No lights, no night games
VT-12Catalogue name: Unlit venues host day games only
What it means
A ground without floodlights good enough for TV hosts day games only, never twilightThe late-afternoon time band, between the day and night games.Read more in the glossary or night.
Why it exists
The AFLAustralian Football League.Read more in the glossary's 2025 fixture booklet says venues without lights can only host day games.
For example
Bunbury, Ballarat and Barossa Park games are all day games.
How strictly it applies
Must-follow The fixture must obey this rule. A separate checker tests the finished fixture afterwards.
Must-follow. Which grounds count as unlit is a modelling assumption based on captured lighting information. Checked from the 30 September release.
Where to see it
Who plays where 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
This version has no recorded result for this rule.
First checked independently in Realism rules added, 30 Sep 2026.
Related
For analysts: catalogue text and codes
- Rule id
VT-12- Catalogue text
- From 2025, venues without floodlights host day matches only (no twilight or night matches).
- Catalogue type
- Hard
- Catalogue family
- Venue and Time-Slot Assignment
- Class
hard· The fixture must never break it.- Step
S3· Step 4: home ground and venue- Recorded status
met· source rowevaluated- Catalogue reason
- From the AFL's 2025 fixture booklet. Which venues count as unlit is a modelling assumption based on captured lighting information.