Jade Melbourne returns to Canberra plus Tasmania Jewels prepare for their historic WNBL debut.<\/p>\n
Australian Opals star Jade Melbourne<\/a> can’t escape Canberra just yet. The Bendigo Spirit play their first game of the WNBL27 season against her former club at AIS Arena, one of six fixtures in an Opening Round spread across six days.<\/p>\n The season tips off on October 15, when Steph Reid<\/a> leads expansion club the Tasmania Jewels into their historic first WNBL game against the Geelong Venom in Hobart. Bec Cole returns to the league in Geelong colours after a season away, alongside Chinese imports Han Xu and Wanglai Zhang.<\/p>\n WNBL27 tips off in<\/p>\n Round 1 \u00b7 the first game of the season<\/p>\n The season is under way.<\/p>\n Tasmania Jewels v Geelong Venom<\/p>\n \n Thursday 15 October 2026\u00b77.00pm AEDT\n <\/p>\n MyState Bank Arena, Hobart<\/p>\n Tip-off time is the scheduled start and is set by the WNBL.<\/p>\n Perth’s Opening Round has been reshaped by injury. Sami Whitcomb<\/a> is out of the entire WNBL27 season with the knee that also cost her the World Cup in Berlin<\/a>, and the Lynx moved within 24 hours to sign Washington Mystics guard Georgia Amoore<\/a>, the Ballarat point guard who was the sixth pick of the 2025 WNBA draft. She joins Anneli Maley <\/a>for a Grand Final rematch against reigning champions Townsville Fire.<\/p>\n Chinese national team guard Wang Siyu, known as Rainy, will debut for the Southside Melbourne Flyers against Sydney, while sisters Nyadiew<\/a> and Manuela Puoch<\/a> line up together at Canberra, Nyadiew arriving from a WNBA season with the Portland Fire and Manuela from Southside.<\/p>\n Courtney Woods leads a largely unchanged Townsville Fire squad featuring Alicia Froling<\/a>, Alex Fowler, Miela Sowah<\/a>, Abbey Ellis and Chloe Forster, while Steph Talbot<\/a> returns from the WNBA to spearhead Adelaide Lightning, who play twice in the opening round.<\/p>\n WNBL27 will feature 99 games broadcast live and free, new fan-friendly scheduling, a five-team finals series including an elimination final, and themed rounds including Indigenous Round, Mental Health Round, Pride Round and HoopsFest in Perth.<\/p>\n Every Game and Every Club’s WNBL27 Season<\/p>\n \n Select team:<\/p>\n All Teams Round Round 1Thursday, 15 October7:00pm AEDTTasmaniaGeelongMyState Bank Arena Every WNBL club and its basketball.com.au profile. Sort by club or state by tapping a heading; tap again to reverse, and a third time to return to alphabetical order. Club logos are trademarks of their respective clubs and the WNBL, used here for editorial identification.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jade Melbourne returns to Canberra plus Tasmania Jewels prepare for their historic WNBL debut. Australian Opals star Jade…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":873199,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-873198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873198","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=873198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/873199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=873198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=873198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=873198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n Adelaide
\n Bendigo
\n Canberra
\n Geelong
\n Perth
\n Southside
\n Sydney
\n Tasmania
\n Townsville<\/p>\n
\n Date
\n Time
\n Home
\n Away
\n Venue<\/p>\n
\n Round 1Friday, 16 October7:00pm AEDTSouthsideSydneyVIC State Basketball Centre
\n Round 1Saturday, 17 October3:00pm AEDTCanberraBendigoAIS Arena
