2020 afl fixture pdf Continue AFL teams have learned that their run home to the finals after the last block of fixtures were released on Friday.A second footy festival will begin on Thursday, August 27, when Hawthorn host Essendon at Adelaide Oval to West Coast and Richmond face off against West Coast on the Gold Coast.Watch video of the 14-under-17 fixture will be compressed in 18 days as the AFL takes just one day after good feedback from the club's compressed fixture. Feedback from clubs, players, broadcasters and fans has been supportive of the initial phase of squeezing rounds 9-12, fixtures boss Travis Ould said. Clubs and players play more often, and the audience remains very strong, with the average audience per game increasing by 14 percent. Planning for the second phase of compression allows us to play more matches again in a shorter period of time as most clubs continue to live in a hub environment. Premier League rivals Richmond and West Coast will face off in round 14. Credit: AAP Support players, clubs and broadcasters take this approach, coupled with match attendance restrictions, supports the game at unconventional time intervals that allow us to showcase our game to fans throughout the week. Round 18 was set as a floating fixture, with the league setting priorities for matches with the consequences of the finals when setting a date and time. Fifteen clubs - including West Coast and Fremantle - will be based in NSW until the end of the season. Hawthorn, Port Adelaide and Adelaide will be based in South Australia.Thursday, August 27Thurthtorne vs Essendon, Adelaide Oval, 4.40pm AEST (4.10pm local)Richmond vs West Coast Eagles, Metricon Stadium, 7.10pm AESTFriday, August 28 Western Bulldogs vs Geelong Cats, Metricon Stadium, 19:50 AESTSaturday, August 29 Port Adelaide vs Sydney Swans, Adelaide Oval, 13:45 AEST (13.15pm local time) Fremantle vs GWS Giants, Optus Stadium , 16.35 AEST (2.35pm local time) Melbourne vs. St Kilda, TIO Traeger Park, 19:40 AEST (7.10pm local time) Sunday, August 30 Carlton vs Collingwood, Gabba, 3.35pm AESTGold Coast Suns vs North Melbourne, Metricon Stadium, 6.10pm AESTByes: Adelaide Crows, Brisbane LionsTuesday, St 1Hawthorn vs Adelaide Crows, Adelaide Oval, 5.40pm AEST (5.10pm local) West Coast v Essendon , Gabba, 8.10pm AESTWednesday, September 2 Atrichmond vs Fremantle, Metricon Stadium, 7.10pm AESTThursday, Sep 3Sydney Swans vs Melbourne, Cazaly Stadium, 4.40pm AESTGWS Giants vs Carlton, Metricon Stadium, 7.10pm AESTFriday, September 4Brisbane Lions vs Collingwood, Gabba, 7.50pm AESTByes: Geelong Cats, Gold Coast Blues, North Melbourne, Port Adelaide, St Kilda, West Bulldogs North Melbourne v Port Adelaide, Metricon Stadium, 19:40 AESTSunday, September 6 Kilda vs Hawthorn, Metricon Stadium, 1.05pm AESTGeelong Cats vs. Essendon, Gabba, 15:35 AESTWest Bulldogs Bulldogs Bulldogs West Coast Eagles, Metricon Stadium, 6.10pm AESTMonday, Sep 7Melbourne vs Fremantle, Cazaly Stadium, 19:10 AESTTuesday, Sep 8Adelaide Crows vs GWS Giants, Adelaide Oval, 5.40pm AEST (5.10pm local) Carlton vs Sydney Swans, Metricon Stadium, 8.10pm AESTWednesday, Sep 9Brisbane Lions v Gold Coast Suns, Gabba, 7.10pm AESTByes: Collingwood, RichmondThursday, September 10 Kilda vs West Coast Eagles, Gabba, 7.10pm AESTFriday , Sep 11 Geelong Cats vs Richmond Richmond, Metricon Stadium, 19:50 AESTSaturday, September 12 Melbourne vs Fremantle, Metricon Stadium, 13:45 AESTPort Adelaide vs. Essendon, Adelaide Oval, 16:35 AEST (4.05pm local time) GWS Giants vs. Melbourne, Gabba, 19:40 AESTSunday, September 13Carlton vs Adelaide Crows, Metricon Stadium, 13:05 AESTHawthorn vs. Western Bulldogs, Adelaide Oval, 3.35pm AEST (3.05pm local) Sydney Swans vs Brisbane Lions Cazaly Stadium, 6.10pm AESTMonday, Sep 14Collingwood vs Gold Coast, Gabba, 19:10 AESTAll Dates, Times and Places to Be Confirmed Adelaide Crows vs RichmondBrisbane Lions vs CarltonCollingwood vs Port Adelaide Essendon vs MelbourneFreman Hawthorn vs Western Bulldogs Hawthorn vs Gold Coast SunsNorth Melbourne vs West Coast EaglesSt Kilda vs GWS GiantsSydney Swans vs Geelong Cats for 2020 AFL Women's 2020 AFL Premier League seasonTeams18Minor PremiersPort Adelaide (4th Minor Premier League) Matches played159Attendance949 (740 (5,973 per match)Highest attendance32,865 (first elimination final, West Coast vs Collingwood)Coleman MedallistTom Hawkins Geelong (42 goals) Brownlow MedallistLachie Neil Brisbane Lions (31 votes) Wooden spoonersAdelaide (1st wooden ← 20192021 → The 2020 Australian Football League season continues the 124th season of the elite Australian Rules football competition and the 31st under the name of the Australian Football League, having moved out of the Victorian Football League after the 1989 season. There will be 18 teams competing in the league, just like the previous eight seasons. On March 22, 2020, the season was suspended at the end of the first round due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The season resumed on June 11, 2020; And, if there are no more glitches, the season will consist of 18 home-and- away rounds and four weeks of finals, ending the Grand Final to be played between Richmond and Geelong at the Gabba, Brisbane, on October 24. