{"id":882900,"date":"2026-09-07T05:20:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T05:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/882900\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T05:20:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T05:20:15","slug":"afl-news-2026-callum-mills-injury-update-sydney-swans-captain-suffers-ruptured-acl-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/882900\/","title":{"rendered":"AFL news 2026: Callum Mills injury update, Sydney Swans captain suffers ruptured ACL, surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/topic\/sydney-swans-5sp\" class=\"sc-ZStEl fijHCo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sydney Swans<\/a> captain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/person\/callum-mills-25d8\" class=\"sc-ZStEl fijHCo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Callum Mills<\/a> will play no further part in the finals series, after scans confirmed an ACL rupture.<\/p>\n<p>Mills limped off during his side\u2019s emphatic qualifying final win over the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/topic\/brisbane-lions-5sb\" class=\"sc-ZStEl fijHCo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brisbane Lions<\/a> on Saturday afternoon and was spotted on crutches in the aftermath.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/60a7298d2d6e9b64bb17477a010c81ccd6a9c348.jpeg\"  width=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"_0b53bae146db0b62 _7475dd3391ee1518\" style=\"--text-color:var(--color-text-secondary)\">Swans captain Callum Mills.\u00a0via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>The club confirmed Mills would undergo surgery in the coming weeks, which will sideline him well into 2027. <\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old has been one of Sydney\u2019s best this year and has fronted up in difficult circumstances over the past few weeks due to off-field turmoil at the club.<\/p>\n<p>Mills will join teammates <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/person\/isaac-heeney-25o8\" class=\"sc-ZStEl fijHCo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Isaac Heeney<\/a>, Nick Blakey, Chad Warner, Riley Bice and James Jordon on the sidelines for the rest of the finals.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/sport\/afl\/news-sydney-swans-players-stood-down-isaac-heeney-nick-blakey-chad-warner-james-jordon-riley-bice-club-sanction-20260819-p60plw.html\" class=\"sc-ZStEl fijHCo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Those five players were stood down by the club<\/a> due to an incident in Melbourne last month following the side\u2019s win over Essendon. <\/p>\n<p>Sydney left the AFL world stunned with the dominant 21.15(141) to 13.10(88) win against reigning premiers Brisbane over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>As a result of the upset, the Swans will enjoy a weekend off before hosting their preliminary final at the SCG. <\/p>\n<p>Dean Cox\u2019s side will face the winner of this weekend\u2019s clash between Fremantle and Geelong in the grand final qualifier. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sydney Swans captain Callum Mills will play no further part in the finals series, after scans confirmed an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":882901,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-882900","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\/882900","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=882900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/882901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=882900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=882900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=882900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}