{"id":336253,"date":"2025-12-09T02:58:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T02:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/336253\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T02:58:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T02:58:17","slug":"afl-pre-season-fixtures-2026-revealed-who-does-your-club-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/336253\/","title":{"rendered":"AFL pre-season fixtures 2026 revealed: Who does your club play?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the conclusion of the AFLW season, we are officially in the boring part of the football calendar.<\/p>\n<p>But fear not, there is light at the end of the tunnel.<\/p>\n<p>The AFL have announced the 2026 AAMI Community Series fixtures, which will see every club play one official pre-season game.<\/p>\n<p>The games will take place after the State of Origin game between Victoria and Western Australia.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/au\/afl\/brisbane-lions\/news\/brisbane-lions-premiership-star-re-signs-darcy-wilmot-zac-bailey\/9033afa4064d3d237918c031\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Brisbane Lions premiership star re-signs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here is the official fixture:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday, February 25<br \/>Carlton v <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/au\/afl\/geelong-cats\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Geelong<\/a>, Ikon Park, 7.10pm AEDT<\/p>\n<p>Thursday, February 26<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/au\/afl\/sydney-swans\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sydney<\/a> v <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/au\/afl\/gws-giants\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">GWS<\/a>, Henson Park, 4.10pm AEDT<br \/>Brisbane v <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/au\/afl\/gold-coast-suns\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gold Coast<\/a>, Brighton Homes Arena, 6.10pm AEST\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Friday, February 27<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/au\/afl\/melbourne\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Melbourne<\/a> v <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/au\/afl\/richmond\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Richmond<\/a>, Mars Stadium, 4.10pm AEDT<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/au\/afl\/western-bulldogs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Western Bulldogs<\/a> v <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/au\/afl\/hawthorn\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hawthorn<\/a>, Mission Whitten Oval, 7.10pm AEDT<\/p>\n<p>Saturday, February 28<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/au\/afl\/st-kilda\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">St Kilda<\/a> v <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/au\/afl\/essendon\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Essendon<\/a>, Mars Stadium, 3.10pm AEDT<br \/>Fremantle v Adelaide, Rushton Park, 3.10pm AWST<\/p>\n<p>Sunday, March 1<br \/>North Melbourne v Collingwood, Mars Stadium, 3.10pm AEDT<br \/>West Coast v Port Adelaide, Mineral Resources Park, 3.10pm AWST<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the conclusion of the AFLW season, we are officially in the boring part of the football calendar.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":336254,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-336253","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\/336253","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=336253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}