)
 15.18 (108) 		Umpires: Fisher, Stephens, Nicholls, Williamson
Best on Ground Medal: Dustin Martin (Victoria)
Papley 5
Kelly, Greene 4
Martin, Gaff, Bontempelli, Gresham 2
Dangerfield, J Cameron, Lynch 1 		Goals C Cameron 3
Coniglio, Breust, Riewoldt, Smith 2
Neale, Weller, Walters, Hill 1
Kelly, Martin, Greene, Papley, Pendlebury, Haynes, Cotchin, Dangerfield Best Coniglio, C Cameron, Mills, Cripps, Neale, Johannisen

Premiership season

Map of the grounds to be used during the 2019 AFL season (excluding Jiangwan Stadium, Shanghai)

As the coronavirus situation developed, only the first round was played as originally drawn. The rest of the fixture is being redrawn into a new seventeen-round season in which each team plays each other once.[29][30]

The new rescheduled fixture for rounds 2-5 was announced on 25 May.[31]

Round 1

Round 1
Thursday, 19 March (7:40 pm) Richmond 16.9 (105) def. Carlton 12.9 (81) MCG (crowd: 0) Report
Friday, 20 March (7:50 pm) Western Bulldogs 5.4 (34) def. by Collingwood 13.8 (86) Marvel Stadium (crowd: 0) Report
Saturday, 21 March (2:10 pm) Essendon 9.9 (63) def. Fremantle 8.9 (57) Marvel Stadium (crowd: 0) Report
Saturday, 21 March (4:35 pm) Adelaide 11.5 (71) def. by Sydney 11.8 (74) Adelaide Oval (crowd: 0) Report
Saturday, 21 March (7:40 pm) Greater Western Sydney 17.3 (105) def. Geelong 11.7 (73) GIANTS Stadium (crowd: 0) Report
Saturday, 21 March (6:40 pm) Gold Coast 4.5 (29) def. by Port Adelaide 10.16 (76) Metricon Stadium (crowd: 0) Report
Sunday, 22 March (1:05 pm) North Melbourne 8.8 (56) def. St Kilda 7.12 (54) Marvel Stadium (crowd: 0) Report
Sunday, 22 March (3:35 pm) Hawthorn 14.6 (90) def. Brisbane Lions 9.8 (62) MCG (crowd: 0) Report
Sunday, 22 March (3:40 pm) West Coast 12.6 (78) def. Melbourne 7.9 (51) Optus Stadium (crowd: 0) Report

Round 2

Round 2
Thursday, 11 June (7:40 pm) Collingwood 5.6 (36) drew with Richmond 5.6 (36) MCG (crowd: 0) Report
Friday, 12 June (7:50 pm) Geelong 17.6 (108) def. Hawthorn 7.5 (47) GMHBA Stadium (crowd: 0) Report
Saturday, 13 June (1:45 pm) Brisbane Lions 12.9 (81) def. Fremantle 10.9 (69) Gabba (crowd: 0) Report
Saturday, 13 June (4:35 pm) Carlton 7.11 (53) def. by Melbourne 8.6 (54) Marvel Stadium (crowd: 0) Report
Saturday, 13 June (7:10 pm) Port Adelaide 17.8 (110) def. Adelaide 5.5 (35) Adelaide Oval (crowd: 2,240) Report
Saturday, 13 June (7:40 pm) Gold Coast 14.6 (90) def. West Coast 6.10 (46) Metricon Stadium (crowd: 0) Report
Sunday, 14 June (1:05 pm) Greater Western Sydney 8.12 (60) def. by North Melbourne 12.8 (80) GIANTS Stadium (crowd: 350) Report
Sunday, 14 June (3:35 pm) Sydney 11.7 (73) def. by Essendon 12.7 (79) SCG (crowd: 337[33]) Report
Sunday, 14 June (6:05 pm) St Kilda 14.4 (88) def. Western Bulldogs 7.7 (49) Marvel Stadium (crowd: 0) Report

