{"id":860717,"date":"2026-08-19T10:44:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T10:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/860717\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T10:44:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T10:44:11","slug":"afl-teams-round-24-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/860717\/","title":{"rendered":"AFL Teams Round 24 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gold Coast has benched wantaway star Ben King for what could be his final game in Suns colours, while St Kilda gives Dougal Howard a farewell game.<\/p>\n<p>See the sides for Round 24 below!<\/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>The Suns have named star forward King on the bench, with returning ruckman Jarrod Witts at full-forward, for Thursday night\u2019s clash at Marvel Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Nick Holman comes in for a farewell game along with Ben Jepson, while the Suns lose Sam Collins, Wil Powell and Christian Petracca with injury.<\/p>\n<p>St Kilda adds Liam Ryan for the dead rubber with Jack Higgins (injured) and Alix Tauru (omitted) to miss out.<\/p>\n<p>The rest of the Round 24 teams will be announced Thursday 6:20pm.<\/p>\n<p>AFL ROUND 24 TEAMS AND FIXTURE (All times AEST)<\/p>\n<p>ST KILDA v GOLD COAST SUNS<\/p>\n<p>Thursday August 20, 7:30pm at Marvel Stadium<\/p>\n<p>SAINTS<\/p>\n<p>B: J.Silvagni, C.Wilkie &#8211; C, D.Howard<\/p>\n<p>HB: L.O\u2019Connell, M.Windhager, L.Stocker<\/p>\n<p>C: D.Wilson, M.Owens, H.Boxshall<\/p>\n<p>HF: R.Byrnes, L.Ryan, B.Hill<\/p>\n<p>F: C.Sharman, R.Marshall, D.Butler<\/p>\n<p>FOLL: T.De Koning, H.Garcia, M.Hall<\/p>\n<p>I\/C: T.Travaglia, J.Macrae, A.Hastie, M.Phillipou, C.Lake<\/p>\n<p>EMG: A.Tauru, A.Dodson, C.Banfield<\/p>\n<p>In: &#8211; D.Howard, L.Ryan<\/p>\n<p>Out: &#8211; J.Higgins (Injured), A.Tauru (Omitted)<\/p>\n<p>SUNS<\/p>\n<p>B: J.Jeffrey, C.Ballard, B.Uwland<\/p>\n<p>HB: D.Rioli, M.Andrew, J.Noble<\/p>\n<p>C: N.Holman, B.Humphrey, B.Addinsall<\/p>\n<p>HF: T.Miller, E.Read, L.Lombard<\/p>\n<p>F: B.Long, J.Witts, J.Walter<\/p>\n<p>FOLL: N.Moyle, M.Rowell, N.Anderson &#8211; C<\/p>\n<p>I\/C: J.Rogers, S.Clohesy, B.King, L.Gulbin, B.Jepson<\/p>\n<p>EMG: D.Patterson, Z.Uwland, O.Adams<\/p>\n<p>In: &#8211; N.Holman, J.Witts, B.Jepson<\/p>\n<p>Out: &#8211; S.Collins (Injured), W.Powell (Injured), C.Petracca (Injured)<\/p>\n<p>COLLINGWOOD v BRISBANE LIONS<\/p>\n<p>Friday August 21, 7:40pm at the MCG<\/p>\n<p>MAGPIES<\/p>\n<p>TBA Thursday evening<\/p>\n<p>LIONS<\/p>\n<p>TBA Thursday evening<\/p>\n<p>CARLTON v FREMANTLE<\/p>\n<p>Saturday August 22, 1:15pm at Marvel Stadium<\/p>\n<p>BLUES<\/p>\n<p>TBA Thursday evening<\/p>\n<p>DOCKERS<\/p>\n<p>TBA Thursday evening<\/p>\n<p>MELBOURNE v WESTERN BULLDOGS<\/p>\n<p>Saturday August 22, 4:15pm at the MCG<\/p>\n<p>DEMONS<\/p>\n<p>TBA Thursday evening<\/p>\n<p>BULLDOGS<\/p>\n<p>TBA Thursday evening<\/p>\n<p>GEELONG v RICHMOND<\/p>\n<p>Saturday August 22, 7:45pm at GMHBA Stadium<\/p>\n<p>CATS<\/p>\n<p>TBA Thursday evening<\/p>\n<p>TIGERS<\/p>\n<p>TBA Thursday evening<\/p>\n<p>ADELAIDE CROWS v GWS GIANTS<\/p>\n<p>Saturday August 22, 8:10pm at Adelaide Oval<\/p>\n<p>CROWS<\/p>\n<p>TBA Thursday evening<\/p>\n<p>GIANTS<\/p>\n<p>TBA Thursday evening<\/p>\n<p>ESSENDON v PORT ADELAIDE<\/p>\n<p>Sunday August 23, 12:20pm at Marvel Stadium<\/p>\n<p>BOMBERS<\/p>\n<p>TBA Thursday evening<\/p>\n<p>POWER<\/p>\n<p>TBA Thursday evening<\/p>\n<p>SYDNEY SWANS v NORTH MELBOURNE<\/p>\n<p>Sunday August 23, 3:20pm at the SCG<\/p>\n<p>SWANS<\/p>\n<p>TBA Thursday evening<\/p>\n<p>KANGAROOS<\/p>\n<p>TBA Thursday evening<\/p>\n<p>WEST COAST EAGLES v HAWTHORN<\/p>\n<p>Sunday August 23, 7:20pm at Optus Stadium<\/p>\n<p>EAGLES<\/p>\n<p>TBA Thursday evening<\/p>\n<p>HAWKS<\/p>\n<p>TBA Thursday evening<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gold Coast has benched wantaway star Ben King for what could be his final game in Suns colours,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":860718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-860717","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\/860717","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=860717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/860718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=860717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=860717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=860717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}