{"id":278722,"date":"2025-11-12T00:15:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T00:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/278722\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T00:15:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T00:15:09","slug":"afl-fixture-secrets-2026-blockbusters-revealed-gather-round-snippet-easter-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/278722\/","title":{"rendered":"AFL fixture secrets: 2026 blockbusters revealed, Gather Round snippet, Easter round"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ahead of tomorrow’s AFL fixture release several blockbuster matches and highlights have been revealed.<\/p>\n

Opening Round’s games have been announced with the concept hitting Melbourne<\/a> for the first time.<\/p>\n

The bookend fixtures for Gather Round have been revealed, with fans set to flock to Adelaide for a fourth year.<\/p>\n

Primetime Easter weekend fixtures are out in the open with Brisbane vs. Collingwood<\/a> to start the festivities.<\/p>\n

MORE:\u00a0Dayne Zorko questions timing, teams as AFL State of Origin set to return<\/a><\/p>\n

The Sporting News lists all the AFL fixture announcements so far.<\/p>\n

AFL fixture announcementsOpening RoundSydney vs. Carlton (SCG) – opening match of the seasonGWS vs. Hawthorn (Engie Stadium)Gold Coast vs. Geelong (People First Stadium)Brisbane vs. Western Bulldogs (Gabba)St Kilda vs. Collingwood (MCG) – Sunday night, 7:20pmGather RoundAdelaide vs. Carlton – Friday nightPort Adelaide vs. St Kilda – Sunday nightEaster RoundBrisbane vs. Collingwood (Gabba) – Easter ThursdayNorth Melbourne vs. Carlton (Marvel) – Good FridayWestern Bulldogs vs. Essendon (Marvel) – Easter SundayHawthorn vs. Geelong (MCG) – Easter MondayOther revealsThe Western Bulldogs won’t play at MARS Stadium in 2026 due to construction at the Ballarat venue<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ahead of tomorrow’s AFL fixture release several blockbuster matches and highlights have been revealed. Opening Round’s games have…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96099,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-278722","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\/278722","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=278722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}