Nine’s Eddie McGuire has revealed Adelaide Crows star Izak Rankine will miss the rest of the season with the AFL to hand down a five-match ban for his homophobic slur against a Collingwood player.

“His season is finished in 2025,” McGuire said on Footy Classified.

“The Adelaide Football Club and Izak Rankine will have the opportunity to appeal the sanction and try and get it reduced because they could argue that it is manifestly unjust.

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“They will have the next 24 hours, or 12 hours at least, to decide whether or not they mount an appeal.”

The Crows are currently first going into the final round but now face an uphill battle come finals time without one of their best players.

Izak Rankine.  AFL Photos via Getty Images

Adelaide great Rory Sloane admitted the length of the ban was expected.

“That’s a devastating result for the footy club, it’s probably not surprising though,” he said.

“I think the general feel from the club since they found out was this was always going to be the case.

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“The only choice you have in these situations is to accept it and move on. And that’s what they’ll do.

“Squads win finals, Bob Murphy missed (finals) for the Bulldogs, Andrew Gaff missed for West Coast, a couple of big games, they still went on to win flags and the whole mentality of that footy club is squads win finals.”

The expectation next season is the AFL will have a set ban for homophobic and racial slurs, with a matrix around severity and intent.