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No club travels three weeks running

RA-11Catalogue name: No club travels interstate more than two weeks running

What it means

No club other than the Perth pair travels interstate more than two rounds in a row.

Why it exists

The AFLAustralian Football League.Read more in the glossary's fixture booklets state this alongside the Perth rule. (The booklet also prefers back-to-back trips to be to the nearest state; the model does not encode that preferenceAn aim the model balances against other aims within the must-follow rules. Release notes also call it a soft rule or objective.Read more in the glossary.)

For example

Gold Coast can play in Melbourne in Round 9 and Adelaide in Round 10, but Round 11 must be at home in Queensland.

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, with the same trip definition as RA-10.

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.

13 Sep13 Sep 2026Preview 13 September2027 · Generated
This version has no recorded result for this rule.
13 Sep13 Sep 2026Preview 14 September (seed 42)2027 · Generated
This version has no recorded result for this rule.
14 Sep14 Sep 2026Repeat-qualified (seed 42)2027 · Generated
This version has no recorded result for this rule.
14 Sep14 Sep 2026Corrected (seed 43)2027 · Generated
This version has no recorded result for this rule.
14 Sep14 Sep 2026Rules release (seed 43)2027 · Generated
This version has no recorded result for this rule.
15 Sep15 Sep 2026B009 nominal (seed 43)2027 · Generated
This version has no recorded result for this rule.
18 Sep18 Sep 2026B010 nominal (weight 0.10)2027 · Generated
This version has no recorded result for this rule.
19 Sep19 Sep 2026B011 nominal2027 · Generated
This version has no recorded result for this rule.
30 Sep30 Sep 2026B012 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.

For analysts: catalogue text and codes

Rule id: RA-11
Catalogue text: No other club travels interstate more than two weeks in a row.
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 row evaluated
Catalogue reason: The same booklet passage; the AFL also tries to send successive trips to the closest state, which is a preference the model does not encode.