{"id":241240,"date":"2025-10-26T04:06:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T04:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/241240\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T04:06:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T04:06:10","slug":"north-melbourne-make-history-tie-afl-record-afl-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/241240\/","title":{"rendered":"North Melbourne make history, tie AFL record &#8211; AFL News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohanger.com\/games-centre\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"305\" height=\"40\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" style=\"float:right;\" class=\"play-games-banner\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1752988028_499_ZeroHanger_GamesCentre.png.webp.webp\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>North Melbourne&#8217;s AFLW program has extended their winning streak to 23 games on Sunday afternoon, equalling the V\/<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohanger.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AFL<\/a> record for the most consecutive wins in the game&#8217;s history.<\/p>\n<p>The accomplishment ties the record set by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohanger.com\/afl\/teams\/geelong-cats\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Geelong Cats<\/a> over the 1952 and 1953 seasons.<\/p>\n<p>The Kangaroos achieved the feat by defeating the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohanger.com\/afl\/teams\/st-kilda-saints\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">St Kilda Saints<\/a> by 46 points in picturesque conditions at North Hobart Oval,\u00a0 quickly stamping their authority on the contest with two early goals and the first eight scores of the match.<\/p>\n<p>By forcing St Kilda to play catchup, the nature of the contest ultimately favoured North Melbourne, who snapped the Saints&#8217; women side&#8217;s lengthy win streak of their own, ending the team&#8217;s six-game unbeaten run.<\/p>\n<p>North Melbourne&#8217;s winning streak extends back to Round 3, 2024, but very nearly could have gone back to Round 1, 2024. A draw with Geelong in Round 2 last year means that the Roos&#8217; have an unbeaten streak of 25 games, but not a winning streak of that length, which is the record they seek to claim as their own next weekend.<\/p>\n<p>North Melbourne will have a chance to break the 72-year-old record on Friday, 31 October against the second place <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohanger.com\/afl\/teams\/hawthorn-hawks\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hawthorn Hawks<\/a> in the women&#8217;s sides first ever meeting in an AFLW fixture.<\/p>\n<p>Get your popcorn ready.<\/p>\n<p>LONGEST VFL\/AFL\/AFLW WINNING STREAKS<br \/>23* &#8211; North Melbourne (R3, 2024 to R11, 2025)<br \/>23 \u2013 Geelong (R12, 1952 to R13, 1953)<br \/>20 \u2013 Essendon (R1, 2000 to R20, 2000)<br \/>20 \u2013 Collingwood (SF, 1928 to R18, 1929)<br \/>20 \u2013 Brisbane (R10, 2001 to R4, 2002)<br \/>19 \u2013 St Kilda (R1, 2009 to R19, 2009)<br \/>19 \u2013 Melbourne (R15, 1955 to R13, 1956)<br \/>18 \u2013 Carlton (R10, 1995 to R2, 1996)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"North Melbourne&#8217;s AFLW program has extended their winning streak to 23 games on Sunday afternoon, equalling the V\/AFL&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":241241,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-241240","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-afl","8":"tag-afl","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-australian-football-league","12":"tag-australianfootballleague","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}