{"id":875754,"date":"2026-09-01T03:34:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T03:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/875754\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T03:34:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T03:34:14","slug":"every-afl-teams-retirements-delistings-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/875754\/","title":{"rendered":"Every AFL team\u2019s retirements, delistings in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>As the competition prepares to embark on another <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohanger.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AFL<\/a> finals series, clubs have already begun making changes to their lists.<\/p>\n<p>Whether it be through retirement or delistings, players are departing the game.<\/p>\n<p>Below, we&#8217;ll take you through all the confirmed list changes in 2026, from retirements to delistings&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Adelaide<\/p>\n<p>Brisbane<\/p>\n<p>N\/A<\/p>\n<p>Carlton<\/p>\n<p>Collingwood<\/p>\n<p>Essendon<\/p>\n<p>N\/A<\/p>\n<p>Fremantle<\/p>\n<p>Geelong<\/p>\n<p>Gold Coast<\/p>\n<p>GWS<\/p>\n<p>Hawthorn<\/p>\n<p>N\/A<\/p>\n<p>Melbourne<\/p>\n<p>North Melbourne<\/p>\n<p>Port Adelaide<\/p>\n<p>Richmond<\/p>\n<p>St Kilda<\/p>\n<p>Sydney<\/p>\n<p>West Coast<\/p>\n<p>Western Bulldogs<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#comments\" id=\"joinTheConversation\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"498\" height=\"60\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" id=\"joinTheConversation\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/joinTheConversation-hanger.png.webp\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n        &#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n            &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n                                    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohanger.com\/author\/zero-hanger\/\" aria-label=\"author-photo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" class=\"gravatar avatar avatar-96 um-avatar um-avatar-gravatar\" width=\"96\" height=\"96\" alt=\"Zero Hanger\" data-default=\"https:\/\/www.zerohanger.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/ultimate-member\/assets\/img\/default_avatar.jpg\" onerror=\"if ( ! this.getAttribute('data-load-error') ){ this.setAttribute('data-load-error', '1');this.setAttribute('src', this.getAttribute('data-default'));}\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/b32bd1cec32f9cb10f9ba0115c6e3933.png\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Zero Hanger editorial team delivers breaking AFL news, team lists, trade and draft coverage, providing accurate and timely Australian football coverage.<\/p>\n<p>\t                &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; As the competition prepares to embark on another AFL finals series, clubs have already begun making&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":875755,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-875754","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\/875754","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=875754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/875755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=875754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=875754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=875754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}