{"id":456530,"date":"2026-02-03T22:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T22:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/456530\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T22:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T22:10:10","slug":"afl-origin-squads-predicted-lineups-who-will-play-for-victoria-and-western-australia-afl-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/456530\/","title":{"rendered":"AFL Origin Squads, Predicted Lineups: Who will play for Victoria and Western Australia? – AFL News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A host of stars for Western Australia and Victoria have been locked in to represent their respective state sides when Origin football returns to the AFL<\/a> in 2026.<\/p>\n

Starting with a bang, both squads have confirmed the selections of All-Australians, Brownlow Medal winners, premiership stalwarts and current icons of the game to suggest a high-quality content will kickstart the era of AFL Origin<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Below is every player and coach selected for AFL Origin, as well as each state’s predicted lineup.\u00a0<\/p>\n

AFL Origin Squad Tracker\/Predicted Lineups
\nWestern Australia<\/p>\n

Squad:
Callum Ah Chee<\/a> (Adelaide)
Liam Baker<\/a> (West Coast)
Tom Barrass<\/a> (Hawthorn)
Shai Bolton<\/a> (Fremantle)
Nathan Broad<\/a>* (Richmond)
Charlie Cameron<\/a> (Brisbane)
Darcy Cameron<\/a> (Collingwood)
Jordan Clark<\/a> (Fremantle)
Stephen Coniglio<\/a>\u00a0(GWS)
Patrick Cripps<\/a> (Carlton)
Tim English<\/a>\u00a0(Western Bulldogs)
Mitch Georgiades<\/a> (Port Adelaide)
Bradley Hill<\/a> (St Kilda)
Jesse Hogan<\/a> (GWS)
Lawson Humphries<\/a> (Geelong)
Luke Jackson<\/a> (Fremantle)
Rory Lobb<\/a> (Western Bulldogs)
Aaron Naughton<\/a> (Western Bulldogs)
Jaeger O’Meara<\/a>\u00a0(Fremantle)
Kysaiah Pickett<\/a> (Melbourne)
Wil Powell<\/a> (Gold Coast)
Trent Rivers<\/a> (Melbourne)
Sam Taylor<\/a> (GWS)
Chad Warner<\/a> (Sydney)
Jake Waterman<\/a> (West Coast)<\/p>\n

Predicted Lineup:
FB: Jordan Clark, Tom Barrass, Nathan Broad
HB: Liam Baker, Sam Taylor, Wil Powell
C: Trent Rivers, Kysaiah Pickett, Lawson Humphries
HF: Shai Bolton, Jesse Hogan, Mitch Georgiades
FF: Callum Ah Chee, Aaron Naughton, Charlie Cameron
FO: Darcy Cameron, Patrick Cripps, Chad Warner
I\/C: Luke Jackson, Bradley Hill, Rory Lobb, Tim English, Stephen Coniglio, Jaeger O’Meara, Jake Waterman<\/p>\n

Senior coach: Dean Cox<\/a>
Assistants: Justin Longmuir, <\/a>Nathan van Berlo<\/a>, Joe Brierty<\/p>\n

Victoria<\/p>\n

Squad:
Noah Anderson<\/a> (Gold Coast)
Lachie Ash<\/a> (GWS)
Josh Battle<\/a> (Hawthorn)
Marcus Bontempelli<\/a> (Western Bulldogs)
Zak Butters<\/a> (Port Adelaide)
Jeremy Cameron<\/a> (Geelong)
Sam Collins<\/a> (Gold Coast)
Nick Daicos<\/a> (Collingwood)
Patrick Dangerfield<\/a> (Geelong)
Sam Darcy<\/a> (Western Bulldogs)
Max Gawn<\/a> (Melbourne)
Toby Greene<\/a> (GWS)
Jack Gunston<\/a> (Hawthorn)
Blake Hardwick<\/a> (Hawthorn)
Zach Merrett<\/a> (Essendon)
Hugh McCluggage<\/a> (Brisbane)
Max Holmes<\/a> (Geelong)
Ed Richards<\/a> (Western Bulldogs)
Matthew Rowell<\/a> (Gold Coast)
Caleb Serong<\/a> (Fremantle)
Jack Sinclair<\/a> (St Kilda)
Bailey Smith<\/a> (Geelong)
Tom Stewart<\/a> (Geelong)
Jacob Weitering<\/a> (Carlton)
Tristan Xerri <\/a>(North Melbourne)<\/p>\n

Predicted Lineup:
FB: Tom Stewart, Jacob Weitering, Lachie Ash
HB: Max Holmes, Josh Battle, Jack Sinclair
C: Ed Richards, Nick Daicos, Hugh McCluggage
HF: Zak Butters, Jeremy Cameron, Marcus Bontempelli
FF: Toby Greene, Sam Darcy, Patrick Dangerfield
FO: Max Gawn, Noah Anderson, Matthew Rowell
I\/C: Zach Merrett, Caleb Serong, Blake Hardwick, Tristan Xerri, Sam Collins, Bailey Smith, Jack Gunston<\/p>\n

Senior coach: Chris Scott<\/a>
Assistants: Sam Mitchell,<\/a> Shaun Grigg<\/a>, Danny Daly<\/p>\n

Club breakdown<\/p>\n

Adelaide: 1
Brisbane: 2
Carlton: 2
Collingwood: 2
Essendon: 1
Fremantle: 5
Geelong: 6
Gold Coast: 4
GWS: 5
Hawthorn: 4
Melbourne: 3
North Melbourne: 1
Port Adelaide: 2
Richmond: 1
St Kilda: 2
Sydney: 1
West Coast: 2
Western Bulldogs: 6<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A host of stars for Western Australia and Victoria have been locked in to represent their respective state…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":332522,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-456530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456530","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=456530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}