\n Round 1Saturday, 17 October7:00pm AEDTPerthTownsvillePerth High Performance Centre
\n Round 1Sunday, 18 October1:00pm AEDTSydneyAdelaideQuaycentre
\n Round 1Tuesday, 20 October7:00pm AEDTAdelaideTownsvilleSA State Basketball Centre
\n Round 2Thursday, 22 October7:00pm AEDTSouthsideTasmaniaVIC State Basketball Centre
\n Round 2Friday, 23 October7:00pm AEDTSydneyCanberraQuaycentre
\n Round 2Saturday, 24 October3:00pm AEDTGeelongSouthsideGeelong Arena
\n Round 2Saturday, 24 October7:00pm AEDTAdelaidePerthSA State Basketball Centre
\n Round 2Sunday, 25 October3:00pm AEDTTownsvilleSydneyTownsville Entertainment & Convention Centre
\n Round 2Tuesday, 27 October7:00pm AEDTBendigoTownsvilleRed Energy Arena
\n Round 3Saturday, 31 October3:00pm AEDTTasmaniaSydneySilverdome
\n Round 3Saturday, 31 October7:00pm AEDTGeelongCanberraGeelong Arena
\n Round 3Sunday, 1 November1:00pm AEDTSouthsideAdelaideVIC State Basketball Centre
\n Round 3Monday, 2 November7:00pm AEDTBendigoGeelongSelkirk Stadium
\n Round 3Tuesday, 3 November7:00pm AEDTTownsvillePerthTownsville Entertainment & Convention Centre
\n Round 4Thursday, 5 November7:00pm AEDTGeelongTownsvilleGeelong Arena
\n Round 4Saturday, 7 November3:00pm AEDTAdelaideTasmaniaSA State Basketball Centre
\n Round 4Saturday, 7 November7:00pm AEDTBendigoCanberraRed Energy Arena
\n Round 4Sunday, 8 November12:30pm AEDTSydneySouthsideQudos Bank Arena
\n Round 4Tuesday, 10 November9:00pm AEDTPerthBendigoPerth High Performance Centre
\n Round 5Thursday, 12 November7:00pm AEDTTasmaniaSouthsideSilverdome
\n Round 5Friday, 13 November7:00pm AEDTGeelongPerthGeelong Arena
\n Round 5Saturday, 14 November3:00pm AEDTBendigoSydneyRed Energy Arena
\n Round 5Sunday, 15 November1:00pm AEDTSouthsidePerthVIC State Basketball Centre
\n Round 5Sunday, 15 November3:00pm AEDTCanberraTownsvilleAIS Arena
\n Round 5Tuesday, 17 November7:00pm AEDTAdelaideGeelongSA State Basketball Centre
\n Round 6Saturday, 21 November3:00pm AEDTGeelongSouthsideGeelong Arena
\n Round 6Saturday, 21 November7:00pm AEDTAdelaideSydneySA State Basketball Centre
\n Round 6Sunday, 22 November1:00pm AEDTCanberraTasmaniaAIS Arena
\n Round 6Sunday, 22 November3:00pm AEDTTownsvilleBendigoTownsville Entertainment & Convention Centre
\n Round 6Tuesday, 24 November9:00pm AEDTPerthCanberraPerth High Performance Centre
\n Round 7Thursday, 26 November7:00pm AEDTBendigoTasmaniaRed Energy Arena
\n Round 7Friday, 27 November7:00pm AEDTCanberraGeelongAIS Arena
\n Round 7Saturday, 28 November3:00pm AEDTSydneyTownsvilleQuaycentre
\n Round 7Saturday, 28 November7:00pm AEDTPerthAdelaidePerth High Performance Centre
\n Round 7Sunday, 29 November1:00pm AEDTSouthsideBendigoTBC
\n Round 7Sunday, 29 November3:00pm AEDTTasmaniaCanberraMyState Bank Arena
\n Round 7Tuesday, 1 December7:00pm AEDTGeelongTownsvilleGeelong Arena
\n Round 8Thursday, 3 December7:00pm AEDTAdelaideSouthsideSA State Basketball Centre
\n Round 8Friday, 4 December7:00pm AEDTCanberraBendigoAIS Arena
\n Round 8Friday, 4 December9:00pm AEDTPerthSydneyPerth High Performance Centre
\n Round 8Saturday, 5 December7:00pm AEDTTownsvilleAdelaideTownsville Entertainment & Convention Centre
\n Round 8Sunday, 6 December1:00pm AEDTSouthsideCanberraVIC State Basketball Centre
\n Round 8Sunday, 6 December3:00pm AEDTGeelongTasmaniaGeelong Arena
\n Round 8Tuesday, 8 December7:00pm AEDTBendigoPerthRed Energy Arena
\n Round 9Friday, 11 December7:00pm AEDTTownsvilleSouthsideTownsville Entertainment & Convention Centre
\n Round 9Saturday, 12 December3:00pm AEDTBendigoGeelongRed Energy Arena
\n Round 9Saturday, 12 December7:00pm AEDTCanberraAdelaideAIS Arena
\n Round 9Sunday, 13 December1:00pm AEDTSydneyTownsvilleQuaycentre
