2026 AFL season

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The 2026 AFL season was the 130th season of the Australian Football League (AFL), the highest-level senior men's Australian rules football competition in Australia. The season featured 18 clubs and ran from 5 March to 26 September, comprising a 23-match home-and-away season over 25 rounds, with a five-week finals series featuring the top ten clubs occurring for the first time. The Brisbane Lions won the premiership, defeating Fremantle by seven points in the 2026 AFL Grand Final; it was their third consecutive premiership and sixth AFL premiership overall. Fremantle won the minor premiership by finishing atop the home-and-away ladder with a 19–4 win–loss record. Collingwood's Nick Daicos won the Brownlow Medal as the league's best and fairest player and Sydney's Charlie Curnow won his third Coleman Medal as the league's leading goalkicker.

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