Perth clubs never travel two weeks running
RA-10Catalogue name: West Australian clubs never travel in consecutive weeks
What it means
West Coast and Fremantle alternate home and away games so that neither travels interstate in consecutive rounds. A Gather RoundThe round in which every game is played in one host city. Every club appears once.Read more in the glossary game or a game the club hosts does not count as a trip, and a byeA round in which a club does not play.Read more in the glossary ends a run.
Why it exists
The AFLAustralian Football League.Read more in the glossary's fixture booklets state this as a player-welfare measure for the two clubs with the longest flights.
For example
If Fremantle plays in Melbourne in Round 7, it is at home in Perth in Round 8.
How strictly it applies
Must-follow The fixture must obey this rule. A separate checker tests the finished fixture afterwards.
Must-follow. Checked from the 30 September release. Treating a hosted interstate game as "not a trip" is a modelling assumption calibrated to the 2022 to 2025 fixtures.
The hosted-match exemption is a modelling assumption calibrated to 2022 to 2025.
Where to see it
Travel shows how this plays out across the season.
How it played out across versions
One cell per release, oldest first. Each shows the verdict that release recorded for this rule; a release with no row for the rule says so.
- Preview 13 September2027 · Generated
This version has no recorded result for this rule.
- Preview 14 September (seed 42)2027 · Generated
This version has no recorded result for this rule.
- Repeat-qualified (seed 42)2027 · Generated
This version has no recorded result for this rule.
- Corrected (seed 43)2027 · Generated
This version has no recorded result for this rule.
- Rules release (seed 43)2027 · Generated
This version has no recorded result for this rule.
- B009 nominal (seed 43)2027 · Generated
This version has no recorded result for this rule.
- B010 nominal (weight 0.10)2027 · Generated
This version has no recorded result for this rule.
- B011 nominal2027 · Generated
This version has no recorded result for this rule.
- B012 Wednesday opening2027 · Generated
Met, met
- 20252025 season as played2025 · As played
Off, switched off by these settings
rule source not recorded
First checked independently in Realism rules added, 30 Sep 2026.
Related
For analysts: catalogue text and codes
- Rule id
RA-10- Catalogue text
- West Coast and Fremantle never travel in consecutive weeks.
- Catalogue type
- Hard
- Catalogue family
- Round Assignment
- Class
hard· The fixture must never break it.- Step
S3· Step 4: home ground and venue- Recorded status
met· source rowevaluated- Catalogue reason
- Stated in the AFL's fixture booklets as a player-welfare measure for the clubs with the longest flights.