Round 3

Round 3
Thursday, 18 June (7:40 pm) Richmond 5.9 (39) def. by Hawthorn 11.5 (71) MCG (crowd: 0) Report
Friday, 19 June (7:50 pm) Western Bulldogs 8.9 (57) def. Greater Western Sydney 4.9 (33) Marvel Stadium (crowd: 0) Report
Saturday, 20 June (1:45 pm) North Melbourne 8.12 (60) def. by Sydney 10.11 (71) Marvel Stadium (crowd: 0) Report
Saturday, 20 June (4:35 pm) Collingwood 12.9 (81) def. St Kilda 5.7 (37) MCG (crowd: 0) Report
Saturday, 20 June (7:40 pm) Geelong 11.11 (77) def. by Carlton 12.7 (79) GMHBA Stadium (crowd: 0) Report
Saturday, 20 June (7:40 pm) Brisbane Lions 10.14 (74) def. West Coast 6.8 (44) Gabba (crowd: 0) Report
Sunday, 21 June (3:05 pm) Gold Coast 12.10 (82) def. Adelaide 4.5 (29) Metricon Stadium (crowd: 0) Report
Sunday, 21 June (8:10 pm) Fremantle 6.5 (41) def. by Port Adelaide 10.10 (70) Metricon Stadium (crowd: 0) Report
Sunday, 21 June (postponed) Essendon v Melbourne MCG
  • The match between Essendon and Melbourne was postponed after Essendon player Conor McKenna returned a positive pre-match test for COVID-19. Subsequently, the Gold Coast vs. Adelaide and Fremantle vs. Port Adelaide matches were rescheduled to start two hours later.[38]
  • Gold Coast defeated Adelaide for the first time, having lost its first thirteen encounters against them.
  • Adelaide's three quarter time score of 1.4 (10) was its lowest three quarter time score of all time.
  • Adelaide's final score of 4.5 (29) was its lowest ever score at Metricon Stadium, and the lowest score conceded by Gold Coast. It also meant Gold Coast has now beaten every team in the AFL at least once.[39][40]
  • Adelaide lost at Metricon Stadium for the first time in their history, breaking an eleven-game winning streak at the venue.
  • The two games played at Metricon Stadium on the Sunday was the first time two senior games were staged at the same venue on the same day since round 19, 1986.

Round 4

Round 4
Monday, 29 June (7:40 pm) Sydney v Western Bulldogs SCG
Friday, 26 June (7:50 pm) Greater Western Sydney v Collingwood GIANTS Stadium
Saturday, 27 June (1:45 pm) Port Adelaide v West Coast Metricon Stadium
Saturday, 27 June (4:35 pm) St Kilda v Richmond Marvel Stadium
Saturday, 27 June (7:40 pm) Essendon v Carlton MCG
Saturday, 27 June (7:40 pm) Gold Coast v Fremantle Metricon Stadium
Sunday, 28 June (1:05 pm) Brisbane Lions v Adelaide Gabba
Sunday, 28 June (3:35 pm) Melbourne v Geelong MCG
Sunday, 28 June (6:05 pm) Hawthorn v North Melbourne Marvel Stadium

Round 5

Round 5
Thursday, 2 July (7:40 pm) West Coast v Richmond Metricon Stadium
Friday, 3 July (7:50 pm) Collingwood v Essendon MCG
Saturday, 4 July (1:45 pm) Carlton v St Kilda MCG
Saturday, 4 July (4:35 pm) Geelong v Gold Coast GMHBA Stadium
Saturday, 4 July (7:40 pm) Western Bulldogs v North Melbourne Marvel Stadium
Saturday, 4 July (7:40 pm) Brisbane Lions v Port Adelaide Gabba
Sunday, 5 July (1:05 pm) Adelaide v Fremantle Metricon Stadium
Sunday, 5 July (3:35 pm) Sydney v Melbourne SCG
Sunday, 5 July (6:05 pm) Greater Western Sydney v Hawthorn GIANTS Stadium