\n Round 9Sunday, 13 December7:00pm AEDTPerthTasmaniaPerth High Performance Centre
\n Round 9Tuesday, 15 December7:00pm AEDTCanberraSydneyAIS Arena
\n Round 10Thursday, 17 December9:00pm AEDTPerthSouthsidePerth High Performance Centre
\n Round 10Friday, 18 December7:00pm AEDTBendigoSydneyGippsland Regional Indoor Sports Stadium
\n Round 10Saturday, 19 December3:00pm AEDTGeelongAdelaideGeelong Arena
\n Round 10Saturday, 19 December7:00pm AEDTTasmaniaCanberraSilverdome
\n Round 10Sunday, 20 December1:00pm AEDTSydneyPerthQuaycentre
\n Round 10Monday, 21 December7:00pm AEDTSouthsideGeelongTBC
\n Round 10Tuesday, 22 December7:00pm AEDTAdelaideBendigoSA State Basketball Centre
\n Round 10Wednesday, 23 December7:00pm AEDTTownsvilleTasmaniaTownsville Entertainment & Convention Centre
\n Round 11Sunday, 27 December1:00pm AEDTTasmaniaBendigoMyState Bank Arena
\n Round 11Sunday, 27 December3:00pm AEDTAdelaideCanberraSA State Basketball Centre
\n Round 11Tuesday, 29 December5:00pm AEDTSydneyTasmaniaQudos Bank Arena
\n Round 11Tuesday, 29 December7:00pm AEDTSouthsideTownsvilleVIC State Basketball Centre
\n Round 11Wednesday, 30 December9:00pm AEDTPerthGeelongPerth High Performance Centre
\n Round 12Thursday, 31 December7:00pm AEDTTownsvilleBendigoTownsville Entertainment & Convention Centre
\n Round 12Saturday, 2 January3:00pm AEDTTasmaniaPerthSilverdome
\n Round 12Saturday, 2 January7:00pm AEDTGeelongBendigoGeelong Arena
\n Round 12Sunday, 3 January1:00pm AEDTCanberraSouthsideAIS Arena
\n Round 12Sunday, 3 January3:00pm AEDTAdelaideSydneySA State Basketball Centre
\n Round 12Tuesday, 5 January7:00pm AEDTTownsvilleGeelongTownsville Entertainment & Convention Centre
\n Round 13Thursday, 7 January7:00pm AEDTTasmaniaAdelaideMyState Bank Arena
\n Round 13Friday, 8 January7:00pm AEDTGeelongSydneyGeelong Arena
\n Round 13Friday, 8 January9:00pm AEDTPerthCanberraPerth High Performance Centre
\n Round 13Saturday, 9 January3:00pm AEDTTasmaniaSouthsideSilverdome
\n Round 13Sunday, 10 January2:30pm AEDTSydneyBendigoQudos Bank Arena
\n Round 13Sunday, 10 January4:30pm AEDTAdelaideTownsvilleSA State Basketball Centre
\n Round 13Monday, 11 January7:00pm AEDTSouthsidePerthTBC
\n Round 13Tuesday, 12 January7:00pm AEDTCanberraGeelongAIS Arena
\n Round 14Wednesday, 13 January7:00pm AEDTPerthTownsvilleRAC Arena
\n Round 14Thursday, 14 January7:00pm AEDTSouthsideSydneyRAC Arena
\n Round 14Friday, 15 January7:00pm AEDTCanberraAdelaideRAC Arena
\n Round 14Saturday, 16 January7:00pm AEDTGeelongTasmaniaRAC Arena
\n Round 14Sunday, 17 January2:30pm AEDTPerthBendigoRAC Arena
\n Round 15Thursday, 21 January7:00pm AEDTTasmaniaTownsvilleMyState Bank Arena
\n Round 15Friday, 22 January5:30pm AEDTBendigoAdelaideRed Energy Arena
\n Round 15Friday, 22 January7:30pm AEDTGeelongPerthGeelong Arena
\n Round 15Saturday, 23 January3:00pm AEDTSydneyCanberraQuaycentre
\n Round 15Saturday, 23 January7:00pm AEDTTownsvilleSouthsideTownsville Entertainment & Convention Centre
\n Round 15Sunday, 24 January4:00pm AEDTPerthAdelaidePerth High Performance Centre
\n Round 15Monday, 25 January5:30pm AEDTBendigoSouthsideSelkirk Stadium
\n Round 15Monday, 25 January7:30pm AEDTTasmaniaSydneyMyState Bank Arena
\n Round 16Thursday, 28 January7:00pm AEDTAdelaideTasmaniaSA State Basketball Centre
\n Round 16Friday, 29 January7:00pm AEDTCanberraPerthAIS Arena
\n Round 16Saturday, 30 January3:00pm AEDTSydneyGeelongQuaycentre
\n Round 16Saturday, 30 January7:00pm AEDTSouthsideAdelaideVIC State Basketball Centre
\n Round 16Sunday, 31 January1:00pm AEDTBendigoTasmaniaGippsland Regional Indoor Sports Stadium
\n Round 16Sunday, 31 January3:00pm AEDTTownsvilleCanberraTownsville Entertainment & Convention Centre<\/p>\n