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 was disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, which was officially declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization on 11 March 2020, eight days before the scheduled start of the Premier League season. Restrictions imposed by various state governments related to social distancing, blocking of non-holy services that for three months across the country, and border controls for interstate and international all of them had a significant impact on the end of the 2020 season. Fixture Pre-season, expecting the season to be forced to end at the peak of the virus, the AFL has announced that the match will be reduced from 22 matches per team to 17, with each team playing each other once. The season then began on March 19, as originally planned; however, since the restrictions followed by periods of official quarantine had been imposed on interstate travel, the season was suspended after the first round. It was eventually organized in eighteen rounds, with each team serving one bye. The season was suspended for more than two months. On May 15, when most states began to ease restrictions, a league plan was announced to resume the season: clubs began contactless training on May 18, and full contact training from May 25, before the resumption of competitive matches from June 11, with a revised fixture released gradually throughout the year, and changing regularly and often in short order when the situation forced it. The first major fixing problem occurred after Round 4, when a spike in Victorian COVID-19 cases prompted other states to either impose tighter quarantine restrictions on Victorians, or to delay easing restrictions already in place. While this forced two scheduled rounds of five matches - (Richmond vs West Coast and Melbourne vs. Sydney) - to be redrawn in less than a week's notice (Richmond instead face Melbourne in Victoria, and Sydney face West Coast in NSW), and the entire scheduled round of six and seven fixtures to be redrawn, the season continued without suspension. The gradual release of the fixture also allowed flexibility to reschedule any games that were postponed due to positive COVID-19 tests among players or staff. When games have been postponed or rescheduled in short order, other games in the same round are often also postponed to ensure that prime-time television slots are filled. Club medical restrictions At peak break players were only allowed to train under strict government restrictions on public meetings; at the height of the pandemic in April and May, when more than two meetings were limited, meaning that players could only train in pairs. When the league returned to training and games, this was done with strict protocols and monitoring to ensure that clubs would not be affected by the outbreak, and that any cases of the virus could be kept with minimal impact on wider competition. In this regard, players, referees and staff were regularly tested for the virus and continued to train mainly in small groups, allowing the segregation of individual players or small groups and contained in the case of positive Disease. The club's players and staff are subject to the protocols that apply to which were above and beyond the lockout guidelines are still in place for the public in order to protect the AFL season from the misery of the outbreak; and families and partners who are part of quarantine centres are subject to the same restrictions. There have been many breaches during the season, leading to fines for players and clubs, or disqualifications in the most egregious cases: Richmond's Sydney Stack and Callum Coleman-Jones (ten matches each) for taking part in a brawl outside the Surfers Paradise kebab shop in the early hours of September 4. Sydney's Elijah Taylor (until the end of the season, who has made six home and away matches) for bringing his girlfriend to the club's quarantine hotel in Perth. Adelaide assistant coach Ben Hart (six weeks training) for having a training team to be too close together for quarantine camp in early May. Collingwood's Steele Sidebottom (four matches) and Linden Dunn (one match) for driving to an Uber and visiting more than one unauthorized home, a night ending with Sidebottom being taken home by police. Peter Ladhams (three matches) from Port Adelaide and Dan Houston (two matches) for inviting non-empowered residents to their home. Charlie Spargo (two matches) from Melbourne and Kisaya Pickett (one match) for driving through Uber to an unauthorised home to collect. Port Adelaide's Ollie Wines (one week) for inviting an unauthorized resident to his home.