Round 6

Round 6
Thursday, 9 July (7:40 pm) St Kilda v Geelong Marvel Stadium
Friday, 10 July (7:50 pm) Collingwood v Brisbane Lions MCG
Saturday, 11 July (12:35 pm) Fremantle v Melbourne Gabba
Saturday, 11 July (3:05 pm) West Coast v Adelaide Metricon Stadium
Saturday, 11 July (7:40 pm) Essendon v Western Bulldogs Marvel Stadium
Saturday, 11 July (7:40 pm) Hawthorn v Gold Coast MCG
Sunday, 12 July (1:05 pm) Port Adelaide v Greater Western Sydney Metricon Stadium
Sunday, 12 July (3:35 pm) Carlton v Sydney MCG
Sunday, 12 July (6:05 pm) North Melbourne v Richmond Marvel Stadium

Win/loss table

+ Win Qualified for finals
- Loss X Bye
Draw Eliminated

Bold – Home game
X – Bye
Opponent for round listed above margin

Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 F1 F2 F3 GF Ladder
Adelaide Syd
3 		PA
75 		GC
53 		BL Frem WCE 17
Brisbane Lions Haw
28 		Frem
12 		WCE
30 		Adel PA Coll 12
Carlton Rich
24 		Melb
1 		Geel
2 		Ess StK Syd 16
Collingwood WB
52 		Rich
0 		StK
44 		GWS Ess BL 5
Essendon Frem
6 		Syd
6 		Melb Carl Coll WB 3
Fremantle Ess
6 		BL
12 		PA
29 		GC Adel Melb 15
Geelong GWS
32 		Haw
61 		Carl
2 		Melb GC StK 8
Gold Coast PA
47 		WCE
44 		Adel
53 		Frem Geel Haw 11
Greater Western Sydney Geel
32 		NM
20 		WB
24 		Coll Haw PA 9
Hawthorn BL
28 		Geel
61 		Rich
32 		NM GWS GC 4
Melbourne WCE
27 		Carl
1 		Ess Geel Syd Frem 14
North Melbourne StK
2 		GWS
20 		Syd
11 		Haw WB Rich 2
Port Adelaide GC
47 		Adel
75 		Frem
29 		WCE BL GWS 1
Richmond Carl
24 		Coll
0 		Haw
32 		StK WCE NM 6
St Kilda NM
2 		WB
39 		Coll
44 		Rich Carl Geel 7
Sydney Adel
3 		Ess
6 		NM
11 		WB Melb Carl 10
West Coast Melb
27 		GC
44 		BL
30 		PA Rich Adel 13
Western Bulldogs Coll
52 		StK
39 		GWS
24 		Syd NM Ess 18
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 F1 F2 F3 GF Ladder

Ladder

Pos Team Pld W L D PF PA PP Pts Qualification
1 Port Adelaide 3 3 0 0 256 105 243.8 12 Finals series
2 Collingwood 3 2 0 1 203 107 189.7 10
3 Gold Coast 3 2 1 0 201 151 133.1 8
4 Essendon 2 2 0 0 142 130 109.2 8
5 Brisbane Lions 3 2 1 0 217 203 106.9 8
6 North Melbourne 3 2 1 0 196 185 105.9 8
7 Sydney 3 2 1 0 218 210 103.8 8
8 Hawthorn 3 2 1 0 208 209 99.5 8
9 Richmond 3 1 1 1 180 188 95.7 6
10 Geelong 3 1 2 0 258 231 111.7 4
11 St Kilda 3 1 2 0 179 186 96.2 4
12 Greater Western Sydney 3 1 2 0 198 210 94.3 4
13 Carlton 3 1 2 0 213 236 90.3 4
14 Melbourne 2 1 1 0 105 131 80.2 4
15 West Coast 3 1 2 0 168 215 78.1 4
16 Western Bulldogs 3 1 2 0 140 207 67.6 4
17 Fremantle 3 0 3 0 167 214 78.0 0
18 Adelaide 3 0 3 0 135 266 50.8 0
Updated to match(es) played on 13 June 2020. Source: AFL
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) percentage; 3) number of points for. Uncomment this section once season has started


