How is the draw for the season determined?
Each team plays 22 games in the regular (or Home and Away) Season. The majority of teams will play 11 games at home, and 11 games at away venues. For the purposes of scheduling games for the next season, the League is split into two divisions, being the top and bottom eight teams (Port Power was considered team number 16 for its first season in 1997). Each team will play the teams in their division twice, and those in the other division once. There are some exceptions due to the AFL policy of maximising the number of potentially large audience games, such as West Coast vs Fremantle or Adelaide vs Port Power “derbies” and Collingwood v. Essendon on ANZAC Day. The resulting season schedule is known as the “fixture”. Because the AFL uses it as a marketing tool, the fixture is copyrighted by the AFL, and may not be reproduced without permission. Ian Collins, the AFL’s football operations manager, still boasts of being able to sit down at a personal computer after one season ends and schedu
Each team plays 22 games in the regular (or Home and Away) Season. The majority of teams will play 11 games at home, and 11 games at away venues. For the purposes of scheduling games for the next season, the League is split into two divisions, being the top and bottom eight teams (Port Power was considered team number 16 for its first season in 1997). Each team will play the teams in their division twice, and those in the other division once. There are some exceptions due to the AFL policy of maximising the number of potentially large audience games, such as West Coast vs Fremantle or Adelaide vs Port Power “derbies” and Collingwood v. Essendon on ANZAC Day. The resulting season schedule is known as the “fixture”. Because the AFL uses it as a marketing tool, the fixture is copyrighted by the AFL, and may not be reproduced without permission. Ian Collins, the AFL’s football operations manager 1993-99, once boasted of being able to sit down at a personal computer after one season ends an
Each team plays 22 games in the regular (or Home and Away) Season. The majority of teams will play 11 games at home, and 11 games at away venues. The League for the purposes of scheduling games for the next season is split into 2 divisions, being the top and bottom eight teams (expansion team Fremantle is considered team number 16). Each team will play the teams in their division twice, whilst playing those in the other division once. There are some exceptions due to the AFL policy of maximising the number of potentially large audience games, such as West Coast vs Fremantle derbies.
