{"id":759079,"date":"2026-06-25T09:39:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T09:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/759079\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T09:39:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T09:39:13","slug":"afl-2026-brisbane-lions-vs-sydney-swans-round-16-live-scores-and-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/759079\/","title":{"rendered":"AFL 2026, Brisbane Lions vs Sydney Swans, Round 16 live scores and updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back-to-back premiers Brisbane need to kickstart their flag defence, but face a Sydney side boosted by the return of superstar Errol Gulden in the Round 16 opener.<\/p>\n<p>The Lions (8-6, 108.4%) have been wobbly at home against fellow contenders, including losses to Geelong and Fremantle last month. The Swans (12-2, 143.7%) beat them in Brisbane late last year, and by 44 points at the SCG earlier this season.<\/p>\n<p>Watch every match of every round of the AFL Premiership Season LIVE and ad-break free during play on FOX FOOTY, available on Kayo Sports | New to Kayo? <a href=\"https:\/\/kayosports.com.au\/en-AU\/welcome\/afl?extcamp=fsaeditoriallinkafl-edt-fsp-lnk-awr-grc-afl-kyo&amp;channel=fsa&amp;campaign=fsacontra\" title=\"kayosports.com.au\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Join now and get your first month for just $1<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"i-amphtml-fill-content i-amphtml-replaced-content\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/poster-fallback.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Match details: Brisbane Lions vs Sydney Swans from 7:30pm AEST at the Gabba<\/p>\n<p>Watch it live: On Fox Footy (channel 504), and streaming on Kayo, from 6:30pm AEST<\/p>\n<p>Follow Brisbane vs Sydney in our live blog below!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/go.arena.im\/live\/fox-sports-australia\/AFL20261601?v=2\" title=\"go.arena.im\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">If you can\u2019t see the blog, tap here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Back-to-back premiers Brisbane need to kickstart their flag defence, but face a Sydney side boosted by the return&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":759080,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-759079","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\/759079","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=759079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/759080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=759079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=759079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=759079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}