Ladder progression

  • Numbers highlighted in green indicates the team finished the round inside the top 8.
  • Numbers highlighted in blue indicates the team finished in first place on the ladder in that round.
  • Numbers highlighted in red indicates the team finished in last place on the ladder in that round.
  • Underlined numbers indicates the team had a bye during that round.
  • Subscript numbers indicate ladder position at round's end.
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17
1 Port Adelaide 41 81
2 North Melbourne 49 82
3 Essendon 47 83
4 Collingwood 42 64
5 Richmond 46 65
6 St Kilda 010 46
7 Geelong 014 47
8 Greater Western Sydney 45 48
9 Sydney 48 49
10 Gold Coast 018 410
11 Brisbane Lions 015 411
12 West Coast 43 412
13 Hawthorn 44 413
14 Melbourne 016 414
15 Fremantle 012 015
16 Carlton 013 016
17 Adelaide 011 017
18 Western Bulldogs 017 018


Club leadership

Club Coach Captain(s) Vice-captain(s) Leadership group Ref.
Adelaide Matthew Nicks Rory Sloane Matt Crouch, Tom Doedee, Tom Lynch, Brodie Smith [41]
Brisbane Lions Chris Fagan Dayne Zorko Harris Andrews Jarrod Berry, Darcy Gardiner, Ryan Lester, Jarryd Lyons, Stefan Martin, Hugh McCluggage, Lachie Neale [42]
Carlton David Teague Patrick Cripps
Sam Docherty 		Ed Curnow, Liam Jones, Marc Murphy, Sam Walsh, Jacob Weitering [43]
Collingwood Nathan Buckley Scott Pendlebury Taylor Adams, Steele Sidebottom, Jeremy Howe Brodie Grundy, Jordan Roughead [44]
Essendon John Worsfold Dyson Heppell Michael Hurley, Dylan Shiel, Devon Smith, David Zaharakis [45]
Fremantle Justin Longmuir Nat Fyfe Reece Conca, Joel Hamling, David Mundy, Alex Pearce, Michael Walters [46]
Geelong Chris Scott Joel Selwood Mark Blicavs, Patrick Dangerfield Mitch Duncan, Mark O'Connor, Tom Stewart, Zach Tuohy [47]
Gold Coast Stuart Dew David Swallow
Jarrod Witts 		Touk Miller Sam Collins, Brayden Fiorini, Alex Sexton [48]
Greater Western Sydney Leon Cameron Stephen Coniglio Josh Kelly Jeremy Cameron, Matt de Boer, Toby Greene, Lachie Whitfield [49][50]
Hawthorn Alastair Clarkson Ben Stratton Tom Mitchell, Jaeger O'Meara Jack Gunston, Ben McEvoy, Liam Shiels, Isaac Smith [51]
Melbourne Simon Goodwin Max Gawn Jack Viney [52]
North Melbourne Rhyce Shaw Jack Ziebell Shaun Higgins, Robbie Tarrant Ben Cunnington, Trent Dumont, Jamie Macmillan, Jasper Pittard, Jy Simpkin [53]
Port Adelaide Ken Hinkley Tom Jonas Hamish Hartlett, Ollie Wines [54]
Richmond Damien Hardwick Trent Cotchin Jack Riewoldt [55]
St Kilda Brett Ratten Jarryn Geary Sebastian Ross Jack Billings, Bradley Hill, Tim Membrey, Dylan Roberton [56]
Sydney John Longmire Josh Kennedy
Luke Parker
Dane Rampe 		Lance Franklin, Callum Mills [57]
West Coast Adam Simpson Luke Shuey Josh Kennedy, Jeremy McGovern Jack Darling, Andrew Gaff, Nic Naitanui, Elliot Yeo [58]
Western Bulldogs Luke Beveridge Marcus Bontempelli Josh Dunkley, Jason Johannisen, Mitch Wallis, Easton Wood [59]

Coach changes

Coach Club Date Notes Caretaker New coach
John Worsfold Essendon 17 September 2019 Will step down at the conclusion of the club's 2020 season as part of a succession plan.[60] — Ben Rutten[60]

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