2027 season · VIC · version 3786ad6
Essendon
23 games · 12 home · 11 away · bye A round in which a club does not play. Round 13
ladder position Where Essendon finished on the 2026 ladder (the home-and-away ladder: the order after the last home-and-away round, before the finals were played). The fixture's double-up rule splits that ladder into thirds of six and uses them to choose which six clubs Essendon plays twice. · bottom 6
Stored on this device only. Nothing is sent. Calendar entries use the modelled kickoff time and say so; a game with no time is all-day.
Season opener
SAT 20 MAR
Saturday nightModelled time (assumption). A kickoff clock copied from the ground's usual start for that weekday and band in recent seasons, used only to estimate which games suit TV. Not a fact about 2027.
Fremantle
- Broadcast
- Slot band: Saturday night Kickoff: 7:35 pm AEDT · modelled TV channel: not recorded
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Season at a glance
Home games
How this is counted
Counted from the home and away roles each game records.
12
Away games
11
Interstate trips
How this is counted
Games at a ground outside Victoria, including home games played interstate.
7
Prime time
How this is counted
Thursday-night and Friday-night games, from each game’s recorded time slot.
5
0 Thu · 5 Fri
Byes
1
R13
Longest away run
How this is counted
Rounds in a row listed away. A bye does not break the run.
2
R6–R7
Who they play twice
Essendon meets 6 clubs twice. By where they finished in 2026: 2 from the top six, 2 from the middle six and 2 from the bottom six.
Top 6 finished 1st–6th 2
Middle 6 finished 7th–12th 2
- Collingwood 9th · R6 and R18
- Carlton 10th · R5 and R17
Bottom 6 finished 13th–18th 2
- West Coast 16th · R8 and R21
- Richmond 17th · R10 and R22
Ladder: the home-and-away ladder. See every club's double-ups
Home and away rhythm
- Round 1: home v Fremantle
- Round 2: away v Brisbane Lions
- Round 3: home v Geelong
- Round 4: home, played interstate v Adelaide
- Round 5: home v Carlton
- Round 6: away v Collingwood
- Round 7: away v Hawthorn
- Round 8: home v West Coast
- Round 9: away v Gold Coast
- Round 10: home v Richmond
- Round 11: away v Greater Western Sydney
- Round 12: away v Sydney
- Round 13: bye
- Round 14: home v Melbourne
- Round 15: away v Geelong
- Round 16: home v North Melbourne
- Round 17: away v Carlton
- Round 18: home v Collingwood
- Round 19: away v Port Adelaide
- Round 20: home v Western Bulldogs
- Round 21: away v West Coast
- Round 22: away v Richmond
- Round 23: home v St Kilda
- Round 24: home v Sydney
H homeA away– bye· not recorded* home game played interstate
Breaks · days since the previous game: red 5 or fewer, amber 6, green 7+
- R1–first game
- R28-day break
- R36-day break
- R46-day break
- R58-day break
- R68-day break
- R76-day break
- R87-day break
- R97-day break
- R106-day break
- R118-day break
- R127-day break
- R13Bye
- R1415-day break across the bye
- R156-day break
- R166-day break
- R177-day break
- R188-day break
- R197-day break
- R207-day break
- R217-day break
- R226-day break
- R238-day break
- R247-day break
The season, game by game · break The number of days between a club's two consecutive games. are days between recorded dates
Times marked modelled are a modelled assumption A value we chose because the AFL has not published the 2027 fact, or because a convention is only visible in past fixtures., not announced kickoffs.
March
R1SAT 20 MARSaturday night
Fremantle
8-day break
R2SUN 28 MARSunday night
Brisbane Lions
April
6-day break
R3SAT 3 APRSaturday night
Geelong
6-day break
R4FRI 9 APRFriday night
Adelaide
8-day break
R5SAT 17 APRSaturday twilight
Carlton
8-day break
R6SUN 25 APRSunday twilight
Collingwood
May
6-day break
R7SAT 1 MAYSaturday day
Hawthorn
7-day break
R8SAT 8 MAYSaturday day
West Coast
7-day break
R9SAT 15 MAYSaturday night
Gold Coast
6-day break
R10FRI 21 MAYFriday night
Richmond
8-day break
R11SAT 29 MAYSaturday twilight
Greater Western Sydney
June
July
6-day break
R16FRI 2 JULFriday night
North Melbourne
7-day break
R17FRI 9 JULFriday night
Carlton
8-day break
R18SAT 17 JULSaturday night
Collingwood
7-day break
R19SAT 24 JULSaturday day
Port Adelaide
7-day break
R20SAT 31 JULSaturday night
Western Bulldogs
August
7-day break
R21SAT 7 AUGSaturday night
West Coast
6-day break
R22FRI 13 AUGFriday night
Richmond
8-day break
R23SAT 21 AUGSaturday night
St Kilda
7-day break
R24SAT 28 AUGSaturday day
Sydney