{"id":319504,"date":"2025-11-30T23:46:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T23:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/319504\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T23:46:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T23:46:13","slug":"2026-vfl-season-dates-confirmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/319504\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 VFL season dates confirmed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__summary\">\n                The 2026 VFL season will commence the weekend of March 21-22.\n            <\/p>\n<p>The season dates for the 2026 Smithy\u2019s VFL competition have been confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>The season will commence the weekend of March 21-22, in line with Round 2 of the Toyota AFL Premiership Season.<\/p>\n<p>The VFL campaign will feature 21 home and away rounds, with all 22 clubs to play 18 matches and have three byes.<\/p>\n<p>The finals series will be played across five weeks, commencing with Wildcard Finals on the weekend of August 22-23. The Grand Final is scheduled to be played on Sunday, September 20.<\/p>\n<p>With season dates confirmed, the fixture build for the VFL season will now commence.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.richmondfc.com.au\/football\/vfl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Click here<\/a> for all the latest Richmond VFL news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2026 VFL season will commence the weekend of March 21-22. The season dates for the 2026 Smithy\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":319505,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85,83],"class_list":{"0":"post-319504","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","14":"tag-text"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319504","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